“沉醉知归路”-------旅美画家何岸油画展

上个世纪八十年代，中国画坛崭露头角的何岸远涉重洋，赴美国去追寻梦想。二十多年后的今天他首次在国内举办个人画展，这无疑又是一次圆梦之旅。旅美二十多年的生涯，为何岸提供了极为广阔的视野，本次画展的价值在于体现了这位华人艺术家穿越中西文化所进行的文化融合实践。

 

何岸，1957年出生于艺术世家，自幼受传统中国文化艺术的熏陶。70年代在海军南海舰队从事美术创作，1981年成为中国美术家协会最年轻的会员，其描绘水兵生活的浪漫抒情之作，在当时代影响深远。定居美国后，至今已在美国各大城市举行画展多次，是活跃在当代美国重要的华人职业油画家之一。

 

何岸海纳百川，涉足广泛。中西文化的反差，无疑对他的心理、思维和审美取向产生了潜移默化的作用。不论他本人是否自觉地意识到，他不可避免地吸收了两种文化艺术的营养。从艺至今，他始终沉醉于描绘周遭之大美，保持抒情浪漫、唯美写实的个人风格。

 

回归故土寻找根和养分，在画作中传达这一理念和想法，是他不懈的艺术追求。近年来，何岸对表现欧美风情与中国元素题材情有独钟。其作品中吸取了中国文化元素，并融合西方写实油画技法而开始了中国传统文化精神内涵的回归之旅。乍看其芭蕾舞女系列作品，极富欧美风情，但细细品尝，却又不尽然，西方女性人物已经注入了东方神韵，如作品《琴梦》、《蓝色旋律》、《提琴·玫瑰》等。因此，这些作品成为了海内外众多藏家追逐的目标。善于营造戏剧般的环境气氛，惟妙惟肖地展现特定环境中的特定人物内心世界，也是何岸绘画艺术动人之所在。

 

本次展览将力图全面展示何岸的油画艺术路程，但因其早期创作之成果或被收藏，或踪迹难觅，我们将在编印的画册中尽量弥补这一缺失。本次展出的作品包括何岸近期创作的中国元素系列、欧美风情系列、肖像、人体和静物等作品，它们将呈现贯穿画家艺途优雅与高贵的追求。

 

我们陶醉于何岸先生所追求的唯美写实、浪漫抒情之路，同时祝展览圆满成功！

 

艺海堂美术馆

2009年11月

 

 

 

In the 1980s, just coming up in the China art circle, An He crossed the ocean and went to the United States for his dreams. Today, he will hold his first solo tour exhibition in China, obviously for fulfilling his dreams again. After settling down in the United States, An He has greatly widened his horizons. Surely, the exhibition is the practice of cultural fusion between China and the United States because of the painter An He’s effort.

 

In 1957, An He was born to an artistic family and grew up under the nurture of Chinese culture and art. He became an artistic creator in the Nanhai Fleet of China Navy since the 1970s, and the youngest member of China Artists Association in 1981 for his romantic and lyrical works on sailors, which have great influence on China art circle. After settling down in the United States, he has held plentiful exhibitions in many cites of the United States. Nowadays he is one of the important contemporary professional oil painters in the United States.

 

An He has an open mind and wide interests. Therefore, great contrast between China and the United States has a potential impact on his mentality, thought and aesthetic taste. Consciously or not, he has absorbed the nutrition from both China and the United States. He is always intoxicated with the surrounding beauty by approaching it in a romantic, lyrical and aesthetic way.

 

Returning to the homeland, seeking root and sources and expressing it on his paintings are the unremitting pursuit of An He. In recent years, An He has showed special preference to motifs concerning Chinese elements and western melody. The successful fusion between Chinese elements and western realistic skills indicates his way to the underlying soul of traditional Chinese culture. Ballet series painted by An He, have the western melody at first glance, but after further appreciation, they are not exactly so. Those female images have been injected into oriental verve. For example, Dream of Violin, Blue Cantus, Violin & Roses, etc… Therefore, his works have been the priority of collectors both home and abroad. An He is good at building dramatic ambience and vividly presenting figure’s inner world in certain surroundings. That’s why his works are attractive.

 

The exhibition aims to totally demonstrate the artistic experience of An He. However, his works were either collected by official institutes or privates or nowhere to be found. We shall make up for it by printing an album of oil paintings. The exhibited works include Chinese elements, western melody, portraits, nudes and still life, which are elegant and noble.

 

We are drunk with the aesthetic, romantic and lyrical way An He pursued. May the exhibition a complete success！

 

YiHaiTang Art Museum

November, 2009.