尊敬的宋惠民教授，

　　非常感谢您不久前寄往德国慕尼黑的信。

　　2001年l0月，在中国·北京成功地召开了世界全景画会议。随后，在我的提议下，我的同事们与我一起参观了武汉的全景画——“赤壁之战”，那是一次令人终身难忘的旅行。当时，我是世界全景画协会主席，同时担任中国?北京世界全景画会议的执行主席。在武汉时我曾经答应“赤壁之战”全景画馆的负责人，从艺术角度评价这一幅惊世之作。他请我来做这件事情，是因为他感受到我们在欣赏这幅全景画之后而产生的由衷地赞美之情。他希望我的这一艺术评论能在即将出版的全景画丛书中发表。但遗憾的是，至今我却未能兑现自己的诺言。敬请原谅。

　　正是由于您的这封来信，因此我将借此机会，谈谈我对于这幅“赤壁之战”全景画的个人看法。

　　首先，祝贺龟山上巨幅全景画作品“赤壁之战”荣获2004年第十届全国美术作品展览金奖。

　　全世界有40多幅圆型全景画作品，但从艺术角度，我们认为“赤壁之战”却是现存仅有的几幅伟大的艺术作品之一。现在此谈谈我对于这幅全景画的四点看法：

　　1．这幅长135米，高18米的全景画，从视觉构造角度看，整幅油画成功地描绘出巨大的场景，完美无缺；另外还运用精湛的艺术手法表现了当时的战争场面和周围环境。这种创作手法极像荷兰传统山水画的绘画技巧，也就是说，用写实主义和浪漫主义的技法表现出周围的自然环境和当时的天气状况。这是一种神圣的艺术感觉。

　　2．因为这是一幅以反映历史事件为题材的大型全景画作品，所以包括水上火烧的船只，岸上拼杀的士兵，月光下帐篷里的军队总指挥部等等构成的整个战争场面与其他描绘的景色完美地结合在一起。激动人心的战争，指挥部的智囊团以及寂静的夜晚形成了鲜明的对比，在艺术表现手法上突显不同之处。

　　3．这是我们所见过的唯一一幅将自由的艺术想像力与历史事件巧妙地结合在一起的力作。我们一致认为，这幅“赤壁之战”全景画作品达到当时表现历史事件的现代绘画作品的最高境界。

　　4．从历史教学角度，武汉的这幅作品被认为有着极高的教育意义。
宋教授，这就是我对于这幅全景画巨作的艺术评价，希望在有关“赤壁之战”全景画的刊物上发表，或者作为教科书，以及文化团体、政府机关的读物的内容。

　　我的妻子和我共同祝愿您的家庭，全体“赤壁之战”全景画的创作人员，以及鲁迅美术学院的教授们新年快乐，身体健康。

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　Gebhard·Streicher博士
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 世界全景画协会执行董事会成员
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 德国奥特汀耶路撒冷全量画馆馆长
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 2005年1月9日

Prof. Song Huimin
Luxun Academy of Fine Arts
via e-mail address
jennycxd@yeah.net

January 9,?2005

Re. ?/span>Your E-mail of January 4, 2005: Panorama in Wuhan

Dear Prof. Song,

I thank you very much for your e-mail which arrived in Munich some days ago.

It was indeed an important trip to Wuhan that on my initiative some colleagues and I privately did on October 2001 following the really well organized and highly interesting International Panorama Conference in Beijing.At that time I was the leader of the International Panorama Council and the Conference in China. In Wuhan I promised the director of the Chibi Campaign Panorama to give him an artistic jugdement on that marvellous work. He asked me to do it as he had felt our admiration for it after having seen that great work of art. He said he need it for a forthcoming publication on the Panorama. Unfortunately up to now I have not yet kept my promise. I beg his and your pardon.

Well your letter causes me to make it up.

First of all: congratulations on the high award 2004 for that enormously scaled panoramic painting in its building on the top of Tortoise Mountain.

This great circular picture is among the about 40 worldwide panoramic paintings that we have seen and jugded artisticly one of the few most remarkable. There are mainly four reasons for it.

First of all: The visual composition around the canvas of 135 meters in the length and 18 meters in the height not only fullfills this enormous area really completely without any hole in the angle of Fine Arts but enlarges in addition also the outlook over sceneries and environments with outstanding artistic techniques. It seems to be a landscape painting similar to the old Dutch manner of depiction. This means that the atmosphere of nature surroundings and weather moods are painted in a sensitive kind both of realistic and romantic, that is spiritual kind of artistic perception.

Second: Just as the sceneries themselves the historical events in their parts as the burning ships on the river, the fighting soldiers on the shore, the military headquarters in a tent under the moonligt are compositionally very well situated with regard to the perspective within the depicted space and battle ground as well as from the angle of the public. The differences between the dramatic fight, the thinktank of headquarters and the calm evening hour are excellently worked out.

Third: Nowhere we saw a similar well done connection between free artistic imagination and historic tradition. The Chibi Battle panoramic painting is the a summit of modern historical painting we jugded at that time.

Forth: With regard to historical education the Wuhan painting seems to be higlv valuable.

Dear Prof. Song, this is what I shortly can say. It would be very helpful to produce a publication on the item of Chibi painting for schools as well as for cultural and governmental institutions.

My wife and I wish, your family, all the Chibi artists, all professors of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts a happy and wealthy new year.

Yours sincerely
Dr. phil. Gebhard Streicher
Member of the Board of International Panorama Councel
Curator of the Jerusalem Panorama in Altoetting, Germany, Upper Bavaria