圖書序言
杜布菲(Jean Dubuffet, 1901-1985)
法國當代藝術大師級畫傢、雕刻傢和版畫傢,第二次世界大戰後巴黎畫派的主將。首先利用廢棄物從事創作,1940年代末形成自己的風格,稱為原生藝術(Art Brut),強調揚棄傳統藝術形式,以發自內心的原始欲望及直覺來進行創作。杜氏不以抽象或具象來歸類其作品,一般藝術史將他歸類於「無形式主義」。作品有《地下鐵》、《貴婦的身軀》等。
● 對我來說,瘋狂反是超級理智。正常人個個頭腦不清;正常,意味著缺乏想像、缺乏創意。
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
● 藝術是訴求於心靈,而非眼睛。原始人類一直就是如此看待藝術,而他們是對的。藝術是一種語言、知識的工具、溝通的工具。
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.
● 藝術不會躺在鋪好的床上;一有人提到它的名字,它馬上開溜。藝術喜歡隱姓埋名,它的最好時光,就在它忘記自己的稱呼之時。
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.
● 藝術是人類能力所及的盡情宣洩。
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
● 我個人非常相信野蠻的價值;我所指的是:直覺、激情、情緒、暴力、瘋狂。
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood , violence, madness.
● 我期待在任何一件藝術作品上,看到的是令我驚奇的東西,它要違反我對事物通常的評量,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.
● 藝術必須讓你感到有點好笑,同時感到有點害怕,隻要不讓你厭煩,無所不可。
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore.
● 讓我們揚棄過去,以及過去的一切!讓我們從事藝術創作,好像人類從未創作過那樣。
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.
波洛剋(Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956)
美國畫傢,抽象錶現主義運動的領航者,對現代西方藝術的發展有重大影響。抽象錶現主義在美國是以行動繪畫的形式著稱,波洛剋所發展的「滴畫技法」,成為波氏戛戛獨造的創作標記。作品有《鳥》、《男人與女人》、《祕密的捍衛者》、《肖像與夢境》、《復活節與圖騰》、《陰暗海洋》、《深》、《白光》和《芳香》等。
● 在我看來,現代藝術傢就是在營造與錶現一個內在的世界,換言之,乃在錶現其活力、動嚮以及其他的內在力量。
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.
● 隻要有訊息傳達,顔料如何塗抹,並無多大關係。技巧隻是錶述的一種方法而已。
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.
● 繪畫是自我發現,優秀的藝術傢個個都能畫齣自己是怎樣的人。
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
● 抽象畫是抽象的,與你相沖。不久前有一位評論傢寫說,我的畫無始亦無終,他無意恭維我,但那卻是一種恭維。
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.
● 我在作畫時,並不清楚自己在做什麼。隻有在經過一段熟悉期之後,我纔能看齣一個所以然來。我並不害怕改變,因為畫作有其本身的生命。
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.
● 在地闆上,我更感到自在,我感覺更接近、更屬於那張畫,因為這樣子我可以繞著畫走,從四邊工作,簡直就是人在畫中。
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.
● 現代畫傢是用空間與時間來創作,錶達的是其感情,而不是在從事圖解。
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
● 這種陌生感終會消除,我想我們會發現現代藝術的深層意義。
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
● 在迴答提問:「你怎麼知道何時纔算完成畫作?」波洛剋答說:「你怎麼知道何時結束做愛?」
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?”