Journey to painter's inner world

Artist Wu Guanzhong is a natural headline grabber.

If it's not about his innovative ink-and-oil paintings attracting astronomical prices at auctions, it is about his acerbic verbal assaults on what he sees as an inactive and conservative Chinese art scene. He often ignites public debate about such issues as reform of artist's associations and of art academies.

Now he has donated more than 180 of his works, long kept in his personal collection, to three public art museums in Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore.