Landscape

Guo Xianzhong’s landscape paintings combine western and eastern painting techniques to create a colorful, passionate art world, full of life and energy. The usage of thick hue and strong contrast are impressive. His style varies greatly with an unruly manner, as if from many different artists. Wild pineapples on beaches, coconut trees under clouds, red woods at dawn, plump cacti… under Mr. Guo’s brush, all these are transformed into passionate paintings. These paintings appear unorthodox in color and stroke, like scribbling or scrawling, but when viewed as a whole are quite harmonious....

Animal

Guo Xianzhong’s animal paintings have overturned the Chinese painting’s convention technically and created qualitative changes in its intension and endless expansions in its extension. He injects calligraphy elements into his paintings, combining the two seamlessly and achieving the highest simplification without borrowing any western techniques. He personifies the animals under his brush, expressing human psyche through animal bodies, a style completely different from the traditional Chinese norm. Mr. Guo’s crane and monkey paintings offer a feeling of universality instead...

Calligraphy

Guo Xianzhong’s calligraphy works is a giant step forward from conventional Chinese ones, which are way more conservative. People are amazed at how deviant and wayward his style is, while breathing an unstoppable power coming from those thick dancing strokes. As a specialist in painting, Mr. Guo adopts painting skills in his calligraphy production, just as he injects calligraphy elements into his animal paintings, thus creating a mixer of both. Therefore, when viewing his calligraphy works, people may as well feel they are enjoying a kind of painting. The traditional boundary has been...

Publications

Guo Xianzhong’s publications for the last 20 plus years, including painting albums, postage stamps, magazines, pictorials, etc. You may send your email to garygo@gmail.com if you wish to obtain some of his painting albums (subject to availability). Postage Stamps Postage Stamps Postage Stamps Postage Stamps Postage Stamps Postage Stamps Postage Stamps Natural Themes – Guo Xianzhong Art Monkey & Crane Little Book Monkey & Crane Little Book Cranes and Monkeys A Fine Selection of Guo Xianzhong’s Modern Landscape Paintings-1 A Fine Selection of Guo Xianzhong’s Modern...

Other photos

Guo Xianzhong’s other photos for the last 20 plus years, including his on-spot performances, overseas activities, solo exhibitions, mounted paintings, interviews, seminars, etc. 2012 Solo Exhibition 2012 Solo Exhibition 2012 Solo Exhibition 2012 Solo Exhibition 2012 Solo Exhibition 2012 Solo Exhibition 2012 Solo Exhibition News Report Portrait of Guo Xianzhong-1 Portrait of Guo Xianzhong-2 Working on a Zi Sha Hu (brown earthen teapot) in Yixing With Philippine Artists in the Philippines TV station interview TV station interview Symposium for Mr. Guo’s solo exhibition at Sichuan...