进入20世纪90年代以来,中国当代艺术发展之如火如茶有目共睹。但这种发展是否有着某种不平衡,却为大多理论工作者和批评家所没有注意到。当代艺术准确地说还是一种城市的艺术。其中所反映的是都市知识分子面对现代性问题、人的问题等内容。另一方面,占中国人口80％以上的农民和农村的问题却受到当代艺术自觉或不自觉的冷落,这点与1978年以前中国美术对农民形象的大量描绘形成明显的对照。 本文的当代艺术的概念,从时间上说界定为20世纪80年代改革开放后;从空间上广义地说,当代艺术是在当代所进行的美术 Since entering the 90s of 20th century, the development of contemporary Chinese art has been on fire for all to see. However, whether this kind of development has some imbalance has not been noticed by most theoretical workers and critics. Contemporary art is more accurately a city art. Which reflects the urban intellectuals in the face of modernity issues, human issues and so on. On the other hand, the problem of peasants and rural areas, which account for more than 80% of China’s population, has been unconsciously or unconsciously neglected by contemporary art. This contrasts sharply with the extensive portrayal of peasant images by Chinese art before 1978. The concept of contemporary art in this article is defined from the perspective of time after the reform and opening up in the 1980s. From the perspective of space, contemporary art is a contemporary art