绘画无“战事”——中国古代战争画稀少原因之浅析

There is no War in the Art——Analysis of the Reason Why There is a few War Paintings in China before Ming and Qing Dynasty

如果从美术的社会本质方面来看,在历史上战争较为频繁的时期如三国两晋南北朝时期,就应该出现大量的战争画,但现存的中国古代绘画作品中却很少有以反映战争为题材的作品。这似乎是对"美术来源于现实生活,是对社会现实生活的反映"这个经典论断的偏离。本文主要从美术发展的他律方面试着去找寻这一问题的答案。

If we conduct a comparison between the description of wars in words and paintings, we will find that the amount of war paintings is so few as to be mentioned. From the aspect of social nature of fine arts, there should be a great number of war paintings during the period when war occurs most frequently, especially the Period of Wei and Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasty. But few paintings of the subject of war remained. This phenomenon seems to challenge the classical conclusion of 'Fine arts originates from life and is the reflection of social realities.'The thesis tries to find the answer to this question from the perspective of fine arts development.