李超:对艺术创作的研究和评论,有一个文脉传承关系。现当代艺术家的创作有一个上下文的前后语境,我将朱小明先生的创作,作为中国美术发展的前后语境里长期关注的对象。在完成了一系列有关中国油画史方面的著述后,近期我一直在关注国内当代艺术的走向和相关活跃的艺术家,以期为后面的写作做些准备。我对你之前的艺术创作比较熟悉,它们是早期的《四季》系列和稍后的《忆江南》系列,都是油画创作。《季之叙事》是你的新作,我觉得无论是创作思想还是表现手法,较之前的作品变化跨度很大。我很想知道这些变化是怎么发生的?朱小明:说老实话,这也是我自己一直在思索的 Li Chao: The research and comment on art creation, there is a context heritage. The creation of contemporary artists has a context context, and I will consider Mr. Zhu Xiaoming’s creation as a long-term concern in the context of the development of Chinese art. After completing a series of writings on the history of Chinese oil painting, I have been paying close attention to the trend of domestic contemporary art and related active artists in recent years in preparation for the later writing. I am familiar with your previous artistic creation. They are the early “Four Seasons” series and later “Yi Jiangnan” series, all of which are oil paintings. “Seasons narrative” is your new work, I think both creative thinking and performance techniques, compared with the previous works vary widely. I really want to know how these changes took place? Zhu Xiaoming: To be honest, this is what I have been thinking