Gongbi painting, a kind of Chinese painting, different from the traditional freehand painting that everyone is familiar with, paying more attention to details, advocating realism, the Ming Dynasty everyone Qiu Ying, the modern painter Zhang Daqian are the representative figures of Gongbi painting, if it comes to the representative figures of the modern Gongbi painting circle, it has to be mentioned that the painter He Jiaying.
He Jiaying graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, stayed on to teach with his outstanding painting strength after graduation, and is now the vice chairman of the China Artists Association and the vice president of the Contemporary Gongbi Painting Association. He has been awarded the "Virtue and Art Double Xin Literary and Artistic Worker", "Four Batches" literary and artistic talents, and won the Gold Medal for Painting in Paris in 2012, and is known as "the most promising gongbi painter".
The most representative of He Jiaying's works is his girlish, He Jiaying likes the theme of girls, and has won many awards. He Jiaying once said that he painted girls because girls are more delicate and tactful in emotional expression, and many times girls are sensitive and affectionate, so women's eyes and demeanor will have a poetic meaning, but also an unusual sense of beauty.
He Jiaying does not choose too beautiful beauty subjects, he believes that too beautiful will make people ignore the original inner thoughts that they want to express, so in his paintings, the girls we see have unique oriental elegance. Many painters in the industry also said that He Jiaying's style was successful because he painted a lot of artists in the industry who wanted to paint but failed to paint.
He Jiaying is known as "the most promising Gongbi painter", and his figure paintings can become a typical representative of Chinese Gongbi paintings, definitely not only because of the subject matter, whether it is Gongbi painting or freehand painting, He Jiaying has a unique achievement, completing the transformation of Chinese painting from classical to modern forms. He was puzzled by the contemporary artists who are not untouched by Western painting, and every artist is also striving to make breakthroughs and be able to apply what he has learned, but what role and contradiction does learning Western painting have for a painter of Chinese painting?
After thinking and practicing, He Jiaying found the commonalities between Chinese and Western painting languages, combining the meticulousness of Gong pen painting with the sparseness of ink painting, with both realism and freehand, he did not inherit the literati style of traditional freehand painting unchanged, but combined with the current realism, simply put, he not only took the essence of Wei Jingong's brush painting, but also almost perfectly borrowed the techniques of Western painting, so that the traditional Chinese Gong brush painting was rejuvenated, and it also attracted much attention internationally.