与八年前我们刚认识时相比,我感觉曹应斌的世界观有了很大变化。那年二月我第一次去找他,在郑州的一座居民楼第五层的画室里,我面对的是一个不拘小节、有点我行我素的人。在与他接触时,我发现他特别注重避免与他个性相违的行为表现,比如,对我有特别殷勤或尊敬的举止。我当时觉得作为中国人,曹应斌反而更像欧洲人,当然,他的作品也是一样。那时曹应斌主要在布上作画,用一种对人类最讽刺、 Compared with the time when we just met eight years ago, I felt that Cao Yingbin’s outlook on the world has undergone great changes. That February I first went to him in February of that year. In the studio on the fifth floor of a residential building in Zhengzhou, I was confronted with an informal and a bit of a matter of one’s own. When I came into contact with him, I found that he paid special attention to avoiding behaviors that were contrary to his personality, for example, behaviors that were particularly attentive or respected to me. At that time, I thought that as a Chinese, Cao Yingbin was more like Europeans, of course, his work is the same. At that time, Cao Yingbin was mainly painting on cloth, using one of the most ironic of humanity,