读严善罅的画,觉得很有诗意。当然,在当今的批评界,说一个艺术家的画有诗意,几乎是一种贬意,因为那是老掉牙的想法。当代艺术标举的是思想,是观念。但是说实在话,我却弄不清楚这些流行的思想有什么来头,也看不出有什么创造。不客气地说,我们这个时代是把常识当知识,把知识当思想,把思想当儿戏。 Read Yan Shanyu’s paintings, I feel very poetic. Of course, in today’s critical world, it is almost a deprecatory remark that an artist’s painting is poetic because it is an old-fashioned idea. Contemporary art is marked by ideas, is the concept. But to be honest, I can not figure out what is going on with these popular ideas and I can not see any creation. Frankly speaking, our time is the common sense as knowledge, knowledge as thinking, thinking of children’s play.