Paintings by He Tianjian (HD 60 photos)

March 10, 1965, Shanghai Art Exhibition Center (from left: Zhang Leping, Yan Wenliang, He Tianjian, Feng Zikai, Lin Fengmian, Zhang Chongren)

He Tianjian (1891-1977), formerly known as He Jun, also known as He Bingnan, Chinese character Jian Old, Bi Jian father, Anan, etc., was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, and is a famous modern Chinese painting painter and calligrapher. Some people say that He Tianjian’s paintings are bold, cool, beautiful, easy, exquisite, beautiful, and can be said to be a real master in the history of modern calligraphy and painting. Fu Baoshi praised him as “another landscape painting refiner and integrator after three hundred years of the four Queens”.

When he was young, he liked painting, and he began to borrow paintings from the village since he was nine years old. By the time he was seventeen, the ancients he had visited already had Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Hua Guan, Wang Yanke, Wang Shigu, and Wang Xiangbi. After the age of 17, he began to learn freehand painting style under the influence of Shi Tao, Jin Nong, Luo Pin and others.

贺天健 柳蔭高士 1937年

In 1911, He Tianjian was admitted to the Shanghai Zhonghua Book Company and became an editor of the book company, working as a full-time graphic artist, and then as a graphic artist in the editorial department of the First Book Company of the Republic of China. After living in Shanghai, specializing in painting art creation and research. He copied the famous paintings of various schools of Chinese history, traveled to the famous mountains and rivers of the motherland, and often discussed painting art with famous painters such as Wu Changshuo and Ren Jinshu.

贺天健 江山揽胜图

He Tianjian makes good use of ink painting, pays attention to the level of color, uses multiple colors, especially in the green landscape, and evolves into a unique style, bold and unpretentious style, full of flavor of The Times.

黄山宾馆翠岚间 贺天健 1957年

In the 1930s, He Tianjian rose in the sea painting circle. In 1931, He Tianjian, Ye Gongchuo, Huang Binhong, Lu Danlin, Qian Qingtie and other co-founded the Shanghai Chinese Painting Association, and served as the chief editor of Chinese Painting Monthly and Painting Monthly. At that time, the unrestrained “wild Yi” painting style was gradually becoming popular in the sea painting circle by criticizing the “Four Kings” following the ancient copy. Along with the reflection of the Qing Dynasty’s literati landscape painting, He Tianjian led the rise of a trend of painting trend dating back to the Five dynasties, Song and Yuan Dynasties, and returning to the road of realism and landscape creation. This broke through the strict barriers of the north-south division for hundreds of years, greatly changed the painters’ narrow understanding of Chinese painting, and laid the foundation for the diversification of landscape painting and the variation of The Times.

贺天健 我年六十六卧游看黄山 1958年

His paintings not only emphasize the paintings of the Song Dynasty, taking its realistic and vigorous air, but also pay attention to the paintings of the Yuan people, expressing interest with a high degree of ink expression. This depth of thinking about the combination of tradition and the present reflects his efforts to integrate his great achievements and ultimately use and transform Fa for myself.

贺天健 毛主席诗意

贺天健 世界屋脊

贺天健 蜀山行

贺天健 神龙出渊

贺天健 石门白云洞

贺天健 南越丛林中的侦察员 1965年

贺天健 蓬萊三島

贺天健 富春江上

贺天健 红日新安江

贺天健 黄叶村中是我家

贺天健 空山行旅 1934年

贺天健 秋帆獨釣 1932年

贺天健 屯溪写生

贺天健 野老醉归图

贺天健 一鞭斜日看秋山

贺天健 烟云泛舟图

贺天健 丹井剖石

贺天健 松下论道

贺天健 五里乡塍图

贺天健 溪山古寺

贺天健 象山帆影

贺天健 修筑长堤图

贺天健 松涧流瀑

贺天健 松荫听雨

贺天健 鹈鹕捕鱼图

贺天健 临渊羡鱼图

贺天健 柳荫仕女

贺天健 山庄图

贺天健 深山访友

贺天健 抚琴观鹤

贺天健 倚杖松林图

贺天健 银台风雨

贺天健 云山诗话

贺天健 坐佛图

贺天健 策杖观瀑图

贺天健 大炼钢铁图

贺天健 桐庐江上早虹图

贺天健 万壑松风图

贺天健 无限风光在险峰 1964年

贺天健 西厢夜祷图

贺天健 携琴观瀑图

贺天健 松岭观瀑

贺天健 松瀑晤旧图

贺天健 露芝壽石 1936年

贺天健 太行一角

贺天健 田间小景

贺天健 春城草木深

贺天健 江城怀旧图

贺天健 江南三月天

贺天健 江山雪霁图

贺天健 秋郊策蹇

贺天健 北固山甘露寺

贺天健 北国风光图

贺天健 東湖行旅 1962

贺天健 桐庐山水写生

贺天健 西海门望远