Rodin
The famous French sculptor Rodin said: There is no lack of beauty in the world, but lack of eyes to discover beauty.
The charm of art is ubiquitous. It is a kind of intoxicating happiness to feel the unique and shocking power in art.
Zhu Guangqian
Chinese esthetician Zhu Guangqian once said: There is no natural beauty in the world, and all beauty is created by the soul.
He explained what is called beauty in " Talking about Beauty". Beauty is not only in the object, but also not only in the heart. It is in the relationship between the heart and the object; but this relationship is not as Kant and ordinary people imagine, in the object To stimulate, to feel in the heart; it is the image of the heart borrowed to express interest.
"Talking about Beauty" is an introductory book on aesthetics written by Mr. Zhu Guangqian in the form of letters for young people. It has been well received since its publication and is regarded as a classic with both academic and popularization. For. Over the years, his "Talking about Beauty" has inspired countless young readers' aesthetic thinking and has a far-reaching impact.
The whole book starts from the concept of "requires life purification, first requires life beautification", and follows the characteristics of aesthetic attitude, the distance between art and life, the relationship between aesthetic experience and empathy, beauty and pleasure, natural beauty and artistic beauty. Unfolded, and finally called on people to "walk slowly and appreciate it".
This book starts with the goal of "talking about beauty" to "freedom from vulgarity" and "purifying the human mind". Where does beauty come from and what is beauty? And the characteristics of beauty, this context unfolds layer by layer, and expresses the personality ideals and aesthetic ideals of this master of aesthetics. He puts forward the ideal goal of his aesthetic research, that is, "the art of life", which is the source of personal cultivation and happiness, and is also the fundamental way to purify society, purify people's hearts, and solve social problems.
When I was in college, I took literature as an elective and studied this book "Aesthetics". I remember that the teacher wrote this sentence on the board at the beginning of the session,At that time I hit me all at once. So seeing this version of Tanmei, my heart was full of excitement during class.
This sentence is like this: Beauty does not fall from the sky; perhaps beauty is like a small flower handed out by Mr. Zhu Guangqian years ago: half is in the object, and the other half has been received in our hands.
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01 Discover beauty, appreciate beauty, create beauty
In the eyes of an artist, everything is beautiful, because his sharp eyes pay attention to all living things The core; if you can determine its character, it is to penetrate the appearance to touch its inner truth. This truth is beauty.
The core idea of Zhu Guangqian's talk about beauty is that art comes from life but it has no practical utility, because if there is practical utility, then when you come in contact with it, you will think of how to use it, not just how to appreciate it. beautiful.
Talking about beauty is about what is beauty, art, and how to appreciate and create beauty. The complete process of the subjective emotion of the concept of "beauty" and how to pursue beauty and its results.
This book not only provides us with a method to use the guidance in the book to comment on surrounding things in our daily life, but also provides us with some practical methods for deep understanding of literary works.
Zhu Guangqian said that beauty is meaningless, and most of the meaning comes from practicality. You can only truly appreciate the pure beauty if you break away from the practicality. This is why you always fail to understand impressionist paintings, because it emphasizes the lines, colors, and shadows, and ignores the content.
02 People must have the spirit of being born before they can do the career of entering the world
There is now a kind of "invisible poor". What is poor is not material or culture, but aesthetics. Once, writers , Jiang Xun and a The president of a Fortune 500 company went to Greece to see the remains of the Temple of Apollo. The car traversed the mountains for nearly two hours and finally arrived at the destination.
Seeing the desolate mountain, the president said with a look of surprise: "We spent so much time,Is it just looking at these pillars?
Jiang Xun explained: "Boss, along the way, you are talking to me about brand value. What is a brand? Chanel is the brand, Armani is the brand. And these pillars are the brand called ‘Greek Culture’. All Western countries influenced by Greek culture, whether the United States or the United Kingdom, the pillars of their parliament buildings must all be built in the style of this pillar.
However, these remarks did not convince the pragmatic businessman. He still felt, "It's not a good deal to walk the mountain for a few hours." Jiang Xun smiled and stopped explaining.
Zhu Guangqian said The present world is just a dense and seamless network of interests, and most people cannot escape this trap. Therefore, they are still tied by the two characters of interests. In terms of interests, people are the least easy to coordinate. Everyone Put yourself first.
When appreciating art, people can plunge into a world where there is absolutely no interest. In the impetuous life, we must learn to take time and appreciate life. Just as the book says If the car goes too fast, the beauty of the mountain is just a prison.
03 The life of art is the true life
The most popular thing in the self-media era now is the "set of people". There are also news from time to time. Title: Someone’s setting collapsed, etc. This person’s setting is packaging. Mr. Zhu gave an explanation in this book about packaging: Hypocrites.
He said that there are two kinds of people whose lives are the least artistic. One is a layman and the other is a hypocrite. The layman lacks true qualities at all, and hypocrites try to conceal their true qualities. The lay people are obsessed with fame and fortune, they are ups and downs in the world, and there is no sky and clouds in their hearts. Their serious illness is the dryness of life.
The hypocrites are. On top of this kind of layman’s qualifications, they are crowned by monkeys. They are not only morally hypocritical, but their words and deeds are unbeautiful. Who knows how many walking corpses are hidden in the shelves of the romantic celebrities? They are all survivors in life.
What a vivid discourse! There has never been anything new in history, and so is beauty. Only the beauty that has experienced the baptism of time is the real beauty.
Feng Zikai Mr. It was also said: "There are five desires in human beings: appetite, lust, knowledge, morality, and beauty."It can be seen that objects that tend to be better are human nature and part of the quality of life. A person who understands aesthetics is not just living, but living.
04 The activity of art is "doing nothing"
People who teach or do business must have the spirit of "doing nothing" and regard their academic career as When looking at a work of art, you only need to satisfy your ideals and tastes, and do not care about the gains or losses in order to achieve a real achievement. Great undertakings are based on vision and open-mindedness.
The form produced in each individual's consciousness is also different, and it is precisely in this chaotic and ever-changing category that aesthetics is discussed, and an essential core knowledge is found.
Try to understand human thinking. In a civilization with Chinese characteristics, aesthetics can also extend to morality, and even directly affect law and social stability.
Even though some idealism and metaphysics are inevitably added in this process, in fact, the world we live in cannot be separated from the idealistic thinking pillar.
05 Conclusion
In today's China, there is a false aesthetics of life still spreading. One of the major characteristics of this false life aesthetics is that it follows the trend of the people, and the people talk about it.
We should pursue beauty and exquisiteness in life. But true beauty is true beauty. The pictures taken with a filter to show off are like wearing colored glasses, which tends to make people aesthetically tired.
As Mr. Zhu said: Imperfection is beauty. Perfection in imperfection, beauty with a little regret is more beautiful.
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