中国艺术精神之本源——徐复观与"庄子的再发现"

港台新儒学家徐复观先生致力于中国传统文化的"现代疏释"工作,指出中国文化的核心是人,是人的具体的心性、生命,并从中挖掘出艺术的根源。作者将中国的艺术精神视为不待外物的"纯"精神,它突出表现于中国古代的山水画中,因为自然山水最能释放人的生命本性、精神的自由性,而这一点恰与老庄精神相合拍。老庄学中的"道"即是艺术精神的至高境界,庄学中面对现实人生的主体修养功夫,被视为艺术精神的主体,作者在这一发现背后试图寻求现代文化语境下的中国艺术的本真表达方式,以对抗长期以来唯西方艺术为艺术的价值尺度,更重要的是弥补现代科学技术下的人文精神与理想的缺失。

The Origin of Chinese Artistic Spirits——Xu Fuguan and the rediscovery of Chuang Tzu

Mr.Xu Fuguan,the RTHK Neo-Confucian,has pointed out that the core of Chinese culture is human from which art derives.The author sees Chinese art as a pure spirit which is particularly reflected in ancient China's landscape painting because natural landscape can most represent human nature and freedom of spirit,which is in agreement with Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu's Tao ideology.Tao is thought to be the supreme state of subject cultivation.In modern cultural context,it is necessary to pursue an authentic way of expressing Chinese art so as to counterbalance the long-standing Western measure of value and to make up the absence of human spirit in modern science and technology.