Creators want perfection when creating works of art, which can be roughly understood as completeness. At the earliest (n thousand years ago), they did not fully understand the so-called incomplete beauty. When their works were left behind, they looked very beautiful after natural and man-made losses, just like the original smooth inscriptions reflected vigorous beauty in the mottled wind erosion, and the brokeback MM added an unspeakable beauty. In fact, this so-called incomplete beauty is just a manifestation of people's pursuit of perfection. Note that the perfection here is not complete, because people's aesthetic brain has evolved for thousands of years. When they see incomplete strokes, they will try their best to fill them. When I saw MM without arms, I hollowed out my head and tried to put it on. When they couldn't put on makeup or clothes, he sighed, Oh, it's beautiful, it's beautiful. So later people may really see a kind of beauty in it, so make full use of people's imagination to make the work perfect; Or some people make up for their lack of technology and ideas by making things forbidden. There will be the incomplete beauty we are pursuing now.
Incomplete has beauty and ugliness. Beauty, as mentioned above, is not beautiful, such as Yuanmingyuan, which may be more of a state of mind and psychological defect. From here, we can also know that to appreciate the imperfect beauty, we must know what is missing, and it is difficult to feel the beauty of the work without knowing what is missing. Just as a calligrapher sees a piece of paper in Dunhuang, he will imagine a stroke and a painting, which most people will only think is a residual word; A person who doesn't understand the cultural aesthetics of China can only see a pile of rubble when he sees Yuanmingyuan. Where does beauty come from? People who are familiar with China's cultural aesthetics can make up for the missing parts, while patriotic China people who know this painful history look at Yuanmingyuan in another way. I don't know if this is incomplete beauty, but it should be an exaggeration to say that it is incomplete power.