自称为本刊热心读者的旅美著名画家袁运生先生今年春天回国期间,接受了本刊记者邹文的专访。以下是这次访谈的记录摘要。记:有人认为现代艺术就是指西方资产阶级的艺术。您却说过现代艺术原本属于进步文化,是社会主义运动在艺术上的反映,现代艺术的源头不在西方而在苏联。您这么说的根据何在? 袁:本世纪初现代主义运动与世界社会主义运动对资本主义的批判很有关系。我们现在把现代主义看成是资产阶级的一种思潮,比较简单化和片面化了一点。我是近在纽约看到苏联1915—1932年艺术运动的一个回顾展。马雅柯夫斯基1915年已 Mr. Yuan Yuesheng, a famous travel painter in the United States who claimed to be an enthusiastic reader in this issue, interviewed Zou Wen of our correspondent during his return to China this spring. The following is a summary record of the interview. Note: Some people think that modern art refers to the art of Western bourgeoisie. You have said that modern art originally belonged to a progressive culture. It was an art reflection of the socialist movement. The source of modern art is not in the West but in the Soviet Union. What is your basis for this? Yuan: At the beginning of this century, the modernist movement was very much linked to the critique of capitalism by the world socialist movement. We now regard modernism as a trend of thought of the bourgeoisie, which is relatively simplistic and one-sided. I was a retrospective exhibition of the Soviet Union’s 1915-1932 art movement in New York City. Mayakovski 1915 already