Guo Dechang - A Case Study of Influential Painters in the 21st Century

Author: Jia Dejiang
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: Guo Dechang, male, professional painter, owner of Yegu Study, born in 1960, native of Wu'an, Hebei, currently resides in Beijing, member of the China Artists Association. His works have been selected for numerous domestic and international exhibitions, published, awarded, and collected. His solo and group exhibitions have been held in places such as Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hefei, Tianjin, the National Art Museum of China, as well as in Japan, the United States, and other countries. His works and critical articles have been published in periodicals such as Art, National Art Museum of China, China Fine Arts, Ink Frontier, Huachen Collection, Famous Artists Painting Spectrum, and Famous Artists Fan Painting Collection, and have been included in China Artists, Contemporary Calligraphers, Painters, and Seal Carvers Dictionary, Contemporary Chinese Artists Dictionary, and Contemporary Chinese Artists Dictionary. He has published Guo Dechang's Freehand Flower and Bird Painting, Contemporary Famous Artists Freehand Landscape Painting Library, and his work Late Autumn was selected for the first national contemporary Chinese flower and bird painting invitation exhibition, Silent Mountain Waves for the eighth national art exhibition, Ink Lotus for the excellence prize of the second national flower and bird painting exhibition, Drunken Autumn for the national 17th new works exhibition, Fragrance Overflowing in Snowy Seas for the first national Beijing International Art Biennial Exhibition, the "Hai Chao Cup" Chinese painting exhibition, Longevity's Autumn Reminiscence for the national 2003 Chinese painting exhibition, Echoes from Yegu for the second national western "Land and Emotion" landscape and scenery painting exhibition, Autumn Charm for the "Vegetable Village Sentiment" national Chinese painting nomination exhibition, Autumn Rain for the national 2004 Chinese painting exhibition excellence prize, and Yegu for the first national television Chinese painting competition excellence prize. In Guo Dechang's works, water, mountains, flowers, and birds serve as mere vehicles for artistic expression, with the ultimate goal being the revelation of inner emotions and the spontaneous expression of the self. Therefore, without exception, their works transcend the realities of life and the material world. Every mountain, stone, flower, and grass radiates an ideal spirit of aesthetics and the hue of the soul.