李军 《肖像-dogs(1)》水墨、皮纸、绢 200×200cm 2006年
伴随着消费社会与数码工业的高速发展,“图像转向”已经成为了我们时代的中心。令人非常遗憾的是,现代水墨创作却一直与这一新兴的文化现象相脱节。不管我们愿否承认,虽然现代水墨的创新已是大势所趋,不可阻挡,但其主流仍然是围绕传统山水、花鸟的图像或西方抽象艺术的图像做没完没了的探索,这也导致现代水墨创作在整体上基本上没有与当代文化产生互动的关系。
李军以及一批水墨新锐,从表达个人的特殊感受出发,更强调与时代、生活的互动,由此为水墨画的发展寻找到的全新的增长点。在这当中,一个十分重要的现象就是：新生的水墨创作出现了“图像转向”的大趋势。从艺术史的角度看,这有着超越的意义,因此是非常令人高兴的。比如李军的作品,就以传统“没骨技法”与“撞水撞粉”的技法,描绘了各种各样宠物狗的肖像,进而强调了现代都市人十分孤独与难以彼此交流的文化问题。李军以及其他新锐用自己的作品证明：从自水墨的表现特征出发,新水墨完全可以从意象上、本质上把握现实,并就现实发言。尽管我们眼下还不能说,这些水墨作品已达到完美的境界,但我们有充分的理由相信,随着时间的推移,他们工作一定会干得更好。新水墨画也一定与当代文化建立起更加对位的关系。而水墨创作中出现的“图像转向”现象也一定会引起学术界更高的关注。
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By Lu Hong
The consuming society and digital industry develops so fast that we have to encounter with image transportation, which come to the desk in our age, but it is a pity our Chinese ink-Painting is out of the trend and we have to admit that mostly the main stream of it still steps around the traditional landscape, birds and flowers or merely exploring by using western-style abstract image. Which is an obvious gap that is behind the culture development trend in our age.
Only some of cutting-edge ink-painters come to the front that aim at the other objects really existed around us today, to develop Chinese ink-Painting, one of which is among them is Li Jun. I’m pleasure to see in Li Jun’s works there is the image transformation that is significance. For instance we may see doll dogs in his work which is about to express the aloneness and impossibilities of communication of man in our time. Li Jun and some other cutting-edge ink-painter declared the fact that it is possible to transfer ink-Painting of its objects from the traditional mode to the modern one, and is possible to present real objects around us. Although, up till today, their works are not perfect, we believe they will do better in the future and that is expected. Also we believe ink-Painting will has a fine line with the culture trend and image transferring will produce more compact on academic theory and attach more importance.
【编辑：姚丹】
