How to improve aesthetics? To answer this question, we have to continue to ask questions. What is Aesthetics? What is Beauty?
To tell this story, we have to start with Plato, which is included in Plato's Hippias the Great.
Plato asked Epiasme what it was?
Epias gave three answers:
Answer 1: Beauty is a beautiful woman;
Answer two; Beauty is **;
Answer 3: Beauty is what is appropriate;
Plato denied them one by one, because according to Hippias's answer, he only replied, what is beautiful and what is not beautiful, and finally Plato, with the famous phrase, "Beauty is difficult".
What is beauty, in ancient times, many masters were also pursuing, such as Liu Zongyuan;
Beauty is not self-beauty, because of people. Lanting also, not by the right army, then clear the turbulent bamboo, Wu submerged in the empty mountain. ”
Liu Zongyuan said that beauty and non-beauty are manifested because of people's hearts, such as Lanting, if you don't meet Wang Xizhi (the right army), the green mountains and green waters here can only be hidden in the empty mountains. It will not be known to outsiders.
Here is a question? The beauty of Lanting, is the beauty in the scenery, or the beauty in the hearts of the people, is the grass in Lanting more beautiful than the grass in the Ordos grassland?
Next, let's analyze an example: Van Gogh's shoes.
Regarding this miraculous pair of shoes, analyze the comments of the philosopher Heidegger, the original text is as follows.
From the black hole in the worn-out interior of the shoes, the hardships of labor are condensed. In these hard, heavy, shabby peasant shoes, there is the tenacity and sluggishness of the steps that move on the endless and eternal monotonous fields in the cold wind and steepness. Moist and fertile soil sticks to the leather of the shoes.
As twilight fell, the soles of these shoes staggered along the field paths. In this shoe, the silent call of the earth echoes, showing the quiet gift of the earth to the ripe grain, representing the desolation of the earth in winter and the hazy winter darkness in the fields. It was impregnated with the uncomplaining anxiety about the stability of bread and the wordless joy of overcoming poverty, and the trembling of the labor pains and the trembling of the approaching death. ”
So must these farmer's shoes be better than the shoes of our hard-working people in China?
So is the beauty in the shoes, or the beauty in the heart?
Heidegger enters the world of the image of beauty through the care of the shoes of many objective beings, and beauty takes place in the world of images that take place, in which Heidegger shows the fate of the peasant's life world through the shoes.
It is the care of the world of images like the objective world. Only from the perspective of aesthetics can the intentional world be open like the aesthete, and the aesthete can see the living environment of the farmer in the intentional world. I keep this alive all day and take care of it through the world of imagery like the real world. The world of intention is beauty, and caring for the world of life is aesthetics.
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Now answer how to improve aesthetics?
First of all: beauty is a humanities discipline, its object is all aspects of the living world, it is to find the meaning in life, and to manifest this meaning through aesthetic care. So, to experience life, it's very important.
Secondly, beauty is an interdisciplinary discipline, and aesthetics is closely related to art, psychology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, folklore, cultural history, and customs history. Then to improve the aesthetics, these contents are something that you need to keep mastering.
Again: To improve aesthetics, it is necessary to understand, be familiar with, or master the history of Chinese art, calligraphy, poetry, and history; The history of the West, the history of Western cinema, the history of Western theatre.
Finally, it is a summary of the knowledge of aesthetics: psychology, linguistics, anthropology, mythology, sociology, folklore, cultural history, and customs history;
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