内心燃烧的才是艺术
——写在嘉峻Nick“边走边画——第1回•眺望梵高”画展前
好友的儿子第一次办画展，发来作品，让我写两句。
“边走边画——第1回•眺望梵高”，好勇气。其一，年轻人总是狂的，也是真诚热爱偶像的。眺望梵高这样的艺术大师，可以理解。想到自己年轻之时，不也被梵高传记《渴望生活》感动得彻夜难眠吗？其二，梵高是大师巨匠，想当年也是业余画家，凭着对艺术的赤诚之爱，一直坚守着那份执着！嘉峻Nick毕业于北京电影学院，现在美国读研，虽不是学油画出生，但她的母亲是知名画家，从小耳濡目染，就十分喜爱绘画。其6岁学画经历曾在电视台专题报道过。
虽然艺术本就不是靠家族传承或学院传授的一门技艺，它更本质的定义就是内心的燃烧。从绘画的原生性这点而言，嘉峻确有与梵高的相似之处，“我更多的是用感受去创作，我热爱旅行，经过不同地域的游历使我边走边看，然后用画笔纪录，用自己的理解随着画面的感觉而延伸。"
从作品来看，嘉峻当然还在探索，“要从自己的心灵流出来属于自己的感受”。这在一个过于推崇技法的时代，把美术还原为“心灵的呼唤”，真性情，应该对有些堕入形式主义怪圈的美术界是有裨益的。
是需要眺望的，因为这一高地上还有人文精神在闪光。
Art Is What Burns
—for Jiajun Nick’s painting exhibition
My good friend forwarded me her son’s paintings and asked me to write a few lines for his first painting exhibition.
Painting while journey—the first round • Look up on Van Gogh, a good name of courage! Firstly, young people are always ambitious and have their own idols to admire. It is understandable to adore Van Gogh the great artist. Wasn’t I moved and made sleepless by Van Gogh’s biographic movie Longing for life when I was young.Secondly, Van Gogh was an amateur painter but became a great master. His success resulted from his devoted love for art and his persistence. Jiajun Nick graduated from Beijing Film Academy and he is studying master in the United States now. His major is not oil painting, but the shows is great . His mother is a famous painter in China and great influence on him. His experience of learning painting at the age of six was once reported at the local TV show.
Artistry is not what can be inherited or taught at college. Its essence lies in the chemistry of the mind. As far as the origin of painting artistry is concerned, Jiajun’s case is similar to Van Gogh’s—“I paint with my perception; I love traveling, going to anywhere, jotting down my experience in the form of paintings, expanding my horizon in the pictures.”
From his works, we can see that Jiajun works hard on his way of art pursuit. “The feelings must be those that come from my own soul.” At an age of skills, it is good for the painting world, which has somewhat degenerated to formism, to return to what is called “the call of the soul”, the real temperament.
Of course, Van Gogh is high for us to look up on, where there is the light of humanism.
I sincerely hope that Jiajun will go on painting while journey .Enriching his life and meanwhile, keeping his real feelings and superb talent. Whether in movie or in painting, he is expected to go on exploring, drawing nutrients from both Chinese culture and Western culture to create his own artistic styles in his future works.
内心燃烧的才是艺术嘉峻Nick“边走边画——
第1回•眺望梵高”画展
地 点：北京朝阳区酒仙桥路2号 798艺术区707街红石头广场 泛空间
时 间：2014年9月13日下午16:00
联系人：庄道静
电 话：1352083887
宋嘉峻（Nick），1989年1月出生于江苏，从小喜爱绘画并获多个全国少儿美术比赛奖项。大学在北京电影学院先后攻读动画及导演专业，大学本科毕业后在多部短片，广告拍摄中担任导演及制片。随后赴美留学，现为纽约电影学院研究生。这期间曾游历多国深受不同地域文化艺术的影响熏陶。
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Song Jiajun (Nick), born in province of Jiangsu in January, 1989, has been interested in painting since childhood and won several awards in national children's painting competitions. He completed his bachelor study in Beijing Film Academy.The major is animation and director .His short film won the academy award for the best work. After graduation, he directed and produced several short movies and advertisement films. In 2013,he went to the United States for further study.now he is studying master in New York Film Academy. During the time, he travels in several countries and experiences different cultures, which opens up his new horizons and gives him new insight into the art of painting.
从心灵流至笔端——观89后导演嘉峻Nick的油画作品
记得我第一次办画展，7岁的嘉峻Nick捧着一束花儿，祝贺我画展成功，现在他将在北京798泛空间办个展。心里很是感慨……
他天生喜欢画画，89后的他画龄却已不短，记得胎儿期的嘉峻Nick就闻着油彩的香味，感受着笔触行走的节奏与韵律，2岁的他就画了写生“大胡子叔叔“，线条稚气却很自信，造型夸张有趣，他的童年在画画、捏橡皮泥恐龙等游戏中度过，可以说艺术陪伴着他长大，后来他爱上了电影，考上北京电影学院，用他的镜头抒发着对大千世界的感受，他阳光、随性却很执着，做喜欢做的事情，追求完美。在美留学的他，修养是中西合璧的，从他的画里不仅可以看到许多中国元素、线和平面的运用，又能看到他对欧美文化的热爱。印象派大师梵高是他儿时在画册上认识的、最崇拜的画家，当他在美国博物馆梵高原作面前时，非常激动，打电话来告诉我、并用笔记本现场读画、临画许久……与大师原作近距离的接触，触发他心底一直以来对油画的情愫，他要用油画来表现他在加州的生活、学习和感受。他的画是纯天然的，是从心灵流至笔端。他说“我不是画家，我是不托下巴的思想者。”他做这次展览不是为了成名成家，他想在他25岁时做一件实事：画画。
“边走边画——第1回 • 眺望梵高”，他自己给画展起的名字，问他为什么用“眺望”，他的解释是“站在低处，看高处”。嘉峻Nick作画的心态是平和的、真诚的，他对事物的感觉和观察却是超敏锐的，看似平淡、空无的天际，他能感受到“天空也很结构”，从他心灵流至笔端下的天空、大海很耐看、很美妙，或平静或奔腾，充满激情与张力，色彩纯净鲜亮，富有时代感，观他的画如临天籁之境，他把视觉的平面赋予流动的势，美到极致……他拍的微电影、广告片等镜头里的场景、色彩、光影也很有画意，画画经历赋予了他独特的审美视角。镜头里有画意，画面里有镜头感，这就是有着非凡感觉的嘉峻Nick。油彩、刮刀在亚麻布上的舞动让他享受着视觉美的流动与快乐。
他说自己只是一个喜欢画画的爱好者，以后主要精力是拍电影，在想画画的时候就快乐的画画，并计划2016年去英国皇家美院研修油画专业一段时间，接下来会有“边走边画——第N回”系列，那时的作品一定更有属于他自己的艺术风格。
相信他，并支持他，因为他是我的儿子嘉峻Nick!
Painting Art of the Soul
Review of the Oil Painting Exhibition
of Jiajun Nick, a director of the 1989s
■Daojing Zhuang
I still remember the scene of the seven-year-old Nick with a bunch of flowers to congratulating me on the success of my first painting exhibition. Today. Nick will have his own painting exhibition in the universal space of Beijing 798!
He was born to be a painter. Although in his twenties, his painting age is not young. Before he was born, he received a good foetus education of painting: smelling the scent of paints, dancing with the rhythm of his mother’s painting brush. he made his first sketch Uncle with a great mustache when he two years old. He spents his childhood in painting and making clay figures.He grows up with art. He loves movies and went to study in Beijing film Academy.He likes to express himself with his cameras. He is sunny, persistent in nature. He does anything what he likes going for perfect. His painting show not only Chinese elements, lines, plane formations, but also his love for the Western culture, an advantage from his schooling background, both Chinese and Western. Early in his childhood, he came to know Van Gogh in his painting album, and this great master of impressionism became his most admired painter. His dream of seeing Van Gogh’s original paintings came true when he visited the American museum. He was so excited before Van Gogh’s real work that he telephoned me and shared with me his interpretation and his feelings. He studied the great masterpiece for quite some time, writing and sketching on his notebook. This zero-distance contact with Van Gogh arouses his affection for oil painting, with which he decides to express himself about his life, study and perception in California. His paintings are purely of nature and of the soul. He said, “I’m not a painter; I’m a unique thinker. This painting exhibition is not a shortcut to success; it is what he likes to do at the age of 25—painting! Paint while journey—the first round • Look up on Van Gogh is the name he himself gave to the Exhibition. Why “look up”? He said，“standing low and look high.” Nick is calm in soul and sincere in mind; his senses are sharp. He senses the structure-work of the space. The sky, the sea in his paintings withstand scrutiny and look so splendid, calm and active, full of passion and tension. The colors are pure and bright, going with the times. He creates a natural land with moving visual planes to the extreme beauty. His movies benefits greatly from his painting experience. In his micro movies and advertisement films, we spot the scenes, colors, light and shade characteristic of paintings. Painting in movie and movie in painting—Nick’s art! He uniquely enjoys the visual dance of drawknives and paints on canvas.
He said he just love painting and will devote himself to movies in the future. But on this time he wants to paint freely and merrily. In 2016, he is going to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Britain) for further study and work on oil painting. After that, his paint while walking series will come one round after another. He is fully confident that his later works will have more of his own characteristics.
I trust him and I support him because he is my son.
Daojing Zhuang, full-time painter, Nanjing Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, national first class painter, member of the Chinese Artists Association, Director of the Chinese Paintress Artists Association,Director of the traditional chinese realistic painting association,Professor of the Central Academy of Fine Art, Professor of the Renmin University of China
