邓维东评价刘选让教授巨作《塔克拉玛干之魂》

邓维东 新疆美术家协会主席 Chairman of Xinjiang Artists Association

　　我这是再次来看选让的这幅巨作，老实说有种心灵的震撼，这些年以来刘选让教授为了这幅画而全心全力，他的敬业精神在这幅作品里表现的淋漓尽致，我看很多国内的知名艺术家、理论家都作了一些评价，我认为怎么说都不过分。因为他对于新疆，对我们少数民族的十二木卡姆的这种理解，可以说很少有人能做到，对这种少数民族文化的理解，可以说是非常非常到位的。而且他为了这幅画多次深入到新疆的和田、喀什这些基层，到民间去挖掘他创作的源泉，一所以每一个形象都让人感受到那样的真实，那样的崇高，也让人感到震撼。

　　我认为对于当代美术史来说，这幅作品是一个经典作品，对于他本人来讲，也是里程碑式的作品。从这个意义，我觉得不仅仅感动了观众，震动了文坛，同时他也让我们感受到中国画在当代的运用。可以说是有着他自己深层次的理解，也是具有当代最有看点的作品，在这幅作品面前，我们凡是熟悉新疆的这些艺术家们都有一种共鸣，也为我们当代中国艺术的创造开创了一条新的道路。也是我们当今这些中国画的艺术家们，在探索的过程中具有里程碑式、灯塔式的这样一件作品。             

2014年6月

　　I have visited the huge great work of his for the second time. To be honest, I really feel shocked in my heart. Over the years, Professor Liu has dedicated himself to the painting. His professional dedication is expressed incisively and vividly in the work. I have seen the comments of many domestic famous artists and theorists on it, and I think no comment is too extreme. This is because his understanding of Xinjiang and the twelve muqam of the minority, so to speak, is impossible to be understood by the great majority of people. The understanding of minority culture, as it were, is to the point. In addition, he has been deep into such grassroots units in Xinjiang as Hotan and Kashgar, etc. for many times to mine a source for his creation. So each of the figures looks so real, lofty and shocking.

　　In my opinions, for contemporary art history, this work is a classic one, and to him, it is also a milestone. In this sense, I think he not only moves the audiences and shocks the literary world, but also shows us his deep understanding of the application of Chinese painting at the present times, so the work is the first one worthy of appreciation today. This work resonates with all of us, the artists who are familiar with Xinjiang. Besides, this work also creates a new path for Chinese modern arts, and presents a milestone to the Chinese painting artists. 

June,2014

贾德江评价刘选让教授巨作《塔克拉玛干之魂》

贾德江 著名艺术评论家、出版人 Chinese art critic and publisher

　　当我看到了他的作品，我的第一个感觉是震撼，是触及灵魂的震撼，这份深深的感动是发自内心的感动，令人震撼的是这幅作品扑面而来的磅礴气势，令人感动的是这幅作品塑造的一个个有血有肉活生生的人物，是画家的艺术视角指向一个民族历经沧桑、万劫不灭的精神世界，在这幅作品中渲染了他的血和泪深情的，创造性的以维族的民间的老艺人在沙漠风尘中，深思熟虑忘我的塔克拉玛干沙漠为载体，以精湛的语言，以高难度的技巧，融汇着东西方传统的、现代的、工笔的、写意的、水墨的、色彩的、揭理的、多种艺术元素为一体，呈现出一种形象的力量，给人以视觉的冲击力诠释着塔克拉玛干大沙漠尘封的历史和生生不息的灵魂，构成了这样一幅史诗般的历史大卷，令人荡气回肠。

2014年6月

　　When seeing his work for the first time, I feel shocked in my soul. I am moved deeply in my heart. What is shocking is the work's unconcealed magnificence. What is touching is that each and every living character shaped in the work is the immortalized spiritual world that the artist's art perspective points to and a nation longs for after going through all the vicissitudes of life. His blood and tears are sublimated in this work. Creatively, he takes Takla Makan Desert, where the Uyghur old folk artists can't help thinking attentively in the desert dust, as the carrier, and uses the quite difficult techniques to combine multiple art elements in the East and West such as the traditional, modern, elaborate-style, freehand, ink washing, colorific and reasonable ones together, to present a visual strength and impact, thereby to interpret the dust-laden history of Takla Makan Desert and the endless spirits, to finally constitute such a great epic historical scroll, being so soul-stirring.

June, 2014

刘临评价刘选让教授巨作《塔克拉玛干之魂》

刘临 清华大学美术学院绘画系教授

Professor in Department of Painting, Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua University

　　今天看了这幅巨作，确实感到选让兄这些年的探索和实践，能够在学术上、艺术上、教学上和他对人生的感悟的这些方面确实做了很多努力和探索，才能够把人的这个生命精神、生命状态和人的那个声嘶力竭的那种渴望自由，生命悲壮的赞歌这样一种画面能够体现出来，我觉得这个不是一般画家能做得到的，实际上是戏剧家、电影家、文学家用各种手段都难以呈现的这样一个历史性的画面。从这个意义上讲，我觉得选让兄的这个作品也称得上当下是一个力作，也是我们新时期中国画作品里头非常辉煌、壮观、有成效的一个探索而产生的巨作，很震撼！

2014年2月

　　I do feel Brother Xuanrang's explorations and practices in the monumental work in recent years. He has indeed made great efforts and explorations in such aspects as academic researches, arts, teachings and his insights on life before being able to embody the spirits and states of human life, as well as mankind's exhausting thirst for freedom, and a sad but stirring paean of life. I think this is not what ordinary painters can do. Actually, even dramatists, film producers and litterateurs can hardly present such a historic picture even if they try every means. In this sense, I think Brother Xuanrang's this work deserves to be called a masterpiece in the present and a great work produced from a very glorious, grand and fruitful exploration on Chinese painting works in the new period. 

February,2014

史国良评价刘选让教授巨作《塔克拉玛干之魂》

史国良 中国国家画院著名画家 A Researcher at China National Academy of Painting

　　看了这幅巨作我觉得挺震撼、挺激动、挺感动的。选让在画坛上已经磨砺了很多年了，这对每个艺术家来说都是必须的，但是不能说你有了经历、磨练就能有作品出现，有人摸爬滚打一辈子都没有好的作品出现。刘选让在这个时候创作出这样一个巨作让我非常的震撼。这是他多年心血酝酿、创作出来的巨作，非常有分量。刘选让画的这个作品，实际上是他心里的多少年积累的一种感情，现今迸发出来了。而且他熟悉这个地方，他在新疆有多年的生活经历以及对新疆的感情全部浓缩到这幅巨作里面去了。选让用自己独特的艺术语言，来叙述他的这个故事，而且是老百姓要听的，喜欢听的故事，这就是他的巨大成功。因为这幅巨作花了他很长很长的时间，这也体现了选让的这种坚持。这幅画就像大地毯一样，他是用感情在编织，用自己的生命在编织。选让内心的感情像揣着沙子一样，有沙子的味道，这是就是他最大的成功。

2014年7月

I feel shocked, excited and moved while seeing the huge great work. Liu Xuanrang has hardened himself in the painting world for many years. This is necessary for every artist. But it can't be said you will create a great work as long as you are experienced and hardened. Some people has failed to create a good work even if they have worked hard for a lifetime. Liu Xuanrang really shocks me a lot by creating such a huge great work at this time. It is a monumental work, for which he has planned for many years and made lots of painstaking efforts, so it is very important and influential. This painting, actually, is an affection that has been accumulated in Liu Xuanrang's heart for years, and now it's burst out. Besides, he's familiar with the land, and he has integrated all his years of life experiences in Xinjiang and feelings for Xinjiang into the great work. With his unique art language, Xuanrang tells a story, to which the ordinary people want and like to listen. This is his great success. Because the huge work has taken him a long time, his perseverance is obvious to everybody. This painting is like a large carpet, which he weaves with his feelings and life. It seems Xuanrang's inner feelings are mixed up with sands, smelling like sands. This is his greatest success. 

July, 2014

牛克诚评价刘选让教授巨作《塔克拉玛干之魂》

牛克诚　中国艺术研究院艺术研究所副所长

Deputy Director of Arts Research Institute at Chinese National Academy of Arts

　　今天看到选让的这幅巨作，第一眼让我感到深深的感动和震撼！这感动在哪呢？刘选让作为当代人物画的著名画家，他用了近40年的心血来埋头创作，终得这幅令人震撼的巨作。在当今这个物欲横流、充满了诱惑的社会，这样的情况下，他能推掉一切的诱惑，全身心的来完成这幅巨作。他这种为艺术而付出，甚至说为艺术献身的态度，让人敬佩。在整个创作过程中充满了画家本人的血和泪，他身心疲惫的完成了这样的大制作，确实让人感动。

　　看到这幅画，首先映入眼帘的是非常具有震撼里的画面。整个作品的构图没有采取西方式的构图方式，而是采用平面推开的方式，令画面不管是远近都有种压迫感，所以他这种构成形式和他绘画的崇高的基调相一致。我们知道画新疆或者少数民族题材的画家有很多，这样的绘画作品也有很多，但是很多艺术家及其作品在表现民族题材的时候，只是作为一个民族风情片面的展示，但是选让他这个作品就不是这样的。他是把这一地区、这片土地形成的特殊文化现象，他作为这个文化现象的代言人来把它展示出来，他这种展示对于他来说是一种使命，如果没有完成这个使命他会遗憾终身。他怀着这种使命意识来创作这幅作品，这就和我们看到其他那些画家同样画民族题材的作品就不一样。它是完完全全从这个土地中生发出来的情感来催促着他完成这幅巨作。所以这个作品非常能够打动人心。这样一个像丰碑一样的巨作也向我们传递了对于生命的感动和关怀。

2014年7月

　　Today, I'm moved and shocked deeply by the monumental work! Why am I moved? As a famous contemporary painter, Liu Xuanrang has spent more than 40 years in creating the painting alone, to finally complete such a shocking great work. In the current society which is materialistic and full of temptations, he could refuse all temptations and dedicate himself to finishing the great work. Such an attitude of his, which enables him to pay the price for arts, and even dedicates himself to arts, is admirable. The whole creation process is filled with the painter's blood and tears. With mental and physical exhaustions, he has finished such a great work. This is indeed touching.

　　While seeing the drawing, I first see the picture that is very shocking. The western mode of composition isn't applied to the composition of the entire work, which is unfolded in a planar way, so that the picture seems to have an oppressing sensation both in a near and far distance, so his constitutive form is consistent with his lofty tone of drawing. As we all know, many painters draw paintings about Xinjiang or ethnic minority figures, and they have completed lots of paintings of this kind, but many of the artists just display the ethnic minority themes as ethnic customs. However, Xuanrang's this work is out of the ordinary. He displays the special cultural phenomenon formed by the region and land as a spokesman of the cultural phenomenon. It is a mission for him to display this way, and he would repent forever if he couldn't accomplish the mission. With the sense of mission, he starts to create the work, so his theme is different from others'. It is nothing less than the native-born emotion that urges him to the finish the great work. So this work is quite touching. Such a great work also urges us to show sensation and solicitude for life.

July,2014

孙克评价刘选让教授巨作《塔克拉玛干之魂》

孙克 中国著名美术评论家 Chinese Art Critic

　　我看到刘选让的这幅人物巨作，谱写了新疆基层百姓演唱的十二木卡姆的生动人物形象，他做了很多的努力和探索，用自己全部的心血和汗水来完成这幅作品。他在新疆多年生活积累和对新疆的深厚了解以及对维吾尔族老百姓有很深很深的感情，对他们的文化历史也有很深的体会和了解。所以他感觉到新疆维吾尔族老少都是在用生命来传承延续它的文化。十二木卡姆本身就是把它的历史、宗教、人民生活的气息全部贯穿到里面，所以它是一种民族文化的集中体现。选让对新疆人民的朴素而强烈的感情都通过这幅巨作表达出来了。作为一个艺术家用多年的时间去晕染、培养的感情积累来完成创作是很难得的，这也是他的理想和他的信念。我觉得选让这幅巨作，是当代中国人物画近十多年来的一副力作，令人震撼……

2014年7月

　　This huge figure painting of Liu Xuanrang describes the vivid character images of the grass-roots people in Xinjiang who sing the twelve muqam. Due to his years of life accumulation in Xinjiang, profound understanding of Xinjiang, deep love for Uighur people and deep experience and understanding of their culture and history, he feels that both the young and old Uighur people in Xinjiang inherit and perpetuate the culture with their lives. Twelve muqam itself contains the history, religion and the breath of the people's livelihood, so it is a concentrated reflection of ethnic culture. Xuanrang's simple and strong feelings for Xinjiang people are reflected in this huge work. It's not easy for an artist to spend many years in saving and fostering emotion accumulations to complete creation. This is his ideal and faith. As far as I can see, this huge work of Xuanrang is a shocking masterpiece among Chinese figure paintings in the recent decade…

      July,2014