走向娱乐化:当代西方艺术创作的审美取向

西方当代艺术创作体现出一种明显的娱乐取向。这种取向,既揭示了西方非英雄观念对艺术创作广泛而深入的影响,也确证了西方多元的价值体系对艺术家开放的创作心态的建构作用。西方艺术家关注现实,抨击社会弊端,但并未挟带过去那种悲悲切切的沉重,而是以超越的姿态、戏谑的方式,将严肃的甚至严重的社会问题,以轻松出之,以机智出之,甚至以游戏出之;在处理矛盾和困窘时,心态更加放松,更加自信,更加超脱。这也揭示了当代西方文化和审美思维的一个突出特征:社会批评的游戏化,艺术创作的娱乐化,审美修辞的快感化。

Towards Recreation: Aesthetic Orientation of Contemporary Western Art Creation

The western contemporary art creation reflects an obvious recreation tendency.This kind of orientation not only reveals the great influence of non-hero conception in the Occident on the art creation,but also proves the constructive roles of the pluralistic value system played in the artists' creation psychology.The western artists pay close attention to reality and assail malpractices in the society.However,they do these not in pessimistic ways,but in aloof and amusing ways.They point out serious and even critical social problems gently,resourcefully and even recreationally.When dealing with those contradictions and dilemmas,they display extraordinary relaxation,confidence,and aloofness.All these reflect one distinctive feature of the Western culture and aesthetic thinking:game-orientation in social criticism,recreation-orientation in art creation,and pleasure-orientation in aesthetic rhetoric.