今年春节刚过不久,接到《收藏界》高社长为中国名家收藏委员会主办的“第2届影响中国收藏界经典人物艺术造象”创作国画《梁思成》的邀约,便爽快答应。因吾对梁公,向来景仰有加。记得早年从北方归梓,因路途遥远、交通不便,大部头书籍多赠与朋友,独有三大册精装本的《梁思成文集》,成为箧中至宝被带回家乡,而余后来之所以能写出潮汕民居的开山之作《潮汕老屋》和《潮汕老厝:四海潮人的心灵故乡》(生活·读书·新知三联书店),在很大程度上应归功于梁公的影响!因为要求写实,所以第一件事就是搜集梁公形象资料,尽管梁公资料颇多,然在民众心目中,梁公多为清矍俊俏、忧国忧民之像。因梁公中年之后,目睹传统文化特别是古代建筑横遭劫难,心中淌血不已,故多神情悲苦,不大入画;而昔年形象,由于思想未定型,不够成熟,也不足采用。权衡再三,最后只能选梁公最美好得意的时刻,即抗战前夕与夫人林徽因共同考察中国古代建筑之时、特别是那张他们夫妇同登天坛祈年殿屋顶坐于屋脊上的照片,简直是天作之合!于是,我把二人简化为一人,开始勾勒草图。 Just after the Spring Festival this year, it was readily accepted by the invitation received by the “collector’s” high-level director for the Chinese Famous Collection Committee’s “Invitation to the Making of the Chinese Painting of Liang Si-sang: The Second Art-image of the Chinese Collectors”. Due to my girlfriend, has always admired. I remember early Azusa from the north, due to long distances, traffic inconvenience, most books donated more than friends, only three hardcover books, “Liang Sicheng Collection,” Zhongzaozhongbao was brought home, and I later was able to write Out of Chaoshan residential mountain “Chaoshan old house” and “Chaoshan old houses: Four Seas tide of people’s soul hometown” (living, reading, new joint publication shop), in large part due to the impact of Liang Gong! Because of the requirements Realism, so the first thing is to collect the images of the image of the public, even though a lot of public information, however, in the public mind, Liang Gong mostly Qing Chun handsome, worried about the image of the country. Due to the middle age of Liang Gong, witnessing the tragedies of traditional culture, especially ancient buildings, the heart is dripping with blood. Therefore, most of his works are distressed and do not draw much into the painting. However, his image in the past years was not mature enough and not mature enough. Weighing out the balance of things, we can only choose the most proud moment of Liang Gong, that is, the eve of the Anti-Japanese War and his wife, Lin Huiyin, when they visited the ancient Chinese buildings together, especially the photo of their couple sitting on the ridge with the roof of the Temple of Heaven at the Temple of Heaven. The perfect match! So, I simplified the two to one and started sketching.