为什么中国绘画是历史

Why Chinese Painting is History?

研究中国绘画史最重要的任务,在于阐释不同的视觉语言及其特定含义。理解中国绘画的关键在于其作者用以表达的书法性线条,或谓其形态之“迹”。文章指出,要重建早期中国艺术模拟描述再现的历史,采用一种动态的视点或者“平行透视”进行平面结构分析有助于早期绘画作品的断代。从六朝至宋代,中国艺术家将无穷的创造力集中于无造物主的宇宙之中;宋代之后,个性化或曰自我化则是促成其转变的主要原因。

Most important task in the study of Chinese painting history, argues the author of this paper, is the description of a different visual language and its special meaning. The key to Chinese painting is the calligraphic line which bears the presence, or physical “trace” （ji）, of its maker. The author proposes use of a reconstructed history of mimetic representation in early Chinese art and the analysis of planar structure with a moving focus, or “parallel perspective, ” to help date early Chinese paintings. During earlier periods from the Six Dynasties through the Song （4th～13th century）, human genius was the force that exercised agency in bringing creativity into a Chinese universe without a Creator, in the post-Song era（14th century onward）it was individuality or self hood that was understood to be the agent of change.