本論文主要以二十世紀東、西方藝術與美學相遇之道為議題，探討東西方藝術家從不同文化傳統脈落對於「空間」之美學問題的思維與創作。本文首先分析抽象、與抽象藝術等概念的哲學與美學涵義，並探討抽象的概念何以與空間的美學問題相關。本文將指出「抽象」、「抽象藝術」、「空間」等語詞的界定必須按創作與實踐的語脈來加以思考。本文將透過當代中西方藝術家創作，尤其以華裔旅法藝術家趙無極、朱德群的創作之途為例，考察「抽象」、「抽象藝術」、「空間」等語詞，在中西美學相遇之際，所可能開展的新向度、以及在當前藝術理論與創作實踐中所展現的影響與新氣象。

This paper will focus on the meeting of far-Eastern and Western arts during the Twentieth Century, and of artists’ concerns,coming from different traditions, through the questionings they have formulated about “space”.It will explore how abstraction has given them the ways to be able to overtake these problems, and study their aesthetics of space.
The terms of “abstraction”, “abstract art”, “space” will be defined in
their context, the quest for a new artistic language as it appears in the
West and in the far-East will be examined, as well as their mutual
encountering, and their influence on nowadays artistic creation.