美術館に皆展示してあるものに正解は一つもない。その作品をどう観るかはまったくの自由だ。
もちろん、その作品を制作したアーティストの意図は存在する。しかし、それは決してただ一つの正解ではない。作者も考えていなかったような見方や、読み方ができることが芸術作品の魅力なのだ。優れた作品は作者の意図を軽々と超えて、観客の心のなかで多様な気づきを生み出していく。多様な解釈ができることは、優れた美術作品の条件だと言ってもいい。
しかし、日本人は、この「答えがない」ことが苦手なのだ。「美術は難しい」「絵はわからない」という声をよく聞くのは、多くの日本人が美術や絵の見方に「正解」があると表いるからである。欧米ではこうした声は聞かれない。「美術は好きじゃない」「絵には興味がない」という人はいる。しかし、「わからない」ものだと思っている人はあまりいないのではないかと思う。
ただし、「絵が変わらない」と当惑気味につぶやくのは大人たちだけだ。子供はそんなことは言わない。
美術館で子供たちは、それぞれのやり方で作品を受け止める。(中略)
面白いと思えばハマる。思わなければ忘れてしまう。子供たちと美術の最初の出会いはそれでいいのだと思う。
AI translation, cross-checked between two models.
There is no single correct answer for anything displayed in an art museum. You are completely free to view a work however you like.
Of course, the artist who created the work had an intention. But that intention is by no means the one and only correct answer. The appeal of a work of art lies in the fact that it can be viewed and interpreted in ways that even its creator never considered. An excellent work easily transcends its creator’s intentions and gives rise to a variety of realizations in the minds of its viewers. One might even say that allowing a variety of interpretations is a condition of an excellent work of art.
However, Japanese people tend to be uncomfortable with this idea of there being “no answer.” The reason we often hear comments such as “Art is difficult” or “I don’t understand paintings” is that many Japanese people believe there is a “correct answer” to how art and paintings should be viewed. Such comments are not heard in Europe and the United States. There are people who say, “I don’t like art” or “I’m not interested in paintings.” But I do not think many people regard art as something they simply “cannot understand.”
However, it is only adults who mutter in bewilderment, “I don’t understand paintings.” Children do not say things like that.
At an art museum, children take in the works in their own individual ways. (Omitted)
If they find something interesting, they become absorbed in it. If they do not, they simply forget it. I think that is all that is needed for a child’s first encounter with art.
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