The Impressionism of Hua Jiankun

Hua Jinakun, one of the most respected impressionists in Northern China, was born in 1945 at Tailai County of Heilongjiang Province. He studied graduate and post graduate courses in the Department of Oil Painting at Luxun Academy of Fine Art in Shenyang in the 1970’s. He worked as Art Editor and Chief Art Editor at Bengang Daily since 1978.

Hua Jiankun is an artist with passion for life. In early 90’s, he resigned from his work and traveled through the mountain area of Manchu Autonomy County to revitalise his passion for life and art. Staying in the mountain area for 8 years, Hua had created many remarkable works. Traveling is another means to stimulate Hua’s creativity; he had traveled to Europe and North America alone to experience the romantic yet hard life of being a traveling artist.

Hua uses bold strokes and bright colour to record what he saw. Being an impressionist, some of his paintings are bold and abstract. Yet you can tell there are meanings behind the abstract forms, the fusion of the emotion of the artist and forms of the object conveys a special post impressionism touch to his paintings.

In 1979 and 1980, Hua received first prize in Reportorial Artwork Show at Liaoning Province and Northeast China respectively. In 1989, he was invited to exhibit at China Academy of Fine Art, and in 1990 and 1991 in Koyama and Tokyo respectively. 1992, he held an exhibition in Chinese Art Gallery in Beijing and the event was widely reported by local and overseas media. Other than Japan and big cities in China, he has exhibited in Russia, America and South East Asian. His works are collected by local and overseas art lovers.

華劍堃的印象世界

華劍堃於1945年在黑龍江省太來縣出生，是中國北方著名的印象派畫家。70年代，他就讀於瀋陽魯迅美術學院油畫系，至研修班畢業，1978年任遼寧本鋼日報社美術編輯室主任，後任本溪市美術家協會副主席。

華劍堃崇尚有活力的生命，於90年代初期辭去公職，全心從事油畫創作。他進入遼東滿族自治州山區體驗生活；大山裏攝人心魄的自然景色，再次啟動華劍堃的創作熱情，在山裏生活了八年，創作了大量出色的作品。在投奔大自然之餘，遊歷亦是華劍堃的靈感來源，他一個人獨闖歐洲和北美，體驗既浪漫又艱苦的藝術家生涯。

華劍堃的作品以大膽的筆觸、明麗的色彩，繪出獨特的地方風情和自然景觀；他的作品以印象派為主，但部份作品，介乎似與不似之間，既有抽象畫的神緒，又有形有景，情景交融，有著後印象畫作的抒情，別具一格。

1979年他的作品「鴿子」獲頒遼寧省新聞美術作品一等獎，1980年作品「歡歌勁舞」獲東北三省新聞美術作品一等獎，1989年作品在北京中國美術館展覽，1990及91年分別在日本小山鎮及東京展覧，1992年再次在北京中國美術館舉辦展覽，廣為中國及海外媒體報道。他先後多次應邀赴日本、俄羅斯、美國、東南亞以及內地主要城市舉辦個人畫展，作品廣被國內外人士收藏。