Keywords: artistic creator; Artistic accomplishment; Thinking in images; Creative expression
Jung said that art is ultimately personality. No matter how an artist tries to think, only after finding a feasible expression can he present it completely. This feasible expression is the synthesis of the artist's quality and wisdom.
The birth of a great work of art is not only the creative process from beginning to end, but also the creation of the author's own quality, cultural accomplishment, aesthetic feeling ability, thinking ability and superb skills. This belongs to what we call artistic accomplishment. The formation of artistic accomplishment depends not only on the creator's years of hard study, but also on his living environment, growth experience, social background and so on. Artistic creation is the external expression on this basis. The same expression, a person's artistic accomplishment is low, and the result of expression is superficial. Personal artistic accomplishment is high, and the results expressed are meaningful. Knowing this, we can have a more accurate and profound understanding of all links in the process of artistic creation. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the relationship between the artistic accomplishment of the creator and artistic creation.
The artistic accomplishment of artistic creators includes aesthetic feeling ability, thinking ability in images and creative expression ability, which are obtained through long-term tempering and learning, and the profound understanding and knowledge of art obtained from the creator's life, study and a series of activities.
First, aesthetic ability
Artistic creation has its own laws, which need to be carefully considered from the accumulation of materials, the establishment of creative themes, the composition of works, the use of expression techniques and so on. Although art sometimes doesn't have to go through rigorous thinking, sometimes it just comes with success, but artistic creation must be dominated by ideology-aesthetic ability. A creator without aesthetic ability can't create a deep artistic work, and the work will lose its meaning.
This aesthetic ability refers to the ability of aesthetic sensory organs to perceive aesthetic objects. This ability includes two aspects: first, the ability to perceive the exterior of aesthetic objects (such as color and shape); The second is the ability to perceive the emotional expression and symbolic meaning (such as emotional experience) of aesthetic objects. In these two perceptual abilities, artists are required not only to be similar to each other, but also to reflect the internal spirit in the external image, thus reflecting the internal value of the work. This is similar to China's literati paintings, which express their feelings through objects and their lofty aspirations through objects.
Schiller pointed out: "aesthetic feeling is the most urgent need of the times, not only because it is a means to improve human insight into life, but also because it can arouse the improvement of observation." If a painter lacks the feeling of beauty, it is impossible for him to sublimate beauty into his works, and it is impossible to create high-level and connotative works of art. Rodin, a famous French sculptor, said: "Beauty is everywhere. For our eyes, it is not the lack of beauty, but the lack of discovery."
Artistic creators should go deep into life and rely on their own aesthetic ability to discover and dig what they think is beautiful on the basis of practice. In deep life, creators collect and accumulate materials in practice, and dig out creative themes that can express aesthetic ideals of truth, goodness and beauty through their own aesthetic ability. A good creative intention and an excellent creative theme reflect the author's high aesthetic ability, which is bound to be the external reflection of beauty in real life. Through the artist's artistic skills and means, this kind of beauty is displayed through works, enlightening people's hearts, improving people's moral cultivation and cultivating the aesthetic ability of the public.
Second, the ability of thinking in images.
What is thinking in images? Human thinking methods can be divided into two categories: one is logical thinking; One is thinking in images. The former makes people know the essence of objective things, which is abstract and rational. The latter makes people know the external actual image of objective things, which is concrete and perceptual. When people have a correct understanding of the essence of objective things through logical thinking, they should think in images so that abstract concepts can be constructed in visualization, especially in artistic creation.
The function of artistic works to the appreciator is indirect enlightenment and influence, not direct reasoning and enlightenment. It wants to express the creator's inner feelings through images; The way of thinking is thinking in images. Therefore, only by arousing the rich associations of the appreciators with images can we be infected and enlightened. Since images are an important way for artists to express their thoughts and feelings, we must know them, capture them and use them. No matter in the conception stage or the production stage, we should put image first and always think from the perspective of image, so as to master the characteristics of artistic creation, strengthen artistic appeal, replace spirit with form and reflect the intrinsic value of works.
Even abstract or grotesque works (such as Dadaism, symbolism, surrealism and other modern art forms), their materials are still extracted from real life. No matter how grotesque it is, it cannot be separated from real life. The part that may exist or will exist in fantasy is actually extracted from what already exists and reconstructed. Whether abstract, freehand or realistic, in the final analysis, they are not completely divorced from the reality of life. It is a high generalization of life and current things, or a perceptual fantasy.
Art comes from life, but art does not fully reflect life.