西北，有一份沧桑，来自于千百万年风霜沙雪的自然磨砺；

西北，有一份厚重，来自于千百年来铁血浩史的人文积淀。

如果说，大西北的沧桑、厚重，是一幅宏图巨画，那塬，就是这幅画上的苍劲一笔。

塬，是西北部黄土高原的一个自然景观，多年雨水冲刷，风沙侵蚀，将之切割雕镂成四边陡、顶上平的高地，上面沟壑纵横，黄土斑驳，透露着广袤苍凉、古朴粗犷的原始魅力。正是这种原始景观，很容易让人想起当年金戈铁马、鼓角铮鸣、戍边抗寇、英雄辈出的辉煌年代。当这一切都沉寂下来后，当今天人们将目光落足于这片依然荒芜冷漠的土地时，不由得人不在理浚历史脉络的同时，喟然长叹，感慨万千。

也许，正是这种悠悠的沧桑感和厚重的历史感，来自深圳的年轻艺术家黄胜贤为之神往，走进黄土高原，创作了一系列以塬为题材的油画作品，其《塬上人家》系列，就是描画黄土塬的成功力作。

黄胜贤以一个艺术家的独特视野，用斑驳厚重的色块，描绘了黄土塬独特的地形地貌，展现了其苍凉古朴的原始之美；刻画了一个个在这片土地上劳作生息，与这片土地休戚与共的塬上人家，赋予他们豁达乐观、不屈不挠的人格。在以塬为题材的作品中，黄胜贤不管是创作数量还是艺术成就，都可说是令人瞩目的。

有感于此，我们以《黄土塬》为题材，举办了这次展览。从展出的作品中，我们不难触摸到中华民族的脉搏，寻找到我们的根与民族的魂。

悦子
2011-6-4

Vicissitude And Massiness

Northwest, there is a vicissitude, made from millions years of natural grinding from sand and snow, wind and frost.

Northwest, there is massiness, coming from millions years of humanistic accumulation of the bloody history.

If the vicissitude and the massiness are the great representation of northwest China, then the plateau is a strong stroke of this painting.

Plateau is a natural landscape of the Loess Plateau in northwest. Years after the scour of rainwater and the erosion by sand, the plateau is incised and carved into a highland with steep sides, and a flat roof. Ravines across its length and breadth, loess variegated, all these reveal its vast, desolate, unsophisticated, and straightforward original fascination. Those easily remind us the era which produced a host of heroes, and which had witnessed the golden spears and armored horses of gallant warriors, the sound of horn and the clang of metal, the defend of the border areas and the resist against the enemy. When these had died down, when we put our attention to this barren land today, we could not help but be impressed when we sorted out the historical trail.

Maybe, it is this feelings and sentiment that mesmerized this young artist Shengxian Huang, who comes from Shenzhen, and then went to the Loess Plateau, creating the plateau series oil paintings. His “People On the Plateau Series” paintings are the masterpieces which portray the grandness of loess plateau.

With a particular view as an artist, and with the variegated and massive colors, Shengxian Huang depicts the unique landform and geomorphy of loess plateau, and represents its desolate and unsophisticated original fascination. He depicts the people who live and work on this land, and shared their weal and woe with it, to endow with open-minded, optimistic and indomitable spirit. The plateau series of paintings are outstanding in quantity as well as artistic achievements.

Hereupon, we hold this exhibition on the topic of “Loess Plateau”. From the paintings on show, it would not be difficult for us to feel the pulse of the Chinese nation, and seek out the root of ourselves and the soul of our nation.