现代主义艺术的文化逻辑——以蒙克奇异美学为例

The Cultural Logic of Modernist Art:A Case Study on Munch’s Strange Aesthetics

蒙克是表现主义艺术之父,他敏锐地感觉到19世纪末西方社会的变迁,并以自己的艺术做出了独特的回应。他充满紧张情感和强烈冲击力的表现主义风格,激进地颠覆了此前的艺术传统规范,引领着现代主义艺术的变革与发展。更重要的是,蒙克的表现主义风格建构了一种全新的“奇异美学”,终结了以优美为核心的古典主义美学一统天下的局面,为艺术的现代发展提供了无限可能性。这种前所未有的对新奇怪异的追逐,以及各式各样奇异形象和风格的轮番登场和不断取代,构成了现代主义艺术的文化逻辑,它是现代性所催生的时代精神所致,也是艺术自身的发展逻辑使然。

Norwegian artist Munch is the father of expressionist art.He was keenly aware of the dramatic changes in western society at the end of the 19t h century,and made a unique response with his art to the social change.His expressionist style with high emotional tension and strong visual impact subverts radically the previous traditional norms of beautiful art and takes place the transformation of modernist art.More importantly,Munch’s expressionist style constructed a new strange aesthetics,ending the domination of classical aesthetics with ideal of beauty,and opening up infinite possibilities for the modernist of art.