Who can tell me about the book "Aesthetics and Artistic Conception" by Zong Baihua?

Zong Baihua. Aesthetics and Artistic Conception. People's Publishing House, 1987 edition.

Mr. Zong Baihua's "Aesthetics and Artistic Conception" is the crystallization of his lifelong aesthetic thoughts. In terms of artistic conception theory, poetic theory, artistic creation theory and artistic dialectics, Mr. Zong Baihua has expressed many profound and unique insights, thus forming his complete aesthetic thought.

On calligraphy. "Aesthetics and Artistic Conception" points out: "The people of Jin Dynasty are free and unrestrained in their style and do not stick to things. This beautiful free spirit has found an art that is most suitable for expressing themselves. This is cursive writing in calligraphy. The art of cursive writing is purely magical. There is a way to do something impossible, it all lies in the ease of stippling when writing, every stroke is interesting, from beginning to end, it is done in one go, like a horse flying in the sky, marching freely... This kind of superb art can only be achieved by the detached mind of Xiao San from Jin Dynasty. The heart and hand are in harmony, reaching the pinnacle."

On Chinese painting. "Aesthetics and Artistic Conception" said: "Chinese people feel that the depth of the universe is an invisible and colorless void, and this void is the source of all things, the foundation of all things, and the endless creativity. Lao and Zhuang named it ' Tao is "nature" and "emptiness", and Confucianism clearly understands that everything comes from emptiness and goes to emptiness. Therefore, the blank space on the painting paper is the real base of Chinese painting and Western painting. The whole base of the painting is painted, and then the real scene that can be seen and grasped is presented on top using the distance and perspective method. The realm of Chinese painting is to randomly place a few on the blank. I don’t know whether the characters are in the space, or the space appears because of the characters. People and space are integrated, with endless color and vitality. We feel that there are only a few people in this endless space, which is not too few. But these people do not feel that there is no world in this blank environment, because the blank space at the bottom of the Chinese painting is not a vacuum in the entire artistic conception, but is where the spiritual energy of the universe flows and where life flows. The void and the real exist side by side, and the void without drawing is the "nothingness" of Lao and Zhuang's cosmology. It is the source of all phenomena and the foundation of all movements."