Gulistan Art 古丽·斯坦

Zhu Hongtao

Cultural Ambassador of the University of Tehran

The Oriental Wandering-Words of the Flower

The first time met Gulistan, she is surprisingly elegant and doesn’t match today’s noisy era. She may time-travel from old times, like Sissi in the 1950s, Audrey Hepburn in the 1960s, or Zhong Chuhong in the 1990s. Elegancy is her innate temperament and the essence of her artistic creation.

Standing in front of Gulistan’s painting, the visual impact comes to you first. The bold and dreamy colors, whether it is bright like shinning yellow, emerald green, azure blue, Or somber like sandalwood yellow, mulberry, dark green, bright but not vulgar, dark but not obscure.

Instantly, you want to use rational thinking to figure out what Gulistan exactly painted, what she wants to express, but perceptual thinking stops you, “don’t think about it, just stand still, just watch”. Standing in front of the painting, gazing at the painting, looking at the classic technique, the table fusing with East and West taste, faces from different nations, the flowers growing savagely, space and time staggered fluctuating, you think a lot and forget some.

As the pupil dilates further, an emotion, a feeling begins to surging in the mind which makes people instantly entering the artistic conception of Gulistan, and starting to resonate with the author in the same frequency in the soul. And this kind of resonance varies from persons, time and places. Different people seeing it, at different times, at different places, feels differently and develops different emotions. It may be love, sincerity, beauty, purity, innocence, peace, conflict, memory, forgetting, sadness, or silence. The emotions spread widely and make you forgetting time, at mean time, you can feel the temperature and color of time. It seems entering a parallel universe, feeling an original self in the universe which Freud called this a “dream”.

Gulistan’s painting with offering up the sacrifices of her sincerity and memories, with the impression of Western classical aesthetics which learned in Italy, with the aesthetic concept of ancient Chinese painting. She uses impression rather than details stimulating the viewer’s senses, and injects the warmth of women into every brushstroke, reminds people of the compatibility and infinity of Silk Road artworks. Through her paintings, Gulistan makes an elegant dream for the audience. When you wake up, you will take a deep breathe and say from the bottom of your heart – “wow, It’s so beautiful!”

朱弘焘

德黑兰大学文化大使

记忆中的肖像IV

初识古丽，甚是惊艳，似乎优雅得与这个喧嚣的时代显为不符，甚至有种穿越感，像是五十年代的茜茜公主，六十年代的奥黛丽赫本，亦或是九十年代的红豆妹妹。优雅，是她与生俱来的气质，也是她艺术创作的真谛。

站在古丽的画前，首先是视觉上的冲击，那大胆如梦幻般的用色，无论是鲜艳明 快的明黄、翠绿、湛蓝，还是阴郁低沉的檀褐、皦玉、青鸾，艳而不俗，暗而不晦。

此时，你想调动理性，思考一下古丽画了什么，想表达什么，可是感性告诉你，别想，站着别动，看着就行。驻足画前，凝视画作，看着古典主义的勾勒，东西交融的桌子，民族融合的脸庞，野蛮生长的繁花，古今交替的时空，你会想到很多，但似乎又忘记了什么。

随着瞳孔进一步放大，一种情绪，一种感觉开始在心中渲染开来，让人瞬间进入画的意境之中，与作者在心灵上开始同频共振，而这种共振会因人而异，因时、因地制宜，不同人看，不同时间，不同地点，感觉不同，生长出来的情绪不同。 有爱，有真诚，有漂亮，有纯洁，有童真，有和平，有冲突，有记忆，有遗忘， 有哀伤，有静谧……情绪的肆意生长会让你忘记时间，但又能感受到时间的温度、 颜色，似乎进入了平行宇宙，感受着宇宙中一个最初的自己，而佛洛依德管这个 叫“梦”。

Gulistan古丽斯坦在她的画作中祭献了自己的挚诚和回忆，带着意大利求学时西方古典美学的印记，又糅合了同时期中国画的苍凉、古朴和文人画审美理念，让画作的印象而非细节去叩开欣赏者的感官，用女性的极度温润流淌在了每一个细 腻的笔触中，让人回想起丝路艺术作品的兼容性和无限性。Gulistan 古丽斯坦通过她的画，让观众做了一场优雅的梦，而梦醒之后你会长舒一口气，心中赞叹“真 美呀！”