陈坚，男，1959年出生、籍贯山东青岛，汉族，中国美术学院特聘教授。现任中国美术家协会水彩画艺术委员会主任、中国美术馆展览评审委员会委员、第八、九、十、十一届全国水彩、粉画展评委。第十一、十二届全国美术作品展评委、第三、四、五、六届全国青年美术作品展评委、上海朱家角国际水彩画双年展首届、二届评委、第二届全国粉画展评委、第一届全国水粉画展评委、第十二、十三届全军美术作品展评委、第十届中国艺术节评委、深圳国际水彩画双年展首届评委，第二届深圳国际水彩入选获奖评委会主席，第九届中国体育美术作品展评委。

　　作品曾赴悉尼中国文化中心，巴黎中国文化中心，亚洲艺术博物馆（尼斯）举办个展及在卡塔尔，新加坡，美国，德国，意大利，英国，捷克，墨西哥，日本，韩国，加拿大等20多个国家举办联展，受到世界各国艺术界的好评。国内在湖北美术馆，山东美术馆，中国美院美术馆，中国美术馆举办个展，并多次参加国家级重要重大展览，作品被中国美术馆、中央美术学院美术馆、中国美术学院美术馆、广州美术学院美术馆、湖北美术馆、山东美术馆等国家重点美术馆收藏。

 陈坚的创作主题一直以人物和风景为主。人物画主要描绘新疆塔吉克族，风景画则着重于大海。对于陈坚的人物画，中国作家协会主席、著名作家铁凝曾专文予以评述。她用“野心、虔敬、洗尘埃”为题，谈她读陈坚的画的体会：“画家陈坚的名字如今已经顽固地和塔吉克民族联系在一起了。”陈坚的“艺术野心”在于“在遥远而陌生的他处，寻找和心灵、和手中的材料最相契合的表现对象”，他因而离开故地，远走高飞，来到帕米尔高原，塔吉克人“那刀刻一样的鲜明轮廓，他们那大红大绿大黑大白的服装颜色极易‘入画’吧，还有他们所处地理位置的神秘和辽远。这个世代生活在新疆帕米尔高原、始终保留着本民族文化的原生部族，价值理念深深扎根在古老的传统之中。他们淳朴、热情、自尊，把诚信和人与人之间的关爱看得和生命同样重要。他们面对恶劣的自然气候所释放出的沉着安稳、怡然自得”，正是让陈坚这样的有“野心”的艺术家着迷。陈坚近20年间不断去往帕米尔之东的塔什库尔干，长期在高原跋涉，用水彩去表现他眼中的塔吉克人。

对于陈坚的风景画，最重要的主题就是大海。出生于青岛的他，成长在海边，对大海有着非同一般的情感，每次遇到困惑就会面对大海，抒写生活与情感的变化。陈坚自述，大海是他另一个灵魂的故乡，对它有着一种深深的眷恋，用语言难以表述就化成了一幅幅水彩画。海成了他无声倾诉的对象，它的宽厚博大最能解释他心中的情感，它丰富的喜怒哀乐不再是陌生的，而是与他的心绪紧密相连。“我画的是心灵深处的大海，这样的海更加隽永和内在，面对这样的海就像面对自己裸露的内心，不再追逐色彩的斑斓，除去一切干扰，因而不会局限于一种技法、一种表情或一种简单的写实”。“笔随心意，自然生发。”逐渐找到了一条回归自己的道路，有了自己的艺术风格。中国美术家协会党组书记、常务副主席吴长江这样评述陈坚：陈坚是很努力和很勤奋的画家。在他的作品中所表露的精神境界和审美意趣正是他本真品格和心灵的显现。他热爱生活、热爱大自然，是有丰富的生活体验和真切情感的画家。在大量现场写生的基础上，创作中一系列来源于生活，充满了丰富精神内涵的水彩画艺术作品，反映了他对自然与生命的深刻思考和对崇高精神的执着追求，也形成了他自己的艺术风格和面貌。陈坚水彩画的艺术特色，还在于他对水彩画语言的运用；他的水彩语言紧密地依附于精神和情感的表达，根据不同作品的表现需要，其画面的语言要素主要包括色调、运笔，水份等水彩技法都有着相应的丰富变化，传达给观众不同情绪的视觉感受。

中国美协美术理论委员会副主任、《美术》杂志主编尚辉说陈坚的创作有四个特点：一是把当代中国水彩画从沉溺于水彩画技的状态提升到一个“形而上”的艺术层面，并在深入研究英美水彩画传统的基础上进行他个性化的创造；二是改变了一般水彩画流于写生习作性，而呈现为浓重的创作性特质；三是改变了一般水彩画的小情趣，使之具有大气象、大格局、大历史的精神承载体；四是改变了中国水彩画所缺乏的光感、空间和色调，他对于形体与光色的驾驭，对于塑造与写意的并举，对于水性与彩性的兼备，对于细微与简约的互用，都让人们感受到他的出众才华。水彩画在西方有600余年的历史，引入中国有百余年的历史，在今天这种历史时期，应该造就出中国的水彩画大家名师了。

 2005年《走进西域》第七届全国水彩、粉画展览 银奖；

2004年《女人体》中国首届小幅水彩画展 优秀奖；

《塔吉克牧羊女》第十届全国美术作品展获优秀奖、马利艺术创作奖；

2001年《马背上的塔吉克人》中国首届水彩人物画展 优秀奖；

《塔吉克人》中国第二届‘金彩奖’美术作品展 优秀奖；

 Chen Jian, male, born in 1959 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, is a special professor of the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts. He is currently the director of the Watercolor Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association, the member of the Exhibition Evaluation Committee of the Chinese Art Museum, and the judges of the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh National Watercolor and Pastel Exhibitions. The judges of the 11th and 12th National Fine Arts Exhibition, the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th National Youth Fine Arts Exhibition, the 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd National Pink Painting Exhibition, the 1st National Pink Painting Exhibition, the 12th and 13th Army Fine Arts Exhibition, the 10th China Art Festival and Shenzhen International Watercolor Biennale The first judges of the Biennial Painting Exhibition and the second Shenzhen International Watercolor were elected as the chairman of the award-winning judges and the judges of the Ninth China Sports and Fine Arts Exhibition.

His works have been exhibited in Sydney Chinese Culture Center, Paris Chinese Culture Center, Asian Art Museum (Nice) and in more than 20 countries such as Qatar, Singapore, the United States, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Canada, etc. and have been well received by art circles all over the world. In China, solo exhibitions are held in Hubei Art Museum, Shandong Art Museum, China Academy of Fine Arts Museum and China Art Museum, and important national exhibitions are attended many times. The works are collected by China Art Museum, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, China Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Hubei Art Museum and Shandong Art Museum.

Chen Jian's creative themes have always been dominated by characters and landscapes. Figure paintings mainly depict the Tajik people in Xinjiang, while landscape paintings focus on the sea. As for Chen Jian's figure paintings, Tie Ning, the chairman of the Chinese Writers Association and a famous writer, has made a special comment on them. With the theme of "ambition, piety and dust washing", she talked about her experience in reading Chen Jian's paintings: "The name of Chen Jian is now stubbornly linked with the Tajik nation." Chen Jian's "artistic ambition" lies in "looking for the most suitable object of expression for the soul and the materials in his hands in a distant and unfamiliar place". So he left his hometown and flew away to the Pamir Plateau. The Tajik people "have the same sharp outline as the knife, and their red, green, black and white clothes are easy to"draw", as well as their geographical location. Mysterious and remote. This generation lives in the Pamir Plateau of Xinjiang, and has always maintained the original clan of the national culture. The value concept is deeply rooted in the ancient tradition. They are simple, enthusiastic and self-esteem. They regard honesty and love as important as life. They are calm, calm and complacent in the face of the harsh natural climate. It is Chen Jian who is fascinated by such ambitious artists. Chen Jian has been traveling to Tashkurkan, east of Pamir, for nearly 20 years. He has been trekking on the plateau for a long time, expressing the Tajik people in his eyes with watercolours.

For Chen Jian's landscape paintings, the most important theme is the sea. Born in Qingdao, he grew up on the seashore and had extraordinary feelings towards the sea. Every time he met with confusion, he would face the sea and express the changes of life and emotion. Chen Jian tells himself that the sea is the home of his other soul. He has a deep attachment to it. It turns into watercolor paintings when it is difficult to express in words. The sea has become the object of his silent talk. Its generosity and magnanimity can best explain the emotions in his heart. Its rich joys, anger and sorrows are no longer strange, but closely linked with his mood. "I painted the deep sea of the soul, such a sea is more meaningful and intrinsic, facing such a sea is like facing their own bare heart, no longer chasing the colorful, remove all interference, so it will not be limited to a technique, a facial expression or a simple realism." "Write freely and naturally." Gradually found a way to return to their own, with their own artistic style. Wu Changjiang, secretary and executive vice-chairman of the Party Group of the Chinese Artists Association, commented on Chen Jian: Chen Jian is a very hard-working and diligent painter. The spiritual realm and aesthetic interest expressed in his works are the manifestation of his true character and soul. He loves life and nature. He is a painter with rich life experience and true feelings. On the basis of a large number of on-site sketches, a series of watercolor paintings which originate from life and are full of rich spiritual connotations reflect his deep thinking of nature and life and his persistent pursuit of lofty spirit, and also form his own artistic style and appearance. The artistic characteristics of Chen Jian's watercolor painting also lie in his use of watercolor language; his watercolor language is closely attached to the expression of spirit and emotion. According to the performance needs of different works, the language elements of his painting mainly include color, brush, water and other watercolor techniques, which have corresponding rich changes, conveying the visual feelings of different emotions to the audience.