何多苓 He Duoling China, b. 1948

He Duoling (born in Chengdu in 1948) is a representative of contemporary Chinese lyrical realism oil painting artists.

 

He enrolled in Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1977 as a major in oil painting and pursued his master's degree there in 1979. He has won the silver and bronze awards of the 6th National Fine Arts Exhibition, the bronze award of the 7th National Fine Arts Exhibition, and the Monaco Government Award etc.

 

His works are collected by domestic and international art institutions and collectors such as China Art Museum, Fukuoka Art Museum, Long Museum, Song Art Gallery, Yuz Museum, He Art Museum, Macau Museum of Art, Contemporary Gallery Kunming, Guangdong Museum of Art, Chengdu Art Museum and Hubei Museum of Art etc.

 

He has an irreplaceable position in the history of contemporary Chinese art, and he is one of the important artists of Scar Art. In the early 1980s, he caused a sensation with his oil paintings Spring Breeze Has Awakened, Youth and strip pictures Snow Goose, and became a representative painter for shaping a national and collective image. In 1992, his work This Is the Night overturned the focus perspective principle he had always adhered to, and used the treatment of double space for the first time, and the style of his work became closer to the style of Chinese classical painting. Over the years, He's artistic language has been advancing and evolving, and the changes in each period have different themes and discussions of painting, the only constant is the mysterious and melancholy contemporary temperament. He is regarded as a realist painter with outstanding talent, and has also subtly influenced generations of young people.