李沅是一位早熟的画家,但一直没有受到应有的重视。陈丹青的导师、文学家、画家木心说过:“最高的天才,是早熟而晚成。”这话似乎也可以对应李沅,因为李沅很早就展现出了自己的绘画才能。早在20世纪90年代初,李沅还在湖南长沙学画期间,他的作品就受到了众多考前班学生的追捧。我看过李沅那时候的不少绘画,风格上吸取了英国培根、弗洛伊德等人的一些元素,早已脱去了考前班学生的稚嫩,而呈现出某种粗砺、凝重和沉郁 Li Yuan is a precocious painter, but has not been given due attention. Chen Danqing’s mentor, writer and painter Mu Xin said: “The tallest genius is precocious and late into life.” This remark seems to correspond to Li Yuan, who showed his ability to paint very early on. As early as the early 1990s, when Li Yuan was still studying painting in Changsha, Hunan, his works were sought after by many test-prep students. I have seen many paintings of Li Yuan’s time at that time, which drew some elements from British bacon and Freud, who had already taken off the innocence of test-prep students and showed some kind of roughness, Depression