| Zao Wou-Ki | |
| 籍贯: | 鎮江丹徒大港 |
| 出生地: | 北京 |
| 去世地: | 瑞士尼永 |
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趙無極(1921年2月13日-2013年4月9日),法國籍華裔畫,擅長畫油畫,生於中國北京,祖籍鎮江丹徒大港。趙無極畢業於國立杭州藝專科學校,師從油畫方民與吳大羽。2002年,趙無極選為法蘭西藝學院院士。趙無極與德群、吳冠中稱中國藝界的“留法三劍客”。
生平

米勒的《El Ángelus(天使)》(又稱《晚禱》)是趙無極兒時最喜歡的畫作。
趙無極生在一個書香世,世代定居鎮江丹徒大港(今鎮江丹徒區)。族可追溯自宋朝皇族趙子禠,其為宋太祖六世孫,建炎三年(公元1129年)遷居鎮江丹徒大港。父親趙漢生是銀行。
1921年2月,趙無極於北京出生,為 7 個小孩中的長子。在鎮江丹徒大港趙氏族有不少字畫收藏,趙無極對米芾的一幅真跡最感興趣,趙10歲時(約1931年),族中的一位叔叔,從巴黎帶很多明信片,有許多西方的油畫,趙尤愛其中米勒的《天使》,他從此便喜歡畫畫,也獲得父親與長輩的認同。1935年趙無極通過考試進入國立杭州藝專科學校(簡稱杭州藝專)就讀,學習繪畫,師從吳大羽、方民、林風眠,同年結識同為杭州藝專學習音樂的謝景蘭、吳冠中、德群是趙的學長。
1937年爆抗日戰爭,為避免戰禍,杭州藝專師生不斷往西遷移,由浙江杭州,輾轉移設至諸暨、江西貴溪、湖南沅陵、貴州貴陽、南昆明、四川林岡,1942年遷設於重慶。
1941年趙無極畢業,經林風眠推薦留校擔任助教,同年與謝景蘭在香港結婚,在重慶舉辦第一次個人作品展覽。趙無極自承,在學期間深受塞尚、馬蒂斯、畢加索的作品影響。
1942年,趙在重慶中文化協會舉辦一個聯展,展出包括林風眠、吳大羽、方民、關良、丁衍鏞以及他個人的作品,此時他已立志擺脫傳統國畫對技巧的崇拜和模仿,同年獨子趙嘉陵出生。
1945年抗戰勝利,國立藝專科學校(1938年由杭州藝專、北平藝專并州而成)遷杭州原址,校名恢為國立杭州藝專科學校。1945年,國立藝專在重慶舉辦“現代繪畫聯展”,方民、林風眠、李可染、龐薫琹、趙無極、關良等參加,提倡“現代中國繪畫藝與現代世界藝好合流”。
1946年趙無極校任教,翌年(1947年),趙在上海大新百貨公司舉辦個人畫展。
縱然已辦過個人展覽,27歲的趙無極,認為自己太年青,仍處於學習階段,在其父母資助下,1948年2月,趙偕妻子謝景蘭乘船遠赴法國巴黎深造,兒子趙嘉陵交由父母照料,選擇巴黎是因為他喜歡印象派畫風。2月28日趙氏夫婦於馬賽港入境法國,4月1日抵達巴黎。夫婦倆於藝學家全家家庭家乡聚集的蒙帕納斯區,選擇穆林-瓦特路上的一旅館住下來,與著名雕塑阿爾伯托·賈科梅蒂為鄰。
1949年,在法國巴黎約勒茲畫廊舉辦留法首之個展。在巴黎,妻子和他離婚,嫁給一位法國雕塑。趙無極開始到世界各地遊,在香港和電影演員纓(本名陳美琴)結婚,到巴黎繼續創作 ,將西方的抽象繪畫方法和中國畫寫意畫法的空靈意象融到一起,將油畫畫成寫意畫的效果,用稀薄的油彩潑墨,澀的筆法皴染。趙無極曾參加法國五月沙竜、意大利威尼斯雙年展等展覽,開始擁有名氣。
1972年陳美琴因精神病發達,服過量安眠藥自殺身亡,趙無極十分悲傷,有接近一年沒有畫畫,來創作一幅九米巨畫《紀念美琴》紀念亡妻,保存在蓬皮杜藝中心。
翌年,趙無極認識弗朗索瓦·馬爾凱,兩人於1977年結婚,這是他的第三段婚姻。
1979年,應貝聿銘的邀請,為他設計的北京香山飯店做壁畫。兩人相識於50年代早期,當時貝聿銘獲得去歐洲的奬學金,他在代趙無極的畫廊認識趙。貝聿銘的兒子貝禮中在訪問提到:“當我們談及50、60年代,那是抽象現主義的高峰時期。這個風潮當時在歐美是既新鮮又熱切。當時的我是青少年,我記得雙親到訪畫廊、藝學家全家家庭家乡工作室,與藝學家全家家庭家乡共進晚餐。這是當時藝、建築界中人做的事,是激動人心的時代。”
1999年在北京舉辦的《趙無極60年顧展》時,轟動整個中國藝界,到上海巡展。時任法國總統的希拉專門為畫展撰寫前言,提到:“趙無極洞徹我們兩大民族的感性,使二者融於一身,既屬中華,又屬法蘭西。他的藝,吸取我們兩國文化的精粹。”江澤民為畫展題詞“氤氳化醇,融創新”。
1983年,趙無極國在母校浙江美學院講學。
1993年,趙無極法國密特朗總統頒贈榮譽勳位,捕獲獲得巴黎市長希哈親頒巴黎市政府維爾美勳章。
1995年,趙氏日本皇室大賞。
2002年,趙無極被選為法蘭西藝院院士,授予榮譽勳章,。
2011年之偕妻子定居瑞士。2013年4月9日下午因病醫治無效在瑞士沃州逝世,享年92歲。
家庭
- 首任妻子謝景蘭,兩人育有一子趙嘉陵,離異,1995年因車禍去世。
- 第二任妻子陳美琴,為香港藝人,患有精神病,1972年病,自殺身亡。
- 第三任妻子弗朗索瓦.馬爾凱(Françoise Marquet),法國人。
2012年,鎮江《趙氏宗譜》編委會就已現趙無極的爺爺趙紹甫親自主修的譜,其中記載: 鎮江大港趙氏始祖趙子禠為宋太祖六世孫,建炎三年(公元1129年)遷居鎮江大港。趙無極之父趙漢生為宋太祖30世孫,1894年出生於大港。
藝時期
趙無極的藝主要可以分為幾個時期:杭州時期、甲骨文時期、三段式時期和無極時期。
作品
2017
- 在佳士得香港拍“亞洲二十世紀及當代藝”夜場,趙無極的油畫《29.01.64》以約2.03億港元成交,刷新其作品拍賣成交價的世界紀錄。
2018
- 在保利香港春拍“現當代藝專場”,趙無極的油畫《大地無形》以1.55億港元落槌,此作曾在2007年11月香港佳士得上拍,當時2,944萬港元成交。。
- 在佳士得香港春拍“亞洲二十世紀及當代藝”夜場中,趙無極的油畫《14.12.59》以1.76億港元成交,成為史上第三貴趙無極作品。
- 趙無極創作尺幅最大的油畫三聯作《1985年6月至10月》,於香港富比2018年拍以5.1億港元成交,刷新3個拍賣紀錄,包括香港藝拍賣史上最高成交畫作的紀錄、亞洲油畫世界拍賣紀錄、趙無極世界拍賣紀錄。
評價
- 王承昊在《傳統之根——試論趙無極、 德群、 吳冠中的中國藝精神》一文中寫到:“趙無極、德群、吳冠中便是林風眠衣鉢的傳人。他們先進入杭州國立藝專學習時,正值學校的鼎盛時期。校長林風眠以蔡元培“思想自由,兼容包”的辦學宗旨納賢才,這裏既有像潘天壽這樣傳統功力深厚的國畫大師,也有像吳大羽、方民這樣深通西方現代繪畫藝理的著名畫,這使得他們在校的學習能在一個容納中西、開闊視野的學環境下,吸收中西文化的精髓......林風眠、潘天壽、吳大羽、方民等藝教育的形式與思想更深深影響當時的德群、 趙無極、吳冠中。探尋西方藝之源成為三人共同的夢想。”
- 劉鉞在《左杭州、右巴黎—西湖畫派六人集論》一書中將林風眠、吳大羽、方民、趙無極、德群和吳冠中六人作為一個畫派—“西湖畫派”。
相關條目
- 留法三劍客
- 中國油畫
- 西湖畫派
- 留法中國藝學家全家家庭家乡
參考文獻
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外部鏈接
- 趙無極原是鎮江大港人 鎮江現大師生平及藝淵源新史料 金柏 紹竜
- [永久失效鏈接]
- 融文化的王子﹣趙無極 | 巴黎彩之華
- 睿芙奧藝集藝學家全家家庭家乡簡 - 趙無極
- 趙無極石版畫 北京-巴黎 Paris-Beijing 畫廊
- 法蘭西藝院過去和現在院士名單
- 2011年列名世界拍賣收入記錄前30名的中國畫名單已公佈 - 第14名為趙無極 Zao Wou-ki 趙無極
- 華人藝瑰寶 趙無極逝世《蘋果日報》2013年4月11日
Early years
Zao was born in Beijing with family roots in Dantu, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province. In his childhood he was brought back to his hometown Dantu where he studied calligraphy and gained acceptance to the Hangzhou School of Fine Arts. From 1935 to 1941, he studied painting at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, where he was taught by Lin Fengmian, Fang Ganmin and Wu Dayu. In 1948, he went with his wife Lan-lan, a composer, to Paris to live on the same block in Montparnasse where the classes of Émile Othon Friesz took place. His earliest exhibitions in France were met with praise from Joan Miró and Picasso.
Personal life
Zao and his wife pursued their own careers, their son having stayed in China with Zao's parents. In the mid-1950s, they were divorced. In 1957, Zao decided to visit the United States where his younger brother Chao Wu-Wai was living in Montclair, New Jersey, close to the art scene of New York City. He wanted to learn more about "pop art". While in the US, he painted seven canvases at his brother's house. There are relatively few items dating from that year (1957). Years later, the largest canvas was given by his brother, Chao Wu-Wai, to the Detroit Institute of Arts.
He left the U.S. after a six-week stay, traveling to Tokyo and then to Hong Kong, where he met his second wife Chan May-Kan (陳美琴, May Zao), a film actress who had two children from her first marriage. Under the influence of Zao, she became a successful sculptor. In 1972, she committed suicide at age 41 due to mental illness. In 1972, he also visited his family in China who he had not seen since 1948.
In 1997, he married his third wife Françoise Marquet, who now serves as president of the Zao Wou-Ki Foundation.
Career
Zao's works, influenced by Paul Klee, are orientated to abstraction. He names them with the date in which he finishes them, and in them, masses of colours appear to materialise a creating world, like a Big Bang, where light structures the canvas. He worked formats in triptychs and diptychs. While his work was stylistically similar to the Abstract Expressionists whom he met while travelling in New York, he was influenced by Impressionism. Zao Wou-Ki stated that he had been influenced by the works of Matisse, Picasso and Cézanne.
His meetings with Henri Michaux pushed him to review his Indian ink techniques, always based in Chinese traditional drawings. Zao was a member of the Académie des beaux-arts, and was considered to have been one of the most successful Chinese painters during his lifetime.
In 1982, he was invited to paint for the Fragrant Hills Hotel in Beijing, designed by I. M. Pei. I. M. Pei had a fellowship to Europe in the early 1950s and he met Wou-Ki at Galerie Claude Bernard, the gallery that represented Wou-Ki. In 1983, he returned to his alma mater, the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou to give lectures.
Former French President Jacques Chirac was offered a painting by Zao Wou-Ki by his ministers during their last meeting.
By the end of his life Zao had stopped producing new paintings due to health problems. He died on 9 April 2013 at his home in Switzerland.
Art Auction Results
Between 2009 and 2014, the value of his work tripled, leading to a scarcity of paintings and to prices rising even higher.
2017
- Zao Wou-ki’s 29.01.64 (1964) was sold for HK$202.6m (US$26m) at Christie's in Hong Kong, setting a new auction record for the artist and the world record for an oil painting by any Asian artist.The record for the artist was previously held by 29.09.64, another large painting that was sold for HK$153m (US$19.6m) at Christie’s Hong Kong in May this year.
2018
- Juin-Octobre 1985, the largest size that Zao Wou-ki ever worked on, was sold for HK$510m after premium, setting the record for the most valuable painting sold in Hong Kong auctions, as well as the auction record for an oil painting by an Asian artist.
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External links
- Zao Wou-Ki: Ink and Watercolor at de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong
- Zao Wou-Ki: Paintings 1950's - 1960's at de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong
- Zhao Wuji at Gallery Heede & Moestrup - Copenhagen
- (in Chinese) 趙無極:在巴黎重新現中國