绘画经验与文学表达——论陈丹青散文创作中的观看之道

Painting Experience and Literary Expression:The Way of Seeing in Chen Danqing’s Prose Creation

陈丹青的散文特质与其绘画实践关联紧密。陈丹青的绘画经验使其产生了一系列观察世界的思维方式,而这些独特的“看法”也影响到他散文的“文法”。具体言之,绘画技术带来的视觉思维,使其散文精于色彩、光线、空间的描摹,侧重对肖像、衣着、建筑等可视层的关注;“抛开本质看现象”的观看与思维方式,则使其散文多作客观描写,由此展现出戏剧般的场景感;他在绘画中习得的从“退步”和“局部”出发打捞历史丰富性的经验路径,则影响到其散文对“细节”的发掘。从绘画经验出发理解陈丹青的散文创作,不仅可以考察图像与文学的互动关系,也可以借此把握陈丹青艺术实践中的认知框架和经验脉络。

Chen Danqing’s prose quality is closely related to his painting practice.Chen Danqing’s painting experience gave him a series of ways of thinking to observe the world,and these unique“views”also influenced his writing style of prose.Specifically speaking,the visual thinking brought by painting technology makes his prose proficient in the description of color,light,and space,focusing on the visible layers of portraits,clothing,and buildings;the way of viewing and thinking of“seeing the phenomenon regardless of the essence”makes his prose more objectively described,thus showing a dramatic sense of the scene;the experiential path of salvaging the richness of history from“retrogression”and“partial”acquired in painting affects the emphasis on“details”in his prose.Starting from painting experience,understanding Chen Danqing’s prose creation can not only examine the interactive relationship between images and literature,but also grasp the cognitive framework and experience of Chen Danqing’s artistic practice.