人类的脸各式各样，最富於变化。虽然每个人的脸基本相似，然而其大小、形状、肤色以及肌理的差异让人的相貌千差万别，各不相同。每张脸主要是由其面貌的特徵所决定。其实最重要的并非眼睛和皮肤的颜色或者某个部位的独特形状等细节，’五官整体的组合才是最重要根本的，它让我们可以认出每个人的差异以及他们独特的身份。模样的重要性早在童年时就开始了。婴儿生来就没有任何视觉体验并且容易受到视觉刺激的影响。出生的时候，婴儿的视觉是所有的感官中最不发达的。婴儿的能够辨认(而不是看清)光、移动、棱角和高对比度的形状。对於他们而言，每样东西都是模模糊糊的。到了年老的时候，我们对於别人的判断，是基於我们对脸部的总体轮廓和五官的敏感判断。然而，当然不仅仅脸部五官的轮廓是重要。很大程度上，我们对脸部很感兴趣还在於它们能够灵活的表达情绪、自然的流露情感。所有这些问题在童雁汝南的作晶中都能够得以体现。在他名为《满觉陇的同志们》系列作品中，他就用许多小幅油画记录了杭州附近一个小农村“满觉陇’’大多数村民的脸。他的这些作品都没有用精确而刻板的绘画手法，然而却让人感觉画中人栩栩如生。域家童雁汝南对“象"的解释是“忠实于自然’’，而不是肤浅而表面的“象"，童雁汝南赋予其每幅作品独特的感觉、品质、面貌。他的作品缺乏对细节部份的表现和刻画，特别在对眼睛的处理方面更是如此，然而却让我们能够一眼就辨认出画中人是谁。从欣赏他的作品中，我们亦能够对於自身有新的体悟。在这一重要的系列作品中，童雁汝南检验了我们对人的判断能力以及与他们之间关系性质的判断。

　　Tong Yanrunan: the Narration of Human Face

　　People’s faces vary in diversity ways, full of changes. Although everybody's face basically looks similar, the difference of the size, shape, color and texture make people’s looking quite different. Every face is up to man’s facial features. However, not the details of the color of eyes and skin or centain part’s unique shape, but the whole bombination of the facial features, are the most important and essential complication, it is this makes us recognize every person’s difference and their unique identity. The importance of appearance begins from childhood. Baby is born without any vision experience and very easy to be influenced by the vision stimulation. Baby’s vision ability is most undeveloped sense organ compared with others among when it is born. Baby’s can recognize (but can’t see clearly) lights, movements ,edges and corners, shapes with a highly contrast. Everything is vague to them. When getting old, we judge others by the senstive judgements of the whole facial silhouette and the five seneses organs. However, it is not only the outline of the facial features is important. To a large extent, we are interested in face because faces can express emotions flexibly and show feelings naturally. You can find all of these questions in Tong Yanrunan’s works. In his series works called “ Man Juelong’s Comrades”, he uses a lot of small oil paintings to record most of the villagers’ face from a small rural country called "Man Juelong”. He doesn’t use accurate and austerity painting technique in these works, but make people feel the person in picture quite vivid. Tong Yanrunan’s explaination to “image” is “true to nature” insteads of a shallow superfical "image", Tong Yanrunan provides every painting a unique feeling, quality and outlook. His works are short of performancing and portraying the detail parts, especially the dealing with the eyes part, but we can just make out who is in the picture at the first sight of seeing the picture. We are also able to own with a new mind of ourselves from appreciating his work. In this important series of works, Tong Yanrunan checkes out our judgment ability on human being and judgement on their relationship’s character.

　　——Tang zhongxin and Jonathan Thomson

作者：唐忠信（美术史论家）