艺术必须面对自身在现代社会中的意义问题。启蒙运动伴随着曾经表达最深刻本质的“最高艺术”的死亡。现代艺术则已转化成作为私人事务的娱乐源泉。它不但挑战艺术与世界的距离,而且认为艺术只有检测艺术界限并背弃传统艺术才有意义。传统艺术主张艺术家首先必须创造美的对象,艺术是对美的追求,而现代艺术则是对趣味的追求,已经失去人文主义价值。它抹杀意义存在的本质并导致艺术的自我解构。人们不再指望艺术引导人类过意义生活,它不再是追求真理的优先工具。在此种生存境域下,现代艺术的切己任务乃是真正领会统治科学技术的正当性与现实性的界限。 Art must confront its own significance in modern society. The Enlightenment was accompanied by the death of the “highest art” that once expressed the deepest essence. Modern art has been transformed into a source of entertainment as a private affair. Not only does it challenge the distance between art and the world, but it also makes sense that art can detect art boundaries and abandon traditional art. Traditional art advocates that artists must first create beautiful objects, art is the pursuit of beauty, and modern art is the pursuit of fun, which has lost the value of humanism. It obliterates the essence of meaning existence and leads to the self-deconstruction of art. No longer does it expect art to lead a man’s meaningful life, and it is no longer a priority tool for the pursuit of truth. In this kind of living environment, the task of self-study in modern art is to truly understand the limits of the legitimacy and reality of the rule of science and technology.