市场经济的建立必然引起文化机制的变更,作为文化的一个组成部分——美术作品与美术批评也必然介入商品市场和文化市场之中。 我们研究美术作品与美术批评的商品价值并不是将市场经济规律简单地切入到美术领域,使之机械地适应市场经济。我们倡导、研究美术作品与美术批评的商品价值是出于一种文化策略,因为市场需要文化规范。美术作品是一种特殊的商品,它作为一种商品也必须具备生产者(美术家)、流通者(画商、画廊)和消费者(收藏家)。美术生产与美术消费的相互依存作用一般是通过商品流通渠道而发生和完成的,这个流通领域亦包括批评家、经纪人的商业运作,美术批评在艺术市 The establishment of a market economy will inevitably lead to the change of the cultural mechanism. As an integral part of the culture, fine art and fine arts criticism must also intervene in the commodity market and the cultural market. Our study of the commodity value of fine art works and fine arts criticisms does not simply cut the law of market economy into the art field and make it mechanically adapted to the market economy. We advocate that it is out of a cultural strategy to study the commercial value of fine art and art criticism because the market needs cultural norms. Fine art is a special commodity, which must have producers (artists), circulators (painters, galleries) and consumers (collectors) as a commodity. The interdependence of fine art production and fine art consumption usually takes place through the channels of commodity circulation. The circulation also includes the commercial operation of critics and brokers, and the criticism of art criticism in Art City