金马开新岁，艺桥通四海

姜耀南，1951年生，中国美术家协会会员，香港画院执行院长 ，中国观音艺术研究院院长，中国企业书画院副院长。姜耀南擅长人物画，是我国当代最具实力的人物画家之一，与范扬，马海方，王西京并称四大家，中国人物画徐蒋体系传承人。

     姜耀南   中国画观音第一人   自古以来 ，画观音的人很多，姜耀南画的观音却别具一格。历代的观音画像，总括起来，大致有三种类型：一是以唐代吴道子画法为基础的“吴家样”，二是以明代丁云鹏画法为基础的“丁家样”，三是以民间画工为主体的“菩萨样”。这些观音样式，造型比较夸张(如头比较大，身材短)。庄严肃穆，工笔重彩。而姜耀南的观音画像，以生活中的妇女形象为蓝本，用写意的手法画出，线条简洁生动，笔墨浓淡变换，色彩淡雅脱俗。观音的身材比例，解剖结构均合于生活中真人的形象，使观音菩萨由神坛走入人间，让人顿生亲切之感，非常合乎现代人的欣赏习惯，著名评论家李灵商评论说：到了现代，张大千画观音以敦煌壁画为参照，金碧辉煌；姜耀南画观音以生活中的妇女形象为参照，线条飘逸生动，人物形象鲜活。

Jiang Yaonan

Born in 1951, member of the China Artists Association, Executive Director of the Hong Kong Academy of Painting, President of the China Guanyin Art Research Institute, and Vice President of the China Enterprise Calligraphy and Painting Academy. Jiang Yaonan is skilled in figure painting and is one of the most powerful figure painters in contemporary China. Along with Fan Yang, Ma Haifang, and Wang Xijing, he is known as one of the Four Great Masters and the inheritor of the Xu Jiang system of Chinese figure painting.

Jiang Yaonan is the first Chinese painter of Guanyin

Since ancient times, many people have painted Guanyin, but Jiang Yaonan's Guanyin painting is unique. There are roughly three types of Guanyin portraits throughout history: the "Wu Family Style" based on the painting style of Wu Daozi in the Tang Dynasty, the "Ding Family Style" based on the painting style of Ding Yunpeng in the Ming Dynasty, and the "Bodhisattva Style" mainly composed of folk painters. These Guanyin styles have exaggerated shapes (such as a large head and short body). Solemn and solemn, with meticulous and colorful strokes. Jiang Yaonan's portrait of Guanyin is based on the image of women in daily life, drawn using freehand brushwork, with simple and vivid lines, varying shades of ink, and elegant and refined colors. The body proportions and anatomical structure of Guanyin are in line with the image of a real person in daily life, making Guanyin Bodhisattva enter the human world from the altar, giving people a sense of familiarity, which is very in line with modern appreciation habits. Famous critic Li Lingshang commented that in modern times, Zhang Daqian's paintings of Guanyin are based on Dunhuang murals, shining brilliantly; Jiang Yaonan's painting of Guanyin is based on the image of women in daily life, with elegant and vivid lines and vivid character images.