Artistic creation is a complicated process, which can be divided into three stages: artistic experience, artistic conception and artistic expression. These three stages are continuous and inseparable whole. ? Artistic experience is the preparatory stage of artistic creation. It is a process in which the creative subject, on the basis of aesthetic experience, fully mobilizes psychological elements such as emotion, imagination and association to examine, appreciate and understand a specific aesthetic object. Usually, artistic experience consists of three parts: the storage of materials and the accumulation of aesthetic experience; Aesthetic discovery and the occurrence of aesthetic comprehension; The germination of creative desire and the generation of motivation. Artistic creation is our subjective understanding and active creation of objective life, the combination of subject and object, and the unity of subject and object. Only by accumulating a large number of life materials can we arouse strong feelings from our unique feelings, refine profound thoughts and create vivid images, thus truly showing the essence of life. In the process of artistic creation, we are not passive, but active. Social life is the logical starting point of artistic creation. If we want to create, we must go deep into life and accumulate life materials. Without the raw materials of life, we can't process and produce works of art out of thin air. For example, when the crown is over the age of ancient times, he often "wanders around", taking mountains and rivers as his teacher, carrying paper and pens with him, and sketching from time to time. It took several years to create the famous Fuchun Shan Jutu. Shi Tao said, "Search for its strange peak and draw it up." These are all experiences full of creative hardships. The painter Leonardo da Vinci believes that artists should be "sons of nature" rather than "grandchildren of nature", that is, they should face up to life in nature and seek the source of creation, rather than form an indirect relationship with nature. In order to create the Mona Lisa, he showed a charming smile. He used anatomical knowledge to study the law of laughter and the subtle changes in nature. In the long-term experience and accumulation, he finally got inspiration from the breezy rippling lake, created a mysterious smile all over the world, and showed the dignified and demure beauty. . ? Artistic conception refers to the process that the artistic creator processes, refines and combines the original materials through various psychological activities and specific artistic thinking modes on the basis of artistic experience, and forms an artistic image in his mind. Artistic image is the product of the fusion of artistic creators' aesthetic feelings and objective things. It is the central link and key step of artistic creation. The most important thing in artistic conception is to determine the theme and theme. Theme is the carrier of theme. With excellent materials, we can better express profound themes. Theme is the soul of theme. In creation, the two are interactive and dialectical. After determining the theme and theme, we should refine the plot to better show the content of the work, and consider building them into a properly structured organic art whole to improve the artistic level of the work. The methods of artistic conception are various, typical and simplified. Deformation? Exaggeration and defamiliarization. Monet, the French impressionist master, once spent a lot of energy to observe and study a straw pile. He repeatedly sketched according to different lighting time, such as morning and evening, bright, dark, spring, summer, autumn and winter, and studied the changes of different light colors, and finally created 15 "straw piles" with different colors. All this is the result of "nature from the outside and heart from the inside". Without well-trained eyesight and sensitive mind, it is impossible to create such subtle changes and differences, and it is impossible to capture beautiful light lines and colors. Artistic expression means that the artistic creator chooses and uses a specific artistic language, and finally presents the artistic image that has been basically formed in his artistic conception as a physical existence, making it a concrete artistic image or artistic situation. It must follow the double principle that form obeys content and formal beauty. Art forms divorced from content are worthless. Artistic conception is "the shape in the heart" and artistic expression is "the shape in the hand". Ingenious conception does not mean that there are exquisite works. Because artistic conception is a mental journey full of hardships. Artistic expression is a more solid practical operation process. Artistic expression is not only the realization process of artistic conception, but also the continuation process of deepening, enriching, revising and improving artistic conception. Artistic skills are the means to realize artistic conception and play an important role in artistic expression.

You can appreciate the bitterness and pursuit of painting creation. As Mr. Zong Baihua said: "Life is limited, and the pursuit and creation of artistic realm is endless." May we encourage ourselves by this, so that everyone's artistic thinking flower will bloom forever and be fragrant forever.