图书序言
杜布菲(Jean Dubuffet, 1901-1985)
法国当代艺术大师级画家、雕刻家和版画家,第二次世界大战后巴黎画派的主将。首先利用废弃物从事创作,1940年代末形成自己的风格,称为原生艺术(Art Brut),强调扬弃传统艺术形式,以发自内心的原始欲望及直觉来进行创作。杜氏不以抽象或具象来归类其作品,一般艺术史将他归类于「无形式主义」。作品有《地下铁》、《贵妇的身躯》等。
● 对我来说,疯狂反是超级理智。正常人个个头脑不清;正常,意味着缺乏想像、缺乏创意。
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
● 艺术是诉求于心灵,而非眼睛。原始人类一直就是如此看待艺术,而他们是对的。艺术是一种语言、知识的工具、沟通的工具。
Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right. Art is a language, instrument of knowledge, instrument of communication.
● 艺术不会躺在铺好的床上;一有人提到它的名字,它马上开熘。艺术喜欢隐姓埋名,它的最好时光,就在它忘记自己的称唿之时。
Art does not lie down on the bed that is made for it; it runs away as soon as one says its name; it loves to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what it is called.
● 艺术是人类能力所及的尽情宣洩。
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
● 我个人非常相信野蛮的价值;我所指的是:直觉、激情、情绪、暴力、疯狂。
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood , violence, madness.
● 我期待在任何一件艺术作品上,看到的是令我惊奇的东西,它要违反我对事物通常的评量,代之以其他意想不到的角度。
What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.
● 艺术必须让你感到有点好笑,同时感到有点害怕,只要不让你厌烦,无所不可。
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore.
● 让我们扬弃过去,以及过去的一切!让我们从事艺术创作,好像人类从未创作过那样。
Let us abolish the past, and all that comes with it! And let us make art as if no human being had ever made it before.
波洛克(Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956)
美国画家,抽象表现主义运动的领航者,对现代西方艺术的发展有重大影响。抽象表现主义在美国是以行动绘画的形式着称,波洛克所发展的「滴画技法」,成为波氏戛戛独造的创作标记。作品有《鸟》、《男人与女人》、《祕密的捍卫者》、《肖像与梦境》、《复活节与图腾》、《阴暗海洋》、《深》、《白光》和《芳香》等。
● 在我看来,现代艺术家就是在营造与表现一个内在的世界,换言之,乃在表现其活力、动向以及其他的内在力量。
The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world, in other words–expressing the energy, the motion and other inner forces.
● 只要有讯息传达,颜料如何涂抹,并无多大关系。技巧只是表述的一种方法而已。
It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
● 绘画是自我发现,优秀的艺术家个个都能画出自己是怎样的人。
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
● 抽象画是抽象的,与你相沖。不久前有一位评论家写说,我的画无始亦无终,他无意恭维我,但那却是一种恭维。
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t
have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was.
● 我在作画时,并不清楚自己在做什么。只有在经过一段熟悉期之后,我才能看出一个所以然来。我并不害怕改变,因为画作有其本身的生命。
When I’m painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing. It’s
only after a get acquainted period that I see what I’ve been about. I’ve no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
● 在地板上,我更感到自在,我感觉更接近、更属于那张画,因为这样子我可以绕着画走,从四边工作,简直就是人在画中。
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
● 现代画家是用空间与时间来创作,表达的是其感情,而不是在从事图解。
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
● 这种陌生感终会消除,我想我们会发现现代艺术的深层意义。
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
● 在回答提问:「你怎么知道何时才算完成画作?」波洛克答说:「你怎么知道何时结束做爱?」
In response to the question “How do you know when you’re finished?”, Pollock replied “How do you know when you’re finished making love?”