“社会主义新传统”中的艺术与政治——以二十世纪六七十年代的广东美术创作为中心

Art and Politics in the"Socialist New Tradition" -Focusing on Guangdong's Art Work in 1960s and 1970s

本文以二十世纪六七十年代广东部分美术家的成长与创作历程为案例,分析了“社会主义新传统”中的美术与政治、文化的复杂关系。社会意识的高度统一是当时的时代特色,在保持社会意识高度统一的同时,广东的部分美术家展现了自己的艺术创造性,在文革期间的中国美术史上留下了独特鲜活的风貌。如果说文革期间的艺术创作以一切为政治服务的方式与社会现实发生密切关联的话,当今中国的艺术创作则有游离于社会现实的倾向,因此,艺术的社会学转向成为今天人们必须面对的课题。

This paper reviews a number of Guangdong artists and their creations in 1960s and 1970s. These creations, which form a part of the so-called ＂socialist new tradition＂, are strongly colored by the political and social milieu of that period of time. Ideological unity was dominant, but these artists somehow found ways for their own creative expression and, as a result, produced some unique and lively art works that stand out of the dull political and social background. If artists in the period of Cultural Revolution had to be closely related to social realities under the mandate of political needs, current artists have now gone to the other extreme to detach themselves from social realities - which is not necessarily a good phenomenon.