Kuo Hsueh-Hu: Three States of Home Gazing

Kuo Hsueh-Hu is the most important gouache painter in Taiwan and was born in the Dadaocheng area of Taipei. In the year of 1964, Kuo migrated to Japan. Then his eldest son Kuo Song-Fen, who studied in the United States, participated in the Defend the Diaoyu Islands movement, which was then put on the “blacklist”. With less time spent together with his own flesh and blood, Kuo’s family then migrated to the United States to reunite in his later years.

But Kuo still yearned for the prime time of the Dadaocheng area during his childhood, as time has passed and people no longer are. Kuo Hsueh-Hu, who lived in the United States, looked out of the window of his residence in San Francisco. And to his surprise, he found San Francisco and Guanyin Mountain of his hometown to be very much alike.