1, what are aesthetics and photography aesthetics? What is the difference between artistic beauty, social beauty and natural beauty?

On the Aesthetic Characteristics of Photography Art

Author Lao Diao

Photography is a plastic art that can best reflect modern consciousness and produce creativity. 100 years ago, photography was fooled by literature and painting when it was just emerging, but after all, it got rid of these shadows and became an independent one among many art categories. At present, photography is experiencing an important moment. Modeling and documentary factors coexist in the unity of creation. In this creative process, people realized a feature and summed up a set of laws-aesthetic characteristics and aesthetic laws of photography.

Photography can be independent of the forest of art and must rely on a unique thing and its own characteristics, that is, the image of the picture. Speaking by image, the image of concrete things in the objective world is the prototype of photographic expression, and any art form is described by image, that is, there is his artistic language, and the artist creatively uses these languages to reproduce endless artistic images that are pleasing to the eye or stirring people's hearts. The unique art form of photography and its independent standard are to speak with a camera and to reflect the concrete visual image of real life by means of photography. This is the specialty and advantage of photography, which is incomparable and irreplaceable by other art forms. Photography expresses the image of real life with the characteristics of directness, concreteness, truthfulness, vividness and vividness, which enables people to get knowledge, education and infection from the pictures of photos, and generates the power of excitement and enterprising. This is why photography is used in the field of photography.

Nature has its own beauty, but photos showing natural beauty are not necessarily artistic photography. On the contrary, natural scenery, people and things that are usually not beautiful can be taken into beautiful photos. This is because artists combine their inner imagination with skillful skills and express them through certain forms. In fact, the most effective photos are those that do not violate the natural image, but strive for high efficiency and simplification, dare to boldly deal with lines, colors, shapes and textures, absorb the most essential visual beauty points, make them stand out, eliminate those elements that hinder the central idea, or put them in a secondary position, put them in the viewfinder and handle them in a completely satisfactory way, including darkroom processing to make photos. This is the photographer's own expression, and relies on these forms to make the audience feel better about vision. Some excellent photographic works reveal certain thoughts, convey certain aesthetic feelings and enlighten people to know all aspects of life with concise artistic images.

In order to express and realize beauty, photography must rely on perfect forms to express and attach beauty. Good content also needs good form to impress people. Only when the content and form are integrated, can a truly successful work of art be truly artistic, because everything we see in our life can't be described in detail. We must choose, choose and cut, and gradually find some forms that are no longer equal to nature, but more perfect than nature. We say that this form is ideal beauty, and individuals also have their own ideal forms.

In the understanding of art, there are too many arguments about beauty, and the focus is on which is important, the formal beauty or the content beauty of art. In fact, art is inseparable from formal beauty. Practice has proved that all outstanding works of art spread all over the world are supported by strong formal beauty. It is through aesthetic functions that works of art impress readers, arouse people's emotional strength and willpower, and play an understanding and educational role of "a picture is worth a thousand words". News photography is no exception. Some people think that news photography is purely documentary and can't blame the beauty of form, so they ignore the pursuit of form. I think a good news photo also has its artistic value, value of the image. When a newspaper is in hand, the first thing that catches the reader's eye is the photo. If the value of the image of the photo is high and artistic, it can quickly attract and impress readers, and then read the text description, which really plays the social function and purpose of news photography. We must never deny the dependence of art form on content. Only a perfect art form can express people's thoughts and feelings.

The development of photography today has proved that photography has great temptation and vitality. This is because of the appearance of beauty in photography. When we observe a photographic work, we also try to find the existence of beauty from the work, whether it is external beauty or internal beauty. Therefore, photography cannot avoid "aesthetics". Although photography is still a new art, it is still in the process of exploration and development, but its great artistic potential has been displayed before our eyes. In the past, artists often laughed at photography, but now the development of photography has provided beneficial results for painting and other arts, and realism imitating photography has also appeared in painting. It is completely wrong to say that "one hundred photographers shoot the same scene and all the works are the same". Some people describe photography as "the recovery of material phenomena". In fact, even if a hundred photographers shoot the same scene, the works they shoot are different. Different people have different ways of thinking, and each photographer has different forms of expression for the same object: different lenses, different additional mirrors, different photosensitive materials and different processing methods. How can we say the same thing?

Because photography has its documentary function, people regard documentary photography as the main body of photography art. It is undeniable that the documentary nature of photography is also the artistic feature of photography and a special aesthetic consciousness. It can be said that documentary photography is still the main part of photography art, including news photography and artistic photography documentary, so people regard documentary nature as the main feature that distinguishes photography art from other art categories. However, with the development of photography to today's schools and styles, its disciplinary and ethereal characteristics can not be ignored. For example, film art based on photography and feature films characterized by fiction and hypothesis are the main varieties of film art, for example, high-light photography in photography creation, the combination of movies and pictures, advertising photography and photographic novels, all of which take fiction as the main means and have brought great influence to society. Therefore, the beauty of photography art has different forms of expression in works with different themes and genres.

When it comes to the content beauty of photography art, that is, the inner beauty of works, the inner things still need to be expressed by certain means. The means of expressing content in photography is nothing more than composition, light, tone and color, which are the basic factors that constitute the art of photography. When a photographer discovers beauty, it is most important to properly use these basic forms to express his findings. Everyone has his own way of expression, depending on the author's feelings. The understanding of the content varies from person to person, which is determined by psychological differences. Different levels of understanding show different forms. On the other hand, a photographic work may be touching or indifferent, because the viewers have different artistic tastes, which largely depends on what kind of viewpoint is used to understand the content of the work, so it is difficult to have a unified standard to measure the beauty of the content. Different societies, different classes and different levels of appreciation have different aesthetic standards for content, which depends entirely on the subjective intention of the viewer.

Photography should give people a sense of beauty, give people enjoyment and cultivate people's sentiments. The melody composed of point, line, surface, light, shadow and color will be brilliant. (End)