欧洲有一位哲学家说过：“天才人物善于思考，且头脑中不停地思考问题。”张桂铭善于思考，他的思考导致他的绘画之变革和成功。我希望他继续思考下去，实际上，他的花鸟画变革成功后，他又尝试创作山水画和人物画，山水画和人物画的创作手法和花鸟画不同，他自然又有新的手法。有人说张桂铭的画己到了尽头，以后不会有再大的变化，这话不一定会成为事实，只要张桂铭继续思考，不停止他手中的画笔，肯定会有更大的成就。

　　据我所知，在传统基础上加深的画家，可以不停地加深，如黄宾虹、齐白石，愈老画愈佳，功力愈深，画亦愈有新意。而善于变化的人，也要不停地变化，停止了变化，艺术的生命便会枯竭。下一步如何变化，是否要回复一点传统呢?或者向更抽象方向前进呢?张桂铭是善于思考的人，也许有更好的办法。仅就他目前绘画的成就，他己经是海派中的最耀眼的新星，他在中国美术史上己有不可磨灭的地位，这是无疑的。

　　A European philosopher once said: “Genius is good at thinking, and he keeps thinking non-stop”. Zhang Guiming is good at thinking, and his thinking in turn leads to his renovation of painting and his success of painting. I hope he continues to think, in fact, after the success of his flower-bird paintings, he starts to create landscape painting and figure paintings. The creative skills of the landscape painting and figure painting require are different from that of flower-bird painting, so he adopts new skills. Some people say that the paintings of Zhang Guiming would come to an end, since there will be no further major changes, This is not necessarily true, as long as Zhang Guiming continues to think and do not drop the brush in his hand, he will certainly achieve greater accomplishment.

　　As far as I know, painters go deeper basing on the tradition could go deeper ceaselessly, such as Huang Binhong, Qi Baishi, the older they get the better their painting become., The more profound the skill is, the more innovative the painting is. The people who are good at change must constantly change, if they stop changing, the life of art will dry up. How to change next, need to restore the traditional point? Or even move further towards the abstract path? Zhang Guiming is a man good at thinking, and he may have better solutions. According to the accomplishment he has achieved, he has already been the brightest new star of the Shanghai style. Undoubtedly he has occupied an indelible position in the history of Chinese painting art.

作者：陈传席