Home>Events>Before 2001>Paintings of Hwa Hun Art Society
Paintings of Hwa Hun Art Society 华翰研究会

华翰研究会

前 言

随着新加坡经济的莲勃发展,社会繁荣, 人民丰胡足食之余,逐渐注重精神的充实。
为了配合社会的需求, 政府决定拨出巨款,赞助艺术团体的活动, 齐心协力把我国建设成为一个文艺复兴的国家,政府的这项号召,即刻获得艺术团体的热烈响应,艺术界立刻星现生气,非昔日可比。

所谓艺术团体,包括戏剧、钴蹈、 音乐. 书画等等的组织单位,而以书画团体的数目为最多。
目前的书画团体,估计约有三十个, 若把联络所属下的书画会计算在内,数目就更可观。 这些书画团体,有的已有五六十年历史,绝大多数是近年新成立的。
每个书画会的会员多守不一,而且变动很大,有新加入的,也有退出的。
不管每个书画会的实际情况如何,它们都保持着一个极好的传统,即争取每年举办一次会员的作品展, 目的是把会员一年来所取得的成绩公布出来,听取同行和社会人士的意见, 增进交流。
这是一项很有意义的艺术活动, 也是提高会员和书画会声誉的最佳途径。

就性质来说,书画团体可分为两类: 一类是公开的,凡是书画家都可申请加和成为会员; 另一类则是同门的组织。前者因为门户开放,会员比较多;后者只限于同门,会员自然少。
新加坡到底有多少书画团体是属于同门性质的? 不太清楚. 无可置疑的, 华翰研究会是一个成立较早面较知名的同门画会。这个画会成立于 1973 年,当初的发起人和会员,大部分是著名画家范昌乾先生的门生, 范先生是水黑画家,华翰研究会很自然地成为一个从事水盟画的创作和研究画会。
范先生毕业于上海新华艺专,是王个管的高足, 也即是吴昌硕的再传弟子。

吴昌硕是上海画派的集大成者,其风格影响上海画坛数十年,一直到今天仍不乏追随者。 范先生在上海学画时,正是上海画派鼎盛时期,这种风气给予范先生很大的影响。
范先生擅长兰竹、花鸟, 这是上海画派的专长。上海面派的题材狭窄是事实,但笔墨精妙,则是其优点。
在传统的观念里,笔黑是水墨画的灵魂。这个观念,经过元明清画家的实践和鼓吹,早已成为不可移易的真理。笔疆是否精妙,是决定作品好坏的主要因素。
题材不广, 不是缺点,即使雷同的题材一再重复创作,被当成是麻炼笔墨的佳径。范先生是重视笔黑的,学生受他的影响,也都讲究笔墨的运用。 坦白说,有几位会员的笔墨功力是不错,这是范先生的功劳.

二十多年来,华翰研究会举办过好多届的年展,并于 1974 和 1979年出版过二本年展专集-华翰也积极联合其他画会举办义展, 为社会公益尽棉力。
此外为顾问导师举办“范昌乾作品欣赏会(1981),与联合早报合作主办王个夭个展 (1985),为苏州画家钟天铎,会员庄耿文、陈青青等主办个展。这说明了华翰是一个颇为活跃的艺术团体。

另一点值得注意的是,华翰的会员,难免有几位会员是专学老师的风格,亦步亦趋,然而更多的会员是另麻蹊径的。他们画新的题材,如山水和人物, 避免让人说是抄袭老师。
向老师学笔墨功夫, 画自己的题材, 这才是正道。华翰会员庄耿文、黄燕燕、 林子影先后获得陈之初美术奖;
蔡逸溪获得 1991 年美术大奖和政府的文化奖,这几位画家都是因题材新、风格新而获奖的。另外几位会员,在艺术界颇受推重,也是走自己的创作道路。

中国改革开放以后,大陆的商品画在市面上泛滥、给我国画家造成很大的压力,要摆脱困境,只有画本地录物,放弃传统的题材 题
材新、表现技法新作品就有一种清新之感。画本地的题材,困难是负乏名家作品可供借鉴, 须
要靠自己探索.艺术就是探索,不断的探索,成名的艺术家莫不是刻苦的探索者。谁寻找到新的
表现技法、他就成名。华翰的会员,放弃陈陈相因的传统题材,已经是一种进步, 一旦发展出一套崭新的表现技法,就可以独步画坛。



自古有书画同源的说法,书与画的密切联系, 不必详谈, 要说的是一幅水墨画免不了有画家的名款、年份、画题,甚至题上款。总之,画件不能没有书法。
书法佳,牡丹绿叶,画也因之生色; 反之,画件将因书法的恶劣而踢损。
现在的水黑画家,画艺不凡的很多,而书法足称道的则寥寥无几。
华翰研究会专攻水黑画,也应该兼钻究书法,书画兼优, 在画坛上将会有更广阔的发挥空间。 此外,印章也须考究,马虎不得。
一幅好的作品,是各方面都配合的非常完美,不宜有缺陷。

目前水黑画的情况,甚为杂乱。有的画家坚持保留传统,有的画家则视传统为无物,倡言前卫艺术。
于是有以西洋画技法画水墨画,重彩又抽象; 有以写生代替写意,把客观的景物重现。
与传统的写胸中的景物异趣; 一种则是继承古代的传统, 既写意又见笔墨。我认为,将水墨画可成西洋画的样子, 不足为训。
已故画家潘天寿主张中西绘画应该拉开距离 而不是凑合在一专. 如此才可以保持各自的特色和民族性。
这个看法不是没有道理,值得深思。 只是写实, 没有写意的成份, 画家胸中的锡气无从表露, 说不上是一种创作。
以传统画法来画水墨画. 水墨画的和民族性不散失, 这是必然的。但是水黑画的历史悠久, 同样的题材一再重复,难免令人厌倦。

水墨画须要改进, 是不言而喻的 改进应该从水轴画本身者手, 不是把中西画法混杂在一道、弄得面目全非。
画家可以从改革题材做起 画古人未画过的新题材。 比如同样是花鸟、可以画不同的花和鸟; 同样是山水,可以画新的山和水。
题材新,画面自无陈旧之感。同时、因为题材是崭新的, 画家不得不思考新的表现技法, 一旦创造出一种新表现技法而被艺术界公认为最好的技法,画名便可大振。凡是画史上久名的大师,都是在表现技法上有所独创的。

水墨画的另一种改进的办法, 是跳出传统的框框,把不同题材的章法互相借鉴和移植. 如借山水的构图原理画花鸟,借花鸟的构图画山水。
这办法如果处理得当,画面也会出现新鲜感。

中西艺术的接触和交流,是势不可免, 吸取对方的优点也是应该的. 但是吸取西洋画的哪些优点?
应该是学习西关画家的创作态度, 即如何严肃和认真看待一件艺术品, 而不是把西洋画的技法移植到水墨画来,这是售本逐末, 这类中西混杂的水盟画,华人不容易接受, 西洋人也不见得会把它当成好的水黑画。
这里有一个现成的例子,可供参考, 日本的绘画是学中国的,日本人把中国画消化后,变成具有自己特色的日本画。
明治维新以后,日本画家也吸收西详画的优点,但日本独特的风格并未因此而消失, 日本画家能够做到既保留自己的固有传统, 又能吸收外国的艺术优点,水黑画的画家为什么不能做到?


 

Hwa Hun Art Society

The Hwa Hun Art Society was officially registered on 8 March 1973. Its founders were Poh Yeow Beng, Ling Cher Eng, Tan Oe Pang, Ng Yong Choon, Tan Siow Aik, Tan Goek Eng. Ng Siew Song. Lee Soon Chee. Liu Pau Kiang and Ong Kok Pok.

Most of the members were students of the late Fan Chang Tien, an artist in traditional Chinese painting.

The objectives of the society were to promote cultural exchanges, to develop the art of Oriental painting and to raise the level of artistic appreciation among Singaporeans.


Upon its founding, the society staged a four-day art exhibition at the Victoria! Memorial Hall to raise funds for the Chung Hwa Free Clinic.

The exhibition won much acclaim from those in the art circles. A total of 17 members of the society took part in the exhibition, including Yeo Chin Cheng, Soo Pheck Leong, Chang Sow Yam, Nai Swee Leng, Low Eng and Tay Kiam Hong.

Between 1975 and 1979, the society staged annual art exhibitions at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce. The Second Annual Art Exhibition Catalogue, published in 1974, carried a message from Pan Shou, a calligraphy by Ng Here Deog and a poem by Fan Chang Tien, the Society's adviser. In 1977, a commemorative catalogue, entitled "Paintings of Hwa Hun Art Society", was published in conjunction with the Society's 5th anniversary. It carried a calligraphy of the journal's title written by the venerable Song Nian, and forewords by Pan Shou and Huang Pao Fang. The year also saw Chua Ek Ka, Wong Yean Yean, Lim Kay Hiong, Ng Ye,oh Pieak, Tan Joo Jong and Ms Wong Pok Wan joining the society as members. Others who joined the society in the late seventies included Yong Cheong Thye, Ng Khim Liang and Tan Chen Chen.

The society also held art exhibitions at the National Museum Art Gallery. In 1981, the society organised a retrospective exhibition on "The Art of Fang Chang Tien". The Hwa Hun Art Society also presented an exhibition jointly organised with the Molars Art Society, the Siaw-Tao Chinese Seal-Carving Calligraphy and Painting Society and the Chinese Calligraphy Society of Singapore. This exhibition was to promote exchanges between art and calligraphy societies in Singapore.


1985 was a busy year for the society. Besides holding its 12th annual art and calligraphy exhibition at the National Museum Art Gallery, the society also staged art exhibitions to raise funds for the Geyl.g West Senior Citizen Centre and the Hongkah Education Centre. In October 1985, the society hosted a dinner in honour of Wang Ge-Yi, an artist from Shanghai, who was here to stage an exhibition sponsored by the Lianhe Zaobao.

The society staged its 15th art and calligraphy exhibition at the National Museum Art Gallery in 1988. In the same year, Mr Goh Choon Kang, became an adviser to the society. Other art exhibitions staged by the society that year included the Zhang Tian Duo Art Exhibition and the Chuan Keng Boon An Exhibition. Z.hang was an artist from Shuzhou, China.

In the following year, Pan Shou was invited by the society to be one of its advisers. The society also exhibited works by Tang Yun, an artist from Shanghai.

In the early 1990s, the society staged an exhibition by one of its members, Tan Cheng Cheng. It also hosted exhibitions for two visiting artists from China, Cau Jinn Lou and Zhu Hun.

Efforts made by members in promoting art and calligraphy over the years have been encouraging.
Chuan Keng Boon, Wong Yean Ycan and Ling Cher Eng have consecutively won the Tan Tse Chor Art Award.
Ling in 1985, also won the society of Chinese Artists’50th Anniversary Art Award.
Chua Ek Kay was awarded the UOB's Painting of the Year award in 1991.

Members mourned the passing away of fellow members, Tan Joo Jong and Ng Yeoh Pieak, and the society's adviser and teacher, Fan Chang Tien During the 1980s.

Those who joined the Hwa Hun Art Society since the late eighties included Heng Choy Kiang, Fan Keng Hwee. Tan Yee Joo, Lee Siew Mun, Loh Chui Nyet and Philips Hsu. Together, they are poised to contribute to the future growth of the society.







微信二维码