Guo Wentao

Guo Wentao

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Guo Wentao was born in October 1941 in Jiaohe, Hebei Province. Now he is a member of China Artists Association, vice chairman of Gansu Art Association, chairman of Lanzhou Art Association, chairman of Lanzhou Federation of literary and art circles, and vice chairman of Lanzhou CPPCC.

Biography of characters

He joined the Art Department of Lanzhou Art College in 1958 and began to study oil painting after graduation. In 1962, he merged into the oil painting class of Northwest Normal University and graduated in 1964. Since 1965, he has been a fine arts teacher in Lanzhou No.18 Middle School for many years. Since 1980, he has worked in Lanzhou Federation of literary and art circles. He has successively served as the editor of literary journals, vice chairman of the association, director of the association, vice chairman of the Federation and chairman of the Federation. In 1959, he began to create fine arts. His works include printmaking, comic strip, oil painting, Chinese figure painting and so on. In the early 1970s, he began to devote himself to the research and creative practice of Chinese landscape painting, showing his unique love for the theme of northwest plateau scenery, showing his distinctive personal artistic language and style. The western landscape in Guo Wentao's paintings is magnificent, broad-minded and vigorous. The composition is powerful and magnificent, and the pen is full of vitality. In order to show the deep and dignified of the western mountains, we made a bold exploration and attempt in the texturing method, and formed a sharp and distinct appearance. In the creation of figure painting, Guo Wentao is good at absorbing nutrients from Chinese traditional culture. In technique, he takes both realistic style and the brushwork of literati painting. The portrayal is vivid and vivid, and the sentiment is full of poetic charm, and the implication is free and easy and ethereal.

Representative works

"The road of the commander" (cooperation), the comic book "the legend of the four Ming Dynasties" and the traditional Chinese painting "sunset" successively participated in the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth national art exhibitions, as well as the "91 Beijing Chinese Landscape Painting Invitation Exhibition", "97 Hong Kong's return to China's 100 art porcelain painting exhibition", the traditional Chinese painting "Guanshan scenic spot" participated in "98 contemporary Chinese landscape painting, oil painting landscape painting exhibition", "cross century and international painting exhibition" The 50th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China national landscape painting exhibition. "Zhongnanhai collection of calligraphy and painting", "modern landscape painting library", "works of contemporary Chinese painting masters" and other income works. Hong Kong Asian Art Publishing House and the world famous Chinese Art Publishing House have published personal art collections twice. Jiangsu Art Publishing House has published the calendar of "Zhong Kui painting". In recent years, three individual exhibitions have been held in Lanzhou, Macao and Shantou respectively. The comic strip "the way of the commander" was selected into the sixth national art exhibition, and won the excellent award of the first fine arts award in Gansu Province, and the excellent award of the first comic strip Award; the Chinese painting "pig Doll" participated in the 1986 northwest five provinces and regions art exhibition, and "plateau family" was collected by Qinghai Provincial Museum. China Federation of literary and art circles and China Art Association rated him as "99 Chinese top 100 painters". published the collection of Guo Wentao's paintings, etc.

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