公共艺术的概念于上世纪六七十年代在西方形成。彼时,伴随着美国城市化进程加快,趋向多元化、平民化、大众化发展的后现代主义艺术进入公共领域、介入公民文化,甚至成为民主政治的组成部分。公共艺术在我国的出现常以1979年首都机场壁画《泼水节——生命的赞歌》为标志。这件引起争议的作品被外媒视作“预示了真正意义上的改革开放”;国内的理论界却是在90年代中晚期才就公共 The concept of public art was formed in the West in the 1960s and 1970s. At that time, with the accelerating process of urbanization in the United States, the postmodern art that tended to be diversified, popularized and popularized entered the public sphere, intervened in civic culture and even became an integral part of democratic politics. The appearance of public art in our country is often marked by the 1979 Songkran Festival - the hymn of life at the capital airport mural. This controversial piece of work was viewed by the foreign media as “a signal of reform and opening up in the true sense of the word.” The domestic theoretical circles did not make public the public until the late 1990s