现代主义绘画在中国出现的时间不算太晚,二十世纪二十年代,就已经有中国艺术家为出世不久的西方现代主义艺术大造舆论。到三十年代初,便有留学归来的青年艺术家从事这方面的试验。但它后来却“夭折”了,或者说是延迟了发育。这确实是中国现代美术史上值得思考的一个大问题。1918年,《新青年》杂志刊出吕??、陈独秀两人的通信《美术革命》,拉开新文化运动中美术革命的序幕。吕??在信中抨击中国美术的“衰弊”,希望《新青年》杂志以鼓吹意大利未来主义艺术的玛黎难蒂为榜样,“引美术革命为己责”,“玛黎 It is not too late for modernist paintings to appear in China. In the 1920s, many Chinese artists made major media contributions to the western modernist art that was born. By the early 1930s, young artists returned from studying in this area had experimented in this area. But it later “died”, or delayed development. This is indeed a big question worth considering in the history of Chinese modern art. In 1918, “New Youth” magazine published the “Art Revolution” of communication between Lu and Chen Duxiu and opened the prelude to the art revolution in the New Culture Movement. In his letter, Lulu attacked the “pros and cons” of Chinese fine arts and hoped that “New Youth” magazine would follow the example of “Marche Diffieti, who advocates the art of Italian futurism,” “lead the revolution in art” and "