“西村”的称呼,不知道是从什么时候出现的,大概是因为有了“东村”以后,作为某种对应,坐落在西山脚下的圆明园画家村才被人们看成是“西村”的吧。其实,圆明园画家村不仅比“东村”早,而且从影响力来说也要远远大过“东村”。尽管在某些人眼里,“东村”更具有前卫艺术的冲动,而圆明园画家村则更倾向于生活方式,但又有谁能否认,在十多年前, “West Village,” the title, do not know when to appear, presumably because with the “East Village” later, as a correspondence, is located at the foot of the Western Yuan Dynasty Painter’s Village was only seen as people “West Village” it . In fact, the Yuanmingyuan artist village is not only earlier than the “East Village”, but also far outweighs the “East Village” in terms of influence. Although the “East Village” is more impulsive in the eyes of some people and the Yuanmingyuan painter’s village is more inclined to life style, yet who can deny that in a decade or so ago,