王一定：画笔凝纯真

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走进王一定先生位于绍兴袍江的新居，现代化的高层公寓，窗外即是小区别致的绿化景观。但是，王先生坐的依旧是一把绍兴老式的小竹椅，毛竹已呈淡灰色，想来年份已久，就好像绍兴的女儿红酒，有诱人的馥郁芳香，且随着时间的久远而更为浓烈。

在绍兴呆久了，会慢慢迷上时光酝酿的味道。王先生当是如此，慢慢习画，慢慢感受；岁月慢慢而去，情致慢慢而来。

坐下，王先生拿出一大堆证书，有奖状，有收藏证明，还有介绍其画作的日本杂志……以此带我走进过去的岁月。

翻阅之间，最“惹眼”的还是那幅《女儿红》。说起女儿红，王先生的眼睛就亮了。正如那一年，《女儿红》获得全国第六届年画展金奖，为持续低迷的中国年画界带来了一股新风。著名画家张浩曾评价说，《女儿红》是近年来难得的年画精品，画面瑰丽浓艳，又朴实无华；俊俏的少女与绍兴本土文化绍兴老酒的结合，给观看者带来愉悦的观感。这幅画获得金奖可谓是众望所归。

“我当时参观一个酒厂，印象很深刻。回来后，就以酒厂女工为原型，搭配上绍兴传统的文化元素，创作了这幅《女儿红》。”我今天看这幅画，仍然觉得它画面构图整体协调，主题突出，形式新颖，极具现代感。而画面中心的这位姑娘，无论形体、动作，还是表情都显得自然淳朴。整个画面用红色渲染，表现出了浓郁的喜庆、繁荣景象，也突出了年画所应有的吉祥和喜气。

其实，在这之前，王先生还有一幅作品获得了全国第五届年画展的银奖，那就是《祖国，早晨好》。这幅水彩年画，以天安门前的升旗仪式为主题，在突出中国军人飒爽英姿的同时，通过周围群众、少先队员五彩缤纷的服装和彩饰，展现出了祖国欣欣向荣的大好景象。这幅作品如今被日本福冈亚洲美术馆收藏。

在闲聊间，笔者瞥见了客厅里的一幅油画，画作上的时间表明，这是王先生近日来的新作。小桥流水人家，只是古朴的老房子已经开始倾颓，但是屋前的丝瓜藤还是自顾自地蔓延着，该开花照样开花。这是绍兴的斗门古镇，只要一有空，王先生就喜欢到这些老地方转转，也许时间留不住这些老绍兴的美好，但是画笔可以，帮助后人留下这一瞬间的感动和值得永久回味的纯真。□

人物简介：

王一定，毕业于浙江美院附中，进修于该院油画系，后毕业于杭师院美术专业。为中国美术家协会、浙江油画家协会会员，绍兴市美术家协会副主席。作品多有获奖，入藏中国美术馆及日本福冈亚洲美术馆。

Oil Painter Retains Local Tradition

By Li Zi

I recently visit Wang Yiding at his home in Shaoxing and find him an artist of delightful contrasts.

Wang lives in a trendy high-rise apartment building sitting comfortably in a well-groomed garden in Shaoxing; he enjoys sitting in a small bamboo chair. This kind of bamboo chairs represents a folk handcraft popular in Shaoxing and goes back to centuries. The anachronistic chair looks old, threadbare, and gray.

Born in 1949, Wang is an oil painter and a member of Zhejiang Oil Painters Association. He studied at the affiliated middle school of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, the predecessor of China Academy of Art based in Hangzhou. He took an advanced course for oil painting at the academy and graduated as an art major from Hangzhou Teachers University. Yet, the oil painter is best known for Spring Festival painting, a quintessential genre of Chinese folk art in celebration of the lunar New Year. Over the past 20 years, Wang Yiding has won quite a few gold and silver medals for his outstanding Spring Festival paintings at national exhibitions.

Wang Yiding is a Hangzhou native, but now lives in Shaoxing, an ancient city of scholars, warriors, artists, revolutionaries, and writers. For many people in Hangzhou or other big cities, Shaoxing is a far away city where time seems to go at a slower pace. Wang has long since willingly subjected himself to the slow and long time things in Shaoxing take to mature and blossom. He allows himself to think deep and feel deep, taking his time to paint sophistically.

One of his best-known paintings is “Daughter Red”, a gold medal winner at the 6th National Exhibition of Spring Festival Paintings. Daughter Red, traditionally, is a local name for the rice wine for which Shaoxing is famed at home and abroad. It is said that parents bury a jar of rice wine when their daughter is born, and unearth the jar and share the wine with friends, guests and relatives at the daughters wedding. Thats why rice wine is fondly called Daughter Red, though the low-proof rice wine looks brown.

Wang recalls that the inspiration for this painting hit him while he was visiting a winery in Shaoxing. He was deeply impressed by everything he saw there. Back home, he got down to working in a hurry. In the painting, a young woman in bright red sits in the center, lifting the red bridal veil; she is surrounded by jars of wine. The artist comments that the painting looks perfect even today and that it successfully conveys the best a New Year painting should present.

I see an oil painting in the sitting room. The date on the painting suggests that Wang painted it recently. It portrays a small bridge quietly sitting over a bubbling stream flanked by some simple houses leaning a little bit, with yellowish flowers on vines of towel gourd. Wang Yiding explains that it is a scene of Doumen, an ancient town in a suburb of Shaoxing. He visits the town frequently. He prefers old places. Aware that the beauty of the old town may vanish as time elapses, he tries to retain the beauty that should last forever. Well, he wants the heart-touching beauty to stay as long as possible in his painting. □