让作品“不洋”但是很“新”——对话王劼音

To Be Not Foreign But New: A Dialogue with Wang Jieyin

画家的每一次创作都是一次内心的表达,画家总是要寻找适合自己的绘画形式;绘画的工具、材料都是为表达服务的。只要能帮助你达到心中的效果,就什么工具都可以用;应该试试怎么让作品"不洋"但是很"新",这就意味着,我们不要流于表面的东西,而是要把事关我们中国画精神、气质的东西坚持下去。中国文化精神、文化气质并不是几个简单的"中国元素"能够涵盖的。它是实实在在表现为中华民族千百年来对自然和天地人生的一种态度,一种信念和一种意志,它与中华民族世代相守,生于斯、长于斯的生存活动紧密联系在一起。

Every creation of a painter is an expression of the heart, and the painter always seeks for his own form of painting. Painting tools and materials serve the expression, while all tools can be used as long as it is helpful for a painter's expression. How to make the work "not foreign" but "new" means that we should maintain the spirit and temperament of Chinese painting instead of superficies. Chinese cultural spirit and temperament are manifested as a kind of attitude, belief and a kind of will to nature and life, and it is closely related to generations of Chinese people's living activities.