史前艺术论略——基于欧洲考古学成果和一般艺术学的角度

A Brief Discussion of Pre-Historical Art:Based upon European Archaeology Achievement and General Art Science Perspective

人类史前艺术有着比较集中稳定的地区,这就是欧洲,而非一般所认为的处于零星、分散的状态。就分类学角度而言,欧洲史前艺术已经跨越造型(视觉)艺术和表演艺术(听觉)两大门类,换言之,史前艺术已经具备了人类艺术的基本样态。另外,在表现手法上,欧洲史前艺术也已经达到了相当的高度,传统认为它们一直停留在稚拙的原始状态是错误的。由此自然而然地得出结论:以欧洲为代表的史前艺术构成人类艺术史的第一乐章,艺术史不是从东方开始,而是自西方发端。黑格尔理论中的象征型艺术不应局限在古代东方的金字塔,应当向前延伸,它包括史前艺术。

Human pre -historical art had a comparatively concentrated and stable region, which is Europe. From the perspective of categorization, European pre - historical arts had already transcended plastic art and performing art. In representative means, European pre -historical arts had already achieved a considerable height. It is wrong that past scholars thought them stay in an uncompleted and preliminary situation. Therefore, we could conclude that pre -his- torical arts represented by Europe had composed the first movement of human art history, and that art history does not begin in oriental countries but European countries. Hegel＇s theory could not confine symbolic art to ancient oriental pyramid, but should be extended to pre- historical arts.