Artistic conception is when the author expresses his thoughts and emotions through vivid pictures to achieve a state where "internal feelings" and "external objects" are unified and artistically appealing. Image is the "cell" that constitutes artistic conception, and several harmonious and unified images constitute a complete artistic conception. To create the artistic conception of poetry, we must deal with the dialectical relationship between meaning and image. In terms of content, this relationship is manifested in the dialectical relationship between objects and ambitions, scenes and emotions, things and principles, and people and intentions; in terms of form, it is manifested in the dialectical relationships between hidden and exposed, empty and real, and jumps and connections. relation. Only by properly handling the dialectical relationship between images in terms of content and form can we create an artistic realm - artistic conception - in which the ideological meaning of poetry and the artistic image are highly integrated.
Artistic conception is when the author expresses his thoughts and emotions through vivid pictures to achieve a state where "internal feelings" and "external objects" are unified and artistically appealing. The artistic conception is the harmonious blend of emotion and scene, the harmonious blend of form, spirit, emotion and reason. In other words, artistic conception is an artistic environment in which the ideological meaning and artistic image of literary and artistic works are highly unified. It is an artistic image created by the author permeating aesthetic thoughts and emotions.
Impression is the aesthetic goal pursued by all literary and artistic works, especially poetry. It is an aesthetic subject that is highly valued in our country's traditional literary appreciation. There is a saying on poetry forums that "Whether a poem is good or not depends on its conception, and whether it is beautiful or not depends on its artistic conception." This is also true. Take Liu Zongyuan's "Snow on the River", which has only 20 characters, as an example (birds fly away in the mountains/human traces disappear on thousands of paths/lone boat and coir raincoat man/fish alone in the cold river snow). The author combines the image of the cold sky (imagery), the human and bird The extinct (image) snowy fishing scene (collectively called "the scene") is integrated with the lonely and helpless mood (meaning) after being reprimanded, creating a desolate and lonely state, which is the artistic conception.
This kind of artistic realm that can arouse readers' imagination and inspire readers' thoughts and emotions is what poets of all ages have pursued. It is also the highest aesthetic realm of poetry creation. Whether a poem has a poetic flavor or not is reflected in this point. superior. How to create this mysterious, wonderful and infinitely charming artistic conception? I think the most important thing is to handle the dialectical relationship between images, or that the artistic conception originates from the dialectics of images.
Image is not artistic conception, but it is closely related to artistic conception. Artistic conception is the environment in which the subjective thoughts and artistic forms of the entire work are integrated. It is the overall picture and complete image of the entire poem. Image is just the "cell" that constitutes the artistic realm, the "parts" of the artistic conception, and the basis for the creation of the artistic conception. To sum up, the relationship between the two should be the whole and the part, the whole and the part. Generally speaking, several harmonious and unified images constitute a beautiful artistic conception.
To create the artistic conception of poetry, the dialectical relationship between images must be handled well. What is the dialectical relationship of imagery? In layman's terms, imagery is the image of meaning, including two aspects: meaning and image, and the combination of the two creates situations with new meanings. Xiang is the image, representation, and external object described in the poem, which is objective, visible, concrete, and vivid. Good poems must have "images", so Su Shi praised Wang Wei's poems as "paintings in poems". Image is what the objective world reflects in the human brain and is reflected in the work. It is the external object on which the "meaning" is placed, including visual representation, auditory representation, taste representation, olfactory representation and tactile representation. This is the poet's choice of the objective world. result. "Image" is the inner feeling and theme that the poem wants to express through "image". It is subjective, invisible, abstract and general, and it is the affection contained in the image. The ancients said that "there is infinite meaning beyond words (images)". Usually we can understand the image as the external objects in the poem such as people, things, objects, scenery, etc., and the meaning as the internal purpose such as ambition, reason, emotion, meaning, etc., but the emphasis is different. For example, the poem "From the bullet holes in the stars will flow the bloody dawn." This poem cannot be said to have artistic conception, but it does have imagery. Stars, bullet holes, blood, dawn... can be called "elephant", which means the combination and superposition of these external objects to form a new meaning that is different from the usual ones (it seems that it can be understood that after a battle in the night, dawn comes). The harmonious unity of these two is collectively called "image".