“假如崇高会引来敬畏,那么,我宁愿选择平凡。每当我想起山村、溪流、炊烟,眼前便会浮现那些纯朴善良的人们。他们日出而作,日入而息,勤恳辛劳,与大自然共枯荣,他们太普通、太平凡了。然而,就在他们那里,就在他们身边,就在他们的眼瞳中,却有着令人怦然心动的,难以言语的那样一种东西,这种东西或许正是——崇高,可亲可近的崇高。” 1994年,《美术大观》发表沈汉武的画作时,他曾写下这一段话。在这里我将它们引作拙文的开头,是因为画家在这段文字里,已将他这么多年来对生活和画作里的追求作了十分清晰的表述。这段文字并无许多深邃和华丽,但却是实实在在的。在我看来,实在即是一种妥贴的品质,在这种品质面前,文 “If lofty will awe, then I would rather choose the ordinary. Whenever I think of the mountain village, streams, smoke, will emerge those simple and kind-hearted people in front of them. Sunrise and daily, interest, hardworking, and There is a total of dry and natural nature, they are too ordinary, too ordinary, however, but in their place, just beside them, in their eye pupils, they have a heart-beating and unspeakable thing, This kind of thing may be exactly the loftiness of exalted. ”In 1994, when Grand Fine Art published Shen Hanwu’s paintings, he wrote this passage. I quote them here as the beginning of my article because the painter has made a very clear statement of his pursuit of life and painting for so many years in this passage. There is not much depth and gorgeousness in this passage, but it is real. In my opinion, reality is a proper quality, in the face of this quality