吴允铁作画几乎不画草稿,也几乎不依靠照片或其它图片,他有很强的形象记忆力和自由造型能力。对他而言，只有面对画布时的实时感觉才是可靠的，他总是从画布的某个角落开始，任思绪纷飞，不断添加或抹去，让各种各样的形象自行蔓延开来，直至占据一个属于它们自己的空间。因此，他的创作过程十分接近超现实主义的“自动写作”，一旦笔开始在画面上滑动，他便心无旁骛地跟着手前行，在手的引领下，他进入了一个个自己都未曾意料到的世界，那些世界是陌生的，然而又毫无疑问是出自自己内心深处的，于是作画的过程同时也成了他辨认、怀疑或证实自己的过程，因此这个过程便具有了一种他所说的“自我医疗”功能。

与很多面向自我的年轻艺术家相比，吴允铁的画面没有那种焦躁不安的心理主题，没有那种幽闭的自我幻想，也没有那种自我陶醉的小情调、小感伤。他的作品具有一种私密的游戏性质，但同时又不乏严肃的心理分析。他在面向自我的同时也总能指向产生自我的外在根源，因而剖析自我也就同时包含了对现实的批判和超越，吴允铁无疑离真正的超现实主义者更近一些。

- 摘自林海《后工业时代的超现实主义者——关于吴允铁近期的创作》

Wu Yuntie barely makes his paintings according to sketches, photographs or other pictures. He has a very strong visual memory and unrestrained expressions in painting. Only when facing the canvas does he feel at ease. He always starts from a corner of the canvas following the flow of ideas, keeps adding or erasing forms and allows various images spread out themselves, finding their own spaces on the canvas. Therefore, his process approximates to the Surrealistic ‘automatic writing’. Once the brush starts to move, Wu Yuntie will intently follow his hand to proceed and enter an unexpected strange world, which is yet straight from the bottom of his heart. Thus the painting process is also the process for him to recognize, suspect or prove himself. As he said, such process carries a function of ‘self medical treatment’.

Compared with many self-centered young artists, Wu Yuntie doesn’t present the restless psychological subject, the claustrophobic illusion and narcissistic sentiment in his paintings. Instead, the works have a private game nature as well as serious psychoanalysis. At the same time as he faces himself, he also points out the extrinsic root which creates the ego, so that his self-analysis includes criticizing and surpassing the reality. Wu Yuntie is no doubt more like a surrealist.

- Extracted from A Surrealist in Post-industrial Age – Wu Yuntie Recent Works by Lin Hai

Translation:  Fan Chen