任伯年与传统文人画

Ren Bonian and Traditional Literati Painting

任伯年出身平民 ,得技于民间画工 ,后在沪上鬻画为生 ,他的社会身份、画之审美趣味以及文学修养的缺乏 ,使其不入“传统文人画”之列。但他又自觉不自觉地在交友、绘画题材、风格和技法资源等方面 ,与传统文人画发生着关联。在任伯年身上 ,我们看到传统文人画步入近代社会以后所面临的特殊境遇 ,它的价值、形态和精神追求都不可避免地瓦解了。但是 ,作为文人画的性质、趣味等诸多因素 ,却在近现代社会获得了重建和转换。

Coming from an ordinary family and learning painting from folk painters, Ren Bonian earned a living on his works in Shanghai. His works hardly belong to 'traditional literati painting'due to his social position, painting aesthetics and lack of knowledge in literature. However, he is related to traditional literati painting in terms of friends he made, subjects, style and technique of painting. From Ren Bonian's paintings, we can come up with the special circumstances traditional literati painting encountered in modern society. That is to say,the value, form and spiritual pursuit of traditional literati painting unavoidably collapse while such elements as its nature and aesthetics are re-constructed and transformed.