如果说，在90年代文化艺术中最有价值的作品有什么共性的话，那就是那些直指人心的作品无一例外，都在关注90年代中国经济发展背景下的当代人心态与行为方式的变化，以及这种变化与大众传媒的相互关系。

　　这确实是一个极具扩散性的艺术探索方向。

　　电脑时代不只是一个机械复制的概念，它也是一个日常生活与精神生活日益同质化的概念，前者通过无孔不入的广告与影视明星的八卦生活渗入人心；后者通过传媒出版的批量复制，直接导致知识分子的与中产阶级的平庸。电子时代的艺术形象没有原作，也就没有赝品，电脑里生成的形象可以无限复制，都是原作，它打破了古典艺术中原作的手工感、神秘感、权威性和唯一性。这就是原作概念与摹本的消失。

　　一个标准化的时代已经来临。

　　标准化就是格式化，就是程序化。从行业标准到市场准入标准，从产品标准到消费标准，从择偶标准到快餐标准，我们在越来越多的标准中生活，做什么事都要有个标准。每天有很多人在城市中忙碌，检查与我们生活有关的各种物品的标准，但生活的目标却越来越模糊，生活的真实离我们越来越远，我们的疑惑是，什么才是我们这个时代的标准生活？

　　艺术家高孝午为我们展示了一种标准的生活，标准的姿势，标准的微笑，它们与标准的大楼、标准的街道相映成趣，构成我们这个国际大都市的标准表情。

　　殷双喜：博士、艺术评论家、中央美术学院《美术研究》杂志副主编

　　Yin Shuangxi: PhD, Art Critic, Deputy Editor-in-chief of Art Research magazine by the Central Academy of Fine Arts

　　Living among standards

　　Yin Shuangxi

　　If to say there were something in common to share amongst the most valued works that's been produced in the 1990s, then it is the focus they all paid to the change of people's ways of attitude and action under the bigger environment of China's economy development during the period of time.

　　This is just a direction to explore art in a very explosive way.

　　Computer age is not just a concept of mechanical duplication, but also a concept of advancing homogeneity between daily living and spiritual life. Daily living has infused into people's life through advertisements and tabloids, and by batch replication of media and publication, the latter one has directly lead to the result of mediocrity among intellects and middle class. In a computer age, art form has no originality, nor is there counterfeits, all the forms that produced by computer can be replicated into infinity, therefore they are the originals too, it has broken classical art's handcrafted quality, feeling of mystery, authority and exclusiveness. And here comes the disappearance of concepts of original and copy.

　　Here comes the age of standardization.

　　Standardization can also be seen as formatting and programmed. We are living in a standard life, it can be seen in standardization of industry, of market acceptance, of products, of consumption, of choosing a spouse and of fast food. Everyday in this city, people are busy checking out of standards of goods related to daily life, but the goal and truth of life has become so vague and far from us, what really is the standard life of this time, the question puzzles us.

　　Artist Gao Xiaowu has revealed the life of standardization by showing us the standard posture, the standard smile. And these have reflects on the standard high-rise buildings and streets, which make up the standard expression of this international metropolitan.

　　Dr. Yin Shuangxi is an art critic, Deputy Editor-in-chief of Art Research magazine published by the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

作者：殷双喜