About

I like to temper the language of painting through sketching, and then by incorporating my experience with sculpture, the composition exudes a sense of body and material. In bringing together color and shape through this most humble and direct methods, traditional techniques are integrated with a contemporary understanding of painting.
I pass through each season of the mountains, painting the warmth of spring, the summer sun, the chill of autumn, and the retiring winter. Day after day, I labor as my mother and father labored all their lives in the earth of those mountains.
-- GUO Haiqiang

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