试论中国画艺术的“形神说”

On the Image and Spirit of Chinese Painting

形与神是每个中国画家十分关注的极为重要的两个问题,因此古人提出"以形写神"理论,荀子提出的"形具而神生"最终确立了"形神说"的学术位置。不求形似是与追求神似相对而言的,怎样用形来传神,并且神可以从形当中解放出来、改造、甚至变形,而不受形的制约。面对当代美术,中国画与西方绘画的相互交融,"形神说"具有了新的活力,焕发出勃勃生机。

Each of Chinese artists pay close attention to the most important elements image and spirit. So the ancients advanced the theory of ＂making the form show the spirit＂. And one of the ancients, who named ＂Xunzi＂said that if the form were founded, the spirit will be grown. Thus, the theory of ＂the image and the spirit＂ has established its own academic position. Comparatively speaking, the artist tries not to seek the same image but to the same spirit. How to transmit the spirit of the painting from the image, and the spirit can be liberated from the image, and the spirit also can be remade, even the form to be changed by the spirit. To do it in this way, the spirit can not be restricted by the image. Facing to the modern art, Chinese painting and Western paintings are mixed together in somewhere, this phenomenon has injected the fresh,new vigour into the theory of ＂the image and the spirit＂. And the theory is irradiating with thriving vitality.