“Guo Xianzhong has possessed his very own artistic language – this is not easy. He does not stick to conventional painting techniques; rather, he masters the principles and paints according to his own feeling. He has converted the traditions into his personal style, and each of his paintings is different.”
Li Wenxin. Professor of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
“Mr. Guo’s paintings have come from rules to no rules, and combined traditions and reality, not restricted to conventions.”
Du Xianqing. Professor of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
“Guo Xianzhong is very open-minded and receptive. He incorporates painting, calligraphy and seal together, which is adorable.”
Ma Ding. Cartoonist
“In the field of art, China has had her poetic genius, painting genius, and Guo Xianzhong is certainly a genius – a unique one, full of free spirit.”
Bai Desong. Dean and professor of the Traditional Chinese Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
“Guo Xianzhong’s capacity and achievements are attributed to his objective attitude in understanding the differentiations of Chinese and western cultures. He uses traditional Chinese ink, equipped with western color theories, to instill color into ink and ink into color, even break the boundaries of ink and color, thus creates a brand new media.
These recent landscape works of Guo’s are not typical traditional Chinese paintings, but a new type of Chinese paintings with a traditional flavor. His way of thinking, his skill and his fashion are typically Chinese. On that account, his paintings are modern Chinese paintings, not the continuation of the traditional literati painting.”
He Zi. Professor of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Fine Arts Theorist
“Under Mr. Guo’s brush, tropical forests washed by strong sunlight are developed into a group of abstract and bizarre colors. On Hainan Island, life honestly expresses its beauty without reservation. Life’s spirit is no longer an assumption, but a vision. This vision, when it arrives at Mr. Guo, naturally becomes a way of painting.”
Kong Jian. Chinese Scholar (See Capture the Moment for a full review)