Huang Jianbo, born in Zhuhai in 1961, is a member of the China Artists Association, a member of the China Arts and Crafts Artists Association, a director of the China Pastel Art Alliance, the vice chairman of the Guangdong Freehand Oil Painting Society, the executive vice chairman of the Zhuhai Artists Association, the deputy director of the Oil Painting Art Committee of the Zhuhai Artists Association, the vice president of the Zhuhai Painting Academy, and the director of the Art Museum of the Zhuhai Painting Academy.
Part of the exhibition experience: In 2003, he held a solo exhibition of oil paintings at Tianren Art Museum in Shunde; In 2003, the oil painting "Silver Light" was selected for the 2nd Contemporary Oil Painting Art Exhibition of Guangdong Province; In 2009, "Huang Jianbo's Oil Painting Landscape Exhibition" was held at the Zhongshan Painting and Calligraphy Institute; In 2016, the pastel painting "Afterglow" was selected for the "2016 Guangdong and Jiangxi Watercolor Pastel Exhibition" and won the Excellence Award; In 2017, the oil painting "To Youth: The Soldiers of the Eighth Company of the South China Sea Outpost" was selected for the "China (Nanchang) Military Art Exhibition"; In 2017, the oil painting "Snowy Plateau Series - Far Away" was selected for the "Chinese Dream - The Sixth National (Dafen) Young and Middle-aged Oil Painting Exhibition sponsored by the Chinese Artists Association"; In 2019, "The Story of the Sea - Huang Jianbo's Landscape Oil Painting Exhibition" was held at the Daqianjia Art Museum Museum; In 2020, the pastel painting "Red Earth" was selected for the "2nd Shenzhen International Watercolor Biennale" sponsored by the Chinese Artists Association, and was qualified for membership at one time; In 2020, the pastel painting "Heili Nimba Landscape II" was selected for the 4th China (Suzhou) International Pastel Biennale hosted by the China Artists Association.
In the hazy autumn, the honey-colored luster gently falls on the wheat waves, a few mixed weeds are mottled and scattered in the canvas, and the winding path seems to have only been pushed by the field workers to push the cart, and the wheat fragrance is rolled out of the mud. The hastily built huts and scattered fence pieces are showing the tranquility of the paradise here, "the autumn wind rises and the white clouds fly, and the grass and trees fall yellow and the geese return to the south", which is the artistic conception conveyed by Huang Jianbo's oil painting "Road".
After appreciating a large number of Huang Jianbo's oil paintings, it is not difficult to find the light and shadow structure that belongs to the Impressionist School. He uses his brush to capture every wonderful moment in life, every beautiful scenery, whether it is the grass stacks in the countryside, the snow puddles on the plateau, or the waves surging on the coastline, all of which have a unique charm in Huang Jianbo's brush.
Before fully devoting himself to painting, Huang Jianbo was the general manager of a company in Zhuhai, seizing business opportunities in the trend of reform and opening up, operating import and export, and his life experience was quite similar to that of Wang Yiting, a famous painter of the Shanghai School. After his career was successful, Huang Jianbo still remembered his dream of painting as a teenager, so he resolutely chose to learn painting from his teacher. Far away from the hustle and bustle of the lights, he calmed down, sketched around with his easel on his back, and started the life journey of painting creation.
As a director of the China Pastel Art Alliance and vice chairman of the Guangdong Freehand Oil Painting Society, Huang Jianbo has been in contact with pastel art for more than 20 years. This seemingly somewhat niche art has only been introduced to China in the last century. The proportion of painters who insist on the creation of pastel painting in China is extremely low compared with the popular painting art, which shows that in order to make a difference in the creation of pastel painting, it is necessary to have the determination to "never stop cultivating".
Different from oil painting, pastel painting can better reflect the hazy sense of impressionism, and it also tests the painter's grasp of light and shadow skills in terms of creative difficulty. The general painting method of splashing ink cannot delicately express emotions in pastel painting, it requires the painter to superimpose and rub it many times in order to get a suitable sense of haze. Only by calming down and carefully observing the transitional color layer of light and shadow can we better express the freehand realm of "condensing the form and refining the spirit". Huang Jianbo's pastel paintings can reduce the gloss while accurately grasping the transition of light and shadow, giving people a delicate and peaceful feeling.
In terms of "freehand", Huang Jianbo's oil paintings and oil pastel works have reached a higher level. In 2002, "Haystack in the Sun", which was exhibited at the "Rhythm of the Times" National Sketch Exhibition, won unanimous praise from the audience with the artistic conception of "silence is better than sound". Recalling the creation process of this painting, Huang Jianbo sighed: "This painting was also created as a sketch, and the haystacks in it were not uncommon in the filming location at that time, but I always felt that it was messy, and I couldn't find that feeling." However, on the way back, I reintegrated the scene I had seen on the trip, found a close-up angle that looked like I was lying on the grass, and redrew the picture. ”
In "Haystack in the Sun", it is not difficult to find that Huang Jianbo, who is fond of impressionism, paints simple life scenes with mellow oil painting language, and reduces the blank space in a unique way, which makes the audience feel more immersive. In the painting, the early autumn sunshine, mixed with the smell of half-dried straw, is clear. In fact, most of Huang Jianbo's series of rural pastoral works have this kind of charm that makes people feel comfortable. Even when sketching on the vast plateau in the Gannan region, he can quickly capture the warmth of the plateau, such as in his pastel painting "Warm Winter", the skyline without light pollution, the pink blue sky echoes the autumn grassland, not only does not have a sense of gloom, but also adds a bit of peace and quiet.
Of course, these achievements and experiences are by no means achieved overnight, but the hard work of hard work and accumulation over time, from a trend-setter in the business world to a young man, the arduous process of dedication can be imagined. In Huang Jianbo's painting career for so many years, he never forgot to mention that when he first learned painting, he was taught by several teachers such as Zhou Gang, a professor at the China Academy of Art: "I have loved painting since I was a child, but I didn't have the opportunity to learn systematically when I was a child. The Guangzhou Cultural Fair also threw an olive branch to Huang Jianbo because of this, which also brought him great support. Huang Jianbo has always been grateful to his former instructors.
In recent years, Huang Jianbo's works have added a lot of new atmosphere to his hometown of Zhuhai: the waves blown by the night wind, the fishing boats scattered on the wharf, the sparkling sea, and even some rocks that are so small that people often ignore them are all contained in the canvas, and he uses his unique gentle and beautiful painting language to vividly interpret the "artistic conception beauty" condensed from nature.
He Tianjian, a famous Chinese painter and calligrapher in modern times, described Qi Baishi's shrimp painting as "incomparably wonderful", precisely because of the old man Baishi's persistent pursuit of "condensing the form and refining the gods". "The 'god' of painting is a very important part," Huang Jianbo said, recalling the Monet paintings he saw when he first studied painting, and exclaimed: "At first, I liked painting, and what I loved the most was impressionism, the mottled, hazy, dreamlike scenery is exactly what I understand art." ”
First in business and then in painting, the two completely different life experiences have brought Huang Jianbo a broader way of thinking and deeper thinking than ordinary people, and these unique colors of life are completely reflected in his paintings. Sticking to the pure land of the soul, using the most beautiful colors, light and shadows to express the true meaning of nature, Huang Jianbo has been depicting his original intention with a brush!