----荣微   

划一条小舟
载满船烟雨
由远而近 飘飘荡荡
怀抱而坐 亲密聆听
与山水私语细谈

风景给付了光亮
光阴寄予了厚望
于是
学会了等待
学会了在变换的角度，色泽
和静穆中冥想……

　　油画创作的风格样式和技法语言,中国的油画家们各有所爱,各有所需。所谓殊途同归，至今长期从事写生创作，广为国内外学术机构及著名人士所喜爱的油画家董仙舟，用自己的艺术眼光和学识修养，诠释了他所理解的油画风景里的“中国化”意味的独特风情。
　　出色的艺术家，必须形成自己的风格和流派。就是说在沿袭了中国传统国画的写意手法与西方油画表现方法上直接相结合，吸收和融会贯通，然后酝酿、体验、实践、形成独特性。董仙舟正是这样一位出色的艺术家。他的油画风景作品大都来自于大自然，但决不是被动地写生、速描和临摹，而是以他的生命激情，感知和领悟，并深深根植于大自然。他说，画什么不重要，重要的是如何去画，用自己灵性、淳朴和奔放的笔触而付于作品以厚重深刻的生命活力。
　　董仙舟可谓正统科班出身，六年的美院学习经历，著名画家周玉玮教授的言传身教，使仙舟打下了坚实的造型基础、一整套现场写生的表现手段、以及色彩运用的绝活，这在他绘画创作的作品中，都得以很好的体现和表达。
　　我对他的数十幅写生风景油画作品感触颇为良多，这些画稿生动地记录了他的足迹、他的感受。他以艺术家特有的敏锐感觉，发现了不为常人所注意的美感！只有当客观对象的美对画家造成了深切的感受，并为画家以生动的艺术手腕再现出来时，才能打动读者，引起人们的想象和思索。在他的写作习作当中，能让人深切体会到他在炎炎盛夏忘记了恼人的蚊蝇叮咬，驻足留连在色彩繁复的柳荫绿荷前赞叹挥笔；也能让人联想到他在凛冽寒风中刀笔狂挥于白山黑水间那别样动人的情景，真正是让人赏心悦目。
　　记得吴冠中先生说过：“我曾将中、西方杰出的绘画作品比作哑巴夫妻，虽语言有阻，却深深相爱。”原来，在表现自然景观的绘画中，中西艺术融合的最好方式是油画艺术，中国油画就是这对“哑巴夫妻”的新生儿。
　　要知道沿于西方的中国油画移植到中国的大地上，才只不过百年历史。而这一对“哑巴夫妻”的新生儿，落实到每个画家和每件作品中，其形态也是千差万别。不敢说董仙舟的作品是此中最优秀最完美最杰出和最具魅力的一个，但凭着他对艺术的坚持、热爱和虚心，在岁月精心筛选之后，谁又敢断言，他不会探索出“天人合一”美学观的精粹之笔，进而精心创作出感天动地的伟大巨作来呢？
　　就让我们拭目以待吧。

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 ----摘自《画家收藏》

 

 

Different oil painting methods are favored by different Chinese oil painters. They choose the ones they need, use the ones they love. However, different approach may lead to the same goal. Dong Xianzhou, a well known and widely respected oil painter who has been working on sketch, has express his understanding of Chinese element in oil landscape painting.
Any distinguished artists must have his or her own style. Dong Xianzhou is exactly one of these outstanding artists. He followed the traditional Impressionism pathway of Chinese painting, but combined it with methods of Western Oil painting, through absorption, digestion, experience and experiment to form his own style. His oil landscape paintings come from Mother Nature, but these are not simple sketch depicting the natural environment, rather than expression of passion and perception. For Dong, the important thing is how to draw not what to draw. It is to draw spiritually, honestly and vigorously, to give vivid life to the pictures.

Dong received classical professional training from his six years studying in Academy of Fine Arts, under the famous painter Professor Zhou Yuwei, had laid a solid foundation for Dong, with excellent skills in sketch and application of color. All these have been reflected in his painting.

I have strong feelings for his oil landscape painting. All these work has recorded his pathway, his footprint and his affection. He discovers beauty in daily life with his sharp artistic sense. Only when the beauty of objectives causes to painters to reach their deepest feelings, painter can produce a vivid picture and move readers, lead them into imagination and thought. In his works, people can see the painter drawing in hot summer forgetting the annoying mosquitoes bites, drawing in front of the colorful willow tress and water lilies, drawing in cold and windy white mountain black water. This is really a pleasure to watch.

Master Wu Guangzhong once Said, ‘Chinese and Western paintings are dummy couple, they cannot speak to each but are deeply in love.’ Indeed, in landscape paintings, the best way to integrate West and East is oil painting. Chinese oil painting is the new born for the dummy couple. 

Applying oil painting methods in Chinese painting has a short history for only a hundred years. This new born for the dummy couple is so diverse for various painters in different works. No one is saying the Dong Xianzhou is definitely the best, the most perfect, the most prominent or the most glamorous, yet with his persistent, his passion and modesty for art no one can denied that with time goes by, he can find his own pathway to become one of the greatest painters with pictures moving the world.

Let’s wait and see.

Excerpted from ‘Artist collections’ (Hua Jia Shou Cang)