许江是一位学者型的艺术家,以他目前的身份,还可以是学者型的美术学院院长等。他温文尔雅的表情中透出严谨的治学态度,他执著理想,却有着大人文精神下的历史主义情结。当我提出他以何种身份接受采访时,他不假思索地表示还是艺术家的好。其实,任何一种门类都有其局限性,问题是看你能否将其变通。目前看来,许江变换的角色与他坚守的绘画理想一点也不矛盾。 Xu Jiang is a scholarly artist who, with his current status, could also be a scholar of art academy. His gentle expression revealed a rigorous academic attitude, his persistent ideal, but under the great humanistic spirit of historicism complex. When I asked him what kind of identity he was interviewed, he said without hesitation or artist’s good. In fact, any kind of category has its limitations. The question is whether you can change it. At present, Xu Jiang’s role in transforming is not at all contradictory to the ideality of his painting.