青年油画家单国栋要出版新近的作品集,邀我说几句话,我仔细翻看着清样,越看越为国栋在艺术上的长足进步而欣慰。国栋用写实、细腻的色彩,将浑厚、壮美的西部风情表现在我们面前,仿佛置身其中,给人带来视觉上的中击和艺术上的震撼,使遥远的西部近在眼前。从小生长在渭水源头、岷山脚下的国栋,在二十多年的创作历程中,几乎所有重要的创作素材都来自他的家乡——中国西部。在艺术实践中,国栋一直研究西方油画 Guodong, a young oil painter, wanted to publish a recent collection of works and asked me to say a few words. I carefully looked through the samples and looked forward to reassuring Guodong’s great progress in art. Guodong with realistic, delicate colors, will be vigorous, magnificent Western style in front of us, as if exposure, giving the visual hit and artistic shock, so far west in sight. Growing up in the water of Wei River and Guodong at the foot of Minshan Mountain, in the course of more than 20 years of creation, almost all the important creative materials came from his hometown, western China. In artistic practice, Guodong has been studying western oil paintings