最近,苏富比拍卖行的一幅看似全白的油画引发了热议,这幅名为《无题》的作品由现年84岁的纽约艺术家罗伯特·雷曼创作,估价高达1500万至2000万美元。雷曼是单色画、极简主义和观念主义艺术的重要人物,他最具代表性的作品就是白色的抽象画。正如苏富比全球当代艺术部门联席主席亚历山大·鲁特所表示的那样,“极简主义的单色绘画并非人人都能欣赏的收藏品”。这种看似空白的作品即使在西方也是不多见的,西方传统油画以圆满为美,画面总会满铺色彩,画面中很难出现这样的全白抑或局部空白,所以当这种极简的画面面世时引发两极化的赏鉴态度是在所难免的,这与传统中国画的审美倾向大相径庭。西方的油画颜料具有较强的遮盖力,传统油画一般采用多层覆盖法表现物体的色彩变化,层次丰富,以“实”为美。中国画则重视画面中空白的 Recently, a seemingly white painting by Sotheby’s auctioned the title “Untitled” by a 84-year-old New York artist Robert Lehman, valued at 15 to 20 million Dollars. Lehman is an important figure in monochromatic, minimalist and conceptual art. His most representative work is white abstract painting. As Sotheby’s co-chairman of the world’s contemporary art department, Alexander Lutte, puts it, “a minimalist monochrome painting is not a collection that everyone can admire.” This seemingly blank work is rare even in the West. Western traditional oil painting is full of beauty, and the painting is always full of colors. It is very difficult to find such a blank or a partial blank in the painting. Therefore, when such minimalism Of the screen when the introduction of polarization caused by reward attitude is inevitable, which is quite different from the traditional aesthetic tendency of Chinese painting. Western oil paint has a strong hiding power, the traditional oil painting commonly used multi-layer covering method to express the color change of objects, rich layers to “real ” for the United States. Chinese painting emphasizes the blank in the picture