刁呈健，1949年生，河北故城人。国家一级美术师，中国美术家协会会员，清华大学访问学者。自幼从师著名书画家张寒杉、叶访樵先生学习中国画，毕业于西安美术学院国画系，深造于中国国家画院，现为西安中国画院专业画家。曾任西安中国画院花鸟研究室主任，西安青年美术家协会主席；

现任陕西省中国花鸟画研究会副会长，陕西书画艺术研究院副院长，陕西省慈善协会理事，西安市慈善书画艺术理事会名誉理事长。工写兼能，尤善大写意花鸟画。作品笔墨酣畅、格调清隽、意境超拔。以传统的笔墨，现代的理念，奇崛巧妙的形式构成，以简写理，以书入画，将花鸟画的神韵进行着酣畅淋漓的挥洒，使自然美与意境美和谐统一于笔下。

刁呈健作品

 刁呈健的画，充溢着清气且具有沉着的阳刚之美，笔墨姿肆豪放，酣畅淋漓，俊爽超脱。《润物细无声》不仅入选首届全国花鸟画展，而且被选为此展作品集《中国花鸟画》的封面。画面中的牡丹几根主干斜贯画面，屈铁沉凝，联成一气。另有几根穿插其中似蛟螭盘柱，苍劲深远，绘画形式上团块与线条对比，线条之间，大片浓墨为叶，深浅浓淡独具匠心，叶脉形散而神不散，紧抱一团气韵，在纵横中使有法度，形成力的均衡，春雨中的牡丹同时也展现着画家自身的一种静穆和向上的渴望。

作品《鹤伍》在整体造型上仅为一个个外廓，几条洒脱的线条勾勒出群鹤的律动，如跳动的音符，鹤顶看似随意的一点曙红，为其整体作了强化，章法上也更为增色，笔简意幽地表现出白鹤稳健睿智而不随俗流的精神内涵，这也同样代表着作者的精神追求。

《接天云涛》、《金靥凝霜》等作品旨在歌颂大自然与个体生命的依赖与和谐。画面用色凝重，成簇成堆、如云似潮的鸡冠花和秋菊迎风怒放，以书法之笔写就的枝条，横涂竖抹，节奏自出。在花的造型上融入自然现象的形和社会生活的魂，将自然形象升华到形而上的高度，这正是艺术与非艺术，写意与描摹的本质区别所在。整体构图在统一中加以变化，远非一般程式画法能比，枝干、叶片、花朵也是大笔饱墨，达到一种“初看花，花既是花，后看花，花并非花，如今看花，花仍是花，似花而非花，非花而似花”的大写意境界。强烈的情感指向，强烈的艺术感染，强烈的视觉冲击浑然有英气扑面而来。

刁呈健作画常以书为法，以文为画。他认为以中国书法为根底的笔墨功夫是中国画形式美的前提，纵观历代写意画大师那一位不是具有深厚笔墨功夫的书法高手。这许多年来他丝毫未敢放松对传统书法、篆刻艺术的学习和钻研。他悉心研读古今大家的法书，手摹心追，他洞悉书艺中情随笔转的机巧，辅以自己对传统文化的认知，因此他能以自己洒脱的书法入画，使笔墨在传神表象的功能之外又承载着厚重的人文内涵。

在专注于中国大写意花鸟画的同时，他对山水画也寝馈其中，感染良多，其所作山水画笔墨清丽，赋色娴雅，兼而气韵生动，意境高远，他不被自然所桎梏而是用自己心中的自然来驱使自然。对艺术他有许多的心得体会，历年写就的数十万字的读书笔记和绘画感言，上万张的写生稿，是他不绝的创作源泉。读书、写字、治印、旅行构成了他另外一个精神世界。

 作品《接天云涛》、《金靥凝霜》、《实》入选全国第七、八、九届美术作品展；《维叶莫莫》入选首届全国中国画展；《润物细无声》入选全国首届花鸟画展；《孔雀》、《秋水》、《郁乎苍苍》、《大吉》、《延年》、《欲洗霜翎下涧边》、《观常》、《熔金拂光》分别入选当代中国花鸟画邀请展第三、六、七、九、十、十一、十二、十四届展览，分别荣获成就奖、精英奖；《长河落日圆》入选全国第一届当代中国山水画邀请展。

作品《润物细无声》被选用为全国首届花鸟画展作品集《中国花鸟画》的封面。多幅作品选入《首届全国中国画展览作品集》、《中国画集》、《中国花鸟画》、《当代中国画名家作品选》、《第九届全国美术作品展览中国画作品集》、《陕西历代书画名家精品集》、《跨世纪著名中国画家作品集》、《“情系奥运”中国花鸟画大展作品集》等大型专业画集。艺术传略入编《中国当代美术家名人录》、《中国美术家》、《中国当代艺术界名人录》、《中国当代美术家人名录》、《中国美术家协会会员辞典》。出版有《刁呈健画集》，《刁呈建写意花鸟》等。

代表作品曾先后参加香港现代艺术双年展，亚洲美术家联盟展等重要画展并先后荣获夏利豪现代艺术基金会最具潜力艺术奖，成龙艺术奖学金和中文大学毕业画展首奖，丁衍庸纪念艺术奖，许让成艺术收藏奖等著名奖项。多幅作品分别被香港大学新亚书院，香港艺术中心，夏利豪现代艺术基金会，中国对外文化交流协会，江苏省美术馆，日本石川县美术馆，美国前总统克林顿和众多中外著名人士收藏。

近年来有500余幅作品参加国内外各种展览160余次，获奖30余次，在国际、国内大赛中8次获奖，多幅作品被海内外博物馆、机构和个人收藏。

刁呈健作品

 灵气、才情、学养是艺术的灵魂。刁呈健外表沉静，温文尔雅，不事张扬。但他人文修养全面，且注重真诚的生活感悟。熟悉他的人都知道，他是一个心态平和，无意功名的人，也是一个对生活无比热爱，对艺术无比执着的艺术家。一个画家的修养，除了他的艺术天赋之外，便是他对传统艺术精神的理解和对生活的感悟。灵气、才情、学养和足够的执著努力要兼而有之，也正是有这样的修养，才使刁呈健的画具有了与众不同的魅力，从而形成自己独特的艺术风格。

艺术主要是来源于生活，在生活气息上你要加强自己的个性，在画面处理上要抓住自己的独到之处，在表现的语言上用自己长处不断加强自己。总的来说，你的花鸟画已经很强烈了，你已经高到了这样一个程度，所以有些东西就要讲求更加完美，我希望你尽量地多去研究，这样你的作品高度就会越来越完整。

西安美院名誉院长、著名画家 刘文西

刁呈健先生是一名非常有追求的画家，他写意画的创新是全面的，首先是构图，原来我对中国画有一个看法，它过分地重视笔墨而忽略了构图的创新，而刁先生在国画的构图上有了很大胆的突破，有了现代甚至是后现代构成主义的介入，不仅仅追求东方美学的均衡，更不怕倾斜，敢于重新构图；在色彩上，他能够把色彩驾驭得有规律、很精彩，把握其韵律；在线条上，无论是用墨或用线都有他独到的功底，把线条的功能发挥到了极致；还有造型，可以很明显地看出来是变体，但他的变体是可读的、可理解的、可沟通的。因此，刁先生作为一名艺术家，他主体强大的功能完全能为他所描绘的客观世界进行强有力地改造和提升，最后用笔墨很自如地表达出来，这对于一名艺术家是非常不容易的。

著名文艺评论家 肖云儒

刁呈健先生在陕西画坛是一个不可多得的大写意画家，在20年前他已经很有水平，是个实力派画家。他继承了传统的写意精神，他的大写意创作、书法以及篆刻这三方面，已经摆脱了现在众多美术学院以西化为基础的一个模式。从选材来讲，他有很多题材是一般画家所不画的；从造型来看，他采取夸张、简略、变形的方法，摆脱了别人属于写实，拘泥于细节的状态，他是传统大写意的一种继承和发扬；从他的笔墨和画面总体来说，他的画气韵生动，既有学院西化的写生和重彩基础，又有大写意的传统基础和发展，故形成了自己独特的面貌。

中国美协副主席、中国国家画院院长 杨晓阳 

 Diao Chengjian was born in 1949 in the old city of Hebei Province. National first-class artist, member of China Artists Association, visiting scholar of Tsinghua University. Zhang Hanshu and Ye Wenqiao, famous calligraphers and painters, have studied Chinese painting since childhood. They graduated from the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, and are now professional painters of Xi'an Academy of Chinese Painting.

Personal Profile

Diao Chengjian was born in 1949 in the old city of Hebei Province. National first-class artist, member of China Artists Association, visiting scholar of Tsinghua University. Zhang Hanshu and Ye Wenqiao, famous calligraphers and painters, have studied Chinese painting since childhood. They graduated from the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, and are now professional painters of Xi'an Academy of Chinese Painting. He was the director of Flower and Bird Research Department of Xi'an Chinese Academy of Painting and the chairman of Xi'an Youth Artists Association.

Currently, he is vice president of Shaanxi Chinese Flower and Bird Painting Research Association, vice president of Shaanxi Academy of Calligraphy and Painting Art, director of Shaanxi Charity Association and honorary director of Xi'an Charity Calligraphy and Painting Art Council. He is good at both painting and painting, especially freehand flower and bird painting. His works are smooth in brush and ink, clear and meaningful in style and excellent in artistic conception. With traditional brush and ink, modern ideas, strange and ingenious forms, and with concise writing and painting in calligraphy, the charm of flower and bird painting is vividly and vividly sprinkled, so that the beauty of nature and artistic conception can be harmoniously unified in the works.

Creative Style

Diao Chengjian's paintings are full of fresh air and calm masculinity. His brush and ink are bold and bold, smooth and vivid, handsome and detached. "Moistening Things Silently" was selected not only for the first National Flower and Bird Painting Exhibition, but also for the cover of the exhibition collection "Chinese Flower and Bird Painting". The peony trunk in the picture runs obliquely through the picture, bending iron to settle down, and unites into one. There are also a few sticks like Jiaojiao Panzhu, vigorous and far-reaching, in the form of painting and line contrast, between lines, a large area of thick ink for the leaves, depth, shade and originality, leaf veins scattered but not scattered, holding a group of charm, in vertical and horizontal to make the law, form a force of balance, peony in the spring rain also shows the painter. A quiet and upward desire of oneself.

The work "Hewu" only has one outline in its overall shape. Several free and easy lines delineate the rhythm of the cranes, such as the beating notes and the seemingly random dawn of the crane crest, which strengthens the whole and enhances the constitution. The concise and elegant expression of the spiritual connotation of the white crane is steady, wise and does not follow the popular trend. It also represents the author's spiritual pursuit.

The works such as Jietian Yuntao and Jindi Ningfrost aim at extolling the dependence and harmony between nature and individual life. The pictures are dignified in colour. Clusters of cloudy cockscombs and autumn chrysanthemums are blooming in the wind. Branches written with calligraphy brushes are painted vertically and horizontally, with rhythm coming out. The essential difference between art and non-art, freehand brushwork and description lies in the integration of the shape of natural phenomena and the soul of social life in the shape of flowers and the sublimation of the natural image to a metaphysical level. The overall composition is changed in the unity, far from the general formula, branches, leaves and flowers are also full of ink, reaching a free-hand state of "flowers at first sight, flowers are both flowers, flowers are not flowers, flowers are still flowers, flowers are not flowers, flowers are flowers, flowers are not flowers, flowers are not flowers, flowers are flowers, flowers are not flowers but flowers". Strong emotional orientation, strong artistic infection and strong visual impact are all coming.

Diao Chengjian often uses calligraphy as his painting method and literature as his painting method. He believed that the brush and ink Kungfu based on Chinese calligraphy was the premise of the formal beauty of Chinese painting. Throughout the ages, the master of freehand brushwork was not a master of calligraphy with deep brush and ink kungfu. For many years, he did not dare to relax his study and study of traditional calligraphy and seal carving. He carefully studied the calligraphy books of ancient and modern people, and traced them by hand. He had a good understanding of the ingenuity of free-style writing in calligraphy and art, supplemented by his understanding of traditional culture. Therefore, he was able to draw freely by his own calligraphy, so that the ink and ink in addition to the function of vivid representation also carried a heavy humanistic connotation.

While concentrating on Chinese freehand flower-and-bird painting, he also gave a lot of inspiration to landscape painting. His landscape painting brushes are beautiful, elegant, lively and artistic conception is high. He is not shackled by nature, but drives nature with the nature in his heart. He has a lot of experience in art. Hundreds of thousands of words of reading notes and paintings written over the years, tens of thousands of sketches, are the source of his endless creation. Reading, writing, stamping and traveling constitute his other spiritual world

Achievements and Honours

The works "Connecting Clouds to the Heaven", "Golden Dipper Frost" and "Actual" were selected into the seventh, eighth and Ninth National Art exhibitions; "Weiyemo" was selected into the first national Chinese painting exhibition; "Moistening Thin Silence" was selected into the first national flower and bird painting exhibition; "Peacock", "Autumn Water", "Yu Yu Yu Yu Cang", "Daji", "Yannian", "Yannian", "Yannian", "Yannian", "Yannian", "Yannian", "Yannian","《 Want to wash frost Ling under the Jianbian","Guanchang","Fujin Fuguang"were selected as the third, sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and fourteenth invitation exhibitions of contemporary Chinese flower and bird painting, respectively, and won the achievement award and elite award; Changhe Sunset Yen was selected as the first invitation exhibition of contemporary Chinese landscape painting in China.

The work "Moistening Things Silently" was selected as the cover of "Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting" in the first national flower-and-bird painting exhibition. Several works were selected into the Collection of Works of the First National Chinese Painting Exhibition, the Collection of Chinese Paintings, the Collection of Chinese Flowers and Birds Paintings, the Selection of Works of Contemporary Chinese Painters, the Collection of Chinese Paintings of the Ninth National Art Exhibition, the Collection of Excellent Works of Calligraphy and Paintings of All Dynasties in Shaanxi, the Collection of Works of Famous Chinese Painters Crossing the Century, and《 "Love Olympics" China Flower and Bird Painting Exhibition Works Collection and other large professional paintings. Art biography is included in the catalogue of contemporary Chinese artists, Chinese artists, Chinese contemporary art circles, Chinese contemporary artists and Dictionary of Members of Chinese Artists Association. Published Diao Chengjian's Painting Collection, Diao Chengjian's Freehand Flowers and Birds, etc.

His representative works have participated in the Hong Kong Biennale of Modern Art, the Asian Artists Federation Exhibition and other important exhibitions. He has won the most potential Art Awards of the Charlie Howe Modern Art Foundation, the Jackie Chan Art Scholarship and the first prize of the Graduation Painting Exhibition of the Chinese University, the Ding Yanyong Memorial Art Award, and the Xu Rang Art Collection Award. Many works have been collected by New Asia College of Hong Kong University, Hong Kong Art Center, Charlie Howe Modern Art Foundation, China Association for Foreign Cultural Exchange, Jiangsu Art Museum, Shichuan County Art Museum of Japan, former President Clinton of the United States and many famous Chinese and foreign figures.

In recent years, more than 500 works have participated in more than 160 exhibitions at home and abroad, won more than 30 prizes, won eight prizes in international and domestic competitions, and many works have been collected by museums, institutions and individuals at home and abroad.

Celebrity Appraisal

Reiki, talent and education are the soul of art. Diao Chengjian has a quiet appearance, gentle and elegant, and nothing to publicize. But his humanistic accomplishment is comprehensive, and he pays attention to sincere life experience. Everyone who knows him well knows that he is a person with a peaceful mind and no fame. He is also an artist who loves life and perseveres in art. A painter's accomplishment, in addition to his artistic talent, is his understanding of the spirit of traditional art and his perception of life. Reiki, talent, education and enough persistent efforts should be combined. It is precisely this kind of accomplishment that makes Diao Chengjian's paintings have a unique charm, thus forming its own unique artistic style. [1]

Art mainly comes from life. In the breath of life, you should strengthen your personality. In the processing of pictures, you should grasp your unique features and constantly strengthen yourself with your own strengths in the language of expression. Generally speaking, your flower-and-bird painting is very strong, you have reached such a high level, so some things need to be more perfect, I hope you try to study as much as possible, so that your work will become more and more complete.

Liu Wenxi, Honorary Dean and Famous Painter of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts

Mr. Diao Chengjian is a very pursuing painter. His creative freehand brushwork is comprehensive. First of all, composition. I had a view on Chinese painting. It attached too much importance to brush and ink and neglected the innovation of composition. Mr. Diao has made a bold breakthrough in the composition of Chinese painting, with modern and even post-modern composers. Intervention of meaning not only pursues the balance of Oriental aesthetics, but also dares to re-compose without fear of tilting; in color, he can control the color regularly, brilliantly and grasp its rhythm; in line, whether with ink or with lines, he has his unique foundation, and exerts the function of lines to the extreme; It is obvious that it is a variant, but its variant is readable, understandable and communicative. Therefore, as an artist, Mr. Diao's powerful function of the subject can completely transform and improve the objective world he describes, and finally express it freely with his pen and ink, which is very difficult for an artist.

Xiao Yunru, a famous literary critic

Mr. Diao Chengjian is a rare freehand brushwork painter in Shaanxi painting circle. 20 years ago, he was already at a high level and a powerful painter. He inherited the traditional spirit of freehand brushwork. His freehand brushwork creation, calligraphy and seal carving have got rid of a mode based on Westernization in many art academies. From the perspective of material selection, he has many subjects which are not painted by ordinary painters; from the perspective of shape, he adopts exaggeration, simplicity and distortion to get rid of others'realism and sticking to details, which is a kind of inheritance and development of traditional freehand brushwork; from his ink and picture as a whole, his paintings are vivid and vivid. It has not only the basis of the Westernization of the college, but also the traditional basis and development of freehand brushwork, so it has formed its own unique features.

Yang Xiaoyang, Vice-Chairman of China Artistic Association and President of China National Academy of Painting