The aesthetic characteristics of art are the fundamental sign that distinguishes it from other social practice activities. The so-called aesthetic characteristics refer to the aesthetic quality and value of works of art. Works of art are the crystallization of artists' aesthetic ideals and the result of the creation of beauty. It not only touches people with emotion, but also has aesthetic feeling, which makes people get a kind of psychological pleasure. Images in works of art have more metaphysical aesthetic characteristics than images of real things in life, because they condense and condense the beauty of images in life. The image of plum blossom in China's traditional paintings is often old and withered, escaping sideways, frost and blooming in the spring, which embodies the aesthetic connotation of old trees and new flowers and blooming youth, making people feel more beautiful than watching plum blossom in life. Works of art can show the image of beauty in life, make it more prominent and fluent, show ugliness in life, and also turn ugliness in life into artistic beauty. Artists flay the ugliness in life in their works, fully display its ugly essence, arouse people's aversion to ugliness, thus eliminating ugliness and eradicating ugliness, so as to stimulate people's yearning for beautiful things. At this time, the ugliness of life has certain aesthetic significance and value. For example, the works of art with the theme of combating corruption and promoting honesty, by summarizing the phenomena, fully show the harmfulness of social phenomena to socialist construction and give warnings, and also achieve magical shock, so that the appreciator can gain a special aesthetic feeling. Art is not only an aesthetic activity with aesthetic characteristics, but also belongs to the ideology in the superstructure and has ideological nature. In the final analysis, art is a way for people to grasp the world. People get to know the world through art, which also includes people's understanding of themselves. Moreover, aesthetics in art is its most fundamental essential attribute, and its ideological characteristics are hidden in aesthetic characteristics, which makes the aesthetic world of art have a broader and deeper connotation. Therefore, we say that artistic activities are the unity of aesthetic activities and ideology.
Artistic image runs through the whole process of artistic activities. Artists can't do without concrete images in their creative process. Just like Zheng Banqiao's painting of bamboo, his observation and experience of bamboo image began with "bamboo in the garden" and "bamboo in the eye", and artistic conception gave birth to "bamboo in the chest", while grinding inkstone and spreading paper in disguised form finally completed "bamboo in the hand", which shows that bamboo image is accompanied by the whole process of painting bamboo from beginning to end. Artists not only never leave vivid and concrete images in the process of creation, but also need to show concrete and sensible artistic images in their works of art, so as to impress every appreciator with their strong artistic appeal. Therefore, the process of artistic appreciation should also trigger the appreciation of the situation and artistic conception in the works through the feeling of artistic image. This is enough to show that image runs through every link of artistic activities. Image has become the most basic feature that distinguishes art from other social ideologies. Art reflects social life, is a creator and a special form.
In the whole psychological process of artistic creation. The "feeling" in artistic activities is dominated by "enjoyment" and is always attracted by the colors and sounds of objects that can make you happy; Perception in artistic activities often selects and processes objects according to emotional needs, and selects and "judges" objects according to emotional schema; "Imagination" in artistic activities is to create an image that conforms to one's feelings and purposes according to the emotional requirements of the subject. "Understanding" in artistic activities is often a kind of personalized identification. It is undoubtedly an emotional activity to gain a deep understanding of life and its meaning. Artists' emotions are often fully expressed through artistic images. The artist's reflection of life and description of artistic image are by no means indifferent and indifferent, but condense his thoughts and feelings, love and hate, and permeate his aesthetic taste and ideals. 1in April, 937, more than 40 planes were dispatched to bomb guernica, a famous Spanish Basque cultural city, which aroused the strong feelings of Picasso, a master painter. He finished his masterpiece guernica, which is famous for its painting history, in a short month.
Art embodies and materializes people's certain aesthetic concepts, tastes and ideals. Both aesthetic creation and aesthetic acceptance of art need to be felt and conveyed through some senses of the subject, and the corresponding aesthetic experience will be triggered. The aesthetic classification of art should be mainly based on the aesthetic feeling and perceptual way of the subject. According to this principle, art can be divided into plastic arts, performing arts, comprehensive arts and language arts.
Instantaneous aesthetic creation of objects by the body. It is perceptual rather than inferential, empirical rather than analytical. At the same time, it is also inseparable from the creation of artistic images. The image in art is meaningful and permeated with the artist's deep thinking. It is not a random copy of the objective life picture, but the externalization and expression of the artist's understanding of life, attitude and understanding of social things after selection, processing and integration. Mr. Lu Xun once said: "What the painter painted and the sculptor carved is a painting and a statue on the surface, but it is actually the expression of his thoughts and personality." In addition, the artist's thinking in creative activities plays an important role in grasping the flavor of the times, choosing materials and themes, conceiving themes and plots, and choosing forms of expression. Artistic activities are the organic unity of image grasping and grasping.
Image is an aesthetic image. Aesthetic situation and artistic conception in a broad sense mainly refer to vivid, concrete and sensible images of people and things that can arouse people's thoughts or emotional activities in artistic activities. Image is a unique way of existence in artistic activities. As the product of human production, works of art depend on a certain material carrier. It must be intuitive and concrete, and can be directly perceived by human senses. Image is the basic element of artistic works, so every artistic image must appear in a specific perceptual form, which truly shows the external forms and internal characteristics of people, events, sights and things in life, making people feel vivid and lifelike. Artistic image is the result of the artist's understanding and experience of life and the crystallization of the artist's aesthetic consciousness. Therefore, when artists examine and experience life, their artistic images are vivid and concrete. Through people's senses such as vision and hearing, we can feel and grasp the colors, lines, sounds and movements of artistic images, giving people the aesthetic feeling of hearing their voices, seeing their people and being in the environment.
The emotion in art is an aesthetic emotion, which is not utilitarian and universal. Emotion is one of the important factors in the generation, creation and acceptance of artistic activity motivation. At the same time, emotion is the basic element of artistic creation. Artistic activities are always accompanied by emotion, which is the concrete psychological expression of interest and personality, and also the value judgment of whether the object can satisfy itself. Writer lev tolstoy once pointed out in his "On Art" that literary creation is a feeling that an artist "has experienced in his own heart. After this feeling, he conveys this feeling with images expressed by actions, lines, colors, sounds and words, so that others can experience the same feeling-this is an artistic activity." Emotion affects the whole process of artistic activities and runs through art from beginning to end.
Art can be both a macro concept and an individual phenomenon, and it is a staged achievement in the form of capture and excavation, feeling and analysis, integration and application (the combination process of forms, the life process of creatures and the development process of stories) and feeling (seeing, listening, smelling and touching).