龚之允博士（英国）
《荒原•百花盛开》是艺术家张隆最重要的代表作品，是张隆旅美多年归来中国所创作的第一个系列。艺术家在香格里拉的花海感悟到了生命的真谛：隽永与骤逝之美。这与张隆所喜欢的艾略特的诗歌形成照应。他说：“这个世界是受过伤，我们的灵魂是受过伤的，我们需要治愈，需要美好，需要温情，需要天使的翅膀托着我们度过苦难、孤独、无助和绝望。”

作品脱胎于唯美主义和抽象表现，但却没有落于完全抽象和西方表现主义的流俗，是中国传统意象审美的革新。花这一主题有着强烈的民族象征性，但又可以被看成是剥离社会元素的个体性思想的表达。总得来说，张隆德意象作品是开放式的，绘画的阐释是多元和去中心化的。

《荒原•百花盛开》混合材料 亚麻布 208X128cm

The Wasteland – Hundred Flowers Blooming is one of the most important artworks by John Zhang Long. The Wasteland series is the first series created by the artist since he re-opened his studio in China. The artist was inspired by the Sea of Flower in Shangri-La, where he realised the essence of life: the beauty of the ephemeral and the eternal. It resonates the poems by T.S. Elliot, the artist’s favourite poet. It symbolises the everlasting and the resurrection of life. John Zhang Long said: this world has suffered, so as our souls, and we need to be cured, which requires the angelic tenderness and compassion for helping us undergo hardship, solitude and desperation.      

The painting stems from aestheticism and abstract expressionism; meanwhile it does not limit itself in the realm of the Abstract Art and Western Expressionism. Instead, it renews the traditional Chinese Yi Xiang (意象Topos; Imagism). Flowers as a theme contains both Chinese national and individual symbolic power. It can be said, John Zhanglong’s imagist painting is de-constructive, as the interpretation of the art is manifold and de-central.