Artist Profile: Guo Yayu, born in Beijing in 1959, is a painter at the China Academy of Landscape Painting. Since childhood, he has a strong interest in traditional Chinese culture, first learned tradition, then studied Western painting, specialized in Chinese painting after the age of thirty, especially loved landscape painting, the work pursues scenery to write love, integrates subjectivity and objectivity and scene in one, and strives for the combination of realism and romanticism, which has been widely concerned by institutions and collectors at home and abroad
Interpretation of the work: Guo Yayu's "new color landscape painting", with unique techniques, full composition, rich colors, novel content, implanted color elements in ink painting, and set off the authenticity of nature in freehand. Guo Yayu's "New Color Landscape Painting", using dry and wet techniques to express the ancient city mountain stone, the wet atmosphere of smoke and clouds jumps on the paper, and the relationship between the front, middle and distance is clear, especially on the occasion of the cloudy sky, full of movement, so that people have a sense of being on the scene. The landscape paintings in the painter's pen not only have traditional brush and ink techniques, but also full of the novelty of the times, and the style is both fresh and elegant, but also idyllic and lyrical. Guo Yayu's Great Wall paintings are more impressionistic light and shadow, in the visual depth of his paintings, the imagery in a dynamic space, conveying a moving and splendid atmosphere, showing the majestic tension of the Great Wall, on the basis of tradition to promote a new kind of super-dusty "Great Wall image", is a kind of natural rationality, is the Great Wall in the spirit of the painter
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