当代中国为什么出不来艺术大师?这是一个问题。记得90年代初,美术理论家刘骁纯曾经谈到过此类问题,他说大师级的艺术家出现,同时也需要伴随着大师级理论家的产生。这其实只是把问题给提示了出来,但没作任何解答。我能够理解刘骁纯当年说这番话的苦衷,毕竟那时候的中国现代艺术及其现代文化正处在激烈的转型时期,还没有自身相对完整的历史可以拿出来考量。巧媳妇难为无米之炊,理论家不是孙悟空,不可能腾空而起越过自己的创作时代。然而,问题是时至今日,当中国现代文化及其现代艺术经历了近一个世纪的潮起潮落,凝聚了几代人的心血, Why contemporary China can not get out of art masters? This is a problem. I remember the early 90s, Liu Xiaochun art theorist once talked about such issues, he said the emergence of master artists, but also need to be accompanied by the emergence of master theorists. This is actually just a question to be prompted, but did not make any answer. I can understand the pain of Liu Xiaochun’s remarks that year. After all, at that time, the modern Chinese art and its modern culture were in a period of intense transformation. They did not have their own relatively complete history to consider. Qiao daughter-in-law is difficult without straw, theorist is not the Monkey King, can not afford to fly over his own creative era. However, the question is from now till today, when the modern Chinese culture and its modern art have experienced the ebb and flow of the past century, they have brought together the efforts of generations,