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The pursuit of truth is a constant topic of painting | He Hongzhou
"The pursuit of truth is a constant topic of painting. In an era full of reverie and color experience, I can only grasp the feeling of "reality" from the state of the person I see. ”
--He Hongzhou
He Hongzhou
Director of the Oil Painting Department of China Academy of Art
He is also the vice president of The National Overseas Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Institute of Zhejiang Province
Biography
1964 Born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
In 1984, he graduated from the Attached High School of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, and was admitted to the Oil Painting Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in the same year.
In July 1988, he graduated and stayed in the attached high school to teach.
From 1995 to 1999, he studied at the Master's Degree Program of oil painting at the China Academy of Art.
In 1999, he began to teach in the Oil Painting Department of China Academy of Art.
In 2003, he began to teach at the fourth studio of the Oil Painting Department.
Since 2007, he has been teaching at the Second Studio of the Department of Oil Painting, and is now the supervisor and associate professor of the studio.
Exhibited and won awards
In 1990, "Green Apple" won the gold medal of the first Chinese oil painting exhibition in China
In 1993, "Yi Girl" won the Yongfang Art Award of the College
In 1999, "Pregnant" participated in the Ninth National Art Exhibition and won the silver medal of the provincial exhibition
2000 "Our Land, Our Nation" (cooperation)
Participated in the art exhibition celebrating the return of Macao and won the silver medal
In 2003, the oil painting "Afternoon" won the Excellence Award of the 3rd China Oil Painting Exhibition
In 2004, he went to Hong Kong to hold the "Between Heaven and Earth" Yin Xiong, Cui Xiaodong and He Hongzhou
Exhibition of oil paintings and publication of the album "Between Heaven and Earth"
In 2005, "Hot Land" participated in the 10th National Art Exhibition and won the Silver Award of the Provincial Exhibition
In 2006, "Confused" participated in the "Spirit and Character" realistic oil painting research exhibition of the China Oil Painters Association
Works such as "Back Shadow" participated in the "Zhejiang Famous Artists" oil painting exhibition
Published the album "Contemporary Oil Painting Masters - He Hongzhou"
In 2007, "Puzzle", "Annie" and "Independence" participated in the "Image Dialogue" portrait exhibition of the China Artists Association
In 2008, "Midsummer" participated in the group exhibition of "Agarwood" works in Shanghai Horizon Gallery
Participated in the exhibition of "Presence and Depiction" oil painting sketches of the Oil Painting Department of China Academy of Art
In 2009, the oil painting "Departure" (cooperation) participated in the "Walking with the Times - Commemorating the Thirty Years of Reform and Opening Up."
Anniversary Yangtze River Delta Art Works Joint Exhibition", and won the "Zhejiang Province Major Theme Art Creation"
Project" Gold Award.
In September, "Departure" was successfully delivered.
In December, he participated in the "Times Coordinates" five-person exhibition held by Shanghai Poster Industry Group
In August 2010, the "Zheng. In - He Hongzhou oil painting sketch
Exhibition with Video Recordings";
In November, "Graduates" participated in the special exhibition of "Oil Painting and Contemporary Society" of the China Oil Painting Society
In December, five works, including "Meng Yuan", participated in the China Oil Painting Academy at the National Art Museum of China
"Back to Sketching" exhibition.
In May 2011, the album "Selected Famous Artists - He Hongzhou" was published.
In June, "Minsheng - Jiang Zemin Inspected the Vegetable Market in Shanghai" (cooperation) to participate in Shanghai United States
The "Red Starting Point Forever Monument - Shanghai Celebration" organized by the Shanghai Bureau of Culture and Broadcasting
Special Exhibition on the 90th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China"
In 2012, the oil paintings "Hu Yuanjun" and "Zhang Li" participated in the invitation exhibition of oil painting masters in the Yangtze River Delta Region
In 2013, the oil painting "Substitute Teacher" participated in the 10th Chinese Art Session
Completed the "Chinese Civilization 5,000 Years Of Art Creation Project" organized by the China Federation of Literature and Literature - Man
Jiang Hong (Yue Fei)" and signed the manuscript.
In January 2014, the collection of paintings of the Guangdong Meizhou Lin Fengmian Memorial Hall organized by the college was completed——
Oil painting "Lin Fengmian on the Way to the West"
In September 2014, the oil painting "Scenery on the Bridge" won the gold medal of oil painting at the 12th National Art Exhibition
In December 2015, the oil paintings "Sunset", "Autumn Morning" and "Home" participated in the "Freehand China."
——2015 Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Painting of China"
In September 2016, he completed the oil painting "Manjiang Hong" (cooperation) and successfully delivered the "History of Chinese Civilization."
Poetry Art Creation Project".
In June 2017, he completed the final piece of "The Battle of the Hundred Regiments" (oil painting) of the Chinese Military Museum
In June, he completed the Guizhou Literary Association Draft "Wenjun Western Expedition" to participate in the "Colorful Guizhou - Great
The type of calligraphy and painting "Double Hundred" Creation Project" and won the Excellent Work Award.
Artist's own account
How to draw well is a difficult task. The word "good" contains the judgments of the self and others at different stages, at different levels, and from different angles.
"Good" here is an adjective, and the opposite is poor, bad, and relativistic. "Good" is also a vague and general evaluation word. Once you have to dig deeper, what is the best way to ask? It becomes very troublesome, like discussing what is "beautiful", and becomes a university question. As far as painting is concerned, the word "good" for drawing a good picture contains a standard that can be understood. Especially when you are in China, the academic environment, the major is oil painting, and the preference is the realistic category in figurative painting... When the situation becomes concrete and realistic, the degree of "good" will gradually become a bit different.
He Hongzhou created the scene
We often quote past paintings that have become classics to students as "benchmarks" in teaching. The masterpieces of the development process of art history have become the goals that can be pursued in this bit by bit of identification, whether they can be done for the time being, but in this criss-crossing comparison, the standard of "good" slowly generates a thick bottom line that cannot be elaborated in words, but can be perceived. This bottom line, constructed by the accumulation of tradition, the development of painting, and the accumulation of sensory experience, is not only constructing the students' cognition, but also constructing our own judgments.
I praise the observation of wisdom that can be integrated into the hand, but I am not a sosophistician, who has every reason to believe in the existence of artistic personality and the value it embodies in artistic creativity, and also deeply appreciates the inextricable relationship between the epochality, nationality and painting. When the pattern of the diversified era provides room for the growth of art development, and we still have to face the picture, painting "good" is not only an attitude, but also a desire related to the cultivation of life.
Appreciation of works
Creation of historical themes
"Departure"
550x270cm, 2009 He Hongzhou, Huang Faxiang
"Departure" (cooperation) is He Hongzhou's first large-scale historical painting, which is repeatedly polished in conception, artistic restoration of historical scenes, full play of the expression of oil painting language, especially the appropriate integration of personal experience and national memory, giving "Departure" a distinct new period imprint and characteristics. In 2009, "Departure" was collected in the permanent collection of the National Art Museum of China.
"Departure" (partial)
"Lin Fengmian on the Way to the West", 200x200cm, 2014
"Lin Fengmian on the Way to the West" shows the scene when Lin Fengmian and other teachers and students of the Hangzhou National Art College moved west due to the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and arrived at the Yuanling Tomb in Xiangxi. He Hongzhou juxtaposes the national art teachers in dress with the local ethnic minorities who help transport luggage, intending to express the transition of a generation of scholars and artists such as Lin Fengmian from the ivory tower to the folk and the crucible of the times.
The Long March of the Literary Army, 225x270cm, 2017
"The Long March of the Wen Army" also abandons the monumental viewpoint and strips away more symbolic meaning, and adopts a more difficult and more realistic approach, reconstructing and reproducing the specific scene of "where to go" between President Zhu Kezhen and Su Buqing, Wang Ganchang, Fei Gong, Shu Xingbei, Hu Gangfu and a group of gentlemen on the way to the west of Zhejiang University, and the painting depicts a feat and a miracle in the history of science education with a strong sense of scene.
Landscape on the Bridge, 235x195cm, 2014
In 2014, he was the only gold medalist in the "12th National Art Exhibition Oil Painting Exhibition"
Based on this, in 2014, He Hongzhou created "Scenery on the Bridge", which showed the European study abroad career of Lin Fengmian, Wu Dayu and Lin Wenzheng in the form of portraits. The reason why the title of the painting is called "Landscape on the Bridge", the most important meaning is about the bridge. Paris was the center of the world art collection at that time, and the act of studying in Paris itself had the meaning of a bridge between China and the West, and the bridge, as a means of externalizing the artist's mind, was both related to reality and connected to history.
Scenery on the Bridge (Partial)
Scenery on the Bridge (Partial)
"Manjiang Red" 270cm×530.5cm, 2016
He Hongzhou, Huang Faxiang, Yin Hua
For the shaping of Yue Fei's image in "Manjiang Hong", He Hongzhou has undergone a process of repeated thinking and revision. When he approached Yue Fei in the historical records infinitely and found that there was a huge contrast between him and the existing artistic image, He Hongzhou's driving power was that he not only recognized and recognized Yue Fei in the vast historical materials, but also took into account that "everyone has a Yue Fei in their hearts", and finally successfully created the image of a national hero who was "loyal to the country and fierce in his ambition" with a strong atmosphere, the composition of the open movement and the tragic power.
"Man Jiang Hong" (partial)
"Time Frontrunner"
He Hongzhou often teased himself, "Except for painting people, other than painting." This theme continues from his graduation in 1988 to this day. In such a seemingly narrow field, He Hongzhou has persisted for 30 years, but he has his own ambitions, his paintings have plots, and he never stops at realistic narratives, but more on this subject to express his understanding of the language of oil painting and his views on the daily life of contemporary people.
"Time Frontrunner" (partial)
Elite School Talent Girls Series
Fudan University – Xia Lu, 150 x 150 cm, 2012
Shanghai Conservatory of Music – Hu Yuanjun, 200 x 110 cm, 2012
Shanghai Theater Academy – Zhang Li, 150 x 150 cm, 2012
"Chongqing University - Du Hongmei", 200x110cm, 2012
Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Ni Hongyi, 200x110cm, 2011
"Zhejiang University - Jiang Xinlin", 200x110cm, 2011
Nanjing University - Du Huiying, 200x110cm, 2011
Peking University – Liu Yali, 200x110cm, 2011
Communication University of China – Mingming Yang, 200x110cm, 2011
Oil painting figures
Yi Nu, 145x145cm, 1993
In 1993, "Yi Girl" won the Yongfang Art Award of the College
Country Field, 180 x 160 cm, 1993
The Year of Flowers, 160 x 80cm, 2000
He Hongzhou seems to be very casual in framing, the painting style is realistic and natural, presenting an unadorned reality, but when you taste it carefully, you can feel his ingenuity and see the depth in the ease. The oil painting "Fancy Years" shows a pair of ethnic minority dressed girls, the composition is not large, the portrayal is meticulous and exquisite, the position of the characters is orderly, taking care of each other, and blending into one. The background is very simple, and the girls hold an umbrella in their hands, suggesting the environment in which they are located, and also giving the audience a lot of room for imagination.
Lily, 120cm x 120cm, 2000
Landscape on the Table, 120x120cm, 2000
Brothers 120cmX 120cm 2000
"Floating Light" 140cm X100cm, 2000
Afternoon, 150 x 150cm, 2003
Companionship, 150 X 150cm, 2003
Hot Land, 180 x 90 cm, 2004
"Woman" 100cmX 81cm, 2004
"Reading Tired", 70cmX70cm, 2004
"Schoolgirl", 120cmx120cm, 2004
Summer, 150cmx110cm, 2005
Confused (Aphasia) 190x150cm, 2006
In 2004, Mr. Xu Jiang, president of the China Academy of Fine Arts, wrote a prologue to the exhibition of Hongzhou, Yin Xiong and Cui Xiaodong in Hong Kong: "They insisted on using some traditional skills as a place to settle down, as a way to express their worries about the passable traditions that are passing away, and to narrate the nostalgia of urban people in a classical complex." They have finally become the 'aphasiars' of this era of 'chorus'." It means that the three of them have different contexts from the mainstream painting of the time, and "Confusion" has been renamed "The Aphasia" at that time. Since then, He Hongzhou has been diligently sneaking on the artistic path of realistic painting as always, and his silence is as silent as gold.
Night, 200 x 200cm, 2009
Graduate, 160 x 80 cm, 2010
Substitute Teacher, 180 cm X 100 cm, 2013
Autumn Morning, 200 x 110cm, 2014
"Xiao Ying" 150 X 150 cm, 2014
"Xiao Ying" part
Secondary School Teacher, 100 x 100 cm, 2014
Graduate Student, 80X80cm, 2015
Strong Portrait, 90 x 60cm, 2015
"Home" 100 X 100cm, 2015
Guqin player, 200 x 110 cm, 2015
Sunset, 100x100cm, 2015
Portrait of a Middle-Aged Man, 50 X 60cm, 2017
Portrait of a Woman, 100 x 100 cm, 2017
Le Kui and Vincent
Oil on canvas
100cm×100cm
2020
Printing and dyeing factory workers
Oil on canvas
160cm×120cm
2021
Oil painting landscape
"Florence Golden Bridge"
The Port of Bergen after the Rain, 90x60cm, 2009
Boating on the Nile, 100×100cm, 2018
Nile 100×100cm 2018
"Instant Scene in the Rain", 60x50cm, 2009
A Little View of Bologna, 40x60cm, 1995
Shanghai Old Street, 80x80cm, 2010
"Shores of a Thousand Islands Lake", 50x60cm, 2011
Stockholm Street View, 60x90cm, 2009
"Xin'anjiang Town", 60x50cm, 2011
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