当代性与地域性:全球化时代的世界美术

Contemporary qualities and local qualities: world art in the period of globalization

在当代高科技和发达的传媒作用下,当代艺术既可以借助媒体进行广泛和快捷的传播,也可以运用新媒体直接进行创作。当代艺术与新媒体的互动关系是历史发展的必然,但每一种新媒体和新艺术形式的出现并不能降低或取代传统艺术形式的价值和功能。艺术家的不断创新和世界美术的发展并不是简单按照进化论模式所描述的线性发展的轨迹前进,更不是以西方艺术的发展模式为指向不断趋向统一,而是在不同的文化传统基础之上艺术家自身对当代文化语境的独特体验和感受的表述。世界各国的艺术家既深受自身文化传统的浸染和影响而表现出其地域性的特色,同时也处在国际文化大背景的当代性(同时代)之中。

With modern high-tech and developed media, contemporary art can spread widely and quickly, and artists can also create artworks with the new media. The interaction of contemporary art and new media has a kind of historical necessity. But any new media and new art cannot devaluate traditional arts and displace their function. The artists constantly creating new art do not follow a simple linear evolutional mode, but express their unique experience, feeling and ideas on the basis of different cultures and traditions. Contemporary art in different countries and areas presents great differences and at the same time is in the background of international culture of the contemporary world.