近一、二年来,可能与书画拍卖活动的频繁有关,书画鉴定成为人们热衷讨论的话题。这个事业,几乎成了显学。在这个显学之中,最时髦的是敢于向古人、向权威挑战,发前人所末发之覆,宣判某件真迹的死刑,得之舆论之晔然。平心而论,海内鉴定诸家虽不能尽识,但亦略知其名;但近年来撰写书画鉴定、考证文章者,多数则是未闻其大名,也就是说非专业者研究所取得的成果远远超过了专业人士研究的成果。这是一个非常奇怪的现象。 与此相反,则有为一些身份难以确定的作品讨回公道并为之鸣不平的,这同样是发他人未发之覆。学术争鸣促进学术发展,《文艺研究》1998年第6期所刊登袁有根先生的《<送子天王图>真迹辨》一文,就 Nearly a year or two, may be related to frequent auctions of calligraphy and painting, calligraphy and painting appraisal become a hot topic of discussion. This career has almost become significant school. In this significant learning, the most fashionable one is daring to challenge the ancients, challenge the authority, send the death sentence of the predecessors, and sentence the death sentence of certain authentic works. In all fairness, although appraisal of homeland can not be realized, but also know its name; but in recent years, writing appraisal of calligraphy and painting, textual research article, the majority is not heard its name, that is, the results of non-professional research far More than the results of professional research. This is a very strange phenomenon. On the contrary, there is also a fair and unequivocal approach to some of the most difficult-to-identify works, which are equally unanswered. Academic contention to promote academic development, “literary and art research” in 1998 the sixth issue of Mr. Yuan Yougen published "