Love and war At age 20 Wang went to Beiping (as Beijing was then called) to study at the Jinghua School of Art, and like many other young Chinese at that time-when the cultures of East and West were first coming into close contact-he immersed himself in Western culture, learning all he could about Western painting, sculpture, film and literature.
二十歲時，王壯為離家進入北平的私立京華美專就讀，在那一個東西文化剛開始碰觸的年代，一如其他的青年人，他汲汲於吸收西洋文化，除了油畫、雕刻、蠟筆畫，包括電影、新文藝等西方藝術無不愛好。