Art appreciation slogan

-The artistry of life

Zhu Guangqian

So far, we have been discussing the creation and appreciation of art. In this section, I propose to briefly explain the relationship between art and life.

When I opened this chapter, I was concerned about the difference between aesthetic attitude and practical attitude, and the distance between art and real life. If I stop here, you may misunderstand that I regard art and life as two unrelated things. I didn't mean that.

Life is a multifaceted but harmonious whole. Analysis, we say that some parts are practical activities, some are scientific activities, and some are aesthetic activities. In order to clear the name, we should have this distinction;

But let's not forget that the whole life lies in the average development of these three activities, which are separable but not in conflict. The meaning of "real life" is narrower than that of the whole life. Ordinary people's mistakes

They think that art is equal to "real life" and it has no value in the whole life. Some people maintain the status of art, but they also want to force it into the small building of "real life"

Let's go Such people not only misunderstand art, but also don't understand life. We regard real life as a fragment of the whole life, so when we affirm the distance between art and real life, we do not affirm art and the whole life.

Gap. Strictly speaking, there is no art without life, because art is the expression of interest, and the root of interest lies in life; On the contrary, there is no life without art, because all creation and appreciation are artistic activities.

Life without creation and appreciation is a contradictory term.

In a broader sense, life is an art. Everyone's life history is his own work. This kind of work can be artistic or not, just as it is a stubborn stone. One person can carve it into a great statue, but another person can't make it into a finished product. It's all about sex and cultivation. A man who knows life is an artist, and his life is a work of art.

Living a lifetime is like writing an article. A perfect life has the beauty that a top grade should have.

First of all, a good article must be a complete organism, in which all parts are closely related and cannot be moved or slightly increased or decreased. You can see the spirit of the whole article in every word. Such as Tao Yuanming's drinking.

Originally, this poem was "Picking chrysanthemums under the hedge, leisurely seeing Nanshan", but later generations mistakenly printed the word "see" as the word "hope", and the expression of natural encounters in the original text was completely lost. The integrity of this art is called "individuality" in life. earth

The most perfect life is the expression of personality. Big and advancing and retreating, small and smiling, no one conflicts with the whole personality. Tao Yuanming refused to bend his back for five buckets of rice, which is a much-told story in his life history.

Chapter, if he misses this section, he will lose it as Tao Yuanming. This is an article in Socrates' life history. He refused to escape from prison. When he was executed, Ding Ning told his neighbor to pay the debt of a chicken, otherwise he would lose it.

Grady. This life history can be amazing as a painting and a masterpiece of art.

Secondly, "whether rhetoric is sincere" is the key to the article. A poem or a beautiful article must be the most affectionate expression. It exists in the middle and then forms outside without any excuse. Interest was originally the result of my sympathy for singing. scenery

It's endless fun to become inactive. I have my own personality, and things have their own personality, changing and growing at any time. What everyone saw in the club at a certain time, and what each scene caused in the club at a certain time.

All smells have their own particularities, and they will not be exactly the same as the scenery seen by another person at another time and the smell caused by another scene at another time. The difference is subtle. In this endless

In interest, we can see the creation of life. It is a good article to express this life in words and words; It is a happy life history in words and deeds.

Articles avoid vulgarity, so does life. Vulgarity means that you don't have your own true colors and follow other people's old rules. People who suffer from heart disease often smile, which is a natural expression, so it adds to her beauty. Dong Shi has no heart disease and is eager to learn and strong.

The gesture of raising eyebrows will only make people disgusted. In History of Xi, this is creation, while in History of East, it is a cliche. It is hypocritical to say that the old saying begins with the exhaustion of life. As Croce said, hypocrisy is ugly. "Public water?

In fact, it naturally becomes a pattern. "This is the beauty of the article and the beauty of life. In what position, what kind of people, how to feel interesting, how to behave and behave, people feel harmonious and complete at first sight. This is art.

Life.

As the saying goes, "Only heroes can be true". The so-called artistic life is the real life. There are two kinds of people who have the least sense of art, one is a layman and the other is a hypocrite. "Vulgar" just lacks its true colors, while "hypocrite" tries to cover up its true colors. Zhu Huian has a poem that says:

Half an acre of square pond opened and the sky was overcast.

Why is the water in the pond so clear? Because there is a steady stream of living water here.

Artistic life is a life of "flowing water from the source". Folks are obsessed with fame and fortune, drifting with the flow, and there is no "sky and clouds" in their hearts, just because there is no source of living water. Their serious illness is the exhaustion of life. The hypocrite is here.

On the basis of the qualification of "layman", the trick of "washing monkeys to win the championship" has been added. Their characteristics are not only manifested in moral hypocrisy, but also in their words, smiles and actions, which makes people feel unattractive. Who knows that on the shelves of romantic celebrities, masks

How many walking corpses are hidden? Whether they are "laity" or "hypocrite", they are all "beggars" in life, and they all lack the conscience that artists should have when creating. As Bergson said, they are all "machines of life"

"Hua" can only be used as a role in "The Brush of Happiness", and most people who live in comedies are not artists.

Artistic creation must be appreciated, and so must life. Most people are always willing to say that a kind of words and deeds are "good-looking" and "not good-looking", which is more or less measured by the standard of artistic appreciation. But most people don't know

Can be thorough, can't put every word, deed, smile and every move in the whole life history, their concept of "personality" is too weak, and the so-called "good-looking" and "bad-looking" are often just "perfunctory face". People who are good at life are thorough and serious.

Don't let a grain of dust interfere with the harmony of the whole life. Most people often think that artists are the most casual people, but in fact, artists are the most serious within the scope of art. In exercise, I often vomit my heart and liver, and I also drew a stroke.

Refuse to get along. When Wang wrote the poem "Green", the original "green" space was "Zhi" space. Later, the word "Zhi" was changed to "Guo", from "Guo" to "Jin" and from "Jin" to "Man".

The word "green" was changed more than ten times before it was defined as "green". In other words, you can imagine the seriousness of the artist at this end. People who are good at life are so serious about life. When Ceng Zi died, he remembered that the mat on the bed belonged to Lu Ji, so he had to call someone.

It was changed before publication. Wu once secretly promised Xu Jun a sword, but he died without Xu Jun. He solemnly hung his sword on a tree next to Xu Jun's tomb to witness the friendship of "sharing life and death". Words and deeds like this

Although it looks like a part, people who are good at life refuse to let go easily, just as poets refuse to let go of every word easily. This is the case with sections, not to mention the big and small sections. Dong Huning would rather behead than cover up historical facts, and Qi Yi would rather starve to death than surrender.

Zhou's demeanor is both moral and artistic. We advocate the artistry of life, which means the seriousness of life.

An artist's evaluation of the value of a thing is based on whether it can be integrated into a harmonious whole, which is often unexpected by ordinary people. He can look down on what ordinary people look down on, or he can look down on what ordinary people look down on. When you value something,

He knows how to persist; When he despises something, he also knows to get rid of it. Art can be seen not only in what you know, but also in what you know. Su Dongpo's paper is like running in the valley, doing what it has to do and stopping at what it has to do.

More than that. This is the right choice, and so is artistic life. People who are good at life will judge everything in the world by their artistic taste. People who are good at art can become Mount Tai, while those who are not good at art cannot become Mount Tai.

Mount Tai can also become a hair. He can not only be serious, but also get rid of it. See his seriousness when you are serious. When you get rid of it, see its openness. Guo Zonglin was surprised to see Meng Min fall into mourning and leave. He said, "I have already

What good is it if it is broken? "The philosopher Spinoza would rather grind mirrors for a living than be a university professor because he was afraid of interfering with his freedom. Wang Huizhi lives in Yin Shan. One night it just started to snow, and the moonlight was clear. Suddenly, I remembered his friend Dai Kui and took a ride.

The boat went to Shanxi to visit him and rowed it back as soon as it arrived at the door. He said, "Come on a whim and come back when it's over." These things are far apart, but you can see the artist's open-mindedness. Need a great life and great art.

At the same time, this is a serious and open victory. Most of the clean streams in the Jin Dynasty only knew openness but not seriousness, while most of the Neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty only knew seriousness and did not know the gap.

Da. Tao Yuanming and Du Zimei are just right.

Life history is a work. From an ethical point of view, it has the difference between good and evil, and from an artistic point of view, it has the difference between beauty and ugliness. What is the relationship between good and evil, beauty and ugliness?

In a narrow sense, the value of ethics is practical, the value of aesthetic feeling is beyond practice, ethical activities are doing something, while aesthetic activities are doing nothing. For example, benevolence, loyalty and faith are all good. Ask them why they are good.

We have to pay attention to the happiness of the crowd. The reason why beauty is beautiful lies in the form of beauty itself, not in its utility to the crowd (this does not mean that it has no utility to the crowd). If there is only one in the world,

People, he can't have moral activities, because there are filial fathers and sons and friends with faith. But this imaginary loner can also engage in artistic activities, appreciate the world he lives in and create works. Goodness depends on something, but beauty depends on nothing. The value of goodness is "external" and the value of beauty is "internal".

However, this distinction is narrow. Broadly speaking, goodness is a kind of beauty, and evil is an ugliness. Because ethical activities can also cause aesthetic appreciation and disgust. The great Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle discussed ethics.

When dealing with problems, everyone thinks that goodness is graded. Although the general goodness has only external value, the "supreme goodness" has internal value. What is this so-called "supreme goodness"? Plato and Aristotle were originally one track-minded.

The extremes of idealism go to the extremes of empiricism, but there is a consensus on this issue. They all think that "the best" lies in "not playing with ropes" (selflessness

Meditation). This view has a great influence on western philosophical thoughts, and the theories of Spinoza, Hegel and Schopenhauer can be referenced. From this we can see that the "supreme goodness" in the minds of western philosophers also

Is it a kind of beauty, the highest ethical activity or an artistic activity?

Can "doing nothing to play with a rope" be regarded as "the best"? This question involves the view of God of western philosophers. Since the popularization of Jesus, God has been a moralist with great compassion. In Greek philosophers and modern times

In the minds of Leibniz, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, God is a great artist. He created this universe for his own creation and appreciation. In fact, this view does not lower the status of God. Jesuits

God is just a rich man who is willing to give alms to a group of poor beggars, while God in the hearts of ordinary philosophers regards the universe as music and hopes to see harmonious musicians in this music.

Which of these two ideas is better? Western philosophers believe that God is just an elf, and his activities are absolutely free and unrestricted, while people are limited by physical needs and cannot be absolutely free. The more people can get rid of their physiological needs.

The closer you are to God, the freer you will be. "Doing nothing to play with the rope" is the only free activity, so it becomes the highest ideal.

These words seem a little mysterious and should not be mentioned here. But whether you believe it or not, as an image, there are many ideas worth pondering. I also like reading philosophy books in my spare time.

Books. To be honest, I doubt the words of many philosophers, but I find them interesting. I think all philosophical systems can only be regarded as works of art when they are so poor. Philosophy and science are extremely poor, both of which are full.

Full of curiosity. Every philosopher and scientist is interested in a little truth he sees (whether it is true or not) and appreciates it with passion. Truth leaves practicality and becomes interesting.

The mind is already the object of aesthetic feeling. Scientific facts such as "The earth goes around the sun" and "Hook and rope equals chord" can be as fascinating as Milo's Love of God or the Ninth Symphony. Scientists seek such things.

True, poor to the end, it is precisely because they can be sad. Therefore, scientific activity is also an artistic activity. Not only is goodness and beauty integrated, but there is no gap between truth, goodness and beauty.

Art is an interesting activity, and art life is also an interesting life. People can be divided into two types, one is full of interest, they are interested in many things, and they seek to enjoy this interest everywhere. One is love.

Those bored people are bored with many things. They don't seek pleasure. They just fight with fly maggots all day for food and clothes. The latter is a layman, while the former is an artist. The richer the taste, the happier the life, the so-called life.

The artistry of life is the interest of life.

"Learning interestingly" means appreciating. Whether you know life or not depends on whether you can appreciate many things. Appreciation is also "out of thin air." When appreciating, people are as free and blessed as immortals.

There is a big driveway in the Alps valley with beautiful scenery on both sides. There is a sign on the road, advising tourists to say, "Take your time and enjoy yourself!" Many people live in the world of Ma Rulong, where this car is like running water, just like in the Alps.

Riding in the valley, rushing by, there is no time to look back and linger on the scenery, so this rich and gorgeous world has become a lifeless prison. What a pity!

Friend, before I say goodbye, I use the slogan on the Alps road and add three words to the farewell idiom of China people: "Take your time and enjoy it!"

( 1932)