回  望

Looking Back

刘树春艺术作品展

Lawrence Liu Artwork Exhibition

        人生，是一个体验过程。在人生道路上前行的同時，其實我們一路在回望，这也是为什么刘树春先生特地给这个画展取名《回望》。

    Life is an experiential process. While walking on the path, we are actually always looking back, and this is why Mr. Lawrence Liu named this show “Looking Back.”  

        绘画的过程也是体验人生：想象，激情，期待，追求及创作中的思考，完成作品后的自我欣赏和满足。每幅作品在刘树春先生一笔一画之下，是对人生的理解，是对世界的情愫，也是对文化和历史的致敬。

    The process of painting is experiencing life: imagination, passion, expectation, pursuit, and the thinking when creating, the self-appreciation and satisfaction after completion. Every work of Mr. Liu is an understanding of life, an affection to the world, and a salute to culture and history.

        了解一个艺术家，必须通过其作品的品读，才会达到既能聆听到富有传奇色彩艺术家的故事，又能感受到一个艺术家的心路历程。反之，只有了解一个艺术家的人生历程后，才能让我们真正读懂艺术家创作出的作品内涵与艺术价值。

    To understand an artist, you must analyze his work so you can hear his legendary story while learning the artist’s mental journey. However, only after we understand the life of an artist, can we really comprehend the connotation and artistic value of his creations.

        早年，刘树春先生深受现代印象派和传统俄罗斯绘画的影响，在几十年的创作中，他不断探索自己的风格。此次展出的人物画、风景画多为他几十年来走向生活，深入生活，坚持在生活中体现艺术情感、表达艺术感受，这是难能可贵的艺术态度。从他的绘画中可以感受到社会的变化，时代的变迁。他的作品是对他所经历过的不平凡历史时段的一次艺术记录。也可以感受到一个现实主义画家对社会的责任和担当。同时刘树春先生不断探索油画造型语言，在写实基础上不断增加表现力，他笔下的痕迹不仅仅是对象带来的形象感觉，更是他心理的、情感的、精神的痕迹。

    In the earlier years, Mr. Liu was greatly influenced by modern impressionism and traditional Russian art, over the course of years, he continued to explore his own style. The character portraits and landscape paintings exhibited in this show are mostly derived from life. He persisted in embodying artistic affection and present artistic feelings in everyday life, which is a commendable attitude. We can see the changes in society and time in his paintings. The works are a record of an unordinary period of history that he experienced. Via his art pieces, we also can feel a realist painter’s responsibility and obligation to society. At the same time, Mr. Liu explored the language of oil paintings, adding expressions on the basis of realism. The marks under him are not only the physical images of the subject, but also his psychological, emotional, and spiritual signs.

       《回望》为主题的作品，可以看到作者的创作风格和创作理念，更多是看到作者对创作风格和创作理念的坚守。

The works of “Looking Back” represent the painter’s creative style and ideals, moreover, his commitment to them.

      《回望》刘树春艺术作品可分三个部分：纽约人、纽约景和家乡-祖国情结系列。而这三个部分与当下三个时代的重叠展现，在叙事层面作了大胆尝试，巧妙地以“画中画”的交叉结构，在现实和历史之间构成一种张力，以现实追溯历史，以历史观照现实。

    The art pieces can be sectioned into three parts: New Yorker, New York Scenes, and Hometown----Affection Towards the Motherland. These three sections overlap the three time periods, the artist made a bold attempt at the narrative aspect, cleverly formed a tension through “picture in picture” between now and then, tracing history with reality, and use history to observe today.

        观赏刘树春的作品，我们可以感受他那一颗火热的艺术之心，他那充满激情而丰富的内心世界，他画画，是一种生命的行为，其艺术的创造力，就是他生命本体的冲动，其作品就是他自我生命的显现。

    While appreciating Lawrence Liu’s works, we can sense his fervent heart of art and the internal world that is full of affection and abundance. He paints as an act of life, artistic creativity is his natural impulsion, and his works are the expression of his own life.

华东师范大学设计学院首任院长 名誉院长 王大宙教授

2021年9月26日

East China Normal University Art Design College First Dean, Honorary Principal, Professor Wang Dazhou.

刘树春作品 Lawrence Liu’s Works

刘树春的个人介绍与艺术成就

Lawrence Liu's Personal Introduction and Art Achievements

美国华裔杰出艺术家，现为《写生中国》油画写生俱乐部副主席、《写生中国》上海分部主席、纽约《世界艺术研究院-油画雕塑院》院长和美国原创美术家协会副会长。

An outstanding Chinese American artist, he now is the vice-chairman of "The Sketch of China" oil painting club, the chairman of the Shanghai branch, principal of the New York "World Academy of Art-Oil Painting and Sculpture College" and vice president of the American Original Artists Association.

生于上海，山东临沂沂南人，毕业于上海应用技术大学艺术与设计学院〈原上海轻专美术专业〉，师从于著名画家颜文樑、张英洪等先生。

Born in Shanghai, originate from Linyi, Shandong province, graduated from the College of Art and Design of the Shanghai Institute of Technology (originally Department of Fine Arts, Shanghai Light Industry College), learned after the famous painter Yan Wenliang and Zhang Yinghong,etc..

1986年水墨画《梦乡》获首届上海青年美术大展优秀作品奖，1987年综合材料作品《春江》入选参加全国美展上海展区，1988年10月上海美术馆研究部主办《刘树春画展》，1991年5月法国教育部文化协会在香港和九龙两地分别举办《刘树春作品展》。

In 1986, the ink painting "Dream Home" won the first Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition Excellence Award. In 1987, the general material work "Spring River" was selected to participate in the Shanghai exhibition of the National Fine Art Exhibition.  In October 1988, the Shanghai Art Museum Research Department hosted "Lawrence Liu's Painting Exhibition", In May 1991, the French Ministry of Education Cultural Association held the "Lawrence Liu Works Exhibition" in Hong Kong and Kowloon.

1991年12月移居纽约，多次在美国纽约、加州、费城等地举办个展、联展和拍卖，2000年荣获美国世界艺术中心颁发的"终身艺术成就奖"，2010年上海古镇朱家角创建《树春艺术馆》，并被列入上海青浦区文旅局扶持项目，2013年山东临沂沂南政府建立《刘树春艺术馆》，2018年、2019年分别在纽约、上海和山东举办刘树春《家山拾梦》素色油画系列作品个展。

He moved to New York in December 1991, he had held solo exhibitions, joint exhibitions, and auctions in New York, California, Philadelphia, and other places in the United States.  In 2000, he won the "Lifetime Art Achievement Award" presented by the U.S. World Art Center, established "Lawrence  Art Gallery" in the ancient town Zhu Jia Jiao, and was included in the support project of Shanghai Qingpu District Cultural Tourism Bureau. In 2013, the Linan Yinan Government of Shandong established the "Liu Shuchun Art Museum". In 2018 and 2019, Lawrence Liu's series of plain color oil paintings “Home  Mountain Picks Up Dream" held Solo Exhibitions in New York, Shanghai, and Shandong.

刘树春早期现代绘画作品"远眺“、"山韵"等由 美国俄亥俄国家博物馆收藏及美、法、日等国友人收藏。近年来油画人物、风景画作品多在上海《朵云轩拍卖公司》参拍，上海新民晚报、文汇报、解放日报和上海"书与画“、天津"国画世界“、上海“美术天地"、法国“文旅“和美国微软曼哈頓五大道旗舰店等杂志和媒体，先后刋登介绍 刘树春绘画作品，2018年荣获纽约市国会颁发的艺术成就奖。

Lawrence Liu’s early modern painting works “Far View”, “Mountain Rhythm” and etc. were collected by the American Ohio National Museum and people from the U.S., France, Japan, etc.. In recent years, most of the oil painting figures and landscape paintings have been auctioned by the Shanghai "Duoyunxuan Auction Company", Shanghai Xinmin Evening News, Wenhui Daily, Liberty Daily, and Shanghai “Books and Paintings”, Tianjin "Chinese Painting World", Shanghai "Art World", France " Wenlv”, and magazines and media such as Microsoft’s flagship store on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue that have successively introduced Lawrence Liu’s paintings and won the Art Achievement Award from the New York City Congress in 2018.

出版著作有《刘树春画选》、《珠溪风情》、《詩情画韵》、《古镇乡情》、《美丽沂南》、《人在履痕中~刘树春画集》和素色油画《家山拾梦~刘树春作品集》等。

Published works include “Lawrence Liu’s Paintings”, “Zhuxi Style”, “Poetry and Paintings”, “Ancient Town Custom”, “The Beautiful Yinan”, "People in the Traces ~ Liu Shuchun's Painting Collection", and plain color oil paintings “Home Mountain Picks Up Dream ~ Lawrence Liu’s Work Collection”, etc.

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