视觉艺术与日常生活的审美化

当代中国艺术已经发生了从精英艺术到大众艺术的全方位转型,视觉上的"好看"已经成为渗入人们日常生活中的意识形态了。这一变化广泛而复杂。传统意义上的精神活动被物质化的内核所操控,传统意义上的精神和物质的二元划分不再具有现实意义。被物质化的艺术、审美活动及其表现形态进一步改造、建构着当代中国人的精神生活,对整个社会的文化心理、审美情趣以及价值取向产生着重要影响。视觉艺术及其在日常生活中的审美化构成了当代中国社会文化变迁和人们精神生活变化的重要表征。

Visual Arts and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Everyday Life

In contemporary Chinese arts,there has been a whole transformation from elite arts to popular arts.The ideology of a visual"spectacle"has permeated into the everyday life of people.The effects brought by this transformation are very widespread and complicated.Spiritual activities,in terms of traditional spirits,are manipulated by the materialized nexus.The traditional dualist classification of spirituality and materiality is no longer meaningful in reality.The materialized arts, activities of aesthetic appreciation and their modes of representations have not only transformed but also constructed the spiritual life of Chinese people that has greatly affected cultural psyche,pleasure of aesthetic appreciation,and value judgment of the whole society.Visual arts and its aesthetic appreciation in everyday life have become an important manifestation of contemporary Chinese social and cultural transformation as well as the change of spiritual life of people.