西方现代视觉艺术的传统性

On Traditionalism of Western Modern Visual Art

人们一般认为 ,西方现代视觉艺术属于“反传统”艺术的体现。其实 ,西方现代视觉艺术也有着深刻的西方传统主义艺术特点 :一是遵循了西方以“人”为中心的传统审美创造模式 ,二是维持了色彩在视觉艺术语言中的核心地位 ,三是西方现代艺术各流派的发展更替本身就体现了强烈的传统继承关系。因此 ,西方现代视觉艺术在本质上表现为以西方传统艺术为基础的现代超越 ,并非纯粹的“否定传统艺术”、“反传统艺术”。

Western modern visual art is usually regarded as “counter-traditional art'. In fact, western modern visual art has many profound traditionalistic characteristics: first, it keeps to traditional aesthetic mode of humanism; secondly, it maintains the central status of color in the visual art; thirdly, diversified genres of western modern visual art per se materialize the inherited traditionalism. Accordingly, we should not simply consider that western modern visual art is “counter-traditional art.'