同乡画家王文平先生要在北京晋商博物馆举办画展,要我为画展作序。我知道办个展,首先体现的是画家对自己艺术的自信心,其次是觉得自己的艺术将会为社会提供能量,发挥作用。我首先对王文平先生表达祝贺!文平给我送来他的部分作品图片,这是我第一次与他的画作谋面,我很惊异,他的作品有别于国内传统写实或表现的画家的作品,因为它们显然受到西方超现实主义画派的影响;也有别于国内抄袭西方现代派的那一流爆棚的画家,因为文平的作品中充满中华民族的生活元素。比如《听风》中的竹子和太湖石的组合,而《清荷——八大》又 Mr. Wang Wenping, a fellow artist, wants to hold an art exhibition at the Shanxi Merchants Museum in Beijing, asking me to preface the art exhibition. I know that doing solo exhibitions first of all shows the painter’s confidence in his art and secondly that his art will provide energy and play a role for society. First of all, I would like to express my congratulation on Mr. Wang Wenping. Wen Ping sent me some pictures of his works. This is the first time I have met his paintings that I am surprised that his works are different from those of traditional painters in China Because they are apparently influenced by western surrealist schools and different from the top-notch painters who plagiarized western modernism because Wen Ping’s works are full of elements of life of the Chinese nation. For example, “listen to the wind” in the combination of bamboo and Taihu Shi, and “Qing Dutch - eight” and