Walking in Aesthetics 1 I recently read one or two books on aesthetics. I'm glad I can think of reading them, because I was a layman (now I'm not an expert) about aesthetics and didn't know what beauty was. After reading teacher Yi's Breaking into Houses-Talking about Aesthetics, I realized that aesthetics is not to teach you to "buy a house, buy clothes and have a girlfriend", but a considerable social science. It is originally a discipline that is above all kinds of art disciplines, and it is a leader. Abstract and boring are actually the characteristics of aesthetic research, so everyone in western aesthetics is also a philosopher, such as Plato, Socrates, Kant and Hegel. Since aesthetics is also a philosophy, it must have the characteristics of seeking truth in philosophy, but what is true beauty, like other problems in philosophy, often has no unified answer. Although what Mr. Yi said is very simple and humorous, I am still struggling to finish reading this book, because it requires an extremely abstract philosophical mind.
What really feels a little bit is reading Mr. Zong's Aesthetics. This book is more specific, just like the title, as if it were a spiritual walk in an aesthetic situation. Poetry, music, calligraphy and painting are leisurely and beautiful, and you can gain a lot. As he said in the preface, when you walk, you can occasionally fold a flower on the roadside, or you can pick up a piece of Yanzishi Fossil that others have given up and you are interested in. Neither flowers nor Yanzishi Fossil should be cherished or thrown away. You can put them on the table as a souvenir after a walk.
What do these two books have to do with me and the Mid-Autumn Festival? No, I think people who are really confused about beauty can see the connection. In the chapter "Where to Find Beauty", Mr. Zong talked about two ways to find beauty: "moving my feelings" and "moving the world". Transferring our feelings is to transform our emotions and thoughts, so that they can discover beauty and create expressive beauty into art. "Our emotions should be washed, and we must overcome selfish desires and fierce calculations to discover deep beauty." Touching the world is to change the phenomenon of the world and make it the object of beauty. For example, the moon is often used to beautify the world. Although Mr. Zong has always stressed that beauty exists objectively, in my opinion, whether touching one's feelings or touching the world, it will be a subjective search for beauty.
With the roar of modern social machines and the development of the Internet, people have long lost their leisure to enjoy the moon, not to mention the Mid-Autumn Festival without the moon. The question is, is this beauty lost? If we can't see beauty in all matter, and everything is just atoms and molecules, then "has the world become a gray skeleton and a mechanical process of death?" Urban people are often either confused or bored, or too busy to see the beauty around them. Why? "We can't find beauty in our own hearts, so there is no place to find traces of beauty!" If a person has emotional twists and turns and contradictory thoughts, I'm afraid he will taste depression, not beauty. Therefore, only by "forgetting ourselves, forgetting our emotional fluctuations and ideological ups and downs, and not locking ourselves in a narrow inner circle, not just our own hearts, but in the vast world" can we truly find beauty.
This is probably why urbanites like me are looking for such a book to read!
Comments on "Aesthetic Walk" 2 "Aesthetic Walk" is a small book, but the ideas inside are shining. The author is Mr. Zong Baihua. Because the author is a poet, the main style of the whole book is poetic, leisurely and soothing, which makes people very interesting to read, and will not be generalized, but it will not be too abstruse.
When you open a book, you will want to read it wholeheartedly, and you don't want any interruption, because you will often encounter amazing words and phrases in the process of reading. A complete study will help to have an overall feeling of all the ideas in this book, and to grasp the collision between eastern and western cultures more deeply. When I really wolfed down the book, I still couldn't put it down. So I want to savor and chew all the ideas again. So I adopted two methods: full-text reading and intensive reading. Reading through only gave me a general impression of the book. Stylistically speaking, this book is beautifully written, with a cloud of writing and natural leisure. As far as its content is concerned, there is a deep philosophy in the blending of China and the West, which is not difficult to understand, but you can't get the true meaning immediately. Just like walking, when you meet a good scenery, you should stop and enjoy it. The book Aesthetic Walking is like this. When you get to the place where your thoughts flash, you should calm down and think and compare yourself with what you feel. This kung fu is gradually realized in the process of careful reading.
I still remember that Li Li's comments on Zong Baihua's aesthetic approach were quoted in it. She put it this way: "Walking contains the intuition, perception and experience of the interpretation of our ancestors' concept of' harmony between man and nature' in the ancient Book of Changes; There is Zen Buddhism who understands and observes the realm of all things with a pure heart; There is the speculative wisdom of flying aura pursued by Laozi and Zhuangzi and metaphysics; Aristotle's clarity and logical rationality; Hume's empiricism philosophy emphasizes sensory experience; There is Kant's insight that time and space are the way of human perception, and the mind is an important way to understand the world; Dialectical thinking and Hegel's negative thinking; There are also methods to look at similarities and differences, to distinguish characteristics from similarities and differences, and to trace the source of culture, which were widely used in the collision between Chinese and Western cultures in the 20th century. "I quite agree with Li Lijing's evaluation. She expressed it so succinctly.
Comment on "Aesthetic Walk" 3 "Aesthetic Walk" is the representative work of Mr. Zong Baihua and the only aesthetic work published before his death. General aesthetic works are always difficult to understand, obscure and full of terms, but this book writes the essence of China's aesthetics in poetic language. As the title, this book uses the aesthetic feeling of walking, and the text is fresh and elegant.
Aesthetic Walking is an anthology selected by Mr. Zong Baihua from more than 30 aesthetic papers before and after liberation. The Selected Works is mainly divided into two parts: first, it mainly focuses on the beauty and emptiness and enrichment in literature and art; Secondly, we can appreciate China's artistic spirit, especially Zhuangzi's prose, the personality beauty in Wei and Jin Dynasties and the artistic conception of China's poetry, calligraphy, painting and music, which are mainly based on the nutrition of western aesthetic thought. Thirdly, it mainly comments on foreign aestheticians and artists and poetry monographs.
The author uses his consistent viewpoint to guide us to appreciate China's poems, paintings and music, especially China's calligraphy. Just like poetry and music, the sorrows and joys of China people can be expressed by calligraphy. No other country writes in this way. The author thinks that writing the history of western art is often based on the architectural style changes of various western times, while the architectural style of China has not changed much, so it cannot be used to distinguish the changes of painting and sculpture styles of various times. However, since Yin Dynasty, the style of calligraphy has changed significantly, which can replace the position of architecture in the history of western art and spy out the characteristics of art in different times.
Whether the scenery a person sees is beautiful or not is related to Otawa's mood. It can also be said that the beauty of the scenery is determined by the heart. The mind will also limit its vision, but at the same time, the washed and purified mind will see a better and broader world because of the improvement of its state of mind. We learn from external things to deepen our understanding of the world and our perception of beauty, so that when we face the world again, we can understand it more deeply and see it more thoroughly. Life is beautiful. Whether a thing is beautiful or not is a subjective judgment of people, not the attribute of things. Beauty is always a unique product of the subjective world. Therefore, we can't say what is beautiful, only what is beautiful; It can also be said that beauty lies not in the thing itself, but in the feeling it gives people. Life brings beauty, and where there is life, there must be beauty.
Reading Mr. Zong's Aesthetic Walking, we feel the breath of life, the rhythm of life and the concern for life. As Liu Xiaofeng summed up: "As an aesthete, Zong Baihua's basic position is to explore the creation of making life a work of art ... In Zong Baihua's view, art is first and foremost a life problem, and art is a kind of outlook on life. Artistic life is a valuable and meaningful life. "
Every article in Aesthetic Walking is a rare gem, reflecting the brilliance of rationality and sensibility, either in poetry and calligraphy, in music and dance, in architectural sculpture, or even in things that represent the beauty of the whole universe. "I hope everyone with a rich heart can read him."
Comments on Aesthetics Walking Mode Essay Four fingers on the keyboard, but I don't know where to start. To tell the truth, writing reading notes is entirely due to the tasks assigned by the unit, which in itself is an offence. But when I decided to start writing, I had to say that this compulsion was my motivation to keep writing. Let me start with the book "Aesthetic Walking" I chose.
This book is a book about aesthetic knowledge. The earliest contact with aesthetics stems from a very simple idea, which is to improve one's aesthetic ability. To give a simple example, we live in a familiar and adaptive environment every day and are used to everything around us. Whether living conditions, eating habits, or living environment, we rarely experience beauty. One day, when we walked out of this environment, we went to a city completely different from our living environment. We may have a lot of curiosity about it, and we may have various aesthetic feelings about the architecture, the food and the mountains and rivers there.
On the other hand, maybe people there will be curious and beautiful when they come to our living environment because of differences. It sounds as if everything has to do with distance. When we appreciate familiar things from a certain distance, we often have unexpected aesthetic feeling. The distance is beautiful, and the living environment we are already familiar with is actually a unique beauty. This requires us to discover and open our eyes to find good information. Besides our innate sensitivity to beauty, we also need to accumulate some aesthetic knowledge. By deepening the understanding of things, we can constantly improve our aesthetic ability and thinking ability.
When I think about it carefully, my first contact with the knowledge of aesthetics began with listening to the audio program Meditation on Beauty by Jiang Xun, the master of aesthetics. On the way to and from work by bus every day, this program is by my side in my spare time before going to bed after meals. From the origin of western artistic civilization to the European Renaissance, from the aesthetics of ancient China, pottery and sculpture of Shang Dynasty to the beauty of poetry of Tang and Song Dynasties, all these are like clear springs of rain and dew, which moisten my heart all the time. Teacher Jiang, like a beautiful preacher, introduced me to this spiritual shrine that transcends the secular world.
Comment on Five Cases of Vernacular Mei's Natural and Secular Attitude in An Aesthetic Walk. In his book, he shows a beautiful life and universe, full of intimacy and home. He discovered from a mountain, a valley, a flower and a bird that "the universe is an endless life" and "a perfect and harmonious flat world". The English poet Blake's poem "A world in a flower and a paradise in a grain of sand" is the most beautiful poem in this respect. Without a broad feeling of taking heaven and earth as home and self-sufficiency, without an empty Taoist view, it is impossible to find this vivid and harmonious beauty unity. And he seems to understand the charm of beauty easily, such as the subtle and profound rhythm and charm of all sound and light, color and image.
"Aesthetic Walking" makes us realize the essence of "vivid charm and wonderful artistic conception" in Chinese painting. The former means that a painting should surge with the rhythm and harmony of the "qi" of all things in the universe, giving people a sense of music; And "moving to the beauty" is the way of "expressing the charm". The so-called Miaomiao's moving meaning is to give full play to his artistic imagination, appreciate the inner spirit of foreign things with his heart, and move his imagination into the interior. Only after some twists and turns can people grasp the true characteristics and spirit of the object.
"Aesthetic Walking" gives me a taste of life and an aesthetic way. With the fragrance of pen and ink, savor it carefully. Zong Baihua's free and lonely soul and noble and halal personality charm guided me to the road of seeking beauty, and let me abandon the impetuous secularity and March into the depths of the aesthetic jungle. Close the book, close your eyes, the book still exists, and what emerges in your mind is a kind of diluted and peaceful realm of "the bright moon is somewhat, the fairy white clouds are somewhat, the wild geese are in the sky, and the leaves are like rain".