Explanation of Terms in Introduction to Art

1。 Space art is one of the existing art forms, including painting, sculpture, arts and crafts, photography, architecture and garden art.

2. Aesthetic education-Aesthetic education is aesthetic education, which was first put forward by Schiller, a German aesthetician (18th century) in his aesthetic masterpiece "Letters on Aesthetic Education". In this book, the concept of aesthetic education is not limited to a specific way of moral education. But from the basic philosophical propositions of life, such as man and nature, emotion and reason, it becomes a new understanding of man himself and obtains free and harmonious development. Finally, we can realize the return of human nature and a broader aesthetic education. As a result, aesthetic education has been promoted to the significance of comprehensively cultivating and developing people, that is, universal social enlightenment. This modern western aesthetic education theory, represented by Schiller, had a great influence on China in the early 20th century. For example, Wang Guowei, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, and Cai Yuanpei, the first director of education in the Republic of China and the president of Peking University, all agreed that aesthetic education is the best way to make people reach a new spiritual realm.

3。 Artistic conception refers to the blending of scenes and the unity of reality and reality in artistic images or situations, which can contain and express profound philosophy of life and the supreme realm of universal consciousness. It is the organic unity of subjective emotion and objective image.

4。 Artistic beauty: it is the beauty of artistic works, which is produced by the artist's aesthetic consciousness. Artists create the beauty of their works with the purpose of beauty according to the law of beauty.

5. Tragedy: As one of the main types of drama art, tragedy has always been regarded as the crown of drama. It often shows people's great spiritual strength and great personality through the destruction of justice, the sacrifice of heroes or the tragic fate of heroes, which causes great shock to the hearts of the audience and makes people get the edification and purification of beauty from grief.

8。 Witchcraft theory: proposed by British anthropologist Taylor. Primitive art originates from primitive witchcraft, which is rooted in primitive animism. Frenchman Reinach and others used witchcraft theory to reveal the causes of cave murals in Paleolithic age. In the depths, roofs and cracks of caves, these murals are not for appreciation, but witchcraft made by wizards (the pictures reflect the content of praying for God).

9. Art education is the core of aesthetic education and the main means to implement aesthetic education. It has become the main content and method of aesthetic education.