But he carried on, as Roger Marx put it, “pursuing the renewal of his art according to his own vision and his own means.” ...

Other paintings from the Water Lilies series are scattered around the world. The works can be seen in museums like Princeton University Art Museum, Musée Marmottan Monet, Musée d’Orsay ...

In Water Lilies #1, Ai probes notions of reality and artifice ... Ai Weiwei first deployed Lego bricks as an art medium in 2014 when he used them to create portraits of political prisoners. Now a key ...