脱心志于桎梏 构建当代山水精神——第七届杭州·中国画双年展述评

Throw off Shackles and Build Contemporary Landscape Spirits:Comment on the 7th Hangzhou·Chinese Painting Biennale

当代语境下,中国画如何传承创新和体现新的时代精神是艺术家及学界一直关注的学术命题,第七届杭州·中国画双年展尝试从以下三个方面给出思考。首先,从理念、机制等角度提出做好中国画代际传承、培养新生力量的办展思路和目标;其次,提出创作者应从中国人自古以来的山水经验中观照自身与艺术创作,关注描绘时代家园的同时不忘赓续传统文脉;最后,展览强调返身自然的重要性,要带着问题去写生、写心,构建起深具当代意识的写生观和山水精神。

In today’s world,how to carry forward and innovate Chinese painting and demonstrate new spirits of the times is an academic issue that artists and the academic community have been paying attention to.The 7th Hangzhou·Chinese Painting Biennale thinks about this issue from the following three aspects:first,in terms of concepts and mechanisms,the Biennale puts forward the way and goals of organizing exhibition,which are to carry forward Chinese painting and foster young talents;second,the exhibition believes that artists should reflect on themselves and their creation on the basis of landscape painting experience that Chinese people have summed up since ancient times,and carry forward traditional culture while depicting our homeland;finally,it emphasizes the importance of returning to nature,which means sketching and expressing feelings with questions in mind and developing sketching concepts and landscape spirits that are in line with the times.