三年前，著名表现主义墨彩画家王炎林打电话给我，说有一个军旅画家的画展，你一定要到。展览设在一个私人的小厅里面，像一个沙龙，到会的都是西安画界比较有造诣的画家和理论家，还有文学界和文艺界的一些实力派艺术家，大家展开了热烈的讨论。王炎林主持这个展览令我很感动，我第一次看到他为扶持和推介一个业余画家这样热情地组织学术活动。 Three years ago, the famous expressionist ink painter Wang Yanlin called me and said that there is a military painter’s art exhibition that you must have come. The exhibition was set up in a private hall, like a salon, with artists and theorists who are more accomplished in the painting circle of Xi’an, as well as some influential artists in literary and art circles, and all of us engaged in a lively discussion . Wang Yanlin was very touched by the hosting of this exhibition. For the first time, I saw him enthusiastically organizing academic activities for the support and promotion of amateur painters.