After Sun Yat-sen's death, he was extremely dissatisfied with the warlord and bureaucratic rule at that time, so he gave up politics and founded the Spring Sleeping Painting Academy to devote himself to the innovation of Chinese painting. During the period of 1930, he went to India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Nanyang Islands to hold a solo exhibition and preach China's fine arts. Later, he went to Europe and America to inspect art, and his paintings participated in international exhibitions many times, which attracted the attention of European and American painting circles. He has won the gold medal of the Italian World Expo and the Excellence Award of the Panama and Belgium World Expositions, and some of his works have been collected by museums in some countries.
In his later years, he mainly engaged in art education. In addition to the Spring Sleeping Painting Academy, he founded the Nanzhong Academy of Fine Arts and the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts successively, and served as a professor at Central University and Sun Yat-sen University, and trained a large number of talents such as Fang Rending, Huang, Huang and others.
Gao spared no effort to advocate the innovation of Chinese painting and oppose the integration of traditional painting; Advocate compromise, that is, on the one hand, the compromise between traditional literati painting and college painting, on the other hand, the compromise between traditional China painting and eastern and western painting; Emphasize tolerance, learn from each other's strong points, and save the mistakes. In his creation, he has high attainments in figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, and his paintings are vigorous and full of passion. Besides, he is also good at calligraphy, and likes to use feather brush, which has a strong and peculiar style.
On the basis of China's traditional painting techniques, Gao combined Japanese and western painting methods, focusing on sketching, making good use of color or ink rendering, with southern characteristics, and created Lingnan painting school. The Flame of the Eastern Battlefield is the work of the painter War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. With the help of the relationship between light and shadow processing and sketch in western painting, the painter melted into China's brush, showing the devastated scenes of the motherland's rivers and mountains bombed by Japanese imperialism. It is what the painter saw with his own eyes, and it is also a sketch of the painter. The painter created this work with great grief and indignation to arouse people's awakening and fighting spirit. Just like the seal in the lower right corner says, "Graffiti in troubled times is sad." It clearly shows the painter's patriotism and humanitarianism.
In his early years, he went to Japan to study and study oriental painting. After returning to China, he advocated the Art Nouveau movement, founded the "Spring Sleeping Painting Academy" in Guangzhou, and trained artistic talents. His fusion of Chinese and western artistic ideas has influenced several generations. Mr. Gao is active in the situation of the Revolution of 1911, and his artistic creation also runs through his innovative ideas. He not only has profound knowledge of traditional painting, but also engaged in the study of western painting, and gained many new inspirations in art. He was the pioneer who tried to integrate Chinese and western painting methods with oriental painting methods in modern China. Mr. Gao is good at both freehand brushwork and meticulous painting. He boldly integrated China's traditional painting techniques with western and Japanese painting methods, and paid attention to sketching. His paintings pursue the expression of perspective, light and shade, light and space, especially paying attention to the rendering of pen and ink and color, creating bold and fresh artistic effects, which had a far-reaching impact on modern China painting circles. His life works include Modern Painting in China, New Direction of Chinese Painting, Frog Collection, Buddhist Story, Sword Father Breaking Gold, Himalayan Research, On Buddhist Revolution, Postscript of Listening to Painting in Autumn Pavilion and Talking about the Art of Sleeping in Spring. Mr. Wang lived in seclusion in Macao in his later years and died in 195 1.