欽哲基金會
Khyentse Foundation
文人畫的典範
在國際畫廊陳淑雄先生的引薦下，初識周士心先生是在 2010 年。我和張弛在加拿大溫哥華國際畫廊辦展，周先生來捧場。當時他給我的感覺是一位和藹的民國長者，後來慢慢地在閒聊中才知道他與張大千有著不淺的交往。且不說他的人生經歷，光就其書畫藝術來說就很不簡單。他在藝術上的定力讓人敬佩。
我們所處的時代，是一個多變且多元的時代，人們在對待藝術的態度也很大程度上受到外在環境的牽制，而周先生把對藝術的感覺一直定位於內心，定位於他的人生和知識範圍。我看過他的國畫，一枝一葉，一花一鳥，以及他和張大千先生的合作，隱隱中透出的文人氣息，是常人所不能及的。畫中國畫的人都知道，氣息的高低決定著品味的高低。有的人畫得很好，技法也好，但就是氣息低下，畫也就沒有辦法去看了。而周先生就是勝在了氣息上，他得力於他的教養，得力於他的文化圈朋友，使得他的氣息遠勝於技法。而這樣的氣息成就了他的書畫。我喜歡看他的作品，就像我喜歡看大千的作品一樣。時代氣息，文人氣象，藝術定力，造就了這個時代的周士心。
樂震文
樂震文教授，1956 年生，浙江鎮海人，原上海書畫院執行院長、上海海事大學徐悲鴻藝術學院首任院長，上海覺群書畫院院長，中國美術家協會會員。上海文史研究館館員。
Model of Scholastic Paintings
Through the introduction of Mr. John Chan of the International Arts Gallery, I first met Professor Johnson Chow in 2010. I was at that time holding an exhibition with my wife Zhang Chi in the International Arts Gallery in Vancouver, Canada and Professor Chow came to support us. His first impression to us was a kind and conscientious senior from the Republic period. Later, through our conversations, I gradually learned that he has a close association with Mr. Zhang Daiqian. Leaving aside his fruitful life experience, just to look at his achievements in paintings and calligraphies would be extraordinary. His focus and dedication to art would command great respect.
We are living in a dynamic and diverse era. The people’s attitudes towards art are highly influenced by the environments that they are living in. Yet Professor Chow, on the contrary, has always positioned his feelings in art in his inner heart, in his life experience and his scope of knowledge. I have viewed his traditional Chinese paintings, – every branch, every leaf, every flower, and every bird, and his cooperative works with Mr. Zhang Diqian, – everyone quietly exudes the elegance of a scholar, this standard was definitely out of reach by ordinary artists. Practitioners of Chinese paintings would all understand, the taste of an artwork is determined by the superiority and inferiority of its “scent and elegance “. Professor Chow is super in ” scent and elegance “; which is corollary to his upbringings as well as the friends and associates in his circle. His ” scent and elegance ” is far beyond mere technique and skill and this “scent and elegance ” helps to effectuate his great artworks. I love his artworks, the same as I love Zhang Diqian’s artworks; – the specific scent of an era, the spirit of a scholar, the strenuous art focus, all help to create Professor Chow of this specific era.
Yue Zhenwen
About Professor Yue Zhenwen
Born in 1956, from Zhenhai, Zhejiang. Former Executive Director of the Shanghai Painting and Calligraphy Academy, FoWunding Dean of the Xu Beihong Academy of Arts at Shanghai Maritime University, President of the Juequn Painting and Calligraphy Academy in Shanghai, Member of the China Artists Association, and a Researcher at the Shanghai Academy of Literature and History.