Chinese Gongbi paintings have a long history in retrospect, as early as the Neolithic Age, there were figure painting patterns, and the Late Zhou Paintings 2,000 years ago laid the foundation line of Chinese Gongbi figure painting. Figure painting has always been the dominant school of painting, with the change of the times, figure painting is also constantly changing and developing, producing many outstanding painters.
Contemporary figure painter He Jiaying is a representative painter who inherits the tradition, and his brush strokes not only create a new style of painting, but also have a combination of brush strokes and freehand artistic conception. In fact, many painters must start from the technique when learning Chinese painting, first study and copy the works of their predecessors, and after the technique is relatively mature, they will gradually form a personal style after understanding the core of Chinese painting, which is also different from Western sketching.
He Jiaying's work strokes are also the same, he once said that if you want to use artistic language to express human nature, you must sincerely feel life, painters can not lose their enthusiasm for life, no matter in any era, so He Jiaying's works are often evaluated to convey the gods is so, he is good at depicting the different emotional states of the object characters in different environments, which is not only sketching, but also through multiple angles to shape the image.
He Jiaying's pen and ink technique is comprehensive, from the freehand brush strokes of Chinese paintings to western watercolor sketches can be said to be all exquisite, so in his works we can see both the vivid image of the West while retaining the charm of traditional Chinese painting, which is rare, too late, too much use of Western techniques will lose the traditional core, so He Jiaying in drawing on the elegant mood of Western oil painting at the same time, but also retain the elegance and tranquility of Chinese painting.
He Jiaying once said that the fine tradition of Chinese painting lies in feeling and observing, which is what he has always insisted on, from ancient to modern artists are from personal feelings to burst out of creative inspiration, through repeated observation, refinement, add their own understanding and then create works of art with their own characteristics.