传统语境是现当代画家无法回避的课题。对待传统,不同画家有不同的选择,有的迷恋于精研传统而不能从传统中脱出,以至创造潜能无法释放,甚或走向拟古与平庸;有的鄙视传统,或以挑战与批判的态度消解传统,往往会使作品虽具现代意味但缺少根基与历史厚重感。郝平是位既具传统情结又具现代观念的艺术家,因此他的选择是传统语境的现代转换,即以现代观念提纯、整合传统文化资源,以颇具现代感的视觉形态阐发或蕴含传 The traditional context is an unavoidable task for contemporary artists. Different traditions and different painters have different choices. Some are infatuated with the traditions and can not emerge from the tradition, so that their latent potential can not be released or even the ancient and mediocre ones. Some despise traditions or digest traditions with challenges and criticisms , Often will make the work with modern meaning but lack of foundation and historical heavy feeling. Hao Ping is an artist who has both traditional complexities and modern conceptions. Therefore, his choice is the modern transformation of traditional contexts, that is, purifying and integrating traditional cultural resources with modern concepts, analyzing or imprinting them with modern visual forms