4 流露历史的时髦 To Show the Fashion of History Unintentionally

　　赵力：“知识青年”和之前系列的最大关系是什么?

　　Zhao Li: What is the most important relationship between the series of “Intellectual Youth” and your previous series?

　　肖红：思想上是衔接的，只是放到新载体——时尚青年或者叫“知识青年”的脸上。当时似乎找到了一种办法，通过人的脸部与当下艺术有一个更好的衔接，但最初的内容还是佛陀，意思就是无论多么年轻的中国人都有意无意地流露出历史的痕迹。

　　Xiao Hong: They are of the same ideology, but the latter is installed on a new medium—faces of fashionable youth or what we call “Intellectual Youth”. It seemed I found a way out at that time, that was to make a better connection between human faces and present art; but the initial content was still Buddha, meaning no matter how young they are, all Chinese people showed the trace of history unintentionally whether they realized it or not.

　　赵力：在脸上画一些东西，美术史里叫双重镜像，就是在一个部分去表现一种关系。从这个角度说，你在这个脸上可以画很多别的东西，为什么要画佛陀，要画过去和现在的关系，你是不是有一种时间性的东西要表达?

　　Zhao Li: To paint something on the face is called “Double Mirror” in art history, which is to express a relationship through one part. In this sense, you can paint many other things on the face, but why do you paint Buddha and the relationship between the past and the present? Do you mean to express something about time?

　　肖红：还是想一股脑地把这些东西全拿上来，放在一起，让别人去想。主线有两大块，一个是古代的东西，一个是古代到文革。我给它的理解是不明确。对历史，我们今天的态度也不明确，既然不明确，就把它都照搬照抄，让观众去看看能想点什么。

　　Xiao Hong: I still want to take apart all these things thoroughly and put them together for others to think over. The main theme includes two major parts, one is things in ancient time and the other is things from ancient time to the Cultural Revolution. The interpretation I give it is “Obscure”. Now we also have an obscure attitude toward history; and since it is obscure, I only copy it for the audience to think something about it.

　　赵力：你回答(得?)很好。在整个线索里，你以前是向前找，现在想把两者结合，变成关于当下的内容，并通过叠加的方式完成。画面色彩也多了，出现了时尚的、视觉化的东西。从系列角度来说，是为了表现当下的某种状况吗，还是突然觉得色彩也是表达的一种方式?

　　Zhao Li: Very good answer. About the theme, you searched backward before, and now you are trying to combine the two, turning them into something about the present, and then complete it by integrating their meanings. Thus colors become more abundant with fashionable and visualized elements appearing on paintings. With regard to the series, is that for expressing some situation at present or did you just realize that color is also a way of expression?