张雷平女士今年 6 月在上海美术馆举办个人画展，同时要出版个人画集，嘱我为序，欣然应允。

　　张雷平是上海中国画坛非常独特的一位女画家，也是当代中国画坛具有鲜明艺术风格和一定代表性的水墨画家。在我的印象中，她为人谦和，温文尔雅，但作品给人的感觉却是爽迈、大气，有着许多男性画家都远不及的潇洒气概和力度。她的山水、花鸟虽是从传统海派水墨的根基中生出，然却并不囿于所谓的笔墨技巧，也不耽于文人趣味式的笔墨玩弄。由于她在艺术视野和创作观念上的开放性，她总是能不拘一格地吸收古今中外一切于自身创作有利的艺术营养，尤其从西方现代绘画受益良多，从而奠定她个人风格化水墨图式语言的基础。尤其令人感佩的是，最近十多年来，她不断地从画室中出走，到真正的大自然与生活中去采风写生、去体验与感悟，从中原到西陲，从海内到海外，路途所见，一山一水，一草一木，皆入眼中、心中，流于笔端，诉诸色彩，形成画面，产生了很多佳作。难以想象，她看似柔弱的身躯竟蕴蓄着如此饱满的艺术激情和生命的能量。而如以题材来划分，则张雷平的水墨创作大致可分为两种类型：一是花鸟，其中尤以花卉为多，用笔着墨中显见受海派笔墨特别是早年师法吴昌硕的影响，但形式构图与色彩则完全是现代的表现，很有特色;二是山水，她是以花鸟笔意入山水，同时结合大量鲜活的写生经验以及现代的构成与色彩等表现方法，形成具有鲜明自身风貌的当代山水语言和图式。

　　此次由上海美术馆等单位主办的个展是对张雷平 40 年来水墨艺术探索历程的一次较为重要的回顾与展望，展览梳理和呈现了她各个创作阶段的代表性作品和艺术风格特色，反映了她在艺术创作上一以贯之的长期坚持和走自己艺术道路的努力以及在水墨艺术当代化实践层面所取得的不菲成果。相信这个展览的举办不仅会让我们对张雷平的水墨世界有一个综合而深入的认知，同时也会带给我们诸多关于当代水墨问题的有益思考。

　　我衷心祝贺展览圆满成功，期待张雷平女士未来有更多佳作问世。

　　方增先

　　上海美术馆馆长

Preface

　　As a unique woman painter in Chinese painting circles in Shanghai, Zhang Leiping is also a quite representative ink painter with distinct art style in the current Chinese painting circles. In my impression, she is modest, gentle and courteous, however, her works impress people as being bold, generous and unrestrained, with carefreeness and strength far beyond many male painters. Though originating from the foundation of traditional Shanghai-styled ink painting, her landscape and flower-and-bird paintings neither are limited within so-called techniques of brushwork, nor indulge in the playing of brushwork of literati interest. Due to the openness of her art vision and creation concept, she could always break all sort of limitations and absorb various art nourishments good for her own creation from all the possible resources, the ancient, the modern, the Chinese and the western, especially from the western modern painting, therefore, these have established the foundation of her individualized language of ink painting’s pattern. What’s especially admirable is, during the past period for more than one decade, she continually went out of her studio, and collected first-hand materials, sketched, experienced and comprehended in the real nature and life, from the central plains to the frontier in the west, from China to overseas. Whatever she saw in her trips, a mountain, a river, a piece of grass, or a tree, everything was perceived in her eyes and heart, was released through her paintbrush, was applied with colors, and formed a painting, thus, she has created a large number of excellent works. It’s hard to imagine, her seemingly fragile body could contain such vigorous passion for art and energy of life. If we divide her works according to the themes, Zhang’s ink creation mainly includes two categories. One is flower-and-bird painting, mostly flower paintings. Though the brushwork is apparently influenced by Shanghai-styled brushwork, especially her learning from Wu Changshuo during the early stage, the formal composition and the coloring are completely the expression of modernity, which is quite special. The other is landscape painting. She incorporates freehand flower-and-bird painting into landscape, meanwhile integrates it with large quantity of fresh experiences of sketching and the expressive means of modern composition and color, and forms a distinctive individualized appearance of language and pattern of contemporary landscape.

　　This solo exhibition organized by the Shanghai Art Museum is a relatively important review and presentation of Zhang Leiping’s exploration in ink art for more than four decades, sorting out and presenting the representative works and style’s characteristics of her different phases, reflecting her long-term and consistent efforts of insisting on her own art career and the conspicuous accomplishments made in the practice of contemporizing ink art. I believe, this exhibition would not only enable us to have a comprehensive and profound recognition of Zhang Leiping’s ink world, but also bring us various constructive considerations about the problems of contemporary ink art.

　　I sincerely wish this exhibition would be a perfect success, and expect to see more of Zhang Leiping’s excellent works in the future.

　　Fang Zengxian

　　Director of the Shanghai Art Museum