在很多时候,我们评论一个艺术家似乎是件轻松随便的事儿,我们不怎么需要大费周章,却仿佛比那些提供作品给我们鉴赏的艺术家高出一头。我们急于褒贬阐释,貌似对艺术家及其作品都了如指掌,但真实的情况却是——总的来说,任何一件艺术品本身都可能比那些评头论足的话语更有价值,所谓的评论者对任何一个艺术家的观察也都可能被一叶障目。比如我与杨勇,前几年刚认识他之时,我以为他是一位印象派油画家,常常跑去各地写生, In many cases, it seems as if we are commenting on an artist with ease. We do not need to be overwhelmed, but we seem to be taller than the artists who provide us with our work. We are eager to judge, seemingly familiar with the artist and his works, but the truth is - in general, any piece of art itself may be more valuable than those who comment on the discourse, the so-called commentators for any An artist’s observation may also be a blind eye. For example, I and Yang Yong, a few years ago just met him, I thought he was an impressionist oil painter, often ran around the sketch,