画家陈丹青在他的《退步集》中说,当代中国油画展是油画家画给油画家看的。那么关于书坛,刘一闻在十届国展中曾就国展书法的现状,说过一段,大约的意思就是作品总是在炫技,在技术上甚至有的还不让古人,但就是品格不高,是无灵魂的东西,此言直指当代书坛死穴。我想作为国展评委的刘一闻还是说的客气的、厚道的。其实当代的一些名家也是“失魂落魄”的。我也曾请教过刘一闻:您落笔时想过是写给谁看的吗?自己、书画家还是普通艺术爱好者或者其他?刘一闻回答:想写出自己想说的,无关他人。 Painter Chen Danqing said in his “Set Back” that the contemporary Chinese oil painting exhibition is for oil painters to show to oil painters. So on the book, Liu Yichen had the status quo on the national exhibition calligraphy in the Tenth National Exhibition, said a period of about the meaning is that the work is always in the show, some technically not allow the ancients, but the character is not High, there is no soul of the things, this statement refers to the contemporary bookstore. I think Liu Yi Wen, a judge of the National Exhibition, still said that he is kind and kind. In fact, some of the contemporary masters are also “distraught”. I have also asked Liu Yichen: Who did you think when you asked for your writing? Yourself, a painter or an ordinary art lover or something else? Liu Yiwen’s Answer: I wanted to write out what I wanted to say but not to others.