当评论界对百年现代艺术的未来还在此起彼伏地争论时,艺术家们却在忙碌地继续进行他们的探索.从1998年美国纽约画廊展出的作品,可看出艺术家们所作出的各种努力.那些80年代的风云人物,其风格的突变也许会让人吃惊不小.诸如费舍尔,将他绘画中常见的平凡与神话激烈冲撞的主题转移到了雕塑中,而施纳贝尔则重新回顾了17、18世纪的宫廷绘画;也有初露头角的艺术家在众多画廊里施展他们的才华,像汤姆·巴特那类似大玩具的动态装置作品,戈劳培·彼拉德运用重复拼贴的绘画,还 While the critics are still debating the future of the century-old modern art, artists are busy continuing their explorations.From the works exhibited at the New York gallery in 1998, we can see that the efforts made by the artists Those 80s’ men and women whose style of mutation may surprise you, such as Fisher, transferred the subject of intensely commonplace mythologies common in his paintings to sculptures, and Schnabel revisited Court paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries; there are also budding artists who display their talents in galleries, dynamic installations like Tom Butt’s toy-like big toys,