机器的歌者

Singer of the Machine

机器是工业文明的参与者和劳作者。它既与人们的生活息息相关,又冷冰冰的,毫无亲和感。如何把握与机器这个人类自己创造的第二自然的关系?这是左剑虹以他的作品给我们大家提出的问题。在他的笔下,机器仿佛成了有血有肉的奔马或不知劳累的牛,画面酣畅而淋漓。他的机器画既有铁骨铮铮的品格,让人感受到了粗犷豪放的美,又带着水墨的灵动,带着中国画艺术语言的美,带着中华民族传统的情感。左剑虹在水墨画这种国人最熟悉,但又最保守的绘画领域试图突破,其意义无疑是十分深远的。

Machine is the participator and laborer of the industrial civiliza- tion.It is closely related with people's lives but is very cold and unfriendly. How to handle the relaiton between the two is the question his works pre- sent to us.Under his brushes,machine are like live horses or tierless bulls,the picture of the works are with ease and verse.His paintings of machines have the characteristics of firmness and the birht and agile with the beauty of the language of Chinese painting.Zuo Jianhong's paintings made breakthrough in this water-ink painting,which Chinese are familiar with and also the most conservative about,is of great importance.