想象一下,法国大革命直到1949年才发生。在此之前,17世纪末确立下来的学院传统一直统治着艺术教育。再设想,当政治变革终于来临时,一位长期接受古典大师传统训练的艺术家,突然要应对一种全新的意识形态气候。他不能再像普桑那样描绘《旧约》或《奥维德》,而被号召去表现工厂和机械化的军队,这样一位艺术家的回顾展看起来将会多么离奇,多么的前后不一,而他的艺术生涯又将是多么让人费解。 Imagine that the French Revolution did not happen until 1949. Prior to this, the academic tradition established at the end of the 17th century had dominated art education. Imagine, when political change is finally coming, an artist who has long been traditionally trained by classical masters suddenly has to deal with a completely new climate of ideology. Instead of portraying the Old Testament or the Ovid as Poussin did, he was called upon to present the factory and the mechanized army so that an artist’s retrospective could seem odd and inconsistent, And how awkward his art career will be.