与心灵的对话——关于艺术与精神的一些思考

Talk to Heart:Some Thoughts on Art and Spirit

在我们的艺术世界中,艺术家和自然交流分三个层次。一是用眼睛去看自然,关注自然之形、之态、之神,但这仅仅是体现在艺术的表层。二是用心灵感悟自然,内心求真,趣得高洁,情则淳厚,艺术求纯,寻求美的真谛,释放人的情怀,比如吴冠中倡导的"形式美"。第三是透过人的灵魂构建自然之精神,读八大山人《鸟石图轴》内敛、寓意、象征而又悲凉聚集着艺术精神的力量和禅宗意味。画家认识自然的过程是"神遇",画家与艺术的联姻是精神碰撞,画家的心灵、情智与自然同构,用主观意识理想,将天地宇宙化为内心精神的寄托和生命的体验。

There are three levels of communication between artists and nature in the art world.The first level is that we observe nature with our eyes,and pay attention to its form,its state,and its manner.This is,however,only reflected on the surface of art.The second level is that we perceive nature with heart.We seek truth in mind,attaining a noble and unsullied taste,and pure and honest feelings.We seek purity in art,expressing our thoughts and feelings while pursuing the essence of beauty,a kind of practice exemplified by Wu Guanzhong’s advocacy of“beauty in form”.The third level is that we construct the spirit of nature through the soul of human beings,for example,the Bird and Rock by Bada Shanren,restraining,allegorical,symbolic,and forlorn,contains in it the force of artistic spirit and is suggestive of Zen.The artists’understanding of nature is a process of“spiritual perception”,and the relation between painters and art comes from spiritual collision.The artists’mind and emotion are isomorphic to nature.With the ideal of subjective consciousness,the painters may turn the world into spiritual sustenance and experience of life.