刘一原历时30余年的现代水墨艺术探索，大致经历了由“心象风景”到“点线之境”再到“感时之象”三个阶段。这三个阶段既是艺术家人生感悟的心路历程，同时也是中国传统绘画现代转型轨迹的某种折射。刘一原的现代水墨艺术实践，为我们提供了一系列有意味的当代水墨性叙事，它们延续中国传统绘画的“格物”方式，以悟对和反省的姿态面对我们这个变动着的世界。

　　作为新时期中国水墨艺术发展、演变历史中的独特案例，刘一原的现代水墨艺术有两个方面值得我们关注和重视：首先它们是对传统文化的“现代性思考”，也是对“现代性”的一种“中国论述”。刘一原的这些关键词为“心象”、“点线”、“感时”的“现代性思考”和“中国论述”，始终立足于本土的生存体验，自觉延续传统文脉，巧妙利用本土艺术资源——沿用中国绘画“因心造境”的传统方法和笔墨的书写性特质，将一种悲天悯人的情怀融入到形象和笔墨之中，突显人在“现代性”之后出现的难以适从的生存困境;其次，刘一原的现代水墨艺术自其“心象风景”甫一问世便成为一些关注中国文化当代转型问题的批评家们的持续研究对象。他们的批评写作不只从不同的角度揭示了刘一原作品的历史感、现实性及方法论，也为艺术家未来的艺术实践建立了开放的新起点。这些充分体现中国本土现、当代艺术批评与艺术创造良性互动的文本也一并收录在本画册之中。我想，从某种意义上说本画册不只是刘一原“心象”的伸延，也是中国本土艺术批评与理论的伸延……

Preface for "Landscape of the Mind and Its Visual Extension - Liu Yiyuan Ink Art"

The Visual Extension of "Landscape of the Mind" and the Theoretical Extending of Local Criticism

Pi Daojian

　　In his more than 30 years of contemporary ink art exploration, Liu Yiyuan has gone through three stages, from the "Landscape of the Mind" to the "Habitats of Dots and Lines", to the "Visual Interpretation of the Time." These three stages can be major marks on the mental roadmap of the artist’s insights on life, and also illustrate, in one way, the trajectory of the modern transformation of traditional Chinese painting. Liu Yiyuan 's modern ink art practice offered us a meaningful range of contemporary ink narrative, they continue the tradition of Chinese painting in the "technique" way, the attitude of enlightenment and reflection in the changing face of our world.

　　A unique case in the evolution history of the new era Chinese ink art development, Liu as an original contemporary ink artist has two aspects worthy of our concern and attention: First, they are the "modern thinking" in the indigenous soil of traditional culture, a kind of "Chinese discourse" upon "modernity". With these keywords "Landscape of the Mind", "Habitats of Dots and Lines", and the "Visual Interpretation of the Time", Liu Yiyuan has always based his "modern thinking" and "Chinese discourse" on local survival experience, the conscious continuation of the traditional context, the ingenious use of local art resources -and following the Chinese traditional painting methods of "Seeking the habitats from within". Aided by the expressiveness of Chinese brush writing expertise, he blended compassion into the image and the ink strokes, highlighting the "modernity" predicament facing the artist. Secondly, as soon as he became the advent of modern ink painting since his "Landscape of the Mind", Liu Yiyuan has been in the spotlight of concerns for contemporary Chinese culture critics. Their criticism centered around the cultural continuity transformation study reveals not only a sense of history, reality and methodology from different angles in the original modern ink painting works of Liu, , but also the future of artistic practice for artists to establish a new starting point and be open. These texts included in this album fully reflect a positively creative interaction between the local Chinese contemporary art criticism and art. I think that this album is not just the extension of "Landscape of the Mind" for Liu Yiyuan, but also, in a sense, an extended Chinese local art criticism and theory ......