当代卓越的油画大师和美术教育家董希文离开我们21年了,他历经磨难,英年早逝,为他自己也为后人留下了深深的遗憾。他在油画艺术上开风气之先,明确提出了“油画中国风”的理论,方法和主张,并在实践上进行了大胆而多样的尝试,取得了巨大的成果,成为中国油画发展史上不朽的丰碑。在美术教育上他独树一帜,他确立的一系列教学原则和方法在当时曾遭到来自极“左”的批判和非难,如今已被普遍的接受和采纳。他是50年代到60年代初期,中国画坛上最活跃,最有影响的艺术家之一。今天,我们对他的艺术进行深入的研究和再认识,将具有深远的意义。 Dong Xiwen, an outstanding contemporary oil painter and art educator, left us for 21 years. After years of suffering, he died young and left profound regret for himself and for future generations. He pioneered the art of oil painting, and clearly put forward the theory, method and proposition of “Painting Chinese Style”. He made bold and varied attempts in practice and achieved tremendous achievements. He became an immortal in the history of Chinese oil painting monument. He was unique in art education. The series of teaching principles and methods he established were criticized and blamed at the time from the very “Left” and are now widely accepted and adopted. He was one of the most active and influential artists in Chinese painting from the 1950s to the early 1960s. Today, our deep research and re-understanding of his art will have far-reaching significance.