With the years Chang Shijiang's work has improved. His original works bore in the past already the characteristics of a very strong personality. Today he get unmistakably an affirmation with his own and unique style.

　　通过这些年与常世江先生的交往，他的绘画造诣又有显著的提升。过去他的作品有着很强的个性特征，现如今他的作品则是彰显着他自己明确的独特风格。

　　Especially notable is his particularly use of the colors. This is most important for an art painter. The color choices of Chang Shijiang are unique and so his own only. This make him an unequaled colorist. His colors strokes amplify each other in an incomparable way and it gives the surrounding color strokes more aesthetic value.

　　对于一名画家来说颜色的选择是最为重要的一种特质，而这恰恰是常先生最令人印象深刻的部分。他对颜色的选择有独到的见解这使他成为了一名造诣很深的油画家。不同描画颜色的使用以一种独特的方式扩充了彼此也给周围的描绘色赋予了审美价值。

　　His color palette, reflect his mood perfectly, bringing always daring novelties with each of his paintings.

　　他所使用的调色板能够完美地反映他当时的心境，因此这也赋予他的每一份画作大胆新奇的创新精神。

　　Chang Shijiang's rely also on an important factor in Chinese art: spontaneity. It is very present in his work, unlike that of most of the western painters. It brings a very unusual look to it. He will not hesitate to revisit the strokes. He won't loose the grip on their endless variants of color until he gets the desire result.

　　常世江先生在作画时也会考虑中国艺术创作中的一个重要因素：即兴创作。他的绘画作品中的这一点特质与西方绝大多数的画家有所不同，令人印象深刻。这样的创作方式使得作品看起来不同以往。他也会毫不犹豫地对描绘的颜色做出修改，它会不断的对绘画的赋色做出调整直到得到满意的作品。

　　In Shijiang's work you will find reminiscences of the important impressionist and expressionist period in Europe, but always with a Chinese style. This is  characterized with his respect for the Chinese culture and masters, but nevertheless he follows also the actual tendencies of our time with an explosion of creativity.

　　在常先生的作品中你能够看到欧洲历史上重要的纳比派和表现主义时期的绘画风格，当然这一切都是与中国绘画特色相融合的。他的绘画特色源于他对中国文化以及各绘画大师的研析。而且他对时代感有准确的把握并展现出了蓬勃的创造力。

　　The appraisal of Chang Shijiang"s work and the maturation of his work in our mind brings a continual discovery of new esthetic elements. Only through it can we fully appreciate his talent with our never ending wandering through his creations.

　　观众对常先生作品以及其作品成熟度的评价引导着我们不断探索其作品中新的审美元素。也唯有如此，我们才能领略他超群的才华并徜徉在他所创造的绘画世界中。

　　Mr Shijiang's work

　　Mr. Chang Shijiang is an authentic, important and great artist. He has his own style to express his creations in a peculiar way. He reflects well one of the art tendencies of our time.

　　常世江先生是一个真实的，重要和了不起的艺术家。他的作品有他自己的风格，表达一种特殊方式的创作。完美地反映了我们时代的一种艺术趋势。

Professor Emile Maeyens

Emile Maeyens，比利时皇家美术学院终身荣誉教授  埃米尔·曼埃耶斯

March 2016

2016年3月