Art is the overall reflection of the artist's real life with the help of certain harmony methods, and it is the product of the artist's creative work. Artistic beauty is the core of art, which comes from and is higher than realistic beauty, and is the condensation, refinement and concentration of realistic beauty. Artistic beauty is rich in content and is one of the important components of aesthetic quality education for primary and secondary school students.

Because artistic beauty has distinct personality characteristics, people are willing to contact artistic works in real life. At all times and in all countries, many successful people have been influenced by artistic beauty. When we say that artistic beauty is conducive to the growth of teenagers, we mainly mean the significance of artistic beauty.

Art is the basic way for people to know and master the world. Its purpose is to know life, reflect life and create life. To achieve this goal of art, we must appreciate art, and artistic beauty plays an incomparable role in cultivating and improving people's aesthetic ability, because artistic beauty is more concentrated, stronger and more moving than realistic beauty, so it is more infectious. Artistic beauty makes people's aesthetic ability constantly improve, and the requirements for beauty constantly change. The improvement of aesthetic ability and the changes in aesthetic needs push the creation and appreciation of artistic beauty to a higher stage. It is in this interaction and development of subject and object that the purpose of art can be realized. .

Noble and healthy feelings are an important condition and symbol of human spiritual perfection. And artistic beauty plays a unique role in cultivating the noble feelings of the rich. All the beautiful works of art are permeated with the artist's feelings and entrusted with his love and hate. When Tang Xianzu wrote "Peony Pavilion", he was sad and shed tears when he wrote "enjoying the fragrance of spring or your old skirt". When Liang Bin wrote The Red Flag Spectrum, he also shed countless tears and finished the book with tears. The artist's rich and rich emotions, conveyed to the appreciator through artistic images, will inevitably arouse strong feelings and produce emotions of sadness, joy or anger, thus purifying, enriching and sublimating the feelings. The emotional content of artistic beauty is indispensable for cultivating people's spiritual beauty.

Art is different from science. Scientific appeal to reason, its knowledge of things is increasing. And art appeals to feeling, which causes people's feelings and rich imagination of beauty. In the feeling of artistic beauty, people will exert the power of imagination, perfect, supplement, enrich and even change the nature of the objects in their minds, and re-create a new perfect image. For example, although many of us have never been to the grassland, we have seen the folk song "Chilechuan" written by Yuefu in the Northern Dynasty: "Chilechuan, under the Yinshan Mountain. The sky is like the sky, and the cage covers four fields. The sky is wild, and the wind blows grass to see cattle and sheep. " A vast and magnificent picture of grassland and pastoral areas will emerge in your mind. Of course, the results caused by this kind of creative ideas vary from person to person. Numerous facts show that the richer a person's aesthetic experience and the higher his education level, the stronger his thinking and understanding ability, and the sharper and stronger his feeling, understanding and emotional experience of beauty.

The basic characteristics of artistic beauty are determined by the basic content of artistic beauty. Through predecessors' research on artistic beauty, we have summarized several basic characteristics of artistic beauty:

The first basic feature of artistic beauty is intuition. The so-called intuition is concrete vividness and direct sensibility, which can directly act on people's sensory organs and produce feelings, perceptions and representations in the brain, and then produce association or imagination. This is because any artistic beauty is always determined by the beauty of image. All the images are intuitive. In some works of art, the intuition of artistic beauty is very obvious. For example, the famous Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci's excellent portrait Mona Lisa. In other works of art, although the intuition of artistic beauty is not as obvious as mentioned above, they also directly act on our sensory organs, making us produce beautiful images in our minds through association or imagination.

The second basic feature of artistic beauty is coordination. The so-called harmony, the most fundamental thing is the unity of content and form, that is to say, the content of real life should be expressed in a completely beautiful artistic form. The beauty of works of art lies in the organic connection between form and content, which is determined by content, and content only exists in some form. This is mainly determined by the fact that any artistic beauty always reflects life.

The third basic feature of artistic beauty is typicality. The so-called typicality means that the images in works of art not only have distinct and unique personalities, but also reflect some aspects of certain social essence, and contain artists' aesthetic ideals and emotions. Engels asked writers to create "typical characters in typical environments", which refers to this typicality. Comrade Mao Zedong said: "The life reflected in literary and artistic works can and should be more noble, intense, concentrated, typical and ideal than ordinary real life, so it is more universal." Also refers to this typicality. The typicality of artistic beauty is also determined by the basic content of artistic beauty, which is the pursuit and embodiment of people's ideal of beauty.

Among all the artistic beauty, it is typical. For example, the Lotus Dance written by Dai, a famous dancer in China in the early days of liberation, not only has a distinct personality, but also reflects that the broad masses of people in China have lived a new life of peace, happiness and prosperity after liberation. Under the blue sky and white clouds, in the lotus pond surrounded by green willows, the lotus fairy danced lightly and peacefully in a pink skirt and light green dress, creating a quiet artistic conception of hibiscus coming out of the water, which deeply inspired people's infinite love for nature, the motherland and peace.

The fourth basic feature of artistic beauty is its love-hate tendency, that is, what you love and hate. In class society, the most important tendency is class nature. In a society where class has been eliminated but class struggle still exists in a certain range, the tendency still has class nature. This is because artists always belong to a certain class, stratum or social group and their overall quality.

The fifth basic feature of artistic beauty is nationality. The so-called nationality is the characteristics of aesthetic ideals and artistic forms formed by various ethnic groups in their long-term lives. In other words, the beauty in any artistic work must have the different characteristics of each nation that produces this beauty. This is because any artist belongs to a certain nation, and the beauty in his works must not surpass the whole history of his nation.

Through the practice of artistic creation, the natural beauty in real life is summarized and refined, and the beauty in artistic works is condensed. In the history of aesthetics, aestheticians have different understandings of artistic beauty because of their different philosophical views. Hegel, starting from objective idealism, believes that artistic beauty is the beauty in the advanced development stage for many years and is an advanced form of beauty; He claims that artistic beauty is higher than natural beauty, and that artistic beauty is real beauty and "regenerative beauty produced by the soul". The mind and its products are much higher than nature and its phenomena, and artistic beauty is much higher than natural beauty. " Chernyshevski criticized Hegel from metaphysical materialism and thought that natural beauty is higher than artistic beauty. "Beauty in objective reality is complete beauty." "Artistic creation is lower than the beautiful things in reality" Art is only a pale and inaccurate reflection of life. Marxist aesthetics holds that artistic beauty is the main object of aesthetic research, and art cannot be separated from image, so artistic beauty is mainly the beauty of artistic image, which comes from real life just like artistic image and is as vivid and rich as real life image, but it is as different from real life as artistic image. It is the crystallization of human aesthetic activities created by art and a typical generalization of real life, so the beauty in real life is more concentrated and typical. In any kind of works of art, we can appreciate its beauty. For example, poetry in prose, touching plot and distinctive personality of characters in novels, gorgeous colors and exquisite composition in paintings, vivid form and spirit in sculpture, beautiful melody and cheerful rhythm in music, lightness and freedom in dance, overlapping conflicts and interests in drama and so on. , all contain rich beauty. Even in a small bonsai on the desk, we can enjoy beautiful scenery, deep valleys and quiet forests. The beauty in all these works of art is artistic beauty.

In a word, artistic beauty is the beauty in artistic works. Without artistic works, there is no artistic beauty. At this time, the works of art can be works created by the artist himself and independent of the artist himself, such as plays written by playwrights and music created by musicians; It can also be a work created by an artist and embodied in the artist himself, such as an actor's performance and a pianist's performance. Of course, there is no artistic beauty in the so-called works of art with no aesthetic feeling at all.

The artistic image of beauty is not created out of thin air, it is deeply rooted in life. Without life, there is no artistic image, and there is no beauty of artistic image. In the final analysis, the beauty of artistic image is only a reflection of life.

Different nations and different times will have different artistic beauty. However, human beings also have all aesthetic tendencies based on physiology and the living environment of the earth, and the characteristics of works of art can also coincide with this tendency to form the beauty of * * *. Such as painting, music, dance and other arts, can form artistic beauty appreciated by different nationalities in different times. The so-called human heart is connected, and the truth is the same. Artistic works can also have universal and eternal beauty.