Duanmu Xianggong is a talented and innovative middle-aged painter - Wu Qixiu
艺星网·编发·喜悦
Artstar · Braid · Joy
吴起秀（美术评论家、书画家、传统文化学者）
Wu Qixiu(Art critic, calligrapher and painter, traditional culture scholar)
端木祥功是富有才华和创新精神的中年画家，近年来因作品多次获奖并被众多机构收藏而在画坛崭露头角。
他的油画语言朴实，不追求色彩的绚丽多姿，也不刻意描绘人与物象的表面张扬，而是注重观察生活，感受人性和物性的内在真实，进而以质朴的笔调表现由内到外的形态和精神之美，大大开拓了他与众不同的画境视野和广深的审美思考。他多以灰色调或黑白映衬的色调营构画面，用平民生活的真实来创造艺术形象，如勤劳善良的母亲（《母亲》），在河边若有所思的少女（《等》），打谷场上击鼓唱歌乐而忘忧的妇女（《目脑丰收节》）和修建寺庙、席地休憩的藏民（《藏民》），均以朴实的线条和色块，真实的人性形象，厚实的情境蕴意，向读者展开一幅幅质朴生动的民族风情画卷，散发出原生态、原住民的纯朴之美。这种看似平淡，内蕴深厚的画境，是画家坚持返璞归真之艺术理念和体用中西之创作方法，长期深入生活，采风写生的艺术成果。这些观察写真，没有停留在表象的怪异猎奇，而是对内在精神进行体验提炼，并以此积累丰厚的创造和思想力量，构建其朴实真实和厚实的绘画风貌。
Duanmu Xianggong is a talented and innovative middle-aged painter. In recent years, his works have won many awards and been collected by many institutions.
His oil painting language is simple, does not pursue the gorgeous color, does not deliberately depict the surface of people and objects, but pays attention to the observation of life, feel the inner truth of human nature and physical nature, and then expresses the form and spiritual beauty from the inside out with simple style, greatly expanding his unique vision of painting and broad aesthetic thinking. He mostly uses gray or black and white tones to construct the picture, and uses the reality of ordinary people's life to create artistic images, such as the hardworking and kind mother (Mother), the thoughtful girl by the river (Etc.), the woman who sings and beats the drum in the cornfield (The Visual Harvest Festival), and the Tibetan who builds temples and takes a rest on the ground (Tibetan). All with simple lines and color blocks, real human image, thick situation connotation, unfold to the reader a simple and vivid ethnic customs scroll, exudes the original ecology, the simplicity of the native beauty. This seemingly insipid and profound painting landscape is the artistic result of the artist's adherence to the artistic concept of returning to simplicity and using Chinese and Western creative methods. These observation portraits do not stay in the strange and curious appearance, but to experience and refine the inner spirit, and to accumulate rich creative and ideological power, to build its simple, real and solid painting style.
端木为人厚道实在，讷于言而敏于行。有了奇思妙想，不是先说，而是先做。这使他的艺术创作，能在不断琢磨学习和勤奋实践中渐入佳境。他善画人物，尤擅观察人的精神和性格神态，倾心在艺术形象中表现个性情感。这在他的《乡村组画》《少数民族组画》《大师群像》中，均有不同时空背景下的生动展现。
Duanmu is kind and honest, slow in words and quick in action. When you have a great idea, you don't say it first, you do it first. This makes his artistic creation, in constant study and diligent practice gradually into the best. He is good at painting people, especially good at observing people's spirit and personality expression, devoted to the expression of individual emotions in artistic images. This is vividly shown in his Village Group Paintings, Minority Group Paintings and Master Group Portraits under different time and space backgrounds.
人类有喜新厌旧的一面，也有厌新怀旧的另一面。尤其对“失去的美好”多有刻骨铭心的怀念。在市场大潮变革万千世界的同时，也带来千万人信仰和情感的变革。人们从拆迁的喧嚣和建设的热浪中，从糠箩跳进米箩，从农村走进城市之后，蓦然回首，开始思考在得到美好的同时，又永远失去了哪些美好。端木感受到这种反思的脉搏。在《牧归》中，他描绘了飞鸟投林、牛羊归圈的山林村庄，自然恬静、一派“不知有汉，无论魏晋”的田园画境，寄寓着身居闹市的民众对生存环境的追思和忧虑。
We humans have a side that hates the new and a side that hates the old. Especially for the "lost beauty" more engraved on my memory. While the market tide is transforming the world, it is also transforming the beliefs and emotions of millions of people. In the midst of the noise of demolition and the heat wave of construction, people changed from bran basket to rice basket, and moved from the countryside to the city. When they suddenly looked back, they began to think about what they had lost forever while gaining good things. Duanmu felt the pulse of reflection. In "Pasturing", he describes the peaceful and natural mountain villages where birds fly into the forest and cattle and sheep return to the circle. It is a pastoral landscape of "not knowing the existence of Han Dynasty, regardless of Wei and Jin", which conveys the people living in the downtown area's thoughts and worries about their living environment.
在《老人与花》中，画家通过一位苗族老妇苦等情郎到老的凄美形象，表现底层民众对真情的执着守望，倾注了无限悲悯的人性关怀。在其成名作《启命维新——金陵丹青大师群像》中，画家取舍简练，通过光影、黑白、浓淡的丰富变化，创造出各具风采的大师形象。把慈祥、深邃、沧桑、孤傲的各家个性精神，统一在真实、厚实的艺术情境之中，对读者是深沉的追思和敬仰，对画家则升华为励志追慕的精神动力。
In "The Old Man and Flowers", the painter uses the sad and beautiful image of an old woman of the Miao nationality waiting for her lover to grow old to show the people at the bottom of the society's persistent watchfulness for the truth and infinite compassionate human care. In his famous work "Reigniting Life and Renewal - Group Portraits of Master Danqing in Jinling", the artist chooses to be concise, and creates various elegant master images through the rich changes of light and shadow, black and white, and shade. The character spirit of each family, which is kind, profound, vicissitudes of life and proud, is unified in a real and solid art situation, which is deep remembrance and admiration for readers, and sublimates into the spiritual power of inspiring admiration for painters.
勤能补拙，更能生巧创新。近十余年来，端木不断探索以新的光影色彩融合，来表现人和自然。他把素描、速写、色彩技法和摄影的光影技巧融入写意绘画，创作了不少生动传神的光影绘画作品。他以简练的点、线、面整合，特写式构图，演绎人与自然美妙的形象闪光和精神闪光，惟妙惟肖而丰富多彩，有很强的视觉魅力和现代生活气息，为其朴实、真实、厚实的画风增添了生动鲜活的特色风采。
Diligent can make up for the clumsy, more can produce clever innovation. In the past ten years, Duanmu has been exploring new fusion of light and shadow colors to show people and nature. He combined sketching, sketching, color techniques and light and shadow techniques of photography into freehand painting and created many vivid light and shadow paintings. He uses the simple integration of points, lines and surfaces and close-up composition to interpret the beautiful image flash and spirit flash of man and nature. It is vivid and colorful, with strong visual charm and modern life flavor, adding a vivid characteristic style to his simple, real and thick painting style.
中国传统美学以自然为美，讲求“丹漆不文，白玉不雕”。西方美学提倡以真实为美，认为“在艺术中，能表现真实性格的作品，才算是美好的”。
Traditional Chinese aesthetics take nature as beauty, emphasizing "Dan lacquer is not written, white jade is not carved". Western aesthetics advocates the beauty of reality and believes that "in art, only works that can express the true character can be regarded as beautiful".
端木以自然和生活为师，基础扎实，勇于创新。用属于自己的、生动朴实而又简练传神的绘画语言来表现真善美。这种有真实生活和独特形式美的艺术创作受到广大读者和藏家的认可喜爱，应该是成果丰硕，前景可期。
Duanmu to nature and life as a teacher, solid foundation, innovation. With their own, vivid simple and concise and vivid painting language to express the true, the good and the beautiful. This kind of artistic creation with real life and unique formal beauty is recognized and loved by the majority of readers and collectors. It should be fruitful and have a promising prospect.
