“成了当今阿Q的标准造像”——论赵延年的《阿Q正传》木刻连环画

“Has become the standard statue of Ah Q nowadays”—On Zhao Yannian’s Woodcut Comics of the True Story of Ah Q

赵延年作为中国版画界的一座高峰,永远值得被敬仰和被研究。赵延年的《阿Q正传》木刻连环画是中国版画发展史上不可多得的精品。他精心为阿Q等人物造像,循着小说文本阿Q命运线索构想情节,形象地再现了鲁迅小说所关注的国民性弱点。在光与影、远与近、虚与实等方面,赵延年呈现出其解读文本的精益求精。在其重刻的11幅版画中,通过人物位置、画幅结构、人物拉近的更改,赵延年努力更准确地艺术再现鲁迅小说的思想和魅力。赵延年《阿Q正传》木刻连环画呈现出独具个性、富有力度的阳刚之美,塑造了瘦削、执拗、愚昧、卑劣的阿Q经典形象,达到了现实主义版画创作的高峰。

Zhao Yannian,as a peak of Chinese printmaking,is always worthy of admiration and study.Zhao Yannian’s woodcut comics of the True Story of Ah Q is a rare masterpiece in the history of Chinese printmaking.Zhao Yannian meticulously creates portraits of characters such as Ah Q,and follows the clues of Ah Q’s fate in the novel’s text to conceptualize the plot,which imaginatively reproduces the weaknesses of national character that Lu Xun’s novel is concerned with.In terms of light and shadow,distance and proximity,emptiness and reality,Zhao Yannian presents the excellence of his interpretation of the text.In his 11 re-engraved printmaking works,Zhao Yannian strives to more accurately reproduce the ideas and charms of Lu Xun’s nov⁃els artistically through changes in the position of the characters,the structure of the panels,and the drawing closer of the charac⁃ters.Zhao Yannian’s woodcut comics of the True Story of Ah Q presents a unique,powerful masculine beauty,creates the classic image of a thin,obstinate,foolish and despicable Ah Q,and reaches the peak of realist printmaking.