Year: 1930

In Festival on South Street, Kuo Hsueh-Hu uses exaggeration and theatricality to depict the lively festival scene outside Xiahai City God Temple on Dihua Street in Dadaocheng. The crowded temple square bustles with everyday activity beneath colorful shop signs stretching into the distance. Shops selling Taiwanese specialties for Japanese travelers returning home stand alongside Chinese herbal medicine stores and businesses with English signage, revealing the diversity and prosperity of Taiwan's commercial life at the time. The painting combines social observation with rich visual interest.

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Guo Xuehu was born in Dadaocheng, Taipei. In his early years, he followed Chen Yingsheng's practice of Chinese painting and watercolor, and also studied painting from Cai Xuexi. Later, he followed the ancients of the township. He paid attention to sketching, especially to the observation of Taiwanese trees and rocks, with strong glue color to express the unique local scenery, and used it to shine in the pre-war official art exhibition. In 1964, he moved to Japan, taking landscape and still life as the creative theme, and was influenced by Western painting, emphasizing three-dimensional performance. After that, Guo Xuehu moved to the United States, still focusing on landscape creation.