明清绘画市场化与徽商

Marketization of the Chinese Paiting and Huizhou Merchants in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

明清绘画艺术大规模的市场化虽然取决于多方面因素,但经济的发展是其形成的必要条件。徽商作为明清经济的重要构成力量,在绘画艺术大规模市场化的进程中起到了重要作用。通过分析明清时期绘画市场和经济状况、当时社会对艺术商品化和市场的认知,以及徽商雄厚资本积累及其"贾而好儒"的文化共性等,可以厘清明清绘画艺术市场化的形成与徽商间的密切关系。

The Chinese painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties were commercialized and matketized on a large scale.Among the many reasons,the Huizhou merchants,who played an important part in the economy of that time,contributed a great deal.This essay analyzes the market and the economic condition of the time,and the social awareness of the commercialization and marketization of artistic works in an attempt to clarify the relationship between the prosperity of the painting and calligraphy market and the contribution to it made by the Huizhou merchants,who were equally interested in commerce and Confucianism.