Guo Taiyun
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of the Han ethnic group, born in 1926 in Kaifeng, Henan. At the age of thirteen he went to the Yunji Door-God Shop in Kaifeng as an apprentice; after three years he completed his apprenticeship, opened a shop of his own, and gave it the name Taisheng. In the 1960s he carved and printed a large number of New Year pictures reflecting the content of contemporary life; in the late 1970s, when the Zhuxianzhen New Year Painting Society was founded in Kaifeng, he served as deputy director of its research office on ancient blocks. With his exquisite skill in coloring and producing woodblock New Year pictures, he rescued, collected, and organized a traditional folk art that was on the verge of extinction. Guo Taiyun has produced woodblock New Year pictures for seventy years. The New Year pictures he prints are vivid and neat, with color schemes that are brilliant yet dignified, and they carry a rich flavor of the countryside. He is a witness to the rise and fall of Zhuxianzhen New Year painting in Kaifeng, and he was engaged by the Kaifeng Museum as an adviser on New Year painting. He has traveled to Singapore and the United States to hold special exhibitions and give performances, and many of his works have been collected by the National Art Museum of China and the Capital Museum.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Zhuxianzhen Woodblock New Year Pictures, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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