“正合于现代中国的一种艺术”:鲁迅的现代国家美术观念与中国新兴版画艺术的发展

“An Art Right for Modern China”:Lu Xun’s Artistic View and the Development of Chinese New Graphics

鲁迅的美术观念与中国新兴版画的发展进程紧密相关。他从国家文化建设和国民精神改造的层面对中国美术的革新及其与现代社会的调适进行了深入的思考。20世纪20年代末,鲁迅敏锐地意识到中国社会的转型和人民大众对反映社会斗争和时代发展的新型艺术的需求,从西方引进版画艺术,强调艺术的时代性和大众性,同时探索传统美术与外来艺术融合的可能性。鲁迅美术观念的形成伴随着中国现代社会的觉醒,并成为推动中国新兴版画发展的重要力量。鲁迅艺术观念指引下成长起来的中国现代版画特别是抗战版画取得了卓越的成就,深刻影响了中国现代美术观的建构,对今天的艺术发展也具有借鉴价值。

Lu Xun’s artistic view was tied to the development of modern Chinese graphics,for which he insisted on trying artistic innovations and having close relation to society at both national and individual levels.During the 1920s,Lu Xun was acutely aware of the rapid social transformation and the urgent need for diversifying art forms that reveal social changes and conflicts.Thus,he seeks artistic fusion between the western woodcuts and the traditional Chinese graphics while emphasizing that art must reflect historical events and be in everyday subjects.His artistic views,accompanied by burgeoning societal awareness for modernity,was a central force for developing Chinese new woodcuts,which were especially badly needed in the Second World War,and remain so even for now.