范曾《老子出关》
范曾（1938.7.5-），字十翼，别署抱冲斋主，中国当代大儒、思想家、国学大师、书画巨匠、文学家、政治和外交家、诗人。中国国画大师之一，是当代中国集诗书画、文史哲、儒释道于一身的文化大家。国画师从李苦禅、李可染，开创了中国画的“新古典主义”艺术的先河。
Fan Zeng (1938.7.5-), with the character of Shiyi, alias Master Hug Chong Zhai, is a contemporary Chinese Confucian scholar, thinker, master of Chinese nationalism, master of calligraphy and painting, literary scholar, political and diplomatic writer, and poet. He is one of the masters of Chinese painting and calligraphy, and is a contemporary Chinese cultural master who combines poetry, calligraphy and painting, literature, history and philosophy, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. He studied Chinese painting under Li Kuchan and Li Keran, and pioneered the "neo-classical" art of Chinese painting.
作品赏析：《老子出关》
Artwork Appreciation: "Lao Tzu's Exit from the Pass
老子是中国古代哲学家、思想家和道家学派的创始人，一生最大成就是开创了道家学派，并为后人留下了一部五千余言的《道德经》。司马迁《史记》记载，老子姓李，名耳，字聃，因而人称老聃，曾做过周王室管理藏书的史官，后来隐居不仕，骑青牛西出函谷关后“莫知其所终”。
Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher, thinker and founder of the Taoist school. His greatest achievement in life was the creation of the Taoist school, and he left behind a book of more than 5,000 words, the Tao Te Ching, for posterity. According to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, Laozi, whose surname was Li, his name was Ear, and his character was Dan, and thus he was known as Laozi, was a historian who managed the collection of books for the Zhou royal family, and then he lived in seclusion and rode a green ox westward out of the Hangu Pass and "did not know where he had ended up".
《老子出关图》是范曾最擅长的绘画题材，画中的老子，白发飘然，襟带倏然，稳如山岳，又似乎全无重量，身形飘渺，又宛若就在眼前。此般风骨，何等清新宕逸、遒举俊发；范曾笔下的老子，形象透着一股仙风道骨之气，老子衣纹以有力的线条勾勒而成，洒脱的大气。带路的小童脸上洋溢着笑容，衣纹的处理颇具动感。
Laozi out of the customs is Fan Zeng's most skillful painting subject, the painting of Laozi, white hair floating, sash swiftly, steady as a mountain, but also seems to be weightless, the body shape is ethereal, but also as if in front of you. This kind of bone, how fresh and dangy, Thu lifted handsome hair; Fan Zeng pen Laozi, the image of a fairy style through the air of the Taoist bones, the Laozi clothes line with a strong line outlined by the atmosphere of the sprightly. The boy leading the way has a smile on his face, and his clothes are handled with a sense of movement.
范曾自作篆书题字，结字严谨宽博，用笔苍劲有力，为此幅作品平添了古朴气息。
Fan Zeng's own inscription in seal script is rigorous and broad, and the brushwork is strong and powerful, adding to the simple and ancient flavor of this work.
范曾评说自己笔下的老子：“我喜欢画老子，画他的说法演教，画他的闭目神思，画他的骑牛出关，而旁边总有一个稚拙无邪的村童做他的书仆，背着他的几卷《道德经》和饮水的葫芦。老子则素衣布鞋，须眉皓如积雪，而头发披散，不着巾帻，有飘飘欲仙，不与世争的风神。他微微地欠着腰，半睁半闭着那双洞察天地古今的慧目，寂然凝虑、悄焉动容。那童子不正是对老子永怀敬意的范曾我吗？在老子面前，我心灵上有一种无法言状的感动。我笔下那霜雪似的皓髯，正昭示着皑皑千山般明净高远的学识；那止水般的宁静，也象征着老子澄潭千尺、清澈幽深的思维。”
Fan Zeng commented on his own Laozi: "I like to paint Laozi, I like to paint his speech and teachings, I like to paint his closed-eye contemplation, and I like to paint him riding a bull out of the gate, and beside him there is always a childish and innocent village boy to be his servant, carrying several volumes of Tao Te Ching and a gourd for drinking water. Laozi, on the other hand, is dressed in plain clothes and shoes, with his eyebrows as white as snow, and his hair spread out without a conical cap, with an ethereal, uncontested demeanor. He slightly yawning waist, half-open and half-closed the pair of insight into the world and the ancient and modern eyes, silent meditation, quietly moving. Wasn't that boy Fan Zeng, who had eternal respect for Laozi, me? In the presence of Laozi, my mind was touched by an unspeakable emotion. The frosty and snowy beard under my brush is indicative of the clear and far-reaching knowledge of the thousands of mountains; and the tranquility of the stopping water is also symbolic of Laozi's thinking of a thousand feet of clear pool and deep clarity." The old man, on the other hand, was dressed in plain clothes and shoes, with his eyebrows as white as snow and his hair spread out without a conical cap.
范曾已逾古稀之年，经过几十年的磨砺，技法上达到一个画家绘画的时期。从某种程度上来说，范曾的作品因其特的艺术风格深受收藏者的欢迎，更是增加了其作品的价值及升值空间。
Fan Zeng has been over the age of old, after decades of sharpening, techniques to reach a painter painting period. In a way, Fan Zeng's works are very popular among collectors because of his special artistic style, which increases the value and appreciation of his works.
