在商丘市首批非物质文化遗产保护名录中，有一项是柘城金麦草画。它是用本地丰富的小麦秸秆通过技术处理后，剪贴拼装而成的美术作品。近日，记者采访了金麦草画画家张公民。
  
    已从柘城县文联主席职位上退下来的张公民是河南省书画院特聘画家、商丘市美术家协会副主席，目前专职从事金麦草画的创作、生产和销售。据介绍，其实金麦草画有着很悠久的历史，它起源于隋唐，兴盛于北宋，是豫东地区古老的传统民间美术工艺。金麦草画以前多见于民间传统家具，多是吉祥图案，贴于木石或其他材质上，华贵典雅，庄重气派，深受民众喜爱。
 
    张公民自幼天资聪颖，很有绘画天赋，从小就受到祖父及父亲的熏陶。他于1973年考入了河南大学美术系，毕业后，在从事中国画艺术创作和担任领导职务的同时，又醉心于学习、研究和创作金麦草画艺术。由于张公民有着深厚的绘画基本功，他所创作的金麦草画达到了出神入化的艺术境界，并在继承传统工艺的基础上推陈出新，进一步对金麦草画工艺进行改进。他大胆吸收中国画、版画、剪纸、漆画及油画等诸多艺术的精髓，使金麦草画创作达到天趣合一、恰到好处的意境。金麦草画在画面风格上，以民间传统工艺为本，努力追求时代特色；在色彩运用上，以小麦秸秆自然色为主调，点缀少许明快色彩而富于变化，配以红与黑相间的底纹，使其浑然一体，醒目、大气。张公民以其独特的艺术风格和精湛的制作工艺，创作了人物、山水、花鸟、仿名人书画等多种题材的作品，赢得了国内外艺术界很高的评价，被誉为中华瑰宝、民间一绝、艺术珍品。他的金麦草画在北京、上海、广州、香港、台湾等地很畅销，并已远销美国、英国等地。
  
    2006年12月，张公民的金麦草画社被命名为“商丘市文化产业示范基地”；2008年6月，张公民还被省知识产权局、省文化厅、省文联联合授予“河南知识产权文化大使”荣誉称号。


   
    Zhecheng gold wheat straw picture is a fine art made by technology-handled straws by cutting and assembling them. Zhecheng gold wheat straw picture has a very long history and is a historic traditional folk art in Yudong region, which stems from Sui and Tang Dynasty and prevailed in Northern Song Dynasty. They are always appear in folk traditional furniture and in the form of lucky pictures pasting on wood, stone and other materials, which are so luxury, graceful, solemn that they are well welcomed by common people. 
      
    In the terms of picture style, gold wheat straw pictures pursue times characteristics on the foundation of folk traditional making skill; in the terms of color, they set the nature color of wheat straw as dominate hue, ornament some other bright color, accompany with red and black shades and at the same time make sure all kinds of color will appear an integral whole and striking. Zhang Gongmin uses his unique art style and highly making skill to create many pictures in different themes such as figures, landscape, flowers and birds, imitated famous paintings and so on, which all earn artist's high evaluation around the world and are praised as Chinese Treasure.