差不多一个世纪之前,杜尚把艺术逼上绝路,油画一度很难抬头。上世纪80年代,以纽约为中心涌现出来一批艺术家,诸如费舍尔、施奈卜、萨利,再次将油画重新发扬光大。因为别的路都有别人走了一遍,他们选择再回到油画。这种回光返照的油画能在市场找到一席之地,不是因为它本身的技法高超,而是它的符号化。一方面是画面题材的符号化,大量运用反映后现代社会特点的符号;另一方面艺术家成为波普明星,自己成为各大画展标榜时尚的符号。而在十几年以前,中国油画作为整 Almost a century ago, Duchamp pushed art to its knees, and painting was hard to lift. The 1980s saw the emergence of a group of artists centered around New York, such as Fisher, Schneider and Salisbury. Because there are other people have to go again, they choose to go back to painting. This return to the oil painting can find a place in the market, not because of its superb technique, but its symbolism. On the one hand, it is the symbolization of the theme of the painting, which makes extensive use of the symbols that reflect the characteristics of the post-modern society. On the other hand, the artist becomes a pop star and himself becomes the symbol of fashion in all major exhibitions. In a dozen years ago, Chinese oil painting as a whole