The transformation from flowers and birds to mountains and rivers is a process and also caused by interests. This process prompted him to have a deeper understanding of the connotation of China's ink painting. With this process, when you look back at the landscape of your hometown, you will find that the nature in the west contains broadness and grandeur, and the masculinity and heroism they give you can better reflect the life essence and emotional world of a painter in the northwest.
A painter, when you have a certain artistic foundation and enter the creative stage, you must draw what you are familiar with, what you are familiar with. Only in this way can we draw feelings and convey the true feelings of the picture to the viewer. Qilian Mountain is his hometown. Populus euphratica in western Gansu accompanied and witnessed the history of our nation, and even represented a spirit of Yugur people, which left a deep impression on his memory. As a memory of his hometown, he will naturally express them.
The Yugur people have experienced several hardships in history, which have created the Yugur people's industrious, brave and tenacious national character. As a painter of this nation, he is trying to present these characteristics in the form of painting. In recent years, he has created a series of works, such as Seeing Populus euphratica, Remembering Qilian and Dreaming with Gobi, which all represent the national spirit and regional characteristics. Guo's paintings are like stars in the night sky, shining with his emotional brilliance. The scenery in the west left an impression and shock in his childhood, which lasted forever, so that on his own artistic road, he was as infatuated as a frontier poet in the Tang Dynasty, and repeatedly sang the vast and desolate and magnificent scenery in the west in his paintings.
For a painter, painting is a path with wonderful ideas. From here to there, from finite to infinite, from group to self-expression, just like mountaineering, it is a process of expanding horizons, raising spirits and increasing patterns.
Guo, like ancient painters, tried to express his life state and feelings through graphic language records of painting. It is more direct to resort to visual arts than to report in writing, but it is very important that he must master basic vocabulary. At this point, Guo skillfully and flexibly used the expressive skills left by the ancients and his great energy in calligraphy, so he could express his feelings gracefully and delicately.
Emotion, like a transparent flowing gas, needs a specific medium to transform it into a visually perceptible substance. From the invisible to the visible, just like water with a fixed mass is decomposed into oxygen and hydrogen by electrification, and then the generated oxygen and hydrogen are ignited to generate water, which must abide by the law of conservation of mass, so the quality of water is the same as that of hydrogen and oxygen. In this sense, his brushwork and landscape are the essence of his emotions. Walking into the landscape of Xiguo, we seem to have walked into the land where our ancestors once ran, and felt the mysterious silence from nature and the tranquility in the depths of our hearts. The natural features of these western mountains and rivers, such as vast mountains, vast deserts, towering poplars, misty clouds and lonely peaks and long winds, are familiar but unique. In the painter's pen, they are symbols with unique local characteristics that gradually disappear from the traditional landscape painting scheme. Only on the basis of such self-confidence and novelty can we be close to tradition and face the modern, so that pen and ink language and formal images can be integrated. As far as the quality of his pen and ink is concerned, I know that Mr. Guo has made great efforts in calligraphy, and he has his own unique understanding of the connotation and expressiveness of lines. He used pen and ink to make the brushwork vigorous and subtle, so that pen and ink and personalized Xishan Valley are both inside and outside. He can use the concept of combining traditional pen and ink techniques with modern composition consciousness to make the image symbols and poetic expressions of the picture fit the sense of the times and modern aesthetic categories. He used the heroic and simple talent of nomadic people to construct a complete, plump and tense picture, and described the thick soil of his hometown with his thick and pungent pen and ink and a little texture. Viewers can taste the rhythm of nature and the deep pulse of the earth, and appreciate the pure land of poetry life and the spiritual schema of "spiritual home".