中国美术学院是中国最早建立起来的高等艺术院校,也是潘天寿长期教学的地方。潘天寿最初担任西湖国立艺术院国画系主任,1945年后的二十年间任浙江美术学院的校长,可他却在“文革”浩劫中惨遭迫害而离世。作为一个外国人,一直以来,我对新中国成立初期艺术家们所面临的问题和他们的生存状态仅有非常有限的理解。对我而言,纯粹从风格问题讨论潘天寿的绘画似乎更容易一些,这样可避开关于他身处的历史情境 China Academy of Art is China’s earliest established art colleges, but also Pan Tianshou long-term teaching place. Pan Tianshou initially served as Director of the Painting Department of the National Art Institute of the West Lake, and served as president of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts after 1945, but died after being persecuted during the “Cultural Revolution”. As a foreigner, I have always had a very limited understanding of the problems faced by artists and their living conditions in the early days of the founding of New China. For me, it would seem easier to discuss PAN Tien-shou’s paintings purely from a stylistic point of view, thus avoiding the historical context in which he is