抽象艺术、尤其是极端的艺术(theart of the Sublime)本世纪以来曾被许多人认为是艺术史的必然顶点,自史前以来一切过去的艺术都不可避免地朝着这个趋向发展。根据这一观点,再现性艺术(representational art)曾逐步扩大它对可视自然界的控制权,直到19世纪中期才完成了对其的全面控制。紧接着便是抽象艺术阶段的开始,而人类的控制力则通过这一阶段的艺术从自然界扩大到包括极端和绝对在内的领域。到了20世纪中期,象莱因哈特(Ad) Abstract art, especially theart of the Sublime, has been considered by many to be the inevitable culmination of art history since the beginning of this century. Since the prehistoric era, all the past art has inevitably moved toward this trend. From this point of view, representational art gradually expanded its control of the visual world until its complete control was completed by the mid-nineteenth century. This is followed by the beginning of the stage of abstract art, through which human control expands from nature to include areas of extreme and absolute. By the mid-20th century, like Reinhardt (Ad)