| LC control no. | no2021104865 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Guo, Fengyi, 1942-2010 |
| Variant(s) | 郭凤怡, 1942-2010 |
| Birth date | 1942 |
| Death date | 2010 |
| Place of birth | Xi'an Shi (China) |
| Field of activity | Paintings |
| Profession or occupation | Painters Artists |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Guo Fengyi : une rhapsodie Chinoise = Guo Fengyi : a Chinese rhapsody, 2010: bio (Guo Fengyi was born in Xi'an, central China, in 1942. She obtained her high school diploma in 1962 and found work in a rubber factory. However, severe bouts of arthritis forced her to give up her career at the age of thirty-nine. She turned to alternative medicine in the hope of alleviating her symptoms, and found a new spiritual path in Qi Gong. She started experiencing visions in 1989, as a result of which she produced large numbers of drawings, first on the backs of pages from calendars, then later on rice paper. She worked with Indian ink and brushes, producing works up to five meters long, drawn with no initial plan in mind, discovering her own creation as she worked. The multitude of delicate lines form ghostly figures, dragons, phoenixes, and faces, sometimes interwoven, smiling and serene or terrifying and monstrous. Guo's fascinating and highly original work has the power to take the viewer to an imaginary land where serenity is calm to the point of becoming disquieting and where monstrosity is strangely familiar.) Long March Space website, July 8, 2021: artists (郭凤怡 ; Guo Fengyi (1942-2010, Xi'an, China) is a self-trained female artist whose artistic practice articulates a particular journey of spiritual and metaphysical significance, belonging to an older generation whose embrace of Chinese folk culture imparts a unique knowledge of history, myth, and mystery. Her works on paper are composed of finely controlled brushwork that blend and weave into a composition of lustrous images; suggestions of both human figures and otherworldly beings.) |
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