近来以潘天寿诞辰120周年系列学术活动的举办为契机,潘天寿关于“中西绘画要拉开距离”的观点再度引发了美术界关于民族传统与当代发展的现代性讨论。如何处理民族文化与现代美术的关系,是中国美术现代性转型过程中的核心课题。其核心意义在于,对这一关系的处理策略不仅反映出国人对现代性的认知结果,也反映出今天的我们如何在文化层面具体地回应“我们是谁?我们从哪里来?我们到哪里去”这一基本问题。而回应这一 Recently, Pan Tianshou’s 120th anniversary of the birth of academic activities held as an opportunity, Pan Tianshou “Chinese and Western paintings to distance ” point of view once again led to the art world about the national tradition and contemporary development of the modern discussion. How to deal with the relationship between national culture and modern art is the core issue in the process of the transformation of Chinese art’s modernity. Its core meaning lies in that the strategy of handling this relationship not only reflects people’s cognition of modernity but also reflects how today we respond specifically to the cultural aspect. “Who are we? Where are we from? We are from Where to go ”This basic question. And respond to this