历史在中国文化史上担当了一种近乎神学的角色。这历史的情怀使艺术家心系着先人的典范,今人的褒贬,以及后人的评说。在艺术创作与批评的相互关系中,无限多元的“当代性”便与艾略特所强调的“历史感”浑然一体,熔铸成“传统与个人才智”的灵魂。我和王冬龄先生相识,恰好25年。在过去的四分之一世纪中,无论是我们个人,还是整个中国与世界,都发生了很大的变化。前不久接到他的电话,得知他将在中国美术馆举办第三次大型个 History plays a near theological role in the history of Chinese culture. This historical feeling enables the artist to attach importance to the ancestor’s model, the present people’s praise and criticism, as well as the commentary of later generations. In the interplay of artistic creation and criticism, the infinite pluralism of “contemporaryity” is integrated with Eliot’s “sense of history” and cast into the soul of “tradition and personal talent.” I met Mr. Wang Dongling, just 25 years. In the past quarter century, great changes have taken place both in our own individuality and in China as a whole and in the world as a whole. Not long ago received his phone call, that he will hold the third large-scale China National Art Museum