大运通州网记者：能否和我们讲一讲您的学画经历？还有，您是从什么时候开始正式成为职业画家的？

　　张刚老师：成为职业画家，对于很多到后来没有坚持下来的人来说，我属于那个幸运者。我学画的经历一直非常顺利，虽然家里没有人从事这方面的工作，可父母亲的认识和对我引导是很重要的。每个小孩子最初的记忆都是凭借图像来完成的，儿时期乱写乱画是需要得到正确的引导的，我也不例外。记得最清楚的＜葫芦娃＞和“小人书“喜欢看也喜欢画，开始是印着画，后来就照着画，也就是于是就是临摹，每画一张都得到其他人的认可，越画越有信心，慢慢的就越来越喜欢画画了。对于整个过程来说，是我的母亲给我的动力最大，因为是她发现我的爱好并且支持和鼓励我，同时也提供给我很多学习的机会，一直到现在都很顺利，我很感谢我的母亲。

　　大运通州网记者：让我们来欣赏您的一些作品，作为我们开始对您的更深一层认识，在您的作品中，您的作品基本上都是以红，黄作为主色调，这是为什么呢？

　　张刚老师：第一，我特别喜欢红色。第二，红色特别符合我的性格。第三，红色更是我的画面需要。红色代表吉祥、热烈、激情、活力、革命等，色彩心理学中，表示危险、自信、警告等。而我将其更多为表达浮躁的意向，表现人们对物质追求的盲目性和“现代化文明城市”。其实我也有很多其他颜色为主色的作品，只不过没有红色调的作品这么多。

　　大运通州网记者：不难看出，您的作品中多以表现人物为主，而且他们都是在工作，或是在路上，将要去什么地方，能给我们讲一下您的创作灵感是出于哪里呢？为什么又以当代人为主呢？

　　张刚老师：这个题材一直是我观注的，以当代人为主，我是想用我的作品来记录每种人的生活状态，以至社会状态。在画这批作品之前，06、07年吧，是以写实的手法，真实的颜色刻画的这个题材，画了不少，一直不满意。灵感这方面吗，我一般有这样一个习惯，这个习惯就是把经常做的一些很怪的梦，记录下来，要么以文字形式，要么以简单的线条勾勒的形式。对于创作的灵感，我多是从梦里找出来的。虽说是梦境，但是有一句话说：“日有所思，夜有所梦”反过来可以说成是“夜有所梦，日有所思”我想就是这个道理。

　　大运通州网记者：从整体的角度看，通过作品，您想表达的是什么呢？或者说，您想通过您的作品传递给观众一种怎样的信息呢？

　　张刚老师：这个是最初也考虑过，画的这些画不是一幅就能代表着某种寓意，是需要很多幅作品组合在一起，才可以。我表现的是现代社会和现代中的人以及我自己，对生活的盲目、浮躁、质疑和空虚，无止境和不择手段的追求物质生活，推动了社会的“发展”；提高了人类的“文明”；改善了人们的“生活”。但是人们的压力越来越大、社会的压力也越来越大、连我们居住的地球压力都很大了。所以想告诫人们一切要尊求自然，尊求规律。

　　大运通州网记者：在您的作品中，我们看到很多您所描绘的人物，好像生活条件并不是很好，提着很多行李在奔走，或是在车站等候，他们的形态更好像是农民工？我不知道我说的对不对；就像这幅您的虹之蜕变计划系列中的作品还有这几幅，为什么以他们为主角，寓意又是什么呢？

　　张刚老师：可以这么说，画面里主角就是农民工，我个人认为农民工是这个社会上最有创造力的艺术家，城市中的诸多建筑都是他们靠双手建造出来的，他们在一直默默无闻的奋斗，但是生活上吃的，用的，都是很低档的，不论是多么严峻的环境下，他们仍然一直在坚持。对于我来说，我首先要观注他们，应为我要把各各阶层的人都画下来，描绘这些人在社会发展中所办演的角色。

　　大运通州网记者：说到这里，就不得不让您再为我们介绍您的这一系列的作品了，2011年创作的“虹之蜕变计划”作品系列，这一系列的作品参加了很多的画展，也获得了很多奖项，那么从作品本身，和作品系列的名字，能否为我们介绍一下，为什么叫这个名字，还有作品所表达的是什么呢？

　　张刚老师：“虹之蜕变计划”系列作品是“虹”系列之后的一个系列了。虹，取于红色谐音。也寓意着城市里的到处可见的霓虹灯，代表的是城市和城市的喧闹，也代表浮躁、空虚的人们对灯火酒绿的追求。蜕变，是指质变，有褒贬两成含义，具体怎么理解就是仁者见仁，智者见智了。蜕变所代表的是整个社会的变化，包括城市和人。计划，就是规律和反规律，更多指人为或人认为。

　　大运通州网记者：接下来，让我们来欣赏下，您2012年的系列作品《盲●》，之旅途碎片，之蜕变计划，之幸福在何方，之寻，之在路上；从作品的名字上理解，我们看到的是迷茫，不知，为什么会选用这样的题目呢？

　　张刚老师：盲●（点），也是我创作的一个点，对于这个“点”是有轨迹的，不难理解，我慢慢解释。“盲●”的前身是“迷与盲”，迷，代表我所感受到的社会，也是我的一个状态。盲，代表我感受到的社会中的“我”，也是我的追求与突破。后来的●，是我的思考过程中的地方，也就是我的每一个系列的作品。作品题目《盲●之……》之后的后缀词就是在寻找的东西。现在我所用的题目可以说成是，我生命中所感受到的社会和我自己还有我的作品三个关系的一种诠释。

　　大运通州网记者：在您的诸多作品中，是否有您自己的影子呢？因为很多画家在创作的时候也都画出了自己的内心……

　　张刚老师：这些画有好多我自己的身影在里面。我也竭力去表达了我自己的内心。

　　大运通州网记者：您的作品《梦》系列，让我看到了与其他作品不同的基调，变成了，蓝，绿的冷色调，这是为什么呢，能为我们简单的介绍一下这两幅作品吗？

　　张刚老师：其实我现在有许多颜色系列的画，我也一直在找一些新的颜色去表达我的创作理念。为什么这个系列叫《梦》呢，其实这只是一些我当初一些梦的小稿。

　　大运通州网记者：您是生路画派员，请跟我们讲讲什么是“生路画派”，还有，成为生路画派员以后，对您的影响又是怎样的？

　　张刚老师：所谓生路画派，其实是生路团队，是我的几位老师自发组织的一个团队，我们在一起创作，一起做一些活动等等。成为生路团队成员以后，我感受到了很大的压力，因为团队里的成员的创作水平都很高，我只有不断的提升自己才可以，但是另一方面，我也得到了很多帮助，大家可以一起互相切磋，对我们每个人的创作都有不同程度的帮助。

　　大运通州网记者：您是否想过尝试创作关于其他题材的作品呢？

　　张刚老师：有雕塑，装置，影像，也有别的系列的绘画作品，比如风景，还有抽象的东西，只是现在画的少些。总是觉得时间紧张，很多想法没有经历去做。我会考虑将这一题材告一段落后，可能会在两年后吧，抽出时间多做些别的作品到一定量时，我再拿出来与大家分享。

　　大运通州网记者：您平时的生活是怎样的呢？会在什么时候进行创作？

　　张刚老师：生活就是画画，其他爱好几乎没有，喜欢看电影、看书。创作时间，几乎都是比较安静的时候，才能去创作，几乎都在晚上，会工作到天亮，然后睡到第二天中午，下午有时也能画会儿。因为晚上的时候没有电话，没有人来，不会有太多的打扰，自己听着音乐、画着画，享受！

　　大运通州网记者：请谈谈您对现在艺术市场的看法？

　　张刚老师：对于这个艺术市场 ，我认为在国内不具备艺术市场，只能说是礼品市场，还有部分是投资盈利的途径。正儿八经的艺术市场应该是要有庞大的资金和开明的政策做后盾，才会有高品质的收藏者和高品质的收藏品，艺术市场才会真正的形成。艺术和文化是不可分的，要想在国内形成艺术市场，那必须是政府行为。

　　大运通州网记者：您是什么时候，来到宋庄的，觉得这个地方怎么样？

　　张刚老师：以前经常来这里找朋友小聚，真正算起来的话，去年才住到这里的，有一年多时间。感觉环境还行，可能是因为我住的地方比较安静吧，平时没有太多的闲人去，我可以专心的创作。可是基础设施太差，房子四处进风，暖气至今是凉的。并且整体费用还不低。

　　大运通州网记者：我的问题就到这里了，下面是我们几位网友的提问，时间关系，我们只能挑选几个：

　　机器人1号：如果没有灵感了，您会怎么办呢？

　　张刚老师：首先你要了解你所需要设计或是创作的东西，更要不断的积累自己才可以，这跟你前期所积累的知识是有很大关系，所以当没有灵感的时候，就要思考自己在哪方面的知识储备不足，当你储备的差不多，你自己就会发现，自己会有很多想法，灵感。

　　大肥兔子：在您的这么多作品中，您最喜欢的是哪幅，为什么呢？

　　张刚老师：最喜欢自己的这幅作品，因为是自己的新作，而且还表达出了自己当时想要的东西。我并不是对所有事物都喜新厌旧，对作品是，对其他事就不是了，如果作品不能把寓意诠释的很全面，即便是新作也不会是最喜欢的。

　　机器人3号：我能问一下作者，画这样的一幅画一般需要多少时间啊，最长的是哪幅呢？

　　张刚老师：这幅画创作的时间最长，用了一两个月才画好，几乎每天都在画。如果是平时顺手的话，就很快了，1米到1.5米之内的，也就一周左右。

　　大运通州网记者：非常感谢您配合我们的采访，采访的相关新闻我们会发布到大运通州网的艺术宋庄版块，还希望您多多支持。

　　张刚老师：爱新辛苦了，感谢大运通州网！

　　Zhang Gang - Grand Canal in Tongzhou Network Interview

　　Reporter: Can we talk about your painting experience? And when did you became a professional painter?

　　Zhang Gang: To become a professional painter, and later for many people who do not stick with it, I belong to the lucky ones. My studied painting experience has been very successful, although no one at home working in this area, parents' understand and guide for me are very important. Childhood memories are done with the image, childhood doodle is needed to get the right guidance, I am no exception. What I remembered most clearly are /Hulu Wa/ and "picture books", and I liked to see also liked to draw. First I paint began with being printed, then did as painting, which is the copy. My paintings got other people's approval, then I painted more confidently. Slowly I liked painting more. For the whole process, my mother gave me the biggest motivation, because she found my hobby and gave me support and encouragement, while also provided the opportunity for me to learn. Until now it is very well, and I am very grateful to my mother.

　　Reporter: Let's enjoy some of your work, as we begin a deeper understanding of you. In your work, your work are basically red, yellow as the main colors, why?

　　Zhang Gang: First, I particularly like the red. Second, the Red Specially Represente my personality. Third,my painting needs red. Red represents luck, enthusiastic, passionate, energetic and revolution. In color psychology, red means danger, confident, warnings. And I am expressing more impetuous intention to pursue the people's material performance blindness by red and "modern civilized city." In fact, I also have many other colors in my works, but more red.

　　Reporter: Your works focused on, they are at work, or on the road, or will go somewhere, can you tell us what is your inspiration ? Why your painting are contemporary men more?

　　Zhang Gang:I have been concerned about this subject, mainly contemporary people, I want to use my work to record the status of each person's life, and even social status. Before painting these works, about in 2006 and 2007, based on a realistic approach, colors portray this theme, a lot of painting has been satisfied. About inspiration, I generally have such a habit.The habit is to always dream some kinds of weird things, then recorded, either in text or in the form of simple lines sketched. For inspiration, I'm mostly looking out from a dream. Although it is a dream, but one saying: day thinks, night dreams. In turn, it can be said that night dreams,day thinks, I think it is the truth.

　　Reporter: From the overall perspective, what do you want to express through the works? Or what kind of information do you want to pass to the audience?

　　Zhang Gang: This also initially considered, it requires a lot of paintings together to tell the certain meaning. I am trying to express modern society ,modern people include me , blind, impetuous, questioning and emptiness. Endless and unscrupulous it promote the social "development"; improve the human "civilization"; improve people's "Life." But people feel increasing pressure, social feel increasing pressure, the earth we live feel increasing pressure. So I want to warn all people to respect nature, respect the law.

　　Da Yun Tong Zhong  Network reporter: In you works, you depicted a lot of characters, they live in the lowest level, walking with luggage, or waiting at the station, are they migrant workers? Am I right? Like the series of the plan of Rainbow Transformation, why they are the protagonists and what's the meaning?

　　Teacher Zhang Gang：In fact, the protagonist of the picture are migrant workers, in my opinion, the migrant workers are the most creative artists, buildings in this city are constructed by their hands, they work hard, but live in the lowest level, no matter how tough the environment is, they still insisted on working. For me, the first thing is pay attention on them, because I want to draw down everyone who come from different class, depicting those people's role in the development society.

　　Da Yun Tong Zhong Network reporter: As we talk about this, please introduce these series work for us, the series of the plan of Rainbow Transformation in 2011, those works took part in many art exhibitions and won many awards, can you introduce why you use that name, what is the meaning of the works?

　　Teacher Zhang Gang：The plan of Rainbow Transformation is the next series of the Rainbow. Rainbow sounds like red. It is a symbol of the city's neon lights everywhere, representing of the noisy of city, it also means those people who are impetuous and emptiness pursued the impetuous life. Transformation means qualitative, both have good and bad meaning, everyone has their own point. Metamorphosis means the change of the society, including city and people. Plan means rule and anti-rule, means people's behavior and thinking.

　　Da Yun Tong Zhong Network reporter: Next, let's enjoy the works 《Blind o 》 in 2012 year, about the transformation plan, about the happiness, about searching, about on the way; From the works name , we can see confusion, unknowing, why did you choose those topic?

　　Teacher Zhang Gang：Blind o, is also a point I created, this point have a locus, it is easy to understand. The predecessor of the blind was bewilder and blind, bewilder represent my felling of the society and my status. Blind represent my feeling of myself in the society, it is also my pursuit and surmount. The later o is the place of my thought process, it is also each of my series of works. The topic 《blind o of …》 the final things is the one I am searching for. The topic I used means the relationship of the society, myself  and my works.

　　Da Yun Tong Zhong Network reporter: Among your works, is there you own shadow in it?  Because many painters put their own feelings in works.

　　Teacher Zhang Gang：These paintings have my own shadow. I also tried to express my own feeling.

　　Da Yun Tong Zhong Network reporter: In you work 《dream》, I find different tone from the other works, it become blue and green, why? Can you give us a brief interview of these two works?

　　Teacher Zhang Gang：In fact, I have many colors of painting, I am always looking for some new colors to express my creative ideas. Why I call this server painting 《dream》? Actually this is some drafts of my previous dream.

　　Da Yun Tong Zhong Network reporter: You are one of the Sheng Lu painters, please tell us what is the Sheng Lu painting? Is there some changes when you became one of them ?

　　Teacher Zhang Gang：When we talk about Sheng Lu painters, In fact, it is the team of Sheng Lu ,it is a team that my teachers organize it voluntarily, we work together and do some activities together, etc. As one of them, I felt a lot of pressure, because the levels of the creative team members is so high, I have to upgrade myself constantly, but on the other side, I also get some help, we can learn from each other, and that's good for our creation.

　　Da Yun Tong Zhong Network reporter: Have you ever thought about trying other subjects?

　　Teacher Zhang Gang：Yes, like sculpture, equipment, portrait, and some other series like  landscape and some abstract thing, but now I draw little of them. Time always lack, so some ideas can't implement when I create some others works.

　　Da Yun Tong Zhong Network reporter: Can you tell me something about your normal life? And when do you creat the work?

　　Teacher Zhang Gang：Most of the time is painting except watching movies and reading books. The creation time, you know , is relatively quiet, so most time is in night until morning then sleep until noon, sometimes at afternoon. Because in night there is no phone, no guys come, so I can focus on my work, listening the music and working , it's a amusing thing.

　　Da Yun Tong Zhong Network reporter: what do you think of the current art market?

　　Teacher Zhang Gang： I don't think our country have the art market, we just name it the gift market, and some are the profitable ways of invest. The real art market should have a huge amount of money and the backing of enlightened policy, then there will be a high-quality collector and high-quality collection. Art and culture are inseparable, the government must do something for the art market.

　　Da Yun Tong Zhong Network reporter: when did you came here Do you like here?

　　Teacher Zhang Gang：I often came here to meet friends, and last year I lived here . I think the environmental is OK, maybe because it is very quiet and have little idlers, so I can focus on my work. But the infrastructure was so bad, the house is full of wind without any warm air. The most important is the cost is not low.

　　Da Yun Tong Zhong Network reporter: My questions are done. The following questions are from some netizens , as we don't have much time, we just pick a few:

　　Robot 1:what would you do if you don't have any inspiration?

　　Teacher Zhang Gang：First, you have to understand the one which you design or create, then you need to accumulate yourself continually, it has a great relationship with the knowledge of early accumulated, so when you didn't have any inspiration, you need to think about which kind of knowledge you are lacking of. When you learned more and more knowledge you will find the inspiration.

　　Big fat rabbit: Among so many works, which is your favorite, why?

　　Teacher Zhang Gang：This one is my favorite , because it was the newest one and also expressed the things what I wanted. I'm not the guys who always like the new and hate the old, except my painting.  If it can't express the meaning comprehensively, it will not my favorite even it is the newest.

　　Robots 3rd: Can I ask the author, How long did you paint a picture like this ? which one is the longest?

　　Teacher Zhang Gang：This painting was created for the longest time, almost everyday in one or two months. If all goes well, time is saving, it only take a week for 1 to 1.5 meters.

　　Da Yun Tong Zhong Network reporter: Thank you very much for the interview, The news will be released on the Da Yun Tong Zhong Net SongZhuang Forum of Art , I hope you can support us.

　　Teacher Zhang Gang：Ai Xin work hard ,thank Da Yun Tong Zhong Net!