欣赏刘勇的作品《图腾千年》(见本期彩页),的确能使人得到一种超常的艺术享受。那考究的选材,精细的作工,点睛的命题和巧妙的构思等,无一不受到观赏者的称赞。但最令人惊叹的还是作品中“根味儿”的渲泄。这里所谈的“根味儿”,是指根料自然形态、色泽、质地等综合表现出的意趣、情调和神韵。它是一种比喻,不是物却在物中;不可直视其貌,却能品而得之,在根艺创作中具有特定的含义。 Appreciating Liu Yong’s work “Totem Millennium” (see this issue of color pages), can really make people get an extraordinary artistic enjoyment. That exquisite material selection, fine workmanship, eye-dotting propositions and clever ideas, are all praised by viewers. But the most amazing is the “root taste” of the work. Here talk about the “root taste”, refers to the root material of natural form, color, texture and other comprehensive show of interest, mood and charm. It is a metaphor, not things are in the things; can not look directly at their appearance, but can be obtained from the goods, in the root art creation has a specific meaning.