“有力之美”:鲁迅发展木刻版画的初心及其影响

“Powerful Beauty”:Lu Xun’s Original Aspiration to Develop the Woodcut and Its Impact

木刻版画体现一种“有力之美”,是力与美的高度融合,它既是对木刻版画艺术本质的精准概括,又是对木刻版画作为工具和方式的价值发现。鲁迅的木刻创作思想具有强烈的现实价值取向,鲁迅从木刻的艺术本质出发,倡导在中外木刻实践的基础上找到现代木刻版画独特的艺术风格。鲁迅充分发现和运用木刻艺术的“有力之美”,体现了其推动社会革命的启蒙初心,也对中国共产党在早期采用木刻版画形式进行革命宣传产生了深远影响。

Reflecting a kind of“powerful beauty”,woodcut is a high fusion of strength and beauty,which is not only an accurate summary of the essence of the art of woodcut,but also a value discovery as a tool and method.Lu Xun’s woodcut creation ideas have a strong practical value orientation in that by starting from the artistic essence of woodcuts,he advocates to find the unique artistic style of modern woodcut on the basis of Chinese and foreign woodcut practice.Lu Xun’s full discovery and use of the woodcut art as“powerful beauty”not only embody the original aspiration to promote social revolution,but also have a long lasting impact on the use of woodcut to carry out revolutionary publicity by the Communist Party of China.