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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES 艺术家简历

艾轩（b.1947） 1947年生于浙江金华，诗人艾青之子，动荡时期就读于中央美术学院附中。他是「中国写实画派」的创始
AI XUAN 者之一，画作在精准造型与细腻笔法中，透着深邃与哀愁，孤冷空寂，触动心灵。
艾轩童年和少年时期境遇坎坷，加上父母不稳定的关系多次使他进出保育院。 1969年他又被下放到河北劳
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动，只好偷偷作画。1973年，艾轩被分配到四川成都部队随行创作，记录红军的生活事迹。该年他第一次
进入四川西部藏族居住区，深受触动，画下大量川藏风情的写生稿。此后，西藏的时代背景和当地的市井
人物成了他笔下画不完的题材。
1981年，艾轩迎来创作转捩点。他与好友何多苓及四川美术学院学生交流相处，使他改变创作思维，更重
视在画作中发挥个人情感。同时，艾轩被美国写实大师安德鲁·怀斯（Andrew Wyeth，1917-2009）充满忧
郁的诗意画作感动，促使他开创自我的写实风格。由四川回到成都后，艾轩的目光和思绪再次回到西藏，
其景色和人物牵系了他的艺术感知与心灵寄托。他频繁出入藏区，开始创作具有鲜明自我风格的藏族风貌
作品。
2008年起，艾轩创作水墨，题材仍是西藏人物风情。他将前半生的写实经验融入水墨中。从精细的写实
油画到写意的水墨呈现，他对线条、空间的精准处理尽显其深厚写实造型能力，然而他的笔墨更见潇洒自
由，通过最朴素的形式表达内心最真实的感受。
艾轩的创作广受认可，早于1986年，他参加法国海滨卡涅国际美术大展获荣誉奖；1999年，中国艺术史权
威迈克·苏立文（Michael Sullivan）编著美国耶鲁大学正式教材《中国艺术》，将艾轩列入中国近代美术
史十几位代表艺术家之一。2015年，艾轩更获比利时王国议会颁发「东方艺术骑士勋章」，以表彰他在促
进东西方文化交流方面的杰出贡献。同年，获欧洲议会颁发「欧洲之星」。艾轩作品获国内外艺术机构及
私人藏家广泛收藏，包括纽约大都会艺术博物馆、日本福冈亚洲美术馆、中国美术馆、上海龙美术馆、北
京松美术馆、尤伦斯基金会等。
主要展览：2019年3月21日-5月5日”中国风景——2019泰康收藏精品展”，798艺术区A07楼，北京；2013
年12月4日-12月15日“云中藏歌——西藏文化题材系列展“，北京时代美术馆；2013年8月18日-2013年11月
10日”时代肖像——当代艺术30年“，上海当代艺术博物馆 （PSA）

Ai Xuan was born in 1947 to a family with its roots in Jinhua, a city in Zhejiang province in
China. The son of poet Ai Qing, Ai studied at the Fine Arts Middle School affiliated to the Central
Academy of Fine Arts during the turbulent Cultural Revolution. He is one of the founders of the
School of Chinese Realism. With precise forms and delicate brushwork, his paintings reveal a
depth of sadness, loneliness and emptiness that touches the soul.
Ai Xuan underwent a difficult childhood and adolescence, compounded by an unstable
relationship between his parents that saw him sent back and forth from the nursery numerous
times. In 1969, he was sent to Hebei to do hard labour, and resorted to painting in secret. In
1973, Ai Xuan was posted to Chengdu, Sichuan, to follow and record the daily life and deeds of
the Red Army. That year, he encountered the Tibetan plateau in western Sichuan for the first
time. Since then, Tibet and its people have become the subject of his paintings.
1981 ushered in a creative turning point for Ai Xuan. Interactions with his friend He Duoling
and students from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute changed his creative thinking, and he
began to express personal emotions in his paintings. At the same time, Ai Xuan was moved
by the melancholy poetic paintings of the American realist master Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009),
prompting him to create his own realist style. After returning to Chengdu, his mind lingered
on the scenery and people in Tibet who had sparked his artistic and spiritual curiosity. He
frequently travelled to and from Tibetan areas and began to create works of Tibetan subjects in
his distinctive style.
Since 2008, Ai Xuan has created ink paintings, still focused on Tibetan subjects. He incorporates
the real-life experiences of the first half of his life into these paintings. From fine realistic
oil paintings to freehand ink and wash presentations, his precise handling of line and space
shows his exceptional realist modelling abilities, but his brush and ink works are more free and
unrestrained, expressing the most authentic feelings in his heart through the simplest forms.
Ai Xuan's work is widely recognised. As early as 1986, he won the honorary award at the 18th