A collection of sample essays on reading notes about beauty.
Talk about beauty is a book written by an old man in his old age. Who would have thought that such a book was written by an old man. Sure enough, there is no end to learning. Ah! Today I have compiled some sample essays for you about the reading experience of "Talking about Beauty Letters". You are welcome to borrow and study. Let's take a look together!
"Talking about Beauty Letters" reading experience 1
Looking for beauty, Hold a pole and wander deep into the crowd to explore and declare the true meaning of beauty.
I don’t know what beauty is, and no one has ever been able to define it. She can see it and touch it, but you can’t tell or explain what she is.
So I opened the book "Talking about Beauty" by Zhu Guangqian with an inquiring heart - this book written when he was 82 years old contains many of his life insights and opinions. A unique view of beauty, and I began to read carefully about beauty.
Mr. Zhu expanded his views on beauty in the form of thirteen replies. Perhaps because the knowledge I learned was too lacking, I was not able to understand them all, but many of them benefited me a lot. Shen, here I will only talk about a few of the letters.
The first two letters briefly introduce how to learn aesthetics, but the third chapter talks about people. This letter is placed at the top of all topics. I think this should also be an idea of ??the author. Well, no matter what you study, you should first learn to be a human being, and then learn other things. If a person can't even be a human being, then there is no need to talk about other things. For aesthetics alone, beauty is a kind of value, and value belongs to the category of economics. Whether it is use or exchange, it is always inseparable from the human subject. People came first, and then there was aesthetics.
People are perceptual individuals with their own thoughts and perceptions. In my opinion, although beauty is objective, it can still be said to be a product of idealism. Beauty does not have any requirements, and there are many kinds of beauty. In terms of aspects, for example, the author cited the example in the masterpiece "Notre Dame de Paris", Hugo vividly interpreted the word "beautiful". The deaf-mute and ugly bell-ringer in the article meets the bell-ringer who can The gypsy girl who is good at singing and dancing stammered and shouted "Beautiful! Beautiful, beautiful..." I think this bell ringer must have never studied what beauty is. This is what he said from the bottom of his heart, and he has no understanding of the appearance of beautiful things. admiration, and it was the gypsy girl who gave him water when he was later beaten for his mistake. He still praised the beauty, beauty, beauty to this girl, but this was not the gorgeous beauty of the appearance, but the beauty of the soul. The bell ringer could see clearly the ugliness and beauty of the soul, so he became a hero at every critical moment. He became the girl's savior, and finally they died together. They were both beautiful. The bell-ringer looked extremely ugly, but his beautiful soul covered up his not beautiful face. Therefore, Mr. Zhu also marveled that "Hugo is a great writer who deserves his reputation after all." His description of beauty is very accurate. The combination of reality and imagination makes beauty three-dimensional and have a human flavor.
These can be regarded as a recognition of beauty. Later, Mr. Zhu Guangqian said that literature has a unique status as a language art. I also agree with this point. Beauty is not necessarily a painting, or a very complicated thing. , To me, language is a very beautiful thing. You can use language to describe anything, you can experience the artistic conception and imagine the appearance of the scenery from the language. The use of language is also full of various artistic techniques. For characters Beautiful sculptures, amazing scenery. So I think if you want to delve into aesthetics, the study of literature is also essential.
As Zhu Guangqian said, "If people who study aesthetics do not learn a little bit about literature, art, psychology, history and philosophy, they will be more deficient and will become 'empty aestheticians'." Aesthetics is not an isolated thing, it can be said to be a system, and it integrates many branches of knowledge. If you are involved in it, then I believe you have a deeper understanding of aesthetics, so I I hope that with my love for aesthetics and my spirit of seeking knowledge, I will gradually understand some contents that were once difficult to understand and enrich my spiritual world.
Reading experience of Tanmei Letters 2
Tanmei Letters, Sanxing was caught off guard and read half a book of Marxist philosophy. It can be seen that politics/movements and ideological slavery have a great impact on individuals, no matter who they are. No matter what their job and interests are, they will always jump into Ma Zhe's circle and get involved. Be vigilant, make your own judgments on various thoughts and discard them, form your own outlook on life and express it, revise and improve it. The second half is pretty good, with many inspiring moments. Lai regularly exercises and maintains good health for a long time. Everyone's qualifications, environment, and nature of work tasks are different, so it is inevitable that they will have to take different paths. Attitude towards life: deal with the flies, be correct and recognize things clearly. Learn for writing, serious and thorough, systematic expression, one way.
Information, foreign language books. Experience real life and strengthen literary and artistic cultivation. Touch and feel.
If you understand others, you will understand yourself. Animal nature, primitive human habits. Ancient society was not only the cradle of family, private ownership and state power, but also the birthplace of religion, mythology and art. Art and beauty originate from ordinary and humble things. Food, individual; color, race. Originally had a practical purpose.
A living person has to deal with external things (nature and society) all the time. Practice leads to knowledge, and knowledge leads to practice. Subject and object. In transforming the objective world, man not only embodies himself but also transforms himself. Aesthetics does not involve desires and interests, utilitarian ethics, conceptual logic, and clear purposes. The internal and external fit between the form of the object and the cognitive function of the subject. Aesthetics, emotion and will, the sublimation of primitive sexual instincts, and personal desire for self-expansion. Mechanical view, dismantling for research, putting it together for restoration. Organic view, division and elimination, unity of the whole. Times are different, and the problems to be solved rely on different material foundations and ideological materials. Workers are the force that dominates the world, literature and art serve the broad masses of working people, and literature and art media have developed into movies and television. Dialectical materialism and historical materialism. Understand and practice. Labor production and social revolutionary struggle. Reflect, transform and advance. Ideology, economic base and political and legal superstructure. Decisions and reaction. Subjective and objective unity. People who live exclusively on ready-made meals will not live a good life. Only by collecting raw materials and cooking them yourself can they be easily digested and enjoyed. Self-sufficiency is replaced by intercourse and interdependence, both in material production and in spiritual production. We are really too behind in scientific data work. How can we improve our scientific research work? In transforming nature, man also transforms himself.
Through labor practice, people process and transform nature to create a world of objects. Man is produced comprehensively and freely according to the profound needs of mankind, the vast subject matter and social function of literature and art. My objects can only be expressions of my essence. Purpose, law, will. Labor creates man himself. The human hand is not only a tool of labor, it is also the product of labor. Improved and more dexterous through labor. Labor, language, consciousness, abstraction and reasoning, society. Art imitates nature, and this nature mainly refers to human nature. Humanism, Renaissance, instead of Shinto, freedom, equality and fraternity are the specific political content of humanism. Respect human dignity and put people above all else. Humanism, people are the standard by which all things are measured. The opposite of human touch is dullness. The most humane theme is love. The joys and sorrows of the world. Marxism has two basic policies for literature and art: the critical inheritance of tradition and the exchange and reference of various cultures. Feudal, heroic figures; comedy, despicable and ridiculous figures; bourgeois, lower social figures, middle-class figures; Russian realism, small or superfluous figures. The old way of portraying a hero: flawless and consistent. Not flesh-and-blood people, but empty and dull symbols. Sense of rhythm, psychological anticipation. Not limited to sound, architecture, layout of literary and artistic works, and ups and downs of rhythm. The effect of empathy is to forget things and me, to understand the details of things, and to identify things and myself. From me to things, from things to me. Internal recruitment imitation. Momentum, charm.
Calligraphy, personality. The bystander type, clearly aware that I am myself, things are things, and an ideal model. Sharing type, become that character. Painting, form, color lines, space, static. Poetry, language, action plot, time, dynamics.
Chance, fascination, and surprise are important factors in beauty. Accidental events have internal connections, but people have not yet clearly understood the connections. Man cannot content himself with ignorance, so he imagines that the creator of accidental events is God. Destiny, unknown necessity. Inspiration, brewing in the subconscious for a long time, suddenly bursts into consciousness by chance. Word play should not be looked down upon as it is warmly welcomed by the people at large. The most taboo thing about humor is frankness. Being frank not only loses humor, but also easily triggers taboos and attracts people. Harmony is most appreciated by the refined and popular, so it is the most social. To appreciate the small, you can see the big, but there must be lingering sound beyond the strings.
Reading experience of "Talking about Beauty" 3
"Talking about Beauty" is inherently profound, and this book is in the form of scattered letters. With all due respect, this book is not good at all -
First of all, I estimate that I will never be able to understand these messy concepts of realism, romanticism, classicism, and naturalism in my lifetime. Secondly, I also I don't find any beauty in these boring theoretical analyses. I felt like someone was splitting my head, giving me a splitting headache. What is this called? Oh yes, a tight curse.
So, I think the only success of this reading is probably that the corn paste is very evenly mixed.
But since I was a child, I have known that I must learn to respect others.
First of all, I like the discussion of "rhythm" in the book very much:
"The natural and regular ups and downs of the breathing, circulation, movement and other organs in the human body are rhythm. When people use their sensory organs and motor organs to deal with aesthetic objects, if the rhythm displayed by the object is in line with the natural rhythm of physiology, the person will feel harmonious and happy; otherwise, he will feel 'stuck' or 'dissonance' and unhappy. "
I used to have an idea: music has a physical transmission, which makes it more likely to inspire a sense of identity than pictures. Coincidentally ~
But in another excerpt from the book, Mr. Engels said: "In the long-term historical development, human hands have become more and more perfect and more dexterous through labor. On this basis, human hands seem to rely on "Raphael's paintings, Thorvaldsson's sculptures and Paganini's music were magically produced." Mr. Zhu believes that "this example is enough to vividly illustrate the origin of art and labor." Indeed, I admit that Paganini's music cannot be played by ordinary hands, and sculpture and painting also require a high level of skill. But I never think that having dexterous hands means being able to create. Wonderful art does not only come from diligent "labor". Compared with the previous ones, the argument here is less precise and convincing. On the contrary, it seems to be deliberately far-fetched in order to support dialectical materialism.
In the book, Mr. Zhu Guangqian objected to mystification and far-fetchedness, and asked to "make up his mind to do something beneficial to human culture" and insisted that "if you do not understand Marxism in the study of aesthetics, you will go into trouble." dead end". I respect this serious attitude, but as a limited person, I don't see the "benefit" in it. However, it is exactly the same as the content of the political book. And I have absolutely no interest in understanding Marxism, even though I will be forced to study it. Let me boldly express my opinion here: I think Marxist philosophy is extremely boring (probably that’s why students need to be forced to practice it). I don't agree with its "world view" and "methodology", and I subjectively think that the boring stuff doesn't have much meaning in my life.
I’m afraid the “rhythm” is not in tune with me.
Reading experience of talking about beautiful slips 4
When writing an article, you should start with imitation, then sketch, first practice description and narration, and finally practice argumentation.
Whenever you are generous, you only choose two or three things and describe them lightly, and the artistic conception will appear before your eyes, lifelike.
Painting is better than photography.
When the mouth is open, the door to the soul is closed; when the mouth is closed, the door to the soul is open.
A vajra’s angry eyes are not as good as a Bodhisattva’s low eyebrows.
Using art to express thoughts and emotions, rather than expressing them as much as possible, it is better to be a little subtle.
Art helps us transcend reality and seek comfort in an ideal realm.
When you encounter setbacks in reality, you cannot passively let reality defeat you, but you must transcend to the ideal world and go beyond reality to accumulate strength to fight again in the future.
The value of a work of art depends on how surreal it is and whether the ideal world it creates is broad or narrow. The less a work of art borrows from reality, the larger the ideal world it creates.
This world is imperfect, so it is perfect. We struggle because of flaws, so we have the happiness of success.
With the spirit of transcending the world, I do the work of joining the world. Unfortunately, I myself am a slave, so I must work hard to break this system and fight for freedom for others, that is, to destroy myself without destroying the world.
Treat your career as a work of art, only to satisfy your ideals and interests, and not care about gains and losses. Only then can you achieve real achievements. Great careers all come from a grand vision. and open-mindedness.
What is meaningful is useful.
The reason why this mountain looks higher than that is that when we look at things with a practical attitude, they are just tools and obstacles in real life, and they can only cause desire and disgust. When we look at things from an outsider's perspective, When I look at them, I have a surreal artistic conception, and I only see beauty. In fact, it is only distance that creates beauty.
Smart people will keep a distance between beautiful things and real life.
Morality is the norm of real life, but there is a distance between art and real life.
Both art and religion animate and humanize the universe, narrowing the distance between people and things or gods. They both have a certain color of mysticism, and mysticism is seen in ordinary things. The unusual meaning is also empathy.
It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo. Without meat, one will become thin, while without bamboo, one will become vulgar.
There are two factors that produce the sense of beauty: there is an appropriate distance between the current image and the actual life. When observing, we are in a state of concentration that forgets both things and myself, and unintentionally transfers my feelings to things. Move it to me in the form of an object.
It is necessary to distinguish between beauty and pleasure. Beauty has nothing to do with actual activities, while pleasure comes from the satisfaction of actual needs.
Beauty is not pleasure, association, research or criticism.
If the statements are inconsistent, there is only a possibility that both are wrong but not both right.
Natural beauty is normal, that is, the majority. A single component may be normal, but when all the components are combined, the probability of natural beauty is low, so natural beauty becomes precious.
The problem of realism: Since nature is already beautiful, why should we imitate nature? Since everything natural is beautiful, then there is no ugliness, and there is no such thing as beauty or ugliness?
The beauty of art and the beauty of nature are two different things. The beauty of art does not come from nature.
The principles of art and games are the same. They both create castles in the air to comfort the restless heart. The difference is that art is social, has works, and needs to be conveyed.
Thinkers are often not artists because they cannot translate abstract concepts into concrete images.
There are two types of creative imagination: imagination and association. To think separately is to refine a certain image, and to associate is to synthesize various images.
Any artist should not just study within the small scope of his own profession. He must pay attention to everything in order to have profound cultivation.
On the water, it is natural.
Only a great hero can be his true self, and the life of art is the true life.
Reading experience of Talking about Beauty 5
What is beauty? This is another basic question, and again, not surprisingly, most of us don’t know the answer.
Zhu Guangqian gave us an answer. Although this answer may not be correct, it is at least much smarter than having no clue.
Don’t rush to tell me what Mr. Zhu’s answer is. Let me first talk about an experience I had two days ago.
Unintentionally, I am sitting next to a fountain, with a pool of water in front of me and a lawn behind me. Is it beautiful? At first glance, 99% of people will not find it beautiful. , including me.
Somehow, I entered a state of forgetfulness of things and myself (I didn’t know this word until later). I was walking on the water, and the waves were sparkling. I found that I had never examined the water waves in such detail. The wavelengths are long, some have small wavelengths, some go east, some go west. I tried to track a bunch of waves, but found that all the waves appeared in an instant and disappeared in an instant. And as I watched, I don’t even know if the wave is moving or if I am moving.
I turned around to look at the lawn again, and my consciousness involuntarily entered the interior of the lawn. Standing next to the grass, I experienced the magic of the green world and felt the vitality of the greatness.
This should be what Mr. Zhu calls beauty. I experienced the realm of beauty unintentionally.
Our lives can be reflected in different perspectives, and our world can be interpreted from different angles. All knowledge is answering this question. When we enter aesthetics, most people In unfamiliar areas, we can appreciate aesthetics’ understanding of the world and aesthetics’ insights into life. We find that the world can become beautiful through our efforts.
Why things are always good for others, wives are always beautiful for others, children are always outstanding for others, and leaders are always wise for others. Aesthetics answers this question. It is universal to look at the height of this mountain and the height of that mountain. phenomenon, and the reason is that well-known saying - distance produces beauty, it will be easier to understand if you add two words to this sentence - distance must produce beauty, because distance makes you have a surreal judgment. , you idealize those things that are far away from you, of course they will become better.
Therefore, smart people always deliberately keep a distance from some beautiful things in real life, thereby creating their own utopia, and then quietly appreciate it from the side.
Playing games and chanting sutras are actually the same thing, at least in the aesthetic view. Because games and religion have the same principle as art. They both create a castle in the air to comfort the restless heart. To put it simply, games and religion both create an illusory world to satisfy your desires that cannot be achieved in reality. Of course, art also has this role. (I hope parents and the media can understand this truth)
The content of Mr. Zhu’s book is very broad, the writing is very concise, the reasoning is to the point, and the examples are just right, which shows the skill of that generation of literati and scholars. I can’t help but read Looking at today, the so-called celebrities are really at the level of junior high school students. People like me have probably just passed the stage of illiteracy.