当刘向东筹划他的第一次个人作品展览时,他和策展人严长元要面临的一个选择是如何确定展览的名字。最终,走进北京画院美术馆的参观者,看到“生存·状态—刘向东绘画作品展”这样一个名字。生存和状态是刘向东画笔下的当代社会无数普通人的艺术呈现,其实也是他内心的关注和倾诉,是他艺术人生的一种常态,他用“绘画”两字替代了他多年来孜孜以求的“水彩”绘画创作,但他对传统水彩的极大拓展却在展览中生动地呈现出来,令人惊叹。刘向东是深圳行知职业技术学校/ When Liu Xiangdong planned his first solo exhibition, one of the choices he and curator Yan Changyuan faced was how to define the name of the exhibition. Eventually, visitors who walked into the Beijing Art Museum of Art Gallery saw a name such as “Survival Status - Liu Xiangdong Painting Exhibition”. Survival and state are the artistic representations of innumerable ordinary people in contemporary society under the brush of Liu Xiangdong. Actually, his inner concern and talk is a normal state of his art life. He replaced the word “painting” for many years and diligently sought after him “Watercolor ” painting creation, but his great expansion of the traditional watercolor is vividly exhibited in the exhibition, amazing. Liu Xiangdong Shenzhen Xingzhi Vocational Technical School /