中国工笔画的历史很悠久，汉代的帛画已在线描造型的基础上，进行固有色的晕染。这种以线赋彩的技法，形成了中国工笔画最基本的表现形式，以后，又逐步完善成为一种双勾细染的画法。魏晋南北朝可以说是中国工笔画发展的一个重要阶段。李唐以降，工笔画形成了新的面貌。至赵宋时工笔画发展到了高峰，为中国美术史写下了璀璨的一章。

    今天的工笔画已发展了传统“三矾九染”的经典表现方式，在形式语言的探索上有了新的拓展，使工笔画有了强烈的现代意识，在造型变化、画面构成、色彩配置、主题表现、形式创新等方面有了很大的拓展。

    画家何百明是成功的探索者，他的工笔花鸟画在这方面成为一景。他早年求教于海上邓怀农先生，后又上溯探究宋元画论和清明画风，在对海派画脉的梳理中，他尤喜任伯年与虚谷。何百明的工笔花鸟画吸纳经典，诉说和谐，凸显坦诚，拒绝浮躁，逐步形成自己的清新明丽并带有书卷气的风格。他不仅考究画中艺术之功夫，而且呈现其文人至感想，可谓清新而丽、平极而奇。

                                                                                  2006年9月

 

Pure Pretty, Simple Singularity

——Thoughts Elicited by He Baiming's Elaborate style Flower-bird Paintings

Chen Xiejun

 

Chinese elaborate style painting has a long history. In the Han dynasty's painting on silk, color-gradation was used on the basis of stroke sculpt. This "Enduing line with color" technique is one of the basic presentation methods in Chinese elaborate style paintings and evolves into the "Dual drawing and fine coloration" painting technique later. The Weijin and North-South dynasty was an important stage in the development of Chinese elaborate style paintings. After the Tang dynasty, it formed a new outlook and reached its summit in the Song dynasty, outlook and reached its summit in the Song dynasty, which is a replendent chapter in China's art history.

Today's elaborate style painting has developed the classically traditional "three alum, nine coloration" method and sees new advancements in the exploration of formal language. Thus elaborate style painting obtains a strong modern sense and makes huge expansiongs in sculpting range, screen structure, color configuration, theme presentation and form innovation.

He Baiming is a successful explorer, whose elaborate style flower-bird paintings are a hit in this trend. He was once instructed by Deng Huainong, later studied the Song-yuan dynasty painting critiques and Ming-qing dynasty painting styles. In sorting the painting system of the Shanghai school, he especially favors the works of Ren Bonian and Xu Gu. His elaborate style flower-bird paintings absorb the classics, tell harmony, present honesty and reject fickleness, gradually forming his pure, fresh, bright and lively style tinged with literary fragrance. He not only observes and studies the painting techniques, but also manifests his literary thoughts and emotions. It can be summed up as pure pretty and simple Singularity.

                                                                                  Sep.2006

 

作者：陈燮君