苏立文为何如此评价徐悲鸿?

• 作 者: 王洪伟
• 出 处: 美术
• 发表日期: 2016年03期
• 关键词: 徐悲鸿 启示价值 中国现代艺术 变革运动 中国艺术家 亘古不变 艺术形式 艺术作品 世界艺术 生存境遇

英国学者苏立文(Michael Sullivan,1916—2013),是20世纪中国艺术发展与变革的见证者,也是西方学界最早对之进行专门研究的学者。他对中国现代艺术变革运动的阐释,在中西方学术界都有着重要的奠基与启示价值。对于西方社会来说,他的研究具有很大的开拓性和启蒙价值。20世纪中期,多数西方学者认为本世纪的中国艺术要么是传统的、亘古不变的,鲜有历史性价值,要么就是苍白无力的对西方的模仿,缺乏自创性~([1]);对于中

The British scholar Michael Sullivan (1916-2013) is a witness to the development and transformation of Chinese art in the 20th century. It is also the earliest scholar in the western academic field who specializes in this field. His interpretation of the modern Chinese art movement has an important groundbreaking and enlightenment value both in the Chinese and Western academic circles. For the western society, his research has a great pioneering and enlightening value. In the middle of the 20th century, most western scholars thought that the Chinese art in this century was either traditional, immutable, with little historical value, or pale and impenetrable to the West with a lack of self-creation. [1] For