Chapter 1: Reading Notes on Aesthetic Walking After the teacher introduced me, I began to read Zong Baihua's Aesthetic Walking.
The book "Aesthetic Walking" is one of the few works of Mr. Zong Baihua's life, which brings together the most essential aesthetic chapters in his life. It is understood that this is also his only aesthetic work. As the forerunner and pioneer of modern aesthetics in China, Mr. Zong Baihua told us a different realm with his exquisite brushwork, connecting ancient and modern China and foreign countries.
By analyzing the boundary between poetry and painting, this book analyzes the embodiment of beauty in China and Greek art, and tells the meaning and embodiment of "beauty" in a relaxed atmosphere. This is a monograph on aesthetics. In my opinion, it is also a collection of excerpts from ancient and modern Chinese and foreign classical literature, a collection of Chinese and foreign art exhibitions, and a philosophical monograph. I remember once, I mentioned Aesthetic Walking to a friend, and he quickly asked, "Is it Zong Baihua's book? Teachers often say when we appreciate the landscape art, "Yes, in this book, Mr. Zong Baihua introduced us to many famous landscape paintings in China. In the introduction and explanation of these famous paintings, he told us about beauty.
After reading the whole book, it feels like walking slowly in aesthetics and literature, and in Chinese and foreign art, savoring the inspiration left by walking. In the book, Zong Baihua said that poetry and spring are the embodiment of beauty: one is artistic beauty and the other is natural beauty. He said that literature and art can stand side by side with morality and philosophy and have a clear conscience. Beauty is not the same as what we usually call beauty. Beauty is an abstraction. It needs to be embodied by artistic sculpture, but it is not only conceived in artistic sculpture. Teacher Zong Baihua said in the book: "The highest beauty should be the beauty of its true colors." He added: "All beautiful light comes from the source of the soul. Without the mapping of the soul, there is no beauty. "
Beauty is contained in everyone's heart. "The beauty in the heart is the real beauty". This kind of situation has been said since primary school. But with the growth of age, people are gradually polluted by the secular, and people become more and more realistic and superficial. Many people externalize their so-called "beauty" They can spend a lot of money on beauty and various cosmetics, but they don't want to donate money to people who really need it. What kind of sadness is this? There are also many people who regard "learning from Lei Feng" as a show and only "learn from Lei Feng" where leaders appear. How shameful is this behavior of doing good for the leadership? They only see the external beauty, but ignore the real beauty, ignore the beauty of the soul, and ignore many more important things.
The beauty mentioned in this book is a traditional beauty in China and an implicit beauty. Just like China's ink painting, it will contain the spirit of painting and the meaning that the painter wants to express in the painting. Poets, for example, don't express their ideas directly in their poems, but need people to try to figure out for themselves, so that beauty can be "thick", instead of pursuing everything exactly the same as the real thing like the western oil painting photography style, which can only be seen at a glance. In today's society, many people lack an implicit and too straightforward self-expression, which will only put their communication at a disadvantage and not get more friendship. Moreover, too direct expression will only make you look superficial on some occasions. Here, I'm not saying that frankness is not good, and frank people are cute. But on some occasions, we should also learn to be subtle, so as to reflect our own quality and beauty.
In the book, beauty is also reflected in the beauty of "leaving blank"-leaving blank, just like deliberately leaving a part of blank when painting, making the whole painting fresh and more attractive; Just like an excellent press release, it should be read by readers first, then over-read and finally over-read. Beauty must be pleasing to the eye, that is, it must be "read" first, then read, and finally read. Isn't that what our daily life is like? In today's increasingly busy and tense modern society, everyone is in a hurry all day, stuck in their own work, but neglected to leave a little blank in their lives and a little leisure, so that they can have time to think about their present and future, slow down and enjoy the scenery on the road. In this way, under the high-intensity work pressure, it will only make you more and more stressed, unable to open your eyes and embark on the road of self-destruction. Like college students and doctoral students who have committed suicide frequently in recent years. Leave the poetry and yearning for life in the world, leave a little blank in your own life, and let yourself not lose your yearning for the future and love for life. This is the way of life, and it is also the way to live a better life.
Aesthetic walking, his beauty and gentleness caused me to think all kinds, let me feel the existence of beauty in life, life and art, and let me know how to discover and feel beauty. The book says: "The realm of art not only purifies the mind and the universe, but also deepens the mind and the universe, so that people can appreciate the profound realm of the universe in the detached mind." Yes, in this warm walk, I feel the peace of mind, the enrichment of mind and the washing of philosophy contained in "beauty"
Chapter II: Notes on Aesthetic Walking Aesthetic Walking 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 of all a life problem, art is a kind of outlook on life, and' 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 her."
Chapter III: Notes on Aesthetic Walking Anyone who loves China's beauty and China's art should read this book-Aesthetic Walking.
In the modern aesthetic history of China, there are two figures of Taishan Beidou style, Zhu Guangqian and Zong Baihua. They are similar in age and contemporaries. They are proficient in Chinese and Western cultures and have high attainments, but Zhu Guangqian writes a lot and Zong Baihua seldom writes. Zhu Guangqian's articles and way of thinking are inferential, while Zong Baihua is lyrical. Zhu Guangqian is partial to literature, while Zong Baihua is partial to art; Zhu Guangqian is more modern, western and scientific; Zong Baihua is more classical, more China and more artistic; Zhu Guangqian is a scholar and Zong Baihua is a poet. This book is the first collection and publication of Zong Baihua's aesthetic papers. Zong Baihua is a new generation of scholars who rushed out from the May 4th New Culture Wave. He studied in Europe in his early years and set foot in Paris, the capital of art. He published a book of poems in the 1920s. He was originally a poet. In his youth, his admiration and praise for the vitality of life and his meditation on the philosophy of life in the universe always accompanied him forward, which also constituted the characteristics of his aesthetic chapter. The articles in this collection were written in 1920 at the earliest and 1979 at the latest. It is really a more detailed collection of works about art in Zong Baihua's life.
He didn't build any aesthetic system, but taught us how to appreciate artistic works and how to establish aesthetic attitude until we formed artistic personality. This is the spirit of China's artistic beauty. Zong Baihua once sat in silence for an hour in front of the original Mona Lisa. He often visits various art exhibitions in China with great interest, and even though he is old, he still takes pains. He is a connoisseur. These articles in the collection have quite accurately grasped what belongs to the essence of art, especially the characteristics of China's art.
Therefore, reading this book itself is an artistic enjoyment. The author uses lyrical language to guide us to appreciate art. This book is called Aesthetic Walking. Let's take a walk in this big garden and see what pavilions, flowers, trees and stones the author has built for us.
Art appreciation is the discovery and perception of beauty, so where is beauty? Beauty is in your heart. The beauty created by painters and poets is their inner image and unique spiritual realm. So what is artistic conception? The author gave us an analysis, because of the different levels of relationship, there are five levels of contact between people and the world:
(1) meets the physiological material needs and has a utilitarian realm;
(2) Because people love each other, there is an ethical realm;
(3) There is a political realm because of the mutual influence of the crowd combination;
(4) Because of studying physics and pursuing wisdom, there is an academic realm;
(5) there is a religious realm because of the desire to return to nature and the unity of man and nature.
The utilitarian realm is dominated by benefit, the ethical realm is dominated by emotion, the political realm is dominated by power, the academic realm is dominated by reason, and the religious realm is dominated by god. But in the middle of the latter two, take the specific life of the universe as the object, enjoy its hue, order, rhythm and harmony, and thus get a glimpse of the deepest reflection of yourself; Turning a real scene into a virtual scene, creating an image as a symbol, and concretizing and physicalizing the highest human mind is the "artistic realm". The artistic realm is dominated by beauty.
So all beautiful light comes from the source of the soul, and there is no beauty without the refraction of the soul. Therefore, the natural landscape is a spiritual realm. Artistic conception is the crystallization of emotion and scenery. Therefore, China artists are not satisfied with purely objective mechanical modeling, but always reflect the noble style of individuality in their reflections on objects. A quiet and lively life constitutes two major elements of art. Therefore, the creation of China's artistic conception requires both Qu Yuan's lingering feelings and Zhuangzi's extraordinary ethereal spirit. Only by lingering can we be passionate and go deep into the core of everything. This is the so-called "entering the ring". Superethereal, it can be a flower in the mirror, a moon in the water, a gazelle hanging on its horn, and there is no trace to be found. The so-called "super image". Color is emptiness, emptiness is color, color is not different from emptiness, and emptiness is not different from color. This is not only the poetic scene in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but also the painting scene in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. These two sentences express the ultimate ideal and highest achievement of China's art, that is, "chasing the light and painting the shadows, and writing the sky with all my heart". Poetry in Tang and Song Dynasties and paintings in Song and Yuan Dynasties are all the same. The field of China's greatest works of art is rooted in an active, dynamic and rhythmic mind.
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.