Wu
introduced aspects of Western art to his
students at the Central Academy of Art
in Beijing, where he taught from 1950 to
1953. The Academy was known to have been
dominated by social realism and Wu was
called "a fortress of bourgeois
formalism". Between 1953 and 1964 he
taught at Tsinghua University, Beijing
and then Beijing Fine Arts Normal
College. He was appointed a Professor at
the Central Institute of Arts and
Crafts, Beijing in 1964 and remained
there until 1979. In 1991 Wu was made an
Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des
Lettres by the French Ministry of
Culture
Early in his career Guanzhong adopted
the pen name Tu, which he uses to sign
his work.



















