The artistic essence of an introduction to art

Including material, spiritual and various aspects. On the subject matter, the author will also choose the social life he has experienced. Portraits are both factual and imaginary.

Secondly, art is a reflection of social life, which does not mean that art is social life. It is only a mirror image of social life in the human brain, and it is a visual understanding. Therefore, art is spiritual, not material or cognitive.

Different from other ways of understanding, art understands the world in an aesthetic way. It aims at beauty, and obtains aesthetic feelings through concrete and sensible artistic images, without utilitarianism. For example, people listen to a piece of music to get a happy mood.

According to the objective spirit, Plato and Hegel are representative figures. Plato thinks that art is "shadow of shadow", "replica of replica" and "there are three layers between it and truth". He thinks that art is an imitation of the rational world, and those rural poets should be expelled. Hegel, on the other hand, mentioned that "art is the absolute presentation of ideas", which he believed was an eternal existence that was not influenced by human subjectivity.

Second, the theory of representation, also known as the representative theory, mainly believes that art is an imitation of real life.

1. The phenomenon world reappears, and Heraclitus thinks that painting is to depict natural objects with colors.

2. For the representation of the essential world, Aristotle further proposed that artistic imitation should not only be superficial, but also show its inherent essential laws.

Second, the theory of expression, also known as subjective spiritualism, mainly holds that the essence of art is to express the artist's subjective spirit.

1. Subjective spiritualism, mainly represented by Kant and Nietzsche. First Kant thinks that art is the perceptual presentation of human reason, and then Nietzsche thinks that art is the external expression of human spirit. In The Birth of Tragedy, he divided the western artistic spirit into Apollo spirit and Dionysus spirit. Apollo spirit represents rationality, solemnity and sublimity, and the art it represents is painting, architecture and sculpture, which is an orderly and elegant art. Dionysus spirit represents chaos and madness, and represents art, including music and dance.

Self-expression theory holds that art is the external expression of human will, represented by subjective idealists such as Fichte, who deny the existence of things in themselves and think that self is the only reality, while others, including people themselves, are only objects created for human self-activity.

The Four Wills Theory, represented by Schopenhauer and others, holds that art is the external expression of human will, and art is the inner desire and material desire of human beings and their concrete expression.

Psychologists such as Susan Langer believe that art is the external expression of people's inner feelings according to the theory of five emotions.

Six-intuition expressionism, the expressionist aesthetician represented by Croce thinks that the essence of art is human's inner intuition, and Croce thinks that art is fantasy or intuition.

According to the theory of subconscious expression, aestheticians represented by Freud believe that the essence of art lies only in people's inner intuition.

Eight-shape theory holds that art is the embodiment of form. Represented by Russian formalism, they believe that art is neither representation nor expression, and art is the form itself, which has nothing to do with foreign objects.

There are Gestalt Psychology, Gestalt Psychology and Structural Adaptation Theory.