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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES 艺术家简历

贺慕群 (1924-2012） 1924年生于上海，祖籍浙江宁波，先后于台湾、巴西和西班牙等地居住。1965年为追求艺术理想，贺慕
HE MUQUN 群远赴法国巴黎，并定居于此，创作生活37年。在巴黎作画生涯中，她受到西方后印象派、巴黎画派，尤
其是塞尚、高更等大师的影响。面对波普艺术、观念艺术的流行，她始终坚守架上绘画。她一方面近距离
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体会大师的语言，另一方面保持其自身绘画语言的高度自觉。60年代中期至70年代后期，她以版画创作为
主。她的版画既保持了其早期油画浓郁厚实的具象表现之风，同时又具有版画简约概括的特点。1968年，
贺慕群的油画《玩偶系列》参加法国妇女沙龙展，并荣获大奖，此后她在欧洲参展的机会也随之增多。80
年代后期，伴随中国的改革开放热潮，贺慕群应邀回国参展，并先后于1996年、2002年和2011年于上海美
术馆举办了三次个展，2007年中国美术馆个展，众多作品纳入各大国内美术馆馆藏。2012年，AYE画廊与
今日美术馆合办的贺慕群纸上作品展系贺艺术生涯的最后谢幕。同年，贺慕群因病逝于上海。她的作品类
型包括油画、版画、彩墨画、水粉画等。创作内容包括人物、静物和带有自我投射意味的女性形象等。她
的画作背景常常是简略甚至隐去的，静物在大面积的色块和构图带来的平衡感中获得了独立的性格。她用
敏感的直觉感受真实世界，将其内化为自身生活或记忆的内容，通过材料语言对直觉的置换，用浓重的色
块、粗犷的笔触、简约的形式、压缩遮掩的构图将具象描绘于平面之中，以一种静穆的方式向观众敞开，
给人带来单纯朴素的视觉感受，从而达到接近真理的体验。作为中国第二代旅法艺术家，贺慕群长期远离
中国主流艺术系统，她在西方艺术大师影响下所形成的简约、质朴的绘画风格，融合其自我复杂的内心体
验和对于女性的自我关照，结合了中国的审美精神，取得了很高的成就。贺慕群在中国近现代艺术中占有
重要的地位，也是继方君壁、潘玉良等人后最为杰出的华裔女艺术家。个展：2022，人间有味是清欢——
贺慕群作品展，AYE画廊，北京；2012，游艺归澜,宁波美术馆，浙江；贺慕群纸上作品展,今日美术馆,北
京；贺慕群纸上作品展，AYE画廊，北京；2011，贺慕群艺术回顾展，上海美术馆，上海；

Hoo Mojong(1924-2012) was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. She had lived in Taiwan, Brazil
and Spain before she moved to Paris in 1965, where she continued to pursue her artistic ideal
for the next 37 years. During that time in Paris, she was influenced by Post-impressionism
and Parisian School, especially from Cezanne and Gauguin. Faced with the popularity of pop
and conceptual art, Hoo Mojong adheres to easel painting. She studied the artistic languages
of masters, while persisted her own style. From mid-1960s through late-1970s, she mainly
focused on printmaking. Her printmaking is the most distinguished type of her works, which
not only follows the clear feature of figurativeness of early oil painting, but also shares traits
of printmaking. In 1968, Hoo’s oil works Toy Series debuted at the Salon for Female Painters
and won a major award. It lead to more exhibition opportunities throughout Europe for years
to come. During the 1980s, along with China’s reform and opening-up policy, Hoo shifted her
focus from Paris to China. She was invited to participate in exhibitions in China and held her
first solo exhibition in Shanghai Art Museum in 1996. The affirmation of Chinese art world drew
her to settle in Shanghai in 2002 and lived there for the remainder of her life until she passed
away in 2012. Hoo Mojong’s artworks are composed of a wide range of categories, including oil
painting, printmaking, colorful ink painting, gouache and so on. The contents of her art works
include people’s pose and body parts, still life and women portraits which engaged Moo’s self-
projection on some level. Besides, the backgrounds of her painting are always quite simple
or even left blank. Objects with large area of color block and balance brought by composition
have their own characters. With sensitive intuition, Hoo has her special feelings about the
reality, which is transformed into the content of her life and memory. The drawing materials
in her art works represents her intuition. Concrete objects are depicted in the plane through
thick color blocks, rough brushstroke, simple forms and compressed composition. Thus, her
paintings brought a feeling of simplicity to audience, and in a sense of calm and solemn, leads
them to the truth. As one of the 2nd generation of Chinese French artists, Hoo Mojong had
been away from mainstream Chinese art system ever since she lived in Paris. However, under
the influence of western masters, she had developed her own concise and rustic painting style,
which also integrates her own complex inner experience and keen care for women. Meanwhile,
her paintings are not void of Chinese aesthetic spirit. It helped her to reached the remarkable