一当代中国画有别于传统是一个既定且显而易见的事实,两者差异的因素之一就在于当代从事中国画的创作者的“图像意识”具有了多元而广泛的视觉模式。“图像意识”作为一种视知觉后像,它不仅存在于当代画家的创作中,任何从事艺术创作的人都具有“图像意识”的知觉范畴。当代中国画创作中的“图像意识”产生于当代视觉形象、视觉资源在中国乃至全球范围内蔓延、泛滥的背景下,它以中西方视觉艺术为参照系。当代中国画家通过传统国画中的笔、墨、纸等工具材料创造出既与传统中国画有某种相似性,又能表达当代审美语境且与西方视觉艺术直接对话的视觉形态。“图像意识”作为当 One of the factors that make the contemporary Chinese painting different from tradition is an established and obvious fact. One of the reasons for the difference between the two is that the “image consciousness” of contemporary Chinese painters has a diverse and extensive visual mode. Image Consciousness, as a kind of visual perception image, not only exists in the creation of contemporary painter, but also has the consciousness category of “image conscience ”. In contemporary Chinese painting, “Image Consciousness ” arises from the contemporary visual image. With the spread and proliferation of visual resources in China and around the world, it takes the visual arts of China and the West as the frame of reference. Contemporary Chinese painters create the visual modality that has some similarity with traditional Chinese painting, but also can express contemporary aesthetic context and direct dialogue with Western visual art through the tool materials of pen, ink and paper in traditional Chinese painting. “Image Consciousness ” as when