思想性与艺术性的融合:迭戈·里维拉的红色镜像——《人类在十字路口》的文化符号学解读

The Combination of Revolutionary Character and Artistic Quality: Diego Rivera’s Red Mirror-Image——A Cultural Semiotic Interpretation of Man at the Crossroads

墨西哥艺术家迭戈·里维拉的画作中不乏俄罗斯元素,洋溢着为人类求解放的崇高理想。长期以来,学界对其作品的思想性研究较多,而往往忽视了文本的艺术性。本文以洛特曼的文化符号学理论为研究方法,特别是借助"符号域"理论进行阐释,从思想性与艺术性的融合、文本意义的编码与解码、读者阐释的社会语境三方面,分析里维拉代表作《人类在十字路口》的文本意义再生机制。论文试图说明,作品的思想性与艺术性并非二元对立,而是彼此相互融合与促进,由此期望学术界对其作品的艺术性投入更多关注和研究。

Mexican artist Diego Rivera’s paintings are full of Russian elements, which are brimming with communist revolutionary ideals. For a long time, there have been many academic researches on the revolutionary character of his works, while the artistic quality has often been ignored. Based on the cultural semiotics of Lotman, especially the theory of semiosphere, this paper explores text meaning regeneration mechanism in Rivera’s masterpiece Man at the Crossroads from such aspects as the combination of revolutionary character and artistic quality, coding and decoding of textual meaning and social context of readers’ interpretation so as to elaborate upon the integration rather than contradiction between ideological and artistic qualities, hoping to induce more academic attention and research on the artistic value of Rivera’s works.