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卢禹舜（中国国家画院常务副院长）
古人认为“画惟山水高”，尤其在文人士大夫中，山水画被当作一种“参悟”人生的形式，可谓崇尚备至了。只是继近代诸大师之后，山水画鲜有崭新面目出现。近二三十年来，山水画似乎又在“绝境处逢生”，传统文人画那种超然尘世、雅意洒脱、冷冷不食人间烟火的审美典范性情以及笔墨一统天下的局面被彻底地打破了，大量出现的晕染、肌理和构成等制作的、富于装饰性的画面效果，被谓之现代革新。从此，芸芸画家中用此法者遍地开花、良莠不齐，山水画一度陷入混乱。至此，要从传统格局的山水画中走出来又不至于陷入时风的漩涡以及如何在笔墨样式与丘壑形象两方面确立自己的艺术个性，已成为山水画家必修的课题。而唐绍尧先生以山水为主事，力图闯出新径，可见其执著与勇气。毫无疑问，“从传统中打出来”绝非易事，如何在面对同一课题的众多画家中稳坐一席？唐绍尧以个人对山水传统和时代性的平衡融合作出了独特的解答。
一方面，唐绍尧大量摹写佳作粉本，最终可以背绳墨以造丘壑之势，使其画面中充斥着传统笔墨语言的老辣遒劲、落笔大气的艺术感觉。同时画家传承了近代山水大师们严谨的写生传统，抓住当代山水画创作之可能的核心，专注于山水形象的突破——他把熟悉的徽皖山水作为自己的畅怀基地，避开摹写照片的时风，亲临山水以感受其高深和情理。比如其饱满的构图、以一种旋律感置于画面之中的山石树木形象，莫不是亲临体验不能得出如此的韵律和法理。同时他的作品洋溢着田园意趣，画中或一脉坡地、或两弯小舟，或重色积染、或水墨氤氲，这些无不是作者对真山真水的体会。古人说凡学画山水者，看真山真水，极长学问。亦即近代大师们所谓“到生活中去”的主张，唐绍尧深得其中要义！
其次，唐绍尧专注于山水创作形式的突破。我们注意到画家画面中反复使用的符号：其一，重彩山水形式加入了图案的装饰效果，所以画面看起来既有古朴的传统文化感同时又洋溢着轻松明朗的时代气息，此为画家在艺术本体（如风格）上的探索；其二，民居及庭前屋后瓜园菜地、山体及块面状的植物往往在画面中形成一种特殊的轨迹，正是这个轨迹引领我们进入画家实际关注的“家园”的主题，此为画家情感的归属点。作品中最重要的这两个符号在向我们咏叹画家的探索——宏观的艺术风格主题和微观的个体的生存理想之间总能找到一个和谐的平衡点。苍翠清新的徽皖山水、质朴又欢快的水墨青绿设色以及富有田园生活情趣的景象高度统一在画面上，形成了唐绍尧独特的现代山水风格。
我相信画家唐绍尧有着一颗平常心，所以在他宁静祥和的画面情趣中，有着中正平和、不激不厉的从容。有时候，艺术的意境与画人的品味就是这样不可分离。在唐绍尧这里，山水画创作既是一种不可荒芜的学问，更是一种笃实的人生态度。
PERFACE
Lu Yu Shun
Executive vice president of China National Art Gallery
The landscape painting was extremely advocated as the form of the enlightenment about life in the ancient times especially among the scholar-bureaucrat people,but it became lack of the originality after the master in modern times.In recent years the traditional conventions were broken down by a new form of the painting emerged out of the void named modern revolution which means the revitalizing of the landscape painting.Most of the painters begin to purchase the elaborately and decorative effect by use the shading and the composition and the image texture.As a result, it became a tough question to the painters to break down the old convention and establish the personal style in the language of brush-and-ink and the image building.Tang Shaoyao is mainly occupied with the landscape painting who is courageous and skillful in the innovation.In the correspondence of the soul and painting, he has created artistic language with delicate fluctuation and farsighted artistic conception.
In the first instance,Tang Shaoyao copies the representative works by the outstanding painters in ancient times and inherits their rigorous sketching tradition to construct the great momentum in his painting and concentrate on the nuclear of the creation of the landscape painting to break through the image of the scenery.He puts his heart and soul into the sketching in the landscape of Anhui Province to experience the sophisticated and the principal of the scenery and makes the full composition and the melodic images in his painting.In the meantime,the pleasant scene in the painting of Tang Shaoyao was charming in its pastoral setting which eulogize the country life of the Arcadian and reflect the true feelings of him.There is the theory of Chinese painting that you must to go to view the real mountains if you want draw them and the experience will enhance your accomplishment.The painter has fully appreciated the proposal of the modern masters which means living a life in the real life.
In the second place,Tang Shaoyao concentrates on the breakthrough of the forms in the innovation of the landscape painting.There are two symbols used repeatedly in the image and the first one is the odyssey of the artistic object such as the style,which is the blending of the painting in decorative style and make the image full of the traditional culture feeling and the spirit of the times.The second one is the major themes which eulogize the Arcadian in the painting which contains the vernacular dwelling and the vegetable field,the mountain and the massive plants which make a special track in the painting.We notice that the symbols chant the endeavor of the painter who finds a harmonic way to balance the macroscopic artistic theme and the microcosmic personal ideal.Consequently the landscape and the color and the country life are united in the image of Tang Shaoyao who creates a special style of the modern landscape painting.
We believed that Tang Shaoyao has a common heart and make his painting full of utmost freedom and unsurpassed joy.He is such a painter that his sound scholarship based on the innovation,therefore,the creative concept and the exquisite rhythm are inalienable in his landscape painting.
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