How to grasp the aesthetic characteristics of art

Aesthetic characteristics of plastic arts. Plastic arts refers to the use of certain materials (such as pigments, silk, cloth, paper). Stone, metal, wood, bamboo, etc. ), an art form that expresses social life and artists' feelings by shaping visible static images. It includes painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, arts and crafts and other specific art forms. Its main aesthetic characteristics are intuition and concreteness; Eternity in an instant; Differences in spatial expression; Formal beauty of cohesion.

(1) Intuitive concreteness means that plastic arts have the characteristics of using material media to express concrete artistic images in space. Plastic arts use material media to create concrete artistic images and directly attract people's visual senses. This kind of direct and concrete image contains rich artistic implication, which directly presents the concrete visible or tangible image to the audience and causes the audience's intuitive aesthetic feeling. Plastic arts can also transform some intangible things that are difficult to express in real life into concrete visual images that can be intuitive.

(2) The eternity of an instant means that plastic arts have the characteristic of choosing a specific moment to express eternal meaning. Plastic arts is a static art, it is difficult to reproduce the movement and development process of things, but it can capture, select, refine and fix the most expressive and meaningful moments in the development process of things.

Move silently, express eternity instantly. For example, photography, the instantaneous expression of photographic images, often seize the moment before the climax, leaving people with unlimited imagination.

(3) The difference of spatial expression means that all categories of plastic arts have different characteristics in spatial expression. For example, Chinese and western paintings use different perspective methods to create an illusory three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane. Western oil paintings use focus perspective, while Chinese paintings use scattered perspective.

(4) Cohesive formal beauty means that plastic arts have the characteristics of condensed and aggregated formal beauty in artistic image. The law of formal beauty is universal to all categories of plastic arts, so using the law of formal beauty to deal with material media can integrate artistic symbols condensed with formal beauty. Various laws of formal beauty (such as symmetry, balance, rhythm, rhythm, contrast, proportion, master and slave, scale, light and shade, truth and falsehood, diversity and unity, etc.). ) condensed into various forms of beauty in the concrete application of various arts. For example, the symmetry of proportion, the change of rhythm, the contrast between light and shade, the unity of diversity, the coexistence of reality and reality, etc. , are the concentrated embodiment of the law of formal beauty in various art categories.