Guo Shengli was born in a poor family in Xi 'an. He lost his father when he was a child. He was brought up by his mother with great pains. Since becoming a director, he has been taught to be honest and sincere. When he was a child, he liked painting very much. Because of financial difficulties at home, he can only practice calligraphy and painting with branches on the ground. From an early age, I have developed the spirit of hard work and hard work. The mother has been treating her son for decades. In order to make him become a professional, she would rather eat more bitterness and do more work and bear all the burdens of life at home. Today, she is still making unremitting efforts for her son's artistic career. As her mother said, "The car won't fall down, and it will be pushed until it is old." Under the guidance of his loving mother, he developed a modest and low-key character. Seemingly simple, he has a strong life emotion, so that the landscapes and characters in his works are full of love for nature and life!
In the early 1970s, Guo Shengli was very lucky to meet Mr. He, a famous master of landscape painting, and spent eight years with his tutor, which benefited a lot. At that time, Guo Shengli was organizing the China Painting and Calligraphy Research Office, which was responsible for the export of antique paintings. The invited masters are art consultants and tutors who teach the traditional techniques of various famous schools in ancient China. At that time, there were more than ten brothers, including He He, Hou Shengkai, Ni Hongwu, etc. Guo Shengli is the youngest and has made great achievements in western painting, so he is favored by his husband and has more opportunities to eat partial eclipse than his brothers.
In the late 1970s, when Guo Shengli sketched with his master in Emei Mountain and Qingcheng Mountain in Sichuan, he had two drinks at Chengdu Hotel and improvised a masterpiece for Guo Shengli, saying, "The sea is wide and the shore is wide, and the mountains are high." So far, these vigorous and powerful Chinese characters are still hanging in Guo Shengli's studio to encourage him.
In the early 1980s, Master He entered China painting circle at the invitation of Beijing Chinese Painting Research Institute, and started the most representative and brilliant creative era in his artistic career. In Guo Shengli's rare meeting with his master, every time the master told him, he said earnestly, "You have made achievements in many aspects, but the shortcomings are not advantages." If you put your wisdom and inspiration into ink painting, you will make great achievements in art! " Guo Shengli always remembers the teacher's inculcation, but he feels empty in his heart and is not in a hurry to regret it. He just comforted himself that he had been attached to calligraphy for many years, persevered every day, and determined to write a new calligraphy and painting movement with ten times of diligence and perseverance to comfort the teacher's high hopes.
After Mr. He went to Beijing, Guo Shengli began to build a "Wenbaozhai" in order to establish a position for exchanges between Chinese and foreign painters and painters, and established the first place for painting and calligraphy to open to the outside world. Professor Liu Wenxi, Chen Zhongzhi, Liu Baoshen and xiao Huan from Xi Academy of Fine Arts were invited as consultants and tutors to hold the second special class on Chinese painting. I talked with Master Liu Wenxi for a long time and gave him a lot of valuable advice on the creation of figure painting, which benefited a lot. Every time Guo Shengli's mother has a birthday, her husband congratulates her and paints on the spot. Especially on Guo Mu's 80th birthday, Mr. Liu Wenxi and his wife Chen Guangjian went to the birthday party to celebrate her birthday. In addition to presenting a work, they also personally performed a popular song "Dare to Fight and Win" in Minnan. Mr. Liu Wenxi enthusiastically told everyone: "Guo Shengli is a very filial son. Because he is a dutiful son, I am very willing to associate with him. As long as it is his business, I will participate! " At the exhibition of the establishment of the "Loess Painting School", Guo Shengli inscribed the calligraphy works of "Yellow Land Entrusts My Soul, Loess Plateau Establishes Your Body" to show his congratulations. Mr. Liu Wenxi specially instructed him to hang his works in an important position in the exhibition.
In the late 1960s, Guo Shengli devoted himself to the portrait art of western painting and made great achievements. At that time, Cai Liang, Zhou Zheng and Zhang Rongguo, the masters of Shaanxi oil painting, and the professors in the oil painting department of xi 'an Academy of Fine Arts all praised him for his speed and skill in painting large oil portraits. Among them, Eternal Smile created by 1976 is the most representative, and has won many excellent awards in art exhibitions at home and abroad. The image of Premier Zhou Enlai in the painting is vivid and beautiful, and his expression is rich and touching, which perfectly embodies the brilliant image of this leader who is extraordinary, respectful and concerned about the sufferings of the masses.