Having lived through the tumult of 20th-century China, Wang knows all too well just how little a single individual's existence can mean. And the blue moods that recur without rhyme or reason over the course of a lifetime are his home turf, for he excels at converting these on canvas into visual imagery laden with a Zen-like poetry.
「可憐身是眼中人」，走過顛沛流離的大時代，王攀元深刻地體會人是多麼渺小，將生命裡反覆纏綿的憂愁與坎坷，那種「憂來無向，悲出無名」的心境，內化成詩意禪學的畫面。