刻刀為筆繪春秋

王福田

“選擇在德清開館是因為這里是我的第二故鄉，這里有著深厚的文化底蘊，并且非常重視營造藝術文化氛圍。”2016年12月22日上午，坐落在浙江省德清縣余英溪畔的“陸放藝術館”正式開館，85歲的中國著名版畫家陸放作為名譽館長，出席了開館儀式并致辭。

在刀痕水跡中耕耘一甲子，贏得卓越成就

“陸放藝術館”與“俞平伯紀念館”同處余英溪北岸，相互為鄰。兩幢建筑風格相近，同為粉墻黛瓦，都是藝術大家的個人專題館。陸放藝術館收藏陳列了陸放創作的323幅版畫精品以及原版、手稿。這些作品的創作時間橫跨59年，總共花費了近20萬個小時才完成。進入展館右側，“刀痕水跡”展板上書寫著陸放的藝術人生歷程：1932年，正值中國局部抗戰興起救國存亡之際，也正是魯迅先生在上海倡導發起中國新興木刻版畫運動之時，陸放降生在距離上海僅70公里的江南水鄉昆山。也許是命運的安排，少年時期的他經歷了中華民族的覺醒和反抗，而當時作為宣傳材料的木刻版畫給了他莫大震撼。他說：“我走上版畫的道路，是受到新興版畫運動的影響。魯迅先生提出木刻要像投向敵人的一把匕首。當時我看到胡一川、野夫的木刻版畫，作品那么有爆發力，很受鼓舞。”1949年，17歲的陸放離開家鄉，進入軍旅，開始從事美術工作。1955年，陸放考入中央美術學院華東分院（現中國美術學院）版畫系深造，1960年畢業后留校任教。

上世紀50年代后期，陸放的作品開始參加全國性的大型美術展覽。1979年作品被國家選送參加世界第十三屆版畫展。1994年陸放應美國巴爾的摩美術學院邀請赴美國五所大學講學，被授予巴爾的摩市榮譽市民，并在巴爾的摩和波士頓兩地舉辦水印木刻展。1996年中國版畫家協會授予陸放版畫界最高榮譽“魯迅版畫獎”。

陸放熱愛自然，鐘情于風景版畫創作，因擅長以水印木刻技法創作西湖題材版畫而被美術界譽為“西湖陸”。作品曾被中國美術館、天津藝術博物館、倫敦大英帝國博物館、巴黎國家造型藝術中心、日本神奈種美術館、莫斯科博物館、美國巴爾的摩博物館等收藏。代表作品有《蘇堤春曉》《江南水鄉》《沙漠綠洲》等。出版有《陸放畫集》《水印木刻技法》《新世紀·新繪畫》作品集。

陸放藝術館是一幢獨立的兩層小樓，兩千余平方米的展館分為“悠悠水鄉”、“煙雨西子”、“魅力山河”和“莫干山情”四大展區。其中“莫干山情”展區主要展出了陸放2009年以來創作的名山、濕地、古鎮作品，通過傳統木刻水印技藝，描繪出一幅幅清麗悠遠、意趣盎然的德清特色美景，也述說著陸放與德清半個多世紀的不解情緣。

德清是第二故鄉，愿意把藝術館建在這里

故鄉昆山的陸放說：德清名人孟郊、俞曲園、俞平伯等與昆山淵源頗深。德清從古至今都是富庶之地，近50年來，自己無數次到過德清，這里已是第二故鄉。早在1967年12月，陸放就以《工農兵畫報》記者身份到德清雷甸采訪。1972年夏季，浙江省文化廳和省美術家協會組織“全國美展創作”活動，在莫干山上生活了一個多月。改革開放前期，江南大地處處呈現出蓬勃的景象，陸放幾乎每個月都要帶領學生到湖州鄉下寫生，或者參加農村文化工作隊，菱湖、鐘管、新市等江南水鄉都短暫停留過。正是因為長期對江南水鄉深入觀察、體驗、研究，有了真感受，動了真感情，把握了江南文化的本質美，陸放才創作出了無數動人的藝術作品。

2009年6月20日，由浙江省政協詩書畫之友社、德清縣委宣傳部主辦的“秀色江南——陸放水印版畫展”在德清舉行，首次展出了德清題材的系列版畫作品6幅：《莫干山旭光臺》《雅居莫干》《月照下渚湖》《下渚湖之晨》和《江南古鎮》《古鎮雪景》。它們為德清縣的山水和人文景色留下了藝術的注腳。一位文化人士觀看展覽后認為：“陸放版畫的藝術之美與江南之優雅完美融合，恰如一顆水晶球折射出現實世界的千變萬化。”2011年11月28日，陸放版畫藏書票館在德清瘐村開館，莫干山麓又增添了一道古典又現代的人文風景。2015年，德清縣政府聘請陸放擔任文化顧問。當年10月29日，陸放決定把他創作的300多件作品無償捐贈給德清縣，新建一座精致的陸放藝術館。

水印木刻的西湖，展示東方藝術神韻

“水至柔，卻蘊骨；水骨無痕，卻致山川河谷。所經之處，高縱萬壑，是為水印。”陸放藝術館的“悠悠水鄉”展區，集中展出了陸放的20多幅江南水鄉四季景物、生活場景作品。水鎮之冬、雪花飄飄、橋鄉雪景、水鄉雪景、恬靜的清水灣、清江澹泊、小鎮水街、澤國垂釣、漁家姑娘、水鄉夜話、水庫新城、臘月雪茫茫等作品。觀眾能一窺刀尖下的水鄉美景，通過塊面與線條的組合，構成一幅幅意境深遠、清新淡雅而又引人入勝的江南水鄉畫景，令人回味再三。

陸放以清新淡雅、平實含蓄的畫作在中國當代版畫苑里占據了重要一席，他用獨特的水印木刻技法，精心選用質地細膩的梨木和優質夾宣為材料，刻畫出了一個又一個江南水鄉新的境地。正如美術評論家、中國美術學院教授毛建波說的那樣：陸放以一個詩人的眼光觀察世界、體味自然，他的畫充滿了濃厚的東方色彩和濃郁的詩意，傳遞了他對江南水鄉煙雨輕嵐的審美感受，表達了他對寧靜祥和、安居樂業生活的禮贊。

循著陸放的傳統木刻水印痕跡，走進“煙雨西子”展區。陸放在杭州西湖畔生活了60多年，西湖的柔水日日在眼前蕩漾，自1973年創作第一件水印木刻《蘇堤春曉》后，陸放把大部分時光都停留在西湖上，《西湖春雨》的淡雅、《柳浪聞鶯》的娟秀、《保俶初陽》的明麗、《平湖秋月》的清幽、《斷橋殘雪》的雋永……歷40余年之久，陸放得之于西湖的畫作也不過30余幅。但每一幅都可謂是鏤神雕心之作，鏤刻著他60多年來的發現，畫里的神韻乃是美麗西湖詩意的凝結。

在“魅力山河”展區，既有萬里長城的雄偉壯觀，也有黃河天險的懸崖峭壁，更有千里大漠的風塵月色，這些作品傳達了他對祖國大好河山的熱愛和感悟。“莫干山情”展區的作品都是陸放熱愛德清的傾情之作。他說：“德清素有魚米之鄉、絲綢之府、名山之勝、竹茶之地、文化之邦的美譽。莫干山是江南第一名山，下渚湖滋潤著這片美麗土地，新市是東方名鎮。”小鎮水街、舊村老宅、紅杏白墻、山鄉野塘，地處吳越水鄉的德清，處處都是秀麗典雅的濫觴。半個世紀里，陸放不計其數地訪德清、戀德清、寫德清，無論月夜、雨中，還是霧里、雪后，一經他的版畫表現都會有特別的氣韻。難怪欣賞陸放的畫，總覺得畫中有詩，意趣盎然。

（本文攝影 李 驊）

Art Museum Honors Printmakers Career

By Wang Futian

Lu Fang， an 85-year-old printmaking artist， attended the opening ceremony of an art museum on the morning of December 22， 2016. The museum is located in Deqing， a rural county north of Hangzhou. He must attend the ceremony： it is named after him， he is its honorary curator and it houses a collection of over 300 of his original woodcuts and prints.

Lu is a prominent woodprint artist. Born in 1932 in Kunshan， about 70 kilometers from Shanghai， he joined the Peoples Liberation Army at 17 in 1949. He worked in the army as an artist. In 1955， he began his four-year study as a printmaking major at East China Campus of the Central Academy of Fine Arts （the predecessor of the present-day Hangzhou-based China Academy of Art）. He graduated in 1960 and began to teach at his alma mater. His artworks began to appear at national art exhibitions in the 1950s. In 1979， his works of art were selected for the 13th World Woodprint Art Exhibition. In 1994， he lectured in five American universities and held solo exhibitions in Baltimore and Boston. In 1996， he won Lu Xun Woodprint Prize， the top honor for this artistic genre in China.

Lu Fang is best known for his lyrical portrayals of nature. His landscape masterpieces are in various collections of art museums and individuals at home and abroad.

The art museum is a two-story standalone affair on Yuying Stream. The floor space is over 2，000 square meters. The museum displays 323 artworks by Lu Fang. These are the best of all the creations by the artist. They were created over a span of 59 years and cost the artist nearly 200，000 hours of his life. The exhibition features four sections. One of them is about Mogan Mountain， a major scenic attraction in Deqing and a well known summer getaway for urbanites of Hangzhou and Shanghai and other big cities in the south of Yangtze River Delta.

Lu Fang is intimately associated with Deqing and considers it as his second home. His first visit to Deqing occurred in December 1967. Back then he was an art reporter of a pictorial publication. In the summer of 1972， he spent a month in Mogan Mountain， creating paintings for a national exhibition. In the early 1980s， he and his students tripped to the scenic rural areas in Huzhou almost every month and sketched. The total exposure to the scenic beauty of Jiangnan enabled him to understand the aesthetics of nature better. He attributes his artistic achievement to nature. And art critics， collectors and general public agree with him.

His association with Deqing is more than field studies and sketch trips. Deqing holds his art in high esteem.

In June 2009， he held a solo exhibition in Deqing. It was sponsored by the local government and an art society at the provincial level. His depiction of the scenic Deqing won the heart of the local people. A critic commented that Lus woodprints were an artistic footnote to the history and culture of Deqing. A visitor observed that Lus artworks perfectly integrated art and the grace and elegance of Jiangnan， featuring lyrical and surreal versions of the reality of this world. In November 2011， Deqing launched an art museum that holds a collection of ex-libris all featuring Lu Fangs woodprints. In 2015， Lu Fang was appointed a cultural advisor by Deqing County Government. In October 2015， Lu decided to donate over 300 woodprints to Deqing. The museum has come into being to house the artworks.

The best known artworks by Lu Fang are probably those about the West Lake. Though he has lived by the West Lake for more than 60 years， the West Lake has appeared only in 30 plus woodprints of his. The first one was made in 1973. These about the West Lake offer insight into the poetic beauty of the lake.

Mao Jianbo， a professor with China Academy of Art， comments that Lu looks at the world in a poets perspective， which explains the poetry and oriental colors of his portrayals of Jiangnan.