旅日上海画家孙家珮将在他的故乡——上海举办个人画展。这对于孙家珮来说，是一件既让他兴奋，又让他不安的事情。离沪二十多年了，游子对家乡的感情越来越浓，尽管他也曾常回家看看，尽管他在日本的多家美术馆也举办过个展，但是等到要把自己的作品拿到家乡来展出，毕竟还是要慎重对待的。孙家珮最终把他的个展主题确定为“水边抒情世界”，是因为水乡是他生于斯、长于斯的地方，有着他的亲情、儿时的欢乐、挥之不去的记忆，更是他在油画艺术创作上长期关注的世界。孙家珮作为一位重返故里的游子带着他的一大批画水乡的作品走进了水乡。这画中的水乡既存在于现实之中，更深藏于他心中。可以说，孙家珮带来的是一个他心中的水边世界。　　在这个“水边抒情世界”里，画家最关注的是水与光。对于孙家珮来说，水是一条维系着他与家乡的感情线。他童年时，常居住在常熟的外婆家和阿姨家。在他的记忆中，当时平淡无奇的水乡生活对于他来说简直是充满了乐趣。现在他把记忆中的有着河腥味的清晨雾气、蒸发着暑气的正午的水面、洒落在河中的碎金般的余晖，像收集古董那样画进了画里，用点、填、涂抹和书写等各种笔法将水的多样性情缓缓地描述出来，朦朦胧胧者有之，扭扭曲曲者有之，平静如镜者有之，风起涟漪者有之。作为画家的孙家珮，这时更像是一名懂行的摄影师，特别喜欢表现逆光中的水乡景色，也许他感觉到从背光的阴影中更能表现出光的力度、光的明艳。

　　我最初看到孙家珮的油画风景作品时，以为他运用的是欧洲印象画派的表现技法，因为画面中阳光感很强烈，色彩鲜艳，特别是在一些描绘威尼斯水巷景色的作品上尤其如此，临水的楼房被阳光照耀得一片金黄，小巷中的河水波光粼粼映出碧蓝的天色。而当我仔细地欣赏时，这才发现原来孙家珮并不是采用印象派的方法来画的，他是用一种近乎古典主义的写实手法来描绘的，着力表现的是阳光照射下的景物呈现出的一种强烈的明暗关系，深入地刻画了水乡老屋的质感、空间感，水的轻盈感与流动感以及景物固有的色彩感。在孙家珮的风景画中，关注的是风景的形态，并非是印象画派那样重色彩而轻形体。当然，孙家珮在画中也吸取了印象主义的一些表现技法，特别是他对表现“水与光”充满了兴趣和期待。他撇开印象主义对“光与色”所作的科学的表现方法，在画中转而变为对“水与光”的叙述性的描绘，从这点上来说，他在水乡风景画的创作上是有其独特追求的。因为这一个字的变动，实际上是整体上的作画方法的变动。前者追求的是真实表现自然界景物在阳光下所形成的美妙的色彩关系，而后者追求的是用理想主义的感情色彩去唤醒记忆中的乐园。 由于画家采用的是细腻的写实笔调，因此容易造成观众对他的风景画的误读，即认为是根据照片素材来描绘的。实际上，孙家珮的“很多江南水乡作品里的景色在现实生活中是很难找到的”。孙家珮这样说是因为他画中的风景其实来自于他的心中，并不是对现实景物的如实描写。作画时的心境不同，也会使得画中的风景随之改变。这就是所谓的境自心生，境随心变。进一步说，孙家珮的风景画乃是一种虚构的风景也未尝不可。不论它们看起来有多麼逼真，但是，它们有着恒定的不真实性。这也许就是孙家珮的水乡风景画的最根本的特质所在。

　　在孙家珮的水乡风景画中，总沉淀着一股恬静的气韵，平静而安宁。这可以说是他的风景画的基调。画中的小桥、村落，空无一人;清晨、傍晚，不见炊烟;更不说河中孤舟自横，即便有船夫在摇橹撑篙，也是显得一片安宁。这恬静的画面给人的感受特别像是在梦里，温暖而安定。孙家珮长期生活在日本，他对日本绘画中的“静美”应该是有深刻的体会的。不过在他的画中，恬静中透露出的依然还是浓浓的中国气息。正如已故日本著名美术评论家植村鹰千代所说：“在他的作品里，让人感觉到东方画家的诗情和情趣。”孙家珮画中的“恬静之美”与日本画崇尚的”冷寂之美”是两种迥然不同的审美情趣，可见画家的梦还是永远留在了家乡的河畔。

　　有人在谈论上海画家陈逸飞的绘画作品时曾说：“陈逸飞也画过风景画。他采用中国绘画体裁中最传统的素材，结合西方最传统的油画手段，描绘他最喜欢的风景画主题——江南水乡。”确实，江南水乡是每一个曾经与它有染的中国艺术家，特别是上海艺术家的最爱。艺术家们用各种不同的方式来赞美它，回忆它，始终不渝。在孙家珮的水乡风景画作品中，在看似平凡的画面里，却是表达了他那深沉而又真挚的情感。

　　Preface

　　Zhu Guorong

　　Sun Jiapei, a Chinese painter in Japan, will hold a solo exhibition in his hometown Shanghai. It is both exciting and difficult for the painter. As a wanderer left twenty years ago, the longer he was far from hometown, the more intense emotions he had. Although he had held many solo exhibitions in Japan, he treated this matter in Shanghai very carefully. The theme of solo exhibition is named as "Waterside Lyrical World" , because he was born and grew up in China's river district, where left him an indelible memory of warm family, happy childhood. The painter has paid closely attention to this world which exists in reality, but also in his heart. Sun Jiapei returned to hometown with his paintings for China's river district, in another words, he brought back one unique waterside world in his mind.

　　In the "Waterside Lyrical World" , the painter focused on water and light. Water is a key symbol for him combined with a strong hometown feelings. When he was young, he once lived in his grandmother and aunt's home, Changshu. In his memory, life in river district was full of funny, such as fishy mist in morning, evaporation from river in midday, golden twilight floating down the river. All these memories were drawn in his paintings with techniques of pointing, filling, painting and writing, just like antique were carefully collected up. The painter Sun Jiapei is more like an experienced photographer, especially good at using backlight technique in capturing a shot of the scenery. Perhaps he thought he could express the bright and power of the light by contrast of the shadow.

　　I initially thought that Sun Jiapei used the European Impressionism techniques when I first met his painting landscape works because of strong sunlight and bright colors, especially in view of the works depicting Venice Roadway. In those paintings, waterfront building was in golden sunshine, and the river was sparkling in the alley reflected the blue sky. When I appreciated them carefully, however, I found that Sun Jiapei was actually close to approach of classical realism instead of impressionism. He focused on the showing of strong contrast between light and dark, the describing of old house's space, water's light flow, and the sense of color inherent in the scene.

　　In Sun Jiapei's paintings, he paid a great deal of attention on the form of landscape rather than focused only on the color. Of course, Sun absorbed some techniques of impressionism, particularly was deeply interested in the expression of "water and light". But he turned the scientific method of impressionism on "light and color" into a narrative description of "water and light". From this point of view, he has developed his own creative style of landscape painting. From "color" to "light", there are actually overall changes in painting techniques. That means, Sun Jiapei's pursuit is to wake up the glorious memory of hometown full of ideal emotions instead of the true describing of wonderful color of natural scenery in the sun.

　　The audience could easily lead to some kind of misreading of Sun Jiapei's paintings in which there is a delicate realist style in his works, in other words, people may think that he paints those scenes based on the photoes. Actually, many landscapes in his works are hard to find in real life. Sun Jiapei said that his scenery always erupted from his heart, not a factual description of the real scene. When one is different state of mind, landscape painting will make difference. This may be called the border born in heart, and heart changing environment. Furthermore, we can also say that they are virtual landscapes in his paintings. No matter how realistic they look, there is a fascinating imagination in those scenes. This may be the most fundamental characteristics of Sun Jiapei's paintings.

　　There is a basic tone which constituted by the charm of quiet, calm and tranquility in Sun Jiapei's paintings. Bridges, empty villages and boats in his paintings showed entirely tranquility and peace. The scenery may bring people to a warm and calm dreamland. Lived in Japan for a long time, Sun Jiapei understood "lonely beauty" in Japanese painting deeply, but the tranquil charm in his painting is full of Chinese taste. Just as a later renowned art critic said: "In his works, people could feel the poetic and taste of oriental art." The quiet beauty of Chinese is different from that of Japan, for Sun Jiapei, his dream has always been wandering in hometown.

　　When someone came to another Shanghai artist, Chen Yifei, he said, "Chen also described his favorite theme – Chinese river district, with preferences of the oldest traditional Chinese subject matter with the oldest traditional western technique" . Indeed, this theme always has strong attractions for painters, especially for Shanghai's painter. Artists praise and recall it in variety of ways forever. Sun Jiapei has presented his deep and sincere emotions in those landscape works, which is seemingly ordinary to us.