Who wrote Chinese abstract paintings? It's totally pseudo-modern art.

Written by Li Xianting 1. The content is as follows:

Due to the serious misunderstanding and misleading of western modern art in China, abstract art has become an imagistic, metaphysical and stylized painting in China. The most serious thing is the alienation turn of "abstract art", which has become the ideological pillar of anti-modern spirit. Strictly speaking, Chinese abstract painting is an out-and-out pseudo-modern art, and it is the evocation of decadent history. Any art, once it becomes an established popular style, has basically exhausted its internal vitality. It is commendable to explore and learn western modern art, but "pandering" and "copying" are the opposite. Alienated China's "abstract painting" is not only a form of retro-ism, but also its spiritual essence runs through the decadent dross of "harmony between man and nature" and "mystery", showing off the national roots and cultural identity, which fundamentally violates the universal spirit of modern art.

First, abstract art and its background

Modernist art is the rise of pan-abstract art, and the language, materials and means of art have undergone unprecedented changes, completely breaking the limitations of traditional art in language system, material function and structural form, and opening up the situation that everything may be art. This is not only the artist's one-way efforts, but also the whole era objectively promotes the formation of this conceptual context, and communication and understanding, thoughts and theories are indispensable foundations. Dadaism is a completely experimental, empty, meaningless and rebellious art form. Through continuous construction, interpretation, dissemination and strengthening, it finally set off a revolutionary vanguard force of the times. Similar to the spinning wheel of Tibetan Buddhism. For a person who has no Buddhist consciousness, it is just a pure physical phenomenon. The formation of abstract art needs corresponding external conditions, from which artists assume the vanguard role, but the result also needs the process of climate, seeds and cultivation.

Cold abstract painting was born in pre-modern art, and Kandinsky and Picasso are both important pioneers and transitional figures. Their experimental enthusiasm for artistic language is purely driven by creative instinct. The pioneers of the times will always be the gravediggers of history, and great art will inevitably show thorough subversive destructive power, otherwise it will be impossible to construct a brand-new achievement of the times. But today, cold abstract painting has some limitations, because it follows the historical logic of pre-modernism and is not open to the degree of self-legislation, but it is undeniable that cold abstract art plays an important role in constructivist painting. Without this historic progress, post-modern art in the pan-abstract era could not obtain the soil for growth.

Although fiery abstract painting inherits the subversive tendency of modern art in spirit, its improvisation and deliberate indulgence completely break the relationship between subject and object and historical logic of art, and it is classified as "abstract expressionism". It is this random creative behavior that makes everything artistic, which further promotes Toussaint's liberation of artistic materials and makes materials and means reach an unprecedented degree of freedom. Pollock had such a great influence on post-modern art that he was undoubtedly an iconic figure, but he was not the founder. Expressionism painting released the order of subject and object in art, and even reversed and confused it. The work does not necessarily present the author's theme, nor does it need to form a unified experience consciousness with the audience. Creation can be deliberate or arbitrary; You can control the audience, or you can completely abandon the audience; The work certainly gives the audience the imagination space to understand freely, and even regards the audience as the material of the work and the participants in the creation; The audience can also regard the artist as the material of the work. In other words, Pollock's abstract Expressionism painting is meaningless, impromptu and random, and different audiences have different feelings and judgments. Authors, materials and audiences may all become independent artistic subjects.

The purpose of modern art and abstract painting is to break the established order, build the cultural power of historical development with innovation and breakthrough, and completely abandon the single aesthetic function of traditional art. Of course, ordinary audiences and some theorists did not admit it at first. They still judge abstract art according to their own aesthetic needs. This is a free possibility that modern art gives to the outside world, and its openness will inevitably lead to the loss of its own standards and the contradiction between subject and object dislocation. Fierce abstract painting stimulates the audience's aesthetic imagination, which stems from the original vitality of art. In China, abstract art is understood as image painting, which is also the free possibility it gives to the outside world. However, as an open modern art, it is definitely not to reproduce the traditional aesthetic characteristics. It must be admitted that the fiery abstract art itself is meaningless, let alone deliberate aesthetic processing. The author just laid a foundation for the material at will. It is quite dangerous to define it with a single standard and aesthetic paradigm, and its internal trend is to subvert all standards and norms of art.

Artists and theorists in China regard abstract painting as a kind of freehand brushwork painting, but fail to accurately understand its inner spiritual essence and open vitality. Modern art has developed into the era of pan-abstract art and experienced a chaotic and rich mutation stage. It is no longer limited to "unconventional" external forms, and its purpose, intention and cultural function have also entered an all-encompassing level. Of course, we have to admit that the rise of pan-abstract art or post-modern art has certain quality contradictions, because art no longer has standards and norms, and it is out of control and flooding, and meaningless junk works appear. In the 1970s, people exclaimed that "art is dead" because it lost its standards and norms. The garbage level of post-modern art is unprecedented. With the prosperity of consumer culture and kitsch, junk art has a corresponding use. Besides, great history has the endurance of failure, otherwise history will lose any possibility of progress. Modern civilization is not only the tool progress of rationality and technology, but also the passion of culture and the progress of thought, as well as the correction of contradictions and mistakes. Abstract art develops into the role of context, which promotes modern art to the history museum and makes it an established style of an era.

Second, the modern significance of abstract art

Abstract art has become an art form in a certain period of the 20th century, and its essence covers all the existence of the whole history, which proves that time cannot be repeated. Human creativity is the necessary guarantee to promote the continuation of history, and art is always the source of social and cultural passion. Returning means the shrinking of great history, although it has never gone to extremes, otherwise civilization would have ended long ago. However, in a specific historical period, the cultural trend of thought is inevitably reactionary, and social creativity is at a standstill. Therefore, history needs the power to spur, and early religion and morality assumed this cultural role. With the continuous advancement of history, the perceptual experience of art and the rational logic of science have exerted corresponding integration.

Abstract art, as an artistic language form in a historical period, has corresponding historical laws. When it develops to a stylized level, it proves that its form tends to be solidified and stable, which can not meet the integration needs of the great historical movement, and gradually disappears and becomes a certain period of existence. Of course, this process is also a very complicated cultural phenomenon, that is, what people can't accept and understand at first becomes a mainstream artistic style, which shows that the development of art needs the promotion of cultural understanding. As anthropologists and biological neuroscientists have emphasized, what kind of thinking does a brain have? On the contrary, complex thinking actions are more conducive to the development of brain nerves.

From the beginning, modernist art was full of strong subversive impulse, showing rebellious contempt for all traditional cultures and established authorities, and reflecting the spiritual outlook of modernist art at the end of 19. These artists and thinkers who are at the forefront of history are full of hostile doubts about the value norms of modern civilization. Schopenhauer, Gorkigard and Nietzsche, as existentialists, and Strindberg and Monk, as expressionists, all showed strong pessimism and distorted passion for the whole era, which gave birth to Dadaism cynicism, futuristic blind revelry and surrealism absurdity. The ideological crux of Faust shows the basic fate of mankind, and firmly believes that modern civilization can hardly get rid of this ending. The cruelty of reality, the madness of war and the collapse of faith all aggravated the artist's emotional agitation in this period. History has proved that human beings' tolerance for pain is stronger than the disaster itself, which is the cultural force of historical existence. In the post-industrial era, mankind is moving towards a kind of demand without faith, instant satisfaction, consumerism, and even indifference to reproduction and historical future. The improvement of cognitive ability will turn people's pessimism about their own destiny into a rational reality and understand all the true meaning of existence itself. God will die completely because of the awakening of mankind. However, all this is undoubtedly painful for those who realize it first. The crazy division of modern art has gone through such a period, just as children begin to realize that they will die one day, and that kind of sadness and despair can be imagined. All these are fully reflected in pre-modern art, and post-modern art is almost transforming a sense of world tragedy. In a word, today we are trying to face death and doomsday happily.

According to the principle of applying aesthetic psychological activities, the German philosopher Warringer expounded the "abstract" artistic phenomenon. His "retreat and emotional transfer" has many theoretical limitations, which are inevitable in any theory. Wollinger's theoretical construction of abstract art is undoubtedly significant. However, we have to admit that history is constantly taking effect out of nothing. For example, we find that Newton and Freud's theories are full of mistakes today, but their achievement lies in opening up a new field of knowledge for us. The greatest significance of "abstract" art lies in that it fundamentally distinguishes the imitation of concrete forms by traditional art from the reproduction of aesthetic objects. In addition to the development law of art itself, human understanding of artistic language and the development of abstract thinking are synchronous. For this reason, Picasso painted a series of evolution processes of cattle and made a good language display, which means that the realism of traditional art has become a "redundant work". The cold abstract painting further refines the logical language and corrects the cumbersome and bloated traditional art. Kandinsky's works are not understood by people because abstract painting has not yet formed an effective public context in visual pronunciation. Weinstein further restored the logical relationship between language and understanding, which is a great progress for art, philosophy and logic itself, and proved that it is impossible for human beings to establish a perfect "self-legislation" system.

Abstract art, as a category of modernism, is a known "pre-art", which abandons the "obsessive-compulsive disorder" of classical art and pursues absolute rationality and harmony. Habermas said in "On Modernity": "Modernity means that we no longer need to refer to the standards of other times, and we no longer need to seek our own development direction in the process of imitating the standards of other times. Its energy lies in its ability to "legislate on its own", and its result is that the creators, materials and audiences of art can "legislate on their own". In the 1970s, the argument about the death of art seemed credible, because postmodern art completely broke the system tradition of pre-modern art and made it a historical style of the past tense. Modern art has shrunk completely in the pan-abstract era, while elite concept art and mass experience art have turned to rise, and the order of subject and object in art has been completely broken. This is the inevitable result of historical opening, which makes aesthetic fundamentalists indulge in the absolute interests of artistic subjects.

Opening artistic materials and language to a situation without standards and restrictions inevitably reminds people of the fear of "death" of art. Some thinkers and artists who adhere to the historical tradition began to fight against this fear, but time proved that they put themselves in death. In other words, the lofty mission of these traditional cultural martyrs is not the future of history, but the madness of established authority and the atrophy of social and cultural passion. Now it has been proved that the art of reproduction, imitation and discipline are all historical zombies. At the same time, all arts with modern vitality can misappropriate all materials and means used for themselves, including those rigid material morphemes. The key is that it only proves its existence, not the repeated process of time. All these are the possibilities given to art by modernity, so that it can be metabolized and regenerated in constant death. In other words, modernity has no time orientation since its birth, and it has shown its embryonic form in Sumerian mathematics, ancient Egyptian architecture, Greek philosophy and other known fields. It constantly establishes its effectiveness in its development, and art only proves that human efforts are a kind of self-saving existence activity, that is, no one will care about our existence except ourselves.