三十年前大陸剛改革開放

　　由臺(tái)灣寄往北京的信件上

　　經(jīng)常寫有天鵝畫家劉法生的字樣

　　老法的天鵝畫

　　那時(shí)飛往臺(tái)灣朋友家的不少

　　天鵝是上天之鳥

　　能傳達(dá)上天吉祥的信息

　　所以人們喜歡，等候，保護(hù)

　　從那時(shí)起我收藏研究老法的書畫

　　深深敬佩他做人老實(shí)低調(diào)

　　但作品藝高膽大奔放瀟灑生動(dòng)

　　很多臺(tái)灣朋友稱老法之作

　　

中華韻現(xiàn)代國(guó)寶

　　老法二十年前飛往太平洋西岸

　　經(jīng)常仰望東方思故鄉(xiāng)

　　在異地創(chuàng)立BC畫院出任院長(zhǎng)

　　老法講

　　西學(xué)東學(xué)的是文化藝術(shù)理論

　　東學(xué)西學(xué)的是高科技

　　藝術(shù)首先產(chǎn)生新的材料工具

　　如中國(guó)的紙西方的化學(xué)

　　然后才是使用技巧

　　

產(chǎn)生新的藝術(shù)家

　　老法工作室多年為北美

　　培養(yǎng)出大批本地出生的美術(shù)人材

　　設(shè)計(jì)繪畫成績(jī)都是A

　　現(xiàn)在很多學(xué)生己成為

　　社會(huì)各界名人藝術(shù)家

　　學(xué)生們將老師藝術(shù)觀點(diǎn)

　　翻譯講解傳達(dá)給西方藝尤家

　　西方藝術(shù)家總是大聲說(shuō)上帝

　　東方藝術(shù)太神奇了

　　西方近代現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)

　　正在用筆沾色彩快速的學(xué)習(xí)追趕

　　東方傳統(tǒng)美學(xué)理論及藝朮現(xiàn)點(diǎn)

　　凡高就是一例

　　畢加索曾苦學(xué)齊白石

　

　不少同學(xué)經(jīng)�；貋�(lái)看望老師

　　非常喜歡聽老師生動(dòng)的講課

　　老法苦心研究中西方美術(shù)理論

　　提出東方看曙光西方看夕陽(yáng)

　　抽象學(xué)草書

　　西方一點(diǎn)白（指光色）

　　東方一點(diǎn)黑（指墨色）

　　力透紙背苦修煉

　　不飛不飄不是仙

　　東方文化藝術(shù)童子功

　　字畫好兄弟

　　幼兒習(xí)草書

　　歷史看新與舊中與西

　　世界藝術(shù)大中華

　　學(xué)做真人

　　點(diǎn)畫放大百倍是現(xiàn)代

　　放大千倍是未來(lái)

　　動(dòng)活也等等

　　很多理論性辨證問(wèn)題

　　

非常讓人深思探索

　　世界幾所著名藝術(shù)學(xué)院

　　院長(zhǎng)對(duì)老法都曾有贊譽(yù)

　　老法字畫難懂不入俗

　　世人不易理解

　　用草書入畫開先河

　　看似純傳統(tǒng)靜思極現(xiàn)代

　　筆骨墨肉形似少女之比例

　　筆氣墨韻氣韻生動(dòng)成典范

　　以墨色輝煌華麗

　　變化精美著稱于世

　　每筆淡雅中求色變

　　細(xì)看原作沒(méi)有輕墨只留下水跡

　　啟功生前曾美言法生筆墨非凡

　　炳森稱弟贊字如行云流水

　　中年畫百米長(zhǎng)卷《天鵝湖》

　　早譽(yù)滿中西

　　老法以人為本

　　畫天鵝傳情

　　活躍于海埉兩岸民間

　　傳遞友誼於中西

　

　老法寫天鵝

　　筆法率真墨色華麗

　　如同畫舞蹈千姿百態(tài)

　　舞蹈人物如同寫草書

　　沒(méi)有粉本沒(méi)有匠意

　　草書中求舞韻

　　舞韻中求意草

　　可看出畫風(fēng)正攀高概括

　　筆劃越來(lái)越少

　　在靠近意草

　　老法草書不喜稱狂喜稱意

　　草書透著舞韻美

　　風(fēng)景畫隨意構(gòu)圖

　　變化自如

　　可看出畫家高深的

　　藝術(shù)理論修養(yǎng)與辨證

　

　人人家居藝術(shù)化

　　家家都在花叢中

　　借西方自然之景色

　　書寫故鄉(xiāng)之情懷

　　一位內(nèi)行人

　　看完老法畫冊(cè)對(duì)我講

　　看畫思人

　　此人不俗全面藝術(shù)性很高

　　目前老法書畫作品

　　被多個(gè)國(guó)家元首收藏

　　有民族才有世界

　　有距離才有美

　　西方人通過(guò)翻譯講解

　　非常欣賞老法的純傳統(tǒng)藝朮

　　很多作品都流落在西方

　　謹(jǐn)此

　　祝賀老法教授書畫集第二冊(cè)出版

　　盼望第三冊(cè)問(wèn)世

　　祝福

　　

老法教授身體健康長(zhǎng)壽

　　期盼更多天鵝神品傳世

Lao Fa,the Swan Painter in China Mainland by Zheng Xuyang(Taiwan)

　　Thirty years ago,when China began practicing its reform and opening up policy,letters sent from Taiwan tO Beijing were often found with the words"To Lao Fa,the Swan Painter,"and lots of his friends'homes in Taiwan could see Lao Fa'S paintings.Swans are birds of heaven,through which God can convey auspicious messages tO us；SO they win our respect,anticipation,and protection for them.Since then,I have been studying and collecting the works of painting and calligraphy by Lao Fa.1 was deeply impressed by his bold and imaginative expressions in his works that form a contrast with his low-profiled integrity.But Lao Fa'S works are high in artistic merits and full of vivid imagination and refreshing vitality.The works of painting and calligraphy by Lao Fa are referred to by many Taiwanese friends as the contemporary national treasures,the spirit of China.

　　Twenty years ago,Lao Fa flew to the west coast of British Columbia.Often,looking to the east,has he been missing his homeland.He founded the BC College of Painting and Calligraphy,and he himself took the position as president.Lao Fa taught in his theory：that what the West learned from the East was its culture and theory of art,while the East learned from the West its science and technology.The arts first helped introduce new materials and tools,such as paper-making in China and chemistry in the West,and then were created artists who used all those combined.Lao Fa'S studio has fostered,for many years,a large number of native—born,talented students in arts with straight As in design and painting.Now many of students have become celebrity artists in various communities.The students,by applying the artistic point of view of their teachers into their paintings,explain,via translation to the Western artists,the specific artistic expression in Chinese painting and calligraphy.The Western artists always responded to it in exclamation by saying that the Oriental arts are amazing!By applying Oriental traditional aesthetic theory,combined with its artistic viewpoints,the Western modern art quickly caught up with the trend by their artists to have their pens dipped with colors.Van Gogh set a good example in learning from the Orient in this field,while Picasso also worked very hard in learning from Master Qi Baishi.Many students often come back to pay a visit to their teacher.They enjoy listening to their teacher'S vivid elaboration of his theories,that Lao Fa,through painstakingly studying the Western theory in fine arts,raised a series of theories of his own in these areas：the East seeing the dawn while the West viewing the sunset,one is to learn to express cursive script in abstract perspective,that is,a bit of white point in the Western style in expressing light and color and a little black(referred tO as color of ink)in the Oriental manner.With mighty strength hard enough to seemingly penetrate the paper,he Vigorously practices painting and calligraphy.He carries though his motto that a master shall be afloat and flexible in his artistic implementation.

　　With the idea in mind that painting and calligraphy are inseparable good brothers,he started practicing Oriental culture and arts at his childhood.It helped to have laid a good foundation for his later achievements in both areas of painting and calligraphy.

　　He takes different perspectives in viewing the new things and the old ones,as well as the Orient and the West,realizing that the Greater China accommodates the arts of the World.

　　He endeavors to learn to be a true man with integrity.

　　Stippling,if amplified by hundred folds,one can see modern times；while enlarged by thousand folds,one can foresee the activism in future and so on.Lots of his theories are so thoughtful that make people to conduct a further exploration.Deans of many world-renowned art institutes have praise Lao Fa for his insights and thoughts on many debatable theoretical issues.

　　It is not easy for regular civilians to understand the obscurity reflected in Lao Fa's works because they utterly get rid of vulgarity.Lao Fa is a pioneer who set an unprecedented example in applying cursive calligraphy in the expression of picturesque paintings by utilizing pen strokes as bones and ink as flesh.In this seemingly pure traditional meditation—like technique,he demonstrated the elegant proportional form of a modern girl.His works are featured as a vivid and artistic rhyme of pen using a technique into a brilliant and gorgeous ink in order to reflect its texture.The world acclaims Lao Fa'S works as the ever-changing elegance of a beauty that was achieved by using various grades of ink in search for the change of colors；to some extent,juSt leaving only traces of water without even light ink.

　　Qi Gong (July 26,1912-june 30,2005)highly praised Lao Fa'S works as"extraordinary achievement in painting and calligraphy."Liu Bingsen~(1937-February 15,2005)commented on Lao Fa'S calligraphy："Like clouds floating above running water.'Swan Lake,the long scroll painting accomplished by Lao Fa at his middle age,has won fame in both China and abroad.Lao Fa paints,in the template of human beings,swans as symbols of love,with which he plays an active role in setting up a bridge of friendship,strait-crossing to Taiwan,and he also conveys a message of friendship to the West.The swan he painted is featured in his skillful method of ink strokes that has outspoken his genius passion toward the subject.Dancers in his paintings are shown in lots of forms,with dancing figures like cursive writing.A real master does not rely on powder(ink)to show ingenuity,with cursive script seeking rhythmic expression；and the expression of rhythm pursues meaningful cursive.The positive summarizing style can be detected in his works with a rising trend of fewer strokes that is approaching meaningful realm of calligraphy in cursive script.The meaningfulness,rather than ecstasy,is emphasized in Lao Fa's cursive script.The calligraphy of cursive script reveals rhythmic perfection with the landscape reflecting the beauty in its random composition.The profoundness of a painter is reflected in the free transit of his methodology that combines his artistic cultivation with dialectical differentiation.

　　Everyone beautifies his home with artistic elements,and every family lies in flowers.By his painting,the natural scenery of the West,he writes about the feelings of his homesickness.An insider,having viewed Lao Fa's album of painting and calligraphy,told me that by seeing his works,it urges him to meet Lao Fa by himself.This man is extraordinarily good overall in artistic ingenuity.Currently,many of his calligraphy and paintings are collected by several heads of state of different countries.

　　A collection of different nations constitutes the world,and it is a distance that creates beauty.The Westerners highly appreciate the pure and traditional art that Lao Fa achieved,through the elaboration of an interpreter.And many of Lao Fa'S works are living in the Western world.

　　Congratulations to Prof.Lao Fa for his successful publication of his second album of painting and calligraphy,with expectation that his third album is coming soon.

　　Wishing Prof.Lao Fa a prosperous life of longevity in good health,anticipating to see more of his God—blessed works.