何君百明是我接触较多的画友，斯文而沉静，是属于儒雅一路的。俗语说画如其人，他的画格是很典丽而又饶有文气的。事实上，别以为斯文沉静是一种艺心上的随波逐流，缺乏主见和创意。单从师承一点上考察，他攻画艺三十余载，师承过邓怀农，受过程十发、赵冷月先生的悉心指授。邓先生的淡逸，程先生的奇崛，赵先生的稚拙，典型且强烈，然而，皆未能令百明君亦步亦趋，作表面的再现和廉价的重复。仅此即可看出他的独立个性和不轻易为人左右的定力。这一点是出色画家必备的条件。而百明是具备的。

    诚然，不像老师的学生才能超过老师，才是真正的好学生。当然比肩老师，他要走的路还是很漫长，但他无疑是一个好学生。

    我从百明君近日的创作中，有几点可喜的发现。一是他十分强调色彩的绚丽和明媚，力求把传统的敷色与现代色感相结合，走下去、走好了，会是有“戏”的。二是他注重于将花鸟画的格局与山水景物相糅合，力求把花鸟的明快与山水浑朦气息相结合，这也是有价值的尝试。三是他还辩证地注意在明丽的色彩间渗入墨色，明丽因墨色的有机调度而拒轻佻、拒俚俗，进而获得雍容华贵的气格。

    百明君也真不容易。几十年来一直是从事文化传媒管理工作，画画则是业余的，然而业余的几十年孜孜以求，获得不逊于专业画家的水平和成果，怎不令人肃然起敬，为之击节鼓掌呢？如今他正顽强而清醒地向画山之峦迈进。以往昔视今日，以今日察明天，他一定会攀上峰巅，取得更可人的业绩，我很坚信。

                                                       2006年9月14日夜 于豆庐

 

Preface

Han Tianheng

He Baiming is an artist I am familiar with, gentle and calm, with good culture and elegance. As an old saying goes, “Painting mirrors the painter”, his paintings are refined and artistic. Actually it is very wrong to take mildness and serenity as the art soul’s drifting with the tide, or lack of one’s own idea and creativity. We can just review his instructors; he has been engaged in painting for more than thirty years and was once instructed by Deng Huainong, also received devoted coaching from Cheng Shifa and Zhao Lengyue. Mr. Deng shows typical and intensive characteristic of light elegance, Mr. Cheng of singular steepness, and Mr. Zhao of graceful clumsy. However, Baiming doesn’t dance to any of their tunes, nor does superficial reproduction or worthless repetition. This can fully display his independent personality and power of firmness without being swayed by others. This is the prerequisite that makes an outstanding artist and Baiming possesses it.

It can be said that only a student who doesn’t follow suit can surpass his teacher and be really excellent. Sure that he still has a long way to reach the level as his teacher, but no doubt he is a good student.

I have some pleasing findings from Baiming’s latest works. Firstly, he emphasizes strong and bright color, striving to combine the traditional color spread method with the modern color sense. Going on with this, he will become something in the future. Secondly, he blends the frame of Chinese flower-bird paintings with landscape paintings, uniting the former’s lucidity and liveliness with the latter’s tinge of simplicity and obscurity. This is very worth trying. Finally, he infiltrates ink color into the bright colors, thus brightness avoids giddiness and vulgarity and retains superb elegance.

Baiming’s achievements don’t come easy. He has been busy with his cultural media management job and painting is only amateur. However, with dozens of years of amateur perseverance, his level and accomplishment is no inferior to professional painters. How can we help from showing our admiration and applauding? Now he is striding towards the ridges and peaks of the painting mountains toughly and soberly. Knowing the present from the past and predicting the future from the present, I am firmly assured that one day he will arrive at the summit of art and make great achievements.

Sep.14, 2006, Night

At the Bean Cottage

 

作者：韩天衡