××同志:收到你的来信和寄来的几幅人体素描照片,我高兴地看到你在努力探索自己的路。你谈到关于素描基本功训练既要实教又要虚讲的问题,对我颇有启发,并引起了我的思考。我曾和你谈过,我不同意“素描是一切造型艺术的基础”的观点,因为这种提法有片面性,它忽视了另一个同样重要的专业基础,孤立地把素描看成是造型艺术的唯一基础,走向极端,就是“素描万能论”;另外,我也不同意对素描基本功训练持轻率的否定态度,因为它也有片面性,走向极端,就是“素描无用论”。这两种观点,都不利于今天的素描教学。对此,你我都是有切身体会的。我的看法是:素描除了具有一个独立画种的品格之外,作为一种“视觉语言”一种“表达审美感受的艺术手段”,是体现和概括造型艺术之一般的基本规律。从这层意义上说,素描应该是造型艺术重要的基本功之一,是培养和锻炼一般造型功力的必要基本功。以美感形象和视觉的可感性为特征的造型艺术,具体到绘画、 Comrade XX: I am glad to see that you are trying hard to explore your own way. You talked about the basic skills of sketching training both real teaching and virtual talk, inspired me, and aroused my thinking. I have talked to you, and I disagree with the idea that “sketching is the basis of all the art of plastic arts” because it has one-sidedness and neglects another equally important professional foundation, drawing sketches in isolation as styling art In addition, I also do not agree with the negligent attitude towards basic training in sketching because it has one-sidedness and extremes. It is the sketchless useless theory. These two views are not conducive to today’s sketch teaching. In this regard, you and I have personal experience. My view is that sketches not only have an independent style of painting, but also serve as a kind of “artistic means of expressing aesthetic feelings” as a “visual language”. They are the basic laws that reflect and summarize the art of molding. In this sense, sketching should be one of the most important basic skills of plastic arts and the necessary basic skills for cultivating and training general styling skills. With the aesthetic image and visual sensibility as the characteristic modeling art, specifically to the painting,