Contemporary Calligraphy Masterpieces Appreciation -- Guo Qiang's Calligraphy Works

Author: Jia Dejiang, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: His unique understanding and insight into the vast and profound cultural and artistic traditions enable Guo Qiang's artistic concepts to avoid the common generalization of the conclusion of "innovating within inheritance." With his novel artistic talent and continuously accumulated aesthetic awareness, he has been walking a personalized path in art. In his view, "Yan and Liu," "the Two Wangs," and "Su, Huang, Mi, and Cai" are indeed indispensable excellent traditions. However, when all of us are crowded into these "traditions' 'canons," the inevitable homogeneity and similarity in aesthetic states and appearances are unavoidable. Although Guo Qiang has once "sunk and swam" in these canonical aesthetic creations, after grasping the patterns of these "beauties," he broke through with the greatest effort and courage, using his sharp and profound insight to gather the treasures of art's "new beauty." Finally, he discovered his aesthetic information in the simplicity of primitive art and the vast Han Dynasty bricks and tiles. From then on, the harmony between "literary" and "wild," as well as "elegant" and "unrefined," became an important goal in his pursuit of calligraphy.