How to describe the artistic conception Q of a photographic work?

Artistic conception of photographic works,

In photography, artistic conception is reflected in the following four aspects:

First, experience the artistic conception of life.

As a special spiritual production, photography is characterized by infiltrating the photographer's strong subjective factors into photography creation and "materializing" it into artistic works and artistic images. Therefore, the photographer's inner spiritual world is particularly important and prominent. Therefore, the photographer's own feelings, artistic conception, thoughts, moods, wishes, interests and other factors play a vital role in photography creation activities. For this reason, photographers must have a rich artistic conception beyond ordinary people. Dobro Lyubov once said that there is such a difference between thinkers and artists. The sensibility of the latter is much more vivid and intense than that of the former. Both of them refine their world view according to the facts that their consciousness comes into contact with. However, a sensitive person, a person with' artist temperament', will be strongly moved when he sees the initial fact of something in the real world around him. It can be seen that photographers, as the main body of photography creation, should never treat life as coldly as ice, nor should they treat things as calmly and objectively as thinkers and scientists. The whole process of photographer's artistic accomplishment is also the process of cultivating and bringing up his profound artistic conception.

Artistic conception is gradually enriched and deepened with the improvement of experience life ability, artistic conception ability and artistic expression ability. The whole process of photography creation is always full of artistic conception, and the artistic image without artistic conception is pale, lifeless and verve. The reason why photographic works can be emotional is that photographers are full, condensed and burning with strong thoughts and feelings. The reason why artistic conception has become one of the important features of artistic creation and artistic thinking is that every link of artistic thinking is permeated with and accompanied by corresponding artistic conception. Because artistic conception is an emotional experience of a photographer's attitude towards objective things, only a photographer with profound artistic accomplishment and profound understanding of life will have a profound and sincere artistic conception in his photography creation; Only by consciously or unconsciously generating the passion of artistic creation in front of the object of life can we show a touching artistic image in the photographic works. Orwitt thinks his photography idea is extremely simple: "I try to make the audience happy, but what I first ask is a photo with artistic conception and humanity."

In today's world, too many things are done by people without feelings and humanity. I mean, even if some photos are attractive and witty, they will lose their charm as an interesting photo if they have no personality. Therefore, artists engaged in such creative activities must be people with rich artistic conception.

Second, reappear the artistic expression of life.

Photographers should be good at objectifying artistic conception into artistic images in artistic creation. Tolstoy believes that artistic creation is to convey artistic conception by shaping images with "actions, lines, colors, sounds and words". Langer regards artistic creation as "the creation of symbolic forms of human artistic conception" as an artistic conception activity, and photographic artistic creation expresses the lofty artistic conception of human beings with the unique symbolic system of photography, so photographic artistic creation presents a kind of "expressive beauty" to the expression of the subjective artistic conception. Photographers always look at the subject in their own unique way, carry out aesthetic transformation and artistic processing on the subject, and consciously or unconsciously penetrate into their attitude, mood and artistic conception. Therefore, the artistic image of photography embodies the subject's aesthetic comprehension and artistic conception. When the aesthetic subject intuitively realizes his artistic conception, he will get aesthetic feeling because of satisfaction. The aesthetic mood of the creative subject directly dominates the whole process of photographic art creation: from aesthetic experience, artistic conception to artistic communication; From aesthetic appearance, aesthetic image to artistic image, even from specific framing, composition, lighting to post-production, every stage and every link reveals the subject's attitude, mood and artistic conception to varying degrees, reflecting the subject's aesthetic ideal and artistic taste. The domination of aesthetic artistic conception on photographic art creation is also reflected in the diversity of the main artistic expression forms. In the process of photographic art creation, there are two forms of subjective artistic conception: documentary form and symbolic form. The documentary nature of photography itself determines that documentary form is the main form of artistic conception expression of photographic art subjects. The creative subject, either "expressing emotion with scenery" or "expressing emotion with scenery", hides subjective artistic conception in the objective and realistic artistic image. Photographers express artistic conception, on the one hand, they directly capture the instant atmosphere and the instant emotions of the characters, directly shoot the emotions of the subjects, and deeply explore the changes of artistic conception in the depths of the soul; On the other hand, due to the photographer's choice of theme, theme refinement, composition selection and light and shadow control, he unconsciously rubbed his subjective feelings and artistic conception into the artistic image. The creative techniques of various schools of modern photography create "the expressive beauty of the subject's artistic conception", hiding the subject's artistic conception in the relationship between points, lines and planes, or in symbols with no clear meaning. They believe that the objective object is only the material support of subjective artistic conception, and only by weakening its realistic temporal and spatial significance can it penetrate into the subject's artistic conception and guide the viewer's attention to the exploration of the artistic conception of the work. The artistic conception of photography has two forms: "scene blending" and "reason interweaving". The artistic conception of China's photography, like traditional painting and poetry, is presented as a poetic image with the help of natural scenery. Photographers explore the artistic conception or convey the spirit with "emotion"; Or seek "likeness" with "spirit likeness"; Or in the "limited picture", endless "painting outside the picture" and "image outside the image" are displayed, and the deepest scene is explored through the blending and infiltration of emotion and scenery, and the feeling is deeper layer by layer. The scene is full of emotions, and emotions are specific to the scene. When photographers experience life and social life, they have creative impulse. When this artistic conception is connected with the artistic conception of human beings and the artistic conception of the times, the perceptual artistic conception is sublimated into a rational artistic conception, which is transformed into an artistic conception with objective inevitability, achieving the unity of emotion and reason, and presenting an artistic conception with infinite rational extension in a limited picture.

Third, the artistic conception exchange in photographic works

As an art, photography should not only satisfy people's visual pleasure, but also observe people's mentality and reveal people's essence. Therefore, the purpose of photography is not only to reproduce objective things and images, but also to consider how to integrate into the author's artistic conception, so that the works can go beyond the limited square inch and have deeper connotations. As a materialized form of aesthetic consciousness, the content of photographic works of art is not a purely objective life, nor a real life, but a life summarized by art and full of the photographer's artistic conception, aesthetic ideal and artistic pursuit. It is a spiritual life, a spiritual materialized life. So some people say that Smith's works deeply touched everyone who knows and doesn't know the photos. His image does not show technical grammar, but only artistic language, even illiterate people can sing. Therefore, the content of photographic works of art includes not only the life reflected by the photographer, but also the photographer's exploration of the nature of social life. Generally speaking, the content composition of photographic works of art includes both "objective reproduction" and "subjective expression". The theme embodied in photographic works is the photographer's ideological artistic conception through artistic images, which shows the photographer's subjective thinking, attitude and artistic conception of social life, the artistic conception of society and mankind, the artistic conception of the times and the artistic conception of the nation. The form of expression in photographic works of art is the material basis for the creators to express their artistic conception. The arrangement of points, lines and planes, the choice of picture layout, and the combination of hue, color, light and shade and shape have produced a "meaningful form", which has certain aesthetic significance and also has the attribute of bearing or conveying a certain artistic conception. Every specific artistic expression of photography corresponds to a specific psychological feeling, which can cause corresponding psychological reflection and feelings, such as beauty, lyricism, fierceness, boldness, or superiority, and can express the specific spirit of an individual, a group, a society or a nation, which constitutes "formal content".

In photography art appreciation activities, appreciation activities must be based on the direct feelings of the works. Only by perceiving the work first can we understand and interpret the content and artistic conception of the work. The content and formal factors of photographic art works are presented to the audience together, which directly affects the aesthetic feeling of the eyes and allows the audience to fully perceive and appreciate them. The audience's viewing activities and artistic conception activities are based on their direct perception of hue, color and artistic image, which has achieved a leap from perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge. Therefore, the content and form of the work determine the artistic conception accepted by the viewer and the artistic conception produced, that is, the artistic conception exchange.

Fourth, the artistic conception in the process of appreciation * * *

Singing in art appreciation refers to a psychological phenomenon in appreciation. In the process of appreciation, the thoughts and feelings of the appreciator are the same or basically the same as those contained in the work, which leads to inductive communication and strong emotional excitement. Tolstoy's description of * * * Ming in On Art is: "The main feature of this feeling is that the receiver and the artist are so harmoniously combined that the receiver feels that the work is not created by others, but by himself, and everything expressed in this work is exactly what he wanted to express a long time ago."

The voice of artistic conception comes from two aspects of empathy. One is that the creator "moves my feelings" and moves the artistic conception into the work; First, the works with materialized artistic conception have the charm of "transferring others' feelings" to the viewer. Therefore, the artistic expression of artistic conception is a two-way movement: on the one hand, the creative subject expresses artistic conception; On the one hand, the appreciation subject experiences artistic conception and produces artistic conception. Artistic conception in photography appreciation mainly comes from three aspects: the objective artistic conception of the subject, the subjective artistic conception of the photographer and the artistic conception of the appreciator. The "objective artistic conception of the subject" shown on the screen does not actually "objectively condense the subjectivity of the photographer". "

Artistic conception, and the artistic conception produced by the appreciator is only a reflection of this artistic conception. Therefore, in the final analysis, the artistic conception activities of the appreciation subject are manifested in two forms: one is to experience the artistic conception shown in the picture and the hidden artistic conception; The first is the artistic conception of touching the scene. When appreciating photography art, the artistic conception experienced by the subject and the artistic conception resulting from it are often inconsistent with the artistic conception expressed by the creative subject and the artistic conception presented by the object (work). This "inconsistency" has both objective and subjective reasons. Objective factors refer to the complexity and transfer of internal artistic conception. Artistic conception is often the coexistence, mutual penetration, mutual influence and mutual transformation of various artistic conceptions. Subjective factors refer to the attitude of the subject of photography creation and the attitude of the subject of appreciation: when experiencing the artistic conception of a work, the subject of appreciation is inevitably influenced by his own life experience, aesthetic experience, cultural accomplishment and aesthetic ability, and consciously or unconsciously "recreates" the artistic conception of the picture according to his own ideological artistic conception, aesthetic ideal and artistic interest. A western aesthetician gave an example: people who sit in the cabin and read newspapers just want to pass the time and cross the river as soon as possible, while those who sit on the deck and enjoy the scenery are regretting the short journey. For the former person, crossing the river is the practical purpose. For the latter person, the appreciation of the beautiful scenery exceeds his actual hope of crossing the river, and he gets an aesthetic experience. From this point of view, the emergence of artistic conception mainly depends on the artistic attitude of the subject.

"People use language to convey ideas and art to convey artistic conception." The artistic conception in the work is the key to the success or failure of the work, and it is the most indispensable soul that runs through the photography art.