色彩与平面:龚古尔兄弟对“日本艺术”的发现与解读

Color and Plane:The Discovery and Interpretation of"Japanese Art"by the Goncourt Brothers

龚古尔兄弟(The Brother of Goncourts)是19世纪法国艺术批评家。兄弟二人较早地注意到了日本艺术中的色彩与平面性,并进行大量梳理。通过东西方艺术的比较,得出了当时较为前卫的艺术观念,即绘画的现实问题。这一问题的探讨带给了西方艺术一种全新的直面现实生活的观察方式,并直接影响到兄弟二人的批评写作以及之后的印象派艺术。本文意在探讨由龚古尔兄弟发现的“日本艺术”中蕴含的东亚美学,同时也折射出19世纪艺术批评在观念和语言方面的进展。

The Brother of Goncourts was a French art critic in the 19th century.The brothers noticed the color and flatness of Japanese art early on and combed it extensively.Through the comparison of Eastern and Western art,the author obtains the more avant-garde artistic concept at that time,that is,the realistic problem of painting.The discussion of this issue brought a new way of observing Western art in the face of real life,and directly influenced the brothers'critical writing and later Impressionist art.This paper aims to explore the East Asian aesthetics contained in the"Japanese art"discovered by the Goncourt brothers,and also reflects the conceptual and linguistic development of art criticism in the 19th century.