自延安时期开始,党就特别重视对美术展览的领导。新中国成立后,政府对美术展览的领导更加具有组织性和导向性。作为对公众开放的文化活动,美术展览的公开性和导向性,决定了它在政府文艺监管中的地位。新的无产阶级政权,若想在思想领域不断稳固起来,必须限制资本主义自由思想的传播并大力宣传无产阶级思想。政府对展览的领导,其目的就在于规范乃至统一美术界形形色色的思想意识。在“十七年”美术展览中展出的作品,应代表着政府引导的美术发展方向、审美接受群体的阶级,代表着画家无产阶级的思想意识。为实现上述 Since the Yan’an period, the party has paid special attention to the leadership of art exhibitions. After the founding of New China, the government’s leadership over art exhibitions has become more organized and oriented. As a cultural activity open to the public, the openness and orientation of art exhibitions determine its position in the supervision of government literature and art. If the new proletarian regime wants to continue to be steadily solid in the field of thought, it must limit the spread of the free capitalist ideas and vigorously promote proletarian ideas. The purpose of the government’s leadership over the exhibition lies in standardizing and even unifying all kinds of ideologies in the art world. The works exhibited in the “Seventeen Years” art exhibition should represent the direction of art development guided by the government, accept the class aesthetic class, and represent the ideology of the painter proletariat. To achieve this