民间美术的二分法

Two Methods to Classify Folk Art

民间美术是一种民族的基础文化,它不借助于文字,而是根据广大劳动者的自身需要和直观审美来传播和发展。因此,在艺术分类学上带有一定的特殊性,其具体内容和做法也不固定。提出两种分类法是为了便于研究和概括。民间美术既接近于一般的专业美术,又接近于民俗学。

Folk art is a kind of ethical fundamental culture, which propagates and develops based on the self-requirements and intuitionistic aesthetics of the labour force, instead of on words. It can be labeled as either professional art of folklore. Therefore, folk art has its speciality on art taxology, and the methods and contents for classification are various. This paper proposes two methods to study and sum up it.