在工笔画中，不论是人物画，还是花鸟画，都力求于形似，注重写实以唯美的画面产生视觉震撼。谢呈祥的画唯美细腻，总给人一种宁静淡雅的感觉。走进谢呈祥的艺术世界，宛如仙境，一幅幅唯美逼真的画面令人心向神往、流连忘返。从每一幅作品中都能品读到他的思想与情感，感受到用生命勾勒和描绘的激情，可以尽情地享受并为其陶醉。
谢呈祥自学绘画、无师无派，这在中国画讲究传统、讲究师承关系的环境里，生长成自己的样子，很值得认识和思考。从艺术和技术的两个方面分析谢呈祥的工笔画，公众很难想象画家经历了怎样的一个劳心劳力的过程。他的造型能力、他的每一笔线条的正确使用、他对于色彩的理解和运用、对于绘画题材的可靠驾驭以及各类题材关系清晰、准确的处理，都显示出画家超常的技术能力。
谢呈祥的工笔，是讲求艺术精神的。工笔画的写实，已经不能满足画家的精神需求。工笔画一味地写实，也不可能满足社会的需要。看谢呈祥工笔画的用意，是要畅神达意。他要通过他的画，来表现他的人品和画品。这是在他长期的艺术实践中所形成的态度和主张，这样的态度和主张，不是一朝一夕自我标榜出来的，而是经历了一个渐修渐悟的培养过程，以至让自己的心性融化在他所描绘的画中，再自然而然地通过一笔一墨表现出来。这是一个自学成才者所必须承受的艺术生命的重与轻。
谢呈祥1984年入伍，现任职于中国人民解放军空军政治部。年轻时为画虎差点误入虎口，太近距离的观察虎貌触犯虎威，背部留下四道抓痕。实地写生造就了谢呈祥的画有着激情的另一面，是他的冷静，是他多年对于生命的得意与失意，对艺术的成功、失败经验的反复思考、探求，进而生成对中国工笔画的理性思考。
同时，谢呈祥还通过他的画，来表现他对于人的生命和艺术生命的理想与个性。也许，这是谢呈祥和他的画的目的所在。与中国的写意画家比较，他走的是写实与写意相结合的路子。他的工笔画的高贵之处，不是匠心匠气地追求形似，而是专注于心思，着力于精神刻画，摆脱凡俗，画出新意。
“人皆言于象似，我则脱其凡俗”。看谢呈祥的画，可以让我们的心纯洁下来、安静下来，心被一种无形的力量清空了。在采访中，当记者问及面对如今已取得的成绩有何感触时，谢呈祥用“痛并快乐着”来形容自己的心情。有无数的苦水道不尽、说不清。为了潜心研习书画，曾经放弃了很多，也失去了很多。
追求一直没有停过，以无形的旷达心境去描绘有形的工笔画，谢呈祥将自己细腻又豁达的内心去完成他一幅幅写实的作品，赋予作品精致的灵魂。这位当代工笔画家带给世人的不仅仅是视觉上的一次次震撼，更是精神和灵魂上一次次酣畅淋漓的洗礼。谢呈祥仿佛已经在无涯的艺术世界里找到了精神的归宿，相信岁月带给他的宝贵财富，会淋漓尽致地挥洒在他今后的画作里。
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Xie Chengxiang taught himself painting and had no school of teachers. It is worth knowing and thinking that in the environment of traditional Chinese painting and teacher-inheritance relationship, Xie Chengxiang grew into his own appearance. Analyzing Xie Chengxiang's fine brushwork from two aspects of art and technology, it is difficult for the public to imagine what kind of painstaking process the painter has experienced. His modelling ability, the correct use of every line, his understanding and application of color, the reliable control of painting subject matter and the clear and accurate treatment of various subject matter relations all show the artist's extraordinary technical ability.
Xie Chengxiang's craftsmanship emphasizes artistic spirit. The realism of Meticulous Brushwork can no longer meet the spiritual needs of painters. It is impossible for meticulous brushwork to meet the needs of society if it is blindly realistic. The purpose of Xie Chengxiang's fine brushwork is to express his ideas freely. He wants to express his character and paintings through his paintings. This is the attitude and proposition formed in his long-term artistic practice. Such attitude and proposition did not come out of self-advertisement overnight, but went through a process of gradual cultivation and enlightenment, so as to melt his mind into the paintings he painted, and then naturally expressed in brush strokes. This is a self-taught talent must bear the weight and light of artistic life.
"Everyone speaks like an icon, but I am out of the ordinary". Looking at Xie Chengxiang's paintings, we can make our hearts pure and quiet, and our hearts are emptied by an invisible force. In the interview, when the reporter asked how he felt about the achievements he had made, Xie Chengxiang described his mood with "pain and happiness". There are countless bitter waterways that cannot be explained. In order to study painting and calligraphy, I have given up a lot, but also lost a lot.
The pursuit has never stopped. Xie Chengxiang paints tangible fine brushwork with invisible broad-mindedness. Xie Chengxiang completes his realistic works with his exquisite and open-minded heart and endows them with exquisite soul. This Contemporary Meticulous painter brought not only visual shocks, but also spiritual and spiritual baptism. Xie Chengxiang seems to have found his spiritual home in the endless world of art. He believes that the precious wealth brought by the years will be thoroughly and vividly sprinkled on his future paintings.
