Mar 26, 2017 at 5:30 PM

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亲爱的主席, 88, Jackie说你们还要我的短文, 谢谢捧场! 我写文章有时难免思想如脱缰野马，88更是文胆，会懂得宽容我的！哈哈哈哈 我在网上看到，去年年末中国国家博物馆展出了“中华史诗美术大展”, 超赞！ 我这是第一次看见有这么大规模的，对中国的文化历史进行史诗般地以视觉绘画雕塑的方式进行歌颂的！介绍中国古代历史的群居，以及帝王将相，特别历史人物，商业，四大发明等等. 以前看西方的文化, 无论是圣经上的故事, 希腊的神话故事, 以及重要的历史关头, 和表现风土人情的各种题材，有如此多的生动的油画，和各种石雕. 我每次站在巨大的油画面前，很感慨. 艺术家能够以丰富的想象，多彩的笔触，戏剧般地，石破天惊， 惊鸿一瞥，正当其时，巧妙而恰当的捕捉那个场景，艺术性地展现给观众！那不光是绘画雕塑的技巧，而是艺术品的内涵深深地震撼人心！无论是何种题材，艺术家们都知道怎么样来不同寻常地表现！艺术家画 “拿破仑加冕” 是如此的大气，画维纳斯幽会是如此浪漫优美，很多场景仿佛自己身在其中，感觉得到事件关头戏剧般的张力. 西方绘画雕塑的技巧如此先进，为后来的视觉艺术-戏剧电影的发展，提供了丰富的资源. 中国不是视觉文化大国，中国人偏重文字的抽象思维，而抽象思维带来的想象力尽情地表现在唐宋优美的中国诗词中. 而中国画也更讲究意境. 平心而论中国画的黑白表现力，即使加彩，也是有其局限性的. 我每次看西方的绘画，那些屏息凝神的戏剧场景，让我感动不已. 而我每一次读中国浩瀚如烟的史载文献，那些惊天地泣鬼神的历史故事，正史野史，每次观看，听说讲那些历史故事，我总归觉得不够过瘾，因为那只是演戏和说书，我从来没看过真正的像西方文化那样描述这些戏剧般场景的绘画作品，或其他大气艺术品. 我曾经去过敦煌，去过孔府碑林，敦煌月亮湾，沙漠绿洲中，庭院廊壁上一幅幅几千年来会集的各个朝代各种字体刻字. 我领略中国文化的源远流长，可是那只是单薄的线条艺术--书法而已呀，对于学艺术绘画的人来说，那是最初级的艺术表现方法，他们总想寻找色彩丰富的，有立体人物的，戏剧般的，可以挂在厅堂上，吸引人注意的，把人的思绪带向更深更高处的大作. 上海美术馆有这样的大作，可大多是政治上的宣传， 甚至Jackie都不以为然.  这次终于有了这方面的作品.

Dear Chairman, 88, Jackie said that you still want my essay, thank you for appreciating me! I sometimes when write articles,  that my ideas are unavoidably rushing out, like a wild horseshoe is a writer, you will understand and tolerate me!  Hahahaha I saw on the Internet that at the end of last year, the National Museum of China exhibited the "Chinese Epic Art Exhibition", great! This is the first time I have seen such a large-scale, epic eulogizing Chinese cultural history with visual painting and sculpture! It introduces the dwellings of ancient Chinese history, as well as the emperor, special historical figures, business, the four major inventions, and so on. Look at western culture before, whether it’s a biblical story, a Greek mythological story, and important historical junctures and expressions, there are so many vivid oil paintings and various stone carvings on various themes of local customs and customs. Every time I stand in front of the huge oil painting, I am very moved. With rich imagination, colorful brush strokes, the artist can shake the sky with a dramatic look, and at that moment, he can cleverly and appropriately capture that scene and present it artistically to the audience! It's not just the technique of painting and sculpture, but the connotation of artwork deeply shocks people's hearts! No matter what the subject matter, artists know how to express connotation unusually! The “Napoleon Coronation” painted by the artist is so magnificent. The date of Venus is so romantic and beautiful. Many scenes seem to be in it myself. I feel the dramatic tension of the moment. The skills of Western painting and sculpture are so Advanced, which provided abundant resources for the development of later visual arts-drama and film. China is not a big country of visual culture. Chinese people prefer the abstract thinking of words, and the imagination brought by abstract thinking is expressed in the beautiful poetry of Tang and Song Dynasty.  And Chinese painting is more particular about artistic conception. In all fairness, the black and white expressiveness of Chinese paintings has its limitations, even if it is colored. Every time I look at Western paintings, I am touched by those breathtaking and dramatic scenes. And every time I read China's vast and waves of historical documents, those horrifying historical stories, true history, non-official history, every time I watch and listen to those historical stories, I always feel that it is not enough. Because it's just acting and storytelling, I have never seen paintings that truly describe these theatrical scenes as in Western culture, or other magnificent works of art. I have been to Dunhuang and to the Confucius' tomb Forest. Dunhuang's Moon Bay, in the desert oasis, the walls of the courtyard have a variety of letterings from various dynasties gathered over thousands of years. I appreciate the long history of Chinese culture, but it’s just thin line art—calligraphy. For those who study art and painting, that’s the first level of artistic expression. They always want to find colorful, three-dimensional characters. It is dramatic, can be hung in the hall, attracts attention, and can bring people's thoughts to deeper and higher masterpieces. The Shanghai Art Museum has such masterpieces, but most of them are political propaganda, and even Jackie disagrees. This time they finally have works in this area.