He Jialin, born in 1961, is a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and his ancestral home is Yiwu, Zhejiang Province. In 1988, he graduated from the Department of Chinese Painting of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in landscape. He received bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. His landscape paintings are full of ancient meaning, unique taste, profound attainments, and unique. He is the vice chairman of the China Literature and Art Volunteers Association, the director of the Chinese Artists Association, and the distinguished researcher of the Chinese Academy of Arts. On November 3, 2020, he was elected as a member of the Fifth Chinese Painting Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association.
He Jialin is not only a leader among contemporary Chinese painters, but also a representative figure among the landscape painters of the New Zhejiang School, and he put forward a new proposition for the development of traditional Chinese painting after the new literati painting. Another approach to Hogarin is to add surrealist treatments to visual forms and color structures, thus creating a genre of art that incorporates innovation.
As everyone commented, He Jialin's ink landscapes use ink to start from the plain, especially understatement, and pursue the fresh charm of pen and ink; The threads used are all "bone methods", and they are all extremely flexible and free of the imprints between the Song and Yuan dynasties. The light elegance of his pen and ink is the guarantee of aesthetic vision. Garin's quotations from the language of ancient Chinese painting are often dazzled by the richness and informativeness of the reader in the field. He also arranged the expression of talent and passion in his works, and without obscurity, he created one unforgettable atmosphere after another.
Today, He Jialin's landscape painting has established a distinctive stylistic language, but he still consciously insists on jumping out of the established style, constantly pushing through the old and bringing forth the new, and pursuing reform. For example, he strongly advocates "turning the past into the present", so that although his works have a strong condensation of the flavor of traditional brush and ink, they are always full of vitality and novelty, which is also the fascinating factor in He Jialin's landscape paintings. Therefore, if we only interpret and evaluate He Jialin's landscape works from the technical and linguistic aspects such as brushwork and ink patterns and structures, it will inevitably be biased, but if we return to and go deep into his life, we will surely get a deeper understanding in them.