以油画造诣呈现东方文化之风——记著名油画艺术家毛锡良

毛锡良，1946年出生，自幼受刘海粟高徒朱枫大师的精心指教，借着中央美院一套教课书的授课指导，自奋图强，掌握了扎实的绘画造型基础，在人生艰苦坎坷的生活中积累了丰富的人生阅历，为绘画创作提供了丰富的素材，所以如今能创作出大量民间喜闻乐见的农村风情乡土油画作品。为多家书画院聘为院士、名誉主席、艺术家协会会员、中国书画名家协会会员。

作为一名画功深厚的老艺术家，毛锡良老先生的油画功底自然是无需多言，在他的众幅油画作品中，比其油画技法更加深厚，且更能引人注意的，则就是他那切实的艺术兼容性和丰富的自然美感!比如描写上世纪六七十年代纯朴民风的长卷油画作品，带着回望历史的饱满情感，写出了那时的人们简单纯朴的生活情景。

人们的生活状态以“公”为核心，以“粮”为载体，把真实的社会生活场景、人物服饰、自然环境、建筑形态一一铺陈在画里，写下反映那个时代的“清明上河图”，此卷写万民立生，祝福万世太平。看这幅文史长卷，既可以理解毛锡民先生经历并沉淀历史的责任心，也可以透过对画卷的解析抚摸那段单纯幸福的时光，为我们的精神寻根，为当下的人们校正生活的方向给出历史的准星!这是一卷了不起的、带有史学价值、写有理想核心的油画长卷，是毛锡良奉献给中国美学的和璧隋珠，当代张择端的功勋令人无限折服!

相比于山水油画作品，毛锡良老先生的众幅民间风情油画则是更加具有着审美上的大众亲和力!并且在这类题材的油画作品中，毛锡良先生也是有全面致力于对人文和地域的双重表现性，继而能让观赏者充分体会到一种与匠俗画家所截然不同的画面意识!民间乡居，情系风情，是以油画笔触为载体，又是以生活气象为生发，一幅幅极具于情感表达的民间地域油画作品，就此已然是有得到了全面的审美构建与表现升华!惬意闲适，雅俗共赏!

以油画造诣呈现东方文化之风。融贯中西文脉，缔造自我画意，这是毛锡良老先生始终都是秉持和恪守的油画创作之道。因此即便是在如今这种以潮流风范为代表的时代背景下，毛锡良老先生的油画作品也依旧是有赢得了许多观赏群体和文化组织的深切喜爱!他在山水油画上实现对自然浩气的升华，在民居油画中又是有实现了对人文情愫和地域风情的相继蕴藉，伟人肖像作品则更是有赋生动于传神，而毛锡良老先生的油画造诣之高，自此也可谓是一目了然!且愿人安，艺树常青!

Mao Xiliang, born in 1946, received careful guidance from Master Zhu Feng, a disciple of Liu Haisu, since childhood. With the guidance of a set of teaching materials from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, he worked hard and mastered a solid foundation in painting design. Through the difficult and bumpy life of life, he accumulated rich life experiences and provided rich materials for painting creation. Therefore, he is now able to create a large number of rural and local oil paintings that are popular among the people. Appointed as academician, honorary chairman, member of the Artists Association, and member of the Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Association for multiple calligraphy and painting academies.

As a veteran artist with profound painting skills, it goes without saying that Mr. Mao Xiliang's oil painting skills are beyond words. Among his many oil painting works, what is more profound and noteworthy than his oil painting techniques is his practical artistic compatibility and rich natural beauty! For example, a long scroll oil painting depicting the simple folk customs of the 1960s and 1970s, with a full emotional reflection of history, depicts the simple and simple life scenes of people at that time.

The core of people's living conditions is "public", with "food" as the carrier. Real social life scenes, character costumes, natural environment, and architectural forms are displayed in the paintings one by one, reflecting the "Qingming Riverside Map" of that era. This volume depicts the establishment of life for all people and wishes for peace for eternity. Looking at this long scroll of literature and history, one can not only understand Mr. Mao Ximin's experience and sense of responsibility in history, but also touch the innocent and happy time through the analysis of the scroll, search for the roots of our spirit, and provide a historical compass for correcting the direction of life for people today! This is an amazing oil painting scroll with historical value and an ideal core. It is Mao Xiliang's contribution to Chinese aesthetics, and the achievements of contemporary Zhang Zeduan are immensely admirable!

Compared to landscape oil paintings, Mr. Mao Xiliang's various folk style oil paintings have a more aesthetic affinity for the public! And in this type of oil painting, Mr. Mao Xiliang is also fully committed to the dual expression of humanity and region, which can allow viewers to fully experience a completely different visual consciousness from that of artisan painters! Folk rural residences, with their sentimental charm, are based on the brushstrokes of oil paintings and the atmosphere of life. These folk regional oil paintings, which are highly expressive of emotions, have already received comprehensive aesthetic construction and expression sublimation! Comfortable and leisurely, enjoying both refined and popular tastes!

Presenting the style of Eastern culture through oil painting skills. Integrating Chinese and Western cultural traditions and creating a sense of self painting, this is the oil painting creation path that Mr. Mao Xiliang has always upheld and adhered to. Therefore, even in today's era represented by trendy styles, Mr. Mao Xiliang's oil paintings still have won the deep love of many viewing groups and cultural organizations! He achieved the sublimation of natural grandeur in landscape oil paintings, and in residential oil paintings, he also realized the successive incorporation of humanistic feelings and regional customs. The portraits of great figures are even more vivid and vivid, and Mr. Mao Xiliang's high level of oil painting skills can be said to be clear at a glance! May people be safe, and the art tree remain evergreen!