讴歌太阳的艺术
文：黄可
生活是艺术的源泉，艺术是生活的反映。艺术家表现什么，如何表现，体现着艺术家对于生活的关怀和艺术素养。艺术贵在独创，从选择题材到艺术表现形式，只有与众不同，才有独特的艺术魅力。
艺术创意基于对生活的深刻感悟和选择题材的新视角，很少见到艺术家专注于画太阳，然而美籍华人女艺术家李二平却倾情于讴歌太阳，创作了大量的表现太阳系列的绘画作品，正是她对生活的深刻感悟和选择独特的视角作艺术表现的结果。
太阳给予大地以生命、温暖和色彩。有了太阳在植物中的光合作用，才使大地的所有植物保持郁郁葱葱的绿意；有了太阳给予的温暖，才使大地的所有生命保持生机勃勃的状态；
有了太阳的普照，才使大地显现斑斓的色彩。如果没有阳光，大地一片漆黑，将失去一切色彩。太阳对于大地生命如此休戚相关，如此重要，李二平在绘画中作了热情的表现。
李二平的艺术个性鲜明。她交错运用油画棒和丙烯颜料，多用原色，几乎不用中间色，用笔大胆泼辣，明亮灿烂，瑰丽强烈，构图饱满，重重叠叠，层次丰富，耐人寻味，视觉冲击力强。同时因多用热色调，使画面充满热情和温暖，亦蕴涵着女性画家关爱大地生命的母爱情愫，画风以受荷兰画家凡高和挪威画家蒙克的影响，然后融为己有，自成一格。
李二平一家是财富颇丰的爱国华侨，父亲李之华慷慨捐款，在家乡安徽全椒创办了一座希望中学和一座医院。父亲现居南京安度晚年。李二平常归国探望父亲，先后在上海、南京、杭州、北京举办个人画展，其表现太阳系列的作品深受观众喜爱和好评。
Art Critic Review: Artist - Grace Li Wang’s "Radiance" Art Series
Salutation to the Radiant Sun
Life is art’s inspiration, and art is life’s reflection. Art embodies unique creations, from the title and content to the expressive end forms. They need to be interestingly different for these unique interpretations to exude an extraordinary attraction and magnetism.
The creativity of art can be based on the depth and breadth of feelings and a new way of looking at the subject of the art. Very rarely have we seen artists focused on painting the Radiant Sun, yet this artist, Grace Li Wang ( Li Erh-Ping), has captured a wondrous salutation to the Radiant Sun. She has created a large body of work in this series, the result of her strong passion for this theme.
The Sun gives Earth life, warmth and color. With sunlight, green plants come alive in full-blooming fields. With the Sun’s warmth, living things keep growing better and stronger. With the Sun’s wondrous spread of sunrays, there is the most glorious and infinite spectrum of colors. The Sun gives life to all. Sun as the essence of life is the theme that Grace passionately expresses in this series.
Grace’s art often shows a warm color scheme, filling her art with exuberance and warmth. That is the essence of a female artist whose works depict her love for Mother Nature much like a woman creating and nurturing life with her love. Her work appears stylistically influenced by Van Gogh and Edvard Munch in their strong colors, energy and expressiveness. Grace uses symbolic colors and forms that depict a state of mind rather than figurative reality. They exude a highly charged expressive energy. The use of color field is mature, yet refreshingly edgy and playful, all the while well executed.
Grace’s contemporary art genre is very direct, bold and dramatic. She uses the mixed media of acrylic and oil to create works using primary colors, playing down the neutral or secondary tones. Her brush works are daring and quick, bright and luminous, flamboyant and full. Layer upon layer of her contents visually explode and offer an ethereal quality that leaves viewers wanting to linger and absorb as much as possible from her mesmerizing work. Grace’s strong work on the Radiance of Sun is highly expressive and energized – she produces a joyous celebration of life and sun for all to view.
Huang Ke
Art Critic
Shanghai, China
【编辑：贾娴静】
