黄一翰 中国后人类246×248cm 2004年 宣纸水墨
与消极遁世、讳谈现实的传统水墨画家不同,也与一些“精英情结”严重,对公众领域,包括对当下大众流行文化不屑一顾的现实水墨画家不同,黄一瀚近期在进行水墨创作时,凭着艺术家的敏感与良知,自觉地把艺术视角放在了都市商业文化、电子网络文化、卡通流行文化与高科技带来的“后人类”文化中,并且以一个知识分子的独立的立场去体验、去反省、去批判,结果他用实际行动为中国画争取了对社会现实问题的发言权。应该说,这对一向不太涉及现实社会问题的水墨画界是有着巨大启示意义的。
黄一瀚的近作常常将时下流行的艺术明星、时尚青年、卡通人物、西式玩具以及麦当劳叔叔等视觉符号并置在一起。倘若将其置于当下大众日常生活的大背景中,同时把我们自己的日常生活经验带入读解,我们似乎并不难发现,画家关注的文化问题乃是：在商业文化与高科技造成的人文环境中,“卡通一代”将何去何从。
黄一瀚大胆吸收了广告、电脑以及卡通的处理手法,这使得他的作品在风格样式上与所有传统的、现代的水墨画创作都完全不同。在黄一瀚的近作中,技法往往是混杂共生的,而且造成了异样的感觉与强烈的视觉冲击力。但我一点也不觉得这样的处理仅仅是着眼于纯粹的花样翻新,恰恰相反,在我看来这样的处理手法正好象征地表达了“卡通一代”在当下文化环境中已发生变异的概念。此外,它还可以有效调动观众的相关生活经验,直至理解艺术家强调的观念。
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Ink-painting Focusing on Social Issues as a Right to Speak
By Lu Hong
Differing from both those painters who are negative, passive, retired from the society and those who take themselves as cultural elites and scorn all public pop culture, Huang Yihan comes to focusing on pop culture consisted of business culture, e-culture, cartoon, high-tech culture and the kind. He consider it is also vital for an artist and independent intellectual to reflect, criticize and make speak to social issues using their tools respectively. It should be a significance for Ink-painting which in traditional has involved not a little bit in the field.
In his recent works, Huang mixed popular star, fashion youth, cartoon character, Ronald McDonald and Western-style toy, and other visual symbol all together. It is not difficult for us to find that the focusing the painter pay attention upon is the human living environment. It is still the essential question: Where we are and where are going?
Skills in ad, PC, and cartoon is adopted by the painter Huang in his painting, therefore his works often show a style differed from the traditional ones, touchable, strange and strong in visual impact. Important is I don’t think it is merely a new form, but in fact a brand-new concept and new esthetic trend fitting to present the real conditions of man who are living in a cartoon age. It is the very experience produced from our lives around and culture.
【编辑：姚丹】
