劉丹

款識
金陵劉丹北京寫

鈐印
藝術家鈐印一方

中國私人收藏

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「天籟石」，原為水松石山房主人莫士撝先生（Hugh Moss）舊藏。一九九一年夏，劉丹在英國南部的一個避暑莊園，與莫氏暢聚十數日。臨別時，莫氏忽出天籟石見示。

上世紀八〇年代，劉丹已是一位「欲尚則淩於雲氣，欲下則入於深泉」的應物以形的翹楚。移居紐約之後，專注于現代主義藝術創作與研究，然仍不變一派林泉人物的風度，遙羨古人，好藏成習。是次遊歷英倫，恰適欲覓佳石，以為傳模之本，苦不可得之時，驟見奇物，竟呆了。劉丹事後回憶：「如墮夢中，惟以相見恨晚為憾」。

莫氏見畫家一副悵惘不知所措的樣子，問道：「先生欲得一石，用以師之造化？若如此，我欣然割愛。」

劉丹慨然道：「世之幸遇，乃有如此，所謂前緣。」

區區一石，名曰「天籟」，似失原旨。石之竅穴孔洞，無風寂默，「泠風則小和，飄風則大和，厲風濟則眾竅為虛」，此「地籟」也。然萬吹不同，生髮與息止，齊物於自生，生滅之真宰並不糾纏於「或使他生」與「莫為自生」。石雖無命，有生也，凡合乎大道，玲瓏拳石亦可塊然自生，生髮出「天籟」的「萬竅怒呺」。

劉丹得藏天籟石，臥起與俱，遐觀手摹，其繪法一變，盡搜天下奇石，將之流思、悠憩、寄傲、倦塵、望引，甚至懼隔，筆墨于孤石長題之中。

難以想像，天籟石既是劉丹繪事逆溯傳統的變法開端，也是這位現代藝術大師漸行漸修地走向「天道合一」的始點。