New York Times
November, 2001
《紐約時報》週末藝術評論專欄：
懷古堂十人聯展
— Holland Cotter 2001. 11. 30
這場引人入勝的展覽由畫家 Arnold Chang 策劃，呈現了當代中國藝術中偏向傳統主義的一支脈絡。參展的十位藝術家，年齡介於46歲至94歲之間，皆從事筆墨山水創作。他們展現出這一藝術類型一如既往地在風格上豐富多樣，並且以其含蓄而深刻的方式，持續保有概念上的大膽探索精神。……
參展藝術家之中，唯有才華卓然出眾的于彭將人物與敘事性帶入筆墨山水之中；他兩件長卷作品——一幅立軸、一幅橫卷——格外令人驚嘆，堪稱非凡之作。……
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這些畫家當中，有許多人取法特定的歷史典範，並加以個人化的調整與延展。在這個過程中，他們重新彰顯了中國筆墨山水的雙重本質——既是理想性的，也是個人性的。無論這一藝術類型蘊含多少懷舊成分——而這一點，恰恰也是他們與當今中國許多具有新國際風格藝術創作的重要區別之一——它仍然顯示出，在真正富有想像力的藝術家手中，對傳統的追求可以是何等充滿冒險精神與創造可能。
New York Times
November 30, 2001, Friday
LEISURE/WEEKEND DESK
ART IN REVIEW; ‘Ten’
By HOLLAND COTTER
Kaikodo
164 East 64th Street
Manhattan
Through Dec. 10
This attractive show, organized by the painter Arnold Chang, represents a traditionalist flank of contemporary Chinese art. The 10 artists, age 46 to 94, work in the brush-and-ink landscape genre. They reveal it to be as stylistically varied and, in its subtle way, as conceptually audacious as it has aways been.
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Of all the artists, only one, the prodigious Yu Peng, introduces figures and narrative; his two long scrolls, one vertical, the other horizontal, are extraordinary.
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Many of these painters draw on specific historical models, customizing and stretching them. In the process they reassert the dual nature of the Chinese brush-and-ink landscape as both ideal and personal. Whatever the nostalgia quotient of the genre — and this as much as anything separates them from a lot of new, international-looking art coming out of China these days — it demonstrates, in the right, imaginative hands, how adventurous the pursuit of tradition can be.
HOLLAND COTTER