中国在1970年代后期的现代主义艺术竟然出现抽象有两个导因。一个是政治原因,一个是艺术原因。政治原因是1949年建国以后,由于艺术政策,曾把抽象主义归为资产阶级的、“反动”的、敌对的艺术加以禁止,在改革开放前后,选择抽象、探索抽象,本身就是思想解放的标志;艺术原因是在西方艺术发展史中,抽象曾全面取代写实具象,而在国内这时的主流艺术是由徐悲鸿、吴作 There are two reasons for China’s abstraction of modernist art in the late 1970s. One is the political reason, the other is the artistic reason. The political reason is that since 1949 after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, art was classified as bourgeois, “reactionary” and hostile art because of its artistic policy. Prohibiting the use of abstraction and exploring the abstract before and after the reform and opening up itself was the emancipation of the mind The reason for the art is that in the history of western art, abstraction has completely replaced the realistic image, while the mainstream art in China at this time was composed by Xu Beihong and Wu Zuo