对于当今油画家而言,写实主义油画已经成为一种保留剧目,它的优点似乎一目了然——易看、易懂、易接受。但我仍然认为,执着于写实主义油画是一次艺术上的冒险。我们无论如何也难以想象,面对现代数码摄影艺术和现代电脑合成技术的挑战,写实主义油画的未来将会如何?——也正是如此,现代写实油画家们将题材与观念的精神引入到写实主义油画之中,试图重新激活写实油画的生命力,并有所斩获。李中天就是这样的画家。有所不同的是,李中天借助题材与观念介入写实肖像油画是一种无意识的方式进行的。甚至,抑或出于一种本能,他曾试图通过写生写实回避选择使用观念作为创作动机。在他的作品中,人物和场景的安排难以掩饰较强的随意性,且以单个人物为主。李中天无意于在画面中制造叙事性的描述,而着力于形和色调之间产生的形式感。从这一点来看,如果说陈逸飞、杨飞云、王沂东、忻东旺等在写实主义肖 For today’s oil painter, realism oil painting has become a repertoire of reservations, its advantages seem clear at a glance - easy to see, easy to understand, easy to accept. But I still think that clinging to realist painting is an artistic adventure. It is hard for us to imagine anyway. In the face of the challenges posed by modern digital photography and modern computer synthesis, what is the future of realist painting? That is why contemporary realistic oil painters have introduced the spirit of themes and ideas to Realism painting, trying to reactivate the vitality of realistic oil painting, and some gains. Li Zhongtian is such an artist. What is different is that Li Zhongtian intervened in the portrait portrayal of oil painting with the theme and concept in an unconscious manner. Even, or out of an instinct, he attempted to circumvent the notion of using the concept of creation as a creative motif through sketching. In his works, the arrangement of characters and scenes is hard to conceal the strong randomness, and the single character is the main one. Li Zhongtian was not intended to create a narrative description in the picture, but rather focused on the formal sense of form and tone. From this point of view, if Chen Yifei, Yang Feiyun, Wang Yidong, Xin Dongwang, etc. in the realism Xiao