In 2007, two major events that shocked and sensationalized the northwest painting world happened quietly in Shaanxi, and the protagonist of these two events was Guo Beiping. One is Guo Beiping's huge oil painting "Mao Zedong's Speech at the Yan 'an Forum on Literature and Art", which won the bid and signed 100 major historical creation project in modern China, filling the gap in oil painting in the northwest painting world. The other is Guo Beiping's huge oil painting "Lin Zexu's Visit to Australia", which sold for 8.69 million yuan, ranking 82nd in the Hurun Contemporary Art List in 2008, setting a record for the auction of contemporary northwest art works! Guo Beiping is currently vice president, professor, doctoral supervisor of Xi Academy of Fine Arts and director of China Oil Painting Society. In contemporary China painting, Guo Beiping is a unique artist. Although he was born in Chang 'an and grew up in Chang 'an, a land with profound cultural accumulation, his artistic tentacles span China and the West, creating artistic wonders in the field of Chinese painting and oil painting. Guo Beiping's traditional Chinese painting, especially flower-and-bird painting, has the characteristics of China's painting style. The theme is taken from life, and the composition layout is exquisite and subtle. Flowers and birds are outlined by lines, rendered in light colors and refined in brushwork, showing a deep, relaxed and beautiful artistic conception in simple pen and ink and refreshing pictures. Guo Beiping's oil paintings are faithful to similarity rather than similarity, and explore a way of expression of their own. He started from realism, went deep into freehand brushwork, integrated volume modeling with freehand brushwork, focused on portrait painting, skillfully combined color expression with light and shadow contrast, image typicality and painting expression, and created a large number of outstanding works with dignified atmosphere and unique transcendence. Guo Beiping was first famous for his traditional Chinese paintings, but later he became famous for his oil paintings. Guo Beiping's achievements in freehand brushwork of flower-and-bird painting have established his backbone position in the field of contemporary Chinese painting. Guo Beiping's oil painting art made him a representative figure of northwest painters. He led the development trend of contemporary oil painting in China, initiated the neo-realism romanticism of contemporary oil painting in China, and was praised as the first person in contemporary China oil painting by Liu Wenxi, former vice chairman of China Artists Association.