人是社会性动物,不同时期,人性总会以特定的表象展现出来。当代画家毛焰、曾梵志以敏锐的眼光捕捉到了当代都市人特有的精神面貌。在画家毛焰笔下,描绘了一系列呈现出某种“病态”的当代都市青年肖像;曾梵志则给笔下的人物统统戴上了面具。他们把当代人放到具体的社会环境中来研究,在对人性的挖掘上更为深刻。 Human beings are social animals. Human beings always show themselves in specific appearances in different periods. Mao Yan and Zeng Fanzhi, contemporary painters, captured the spiritual outlook of contemporary urban people with a keen eye. Under the painter Mao Yan pen, a series of portraits of contemporary urban youth showing some kind of “morbid state” are depicted; while Zeng Fanzhi masquerades the characters under their writing. They put the contemporary people into a concrete social environment to study and dig deeper into human nature.