肖旭在学生阶段攻山水,也兼花鸟和人物,接受的是正统的笔墨训练,但其绘画却往往不落脚于笔墨。他早期的一幅纸本水墨《竹林中》(2010)描绘的是三只狐狸在幽竹中的场景,画面冷峻幽暗,对物象的细腻刻画有宋画气质。不过,很少有人会联想到这幅画的灵感来自芥川龙之介的小说《罗生门》,画面力图传达的也是不安、焦虑和怀疑等西方现代主义式的情感。 Xiao Xu in the student stage to attack the landscape, but also birds and figures, to accept the orthodox pen and ink training, but his paintings are often not settled in the pen and ink. His early paper ink painting, The Bamboo Grove (2010), depicts the scenes of three foxes in a secluded bamboo scene. The picture is grim and gloomy, and the exquisite portrayal of the image features the Song Dynasty temperament. However, few would think that the painting was inspired by Akutagawa’s novel “Rashomon,” and the images sought to convey Western modernist sentiments such as anxiety, anxiety and suspicion.