当毕加索写道“绘画是另一种写日记的方式”时,就意味着他认为艺术不是用来单纯记录事件的图册索引,而是表达对生活的情感,以及展露大自然的生机。张建中(1937-2003),一位云南当代艺术的代表人物,对艺术、对人生,也秉持着相同的理念。对他而言,艺术更像是崇高的责任和伟大的目标,一个值得为之不断争取又不求回报的理想。我与张建中素未谋面,却与他心灵相通。20世纪80年代中期,在云南美术馆举办的一次展览上,作为一名文艺青年,我第一次见到张建中的作品,就在它面前伫立良久,仿佛就在 When Picasso wrote that “painting is another way to write a diary,” he means that art does not regard art as an index of atlas for mere recording of events, but expression of emotions in life and the naturalization of nature . Zhang Jianzhong (1937-2003), a representative of Yunnan contemporary art, holds the same idea about art and life. For him, art is more of a lofty responsibility and a great goal, an ideal worth fighting for without asking for it. I never met with Zhang Jianzhong, but with his heart connected. In the mid-1980s, at an exhibition organized by the Yunnan Art Museum, as a literary youth, for the first time I saw Zhang’s works, standing in front of it for a long time, as if at