Looking for arguments or opinions that art comes from life but is higher than life.

Without life prototypes or phenomena, there would be no source and inspiration for artistic creation. In other words, all the little things or things that have happened in life are the providers and prototypes of artistic materials. And writers use artistic means to create Processing, concise language description, orderly plot arrangement, rendering, exaggeration, concentration of contradictions and other depictions of the plot make a novel or other literary work more vivid and thought-provoking. Therefore, the source of art It is based on life but higher than life.

Art comes from life and is higher than life. Examples: Art is the concentration and refinement of life. It sometimes makes some things in life purer and more extreme. . It is beautiful, pure, and carries the creator's personal tendency, which must be displayed and extracted from what he considers valuable. In this regard, compared with the complexity of daily life, the good and the bad are mixed. It may not be very accurate, but for example, the use of various rhetorical techniques in literature makes the work different from reality, making it stronger, more shocking, etc.

Art comes from life but is higher than life

————Thinking of visiting Songbo Art and Painting Society

Abstract: This article is based on the visit The freehand paintings of Songbo Art Painting Society - Maizi's feelings are the guide, which triggers a series of associations. The first is his own comic "Chimney of the Factory", which is derived from the observation and experience of real life and is shocked by the scenes of real life. and thriller. Then there are Chen Danqing's "Tibet Series" and the Song Dynasty's "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", which further reminds me of sister art films - "Longxugou" and "Ben Ming Nian"; the music erhu "Er Quan Ying Yue" and the pop song "Lonely Sandbank Cold"; As well as Lu Xun's "A Q" in literature, the Tang poem "Jiang Xue", the foreign painter "The Noblewoman Molozova", Picasso's "Guernica" which combines cubism, reality and surrealism, and finally ends with Qi Baishi's "Shrimp" originated from his long-term observation of the living habits and shapes of shrimps, further elaborating that art comes from life and ends above life.

Keywords: small freehand brushwork, four screens, horror, lyricism through borrowed scenery, cubism, surrealism, sensibility, rationality, imagery, parallel expansion

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< p>As soon as I walked into the Songbo Art and Painting Club, I was greeted by the simple artistic root-carved tables and chairs, frosted purple teapots and teacups, as well as colorful traditional Chinese paintings of flowers, birds and landscapes, and various rare and exotic animals expressed with freehand brushwork... The spirit of art hit my face. I have been going back and forth with nostalgia for a long time, especially a group of "four screens". The "one screen" of "spring, summer, autumn and winter" represented by four plants - the representative symbol of summer - " Wheat" deeply attracted me. Wheat is something we ordinary people are familiar with, but here the artist discovered and expressed beauty in the "wheat" that ordinary people are blind to.

The author really put a lot of thought into the expression of the wheat grains. He carefully arranged and combined the wheat grains. Each wheat grain is in a unified form but has different shapes and various postures. The summary of the wheat leaves and the interweaving of the virtual and the real, the artistic exaggeration and elongation of the wheat straw, as well as the ingenious use of color and ink, the changes in lightness, virtuality, lightness, and burnt wetness of the lines, the whole picture is fresh and fresh. Neat, calm, handsome, and upright, this is absolutely irreplaceable by photography. Compared with those so-called arts that are dirty, messy, and weird, this is the real art.

This shows that the author can only draw such a masterpiece with his profound observation and experience of "wheat" in real life, coupled with high painting skills, thus explaining that "art comes from life and is higher than Life".

Then there is a cartoon I drew - "Factory Chimneys", which shows a group of factory chimneys blowing out thick black smoke, and the black smoke rises in twisting and twisting directions. , and finally evolved into monsters with ferocious faces, eyes as big as bells, open mouths, and fangs, and they rushed towards me with teeth and claws... This painting originated from my observation of real life, It was in the evening that I finished my evening self-study. Just as I was walking out of the school gate, I suddenly looked up and saw the chimney of the proofreading factory blowing out thick black smoke, twisting and rising like a demon. It surprised and shocked me. A kind of horror, thus creating this cartoon. From this, I further thought of the exhaust gases emitted by cars and motorcycles (which contain hydrogen sulfide and other carcinogenic and harmful gases). They are like invisible blue monsters that quietly eat humans without realizing it... From this, I can draw a picture. The comic series is called "Chimney Series".

When Chen Danqing was a graduate student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, his graduation creation "Tibet Series" was derived from his life experience in Tibet. The work adopts an extremely simple realism technique and depicts ordinary life scenes without drama or literary themes. The freshness and simplicity of the work caused a great sensation in the Chinese art circle. Of course, the author borrowed more techniques from Western European classical painting rather than Soviet-style painting techniques. Subsequently, in the graduation creations of various art academies in China, we can all see ordinary people and ordinary life scenes close to our lives; the art creation of the academies began to move towards the true nature of art, that is, the visual language has come up, and the work has become more and more important. The interpretation is given to the readers - the audience.

Chen Danqing said: "If the audience can accidentally be moved by the true description of the work and feel that this is life, then that is my greatest wish... Some people applaud and say that I have exposed and condemned this terrible backwardness. The phenomenon of ignorance, my answer is no, I hate using paintings to reveal anything, some people say that I have deep sympathy and pity for them, but it may not be..." The well-known "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" by Zhang Zeduan of the Song Dynasty expresses It describes the prosperity of Bianliang (Kaifeng), the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, during the Qingming Festival. The picture takes the Bianhe River as the center of the composition, and describes in detail the living conditions and folk customs of people from all walks of life. The work shows the artist's amazing familiarity and unique ability to grasp social life. It is not only an outstanding representative of ancient realism painting, but also provides detailed images for future generations to study the politics, economy, science and technology, culture, folk customs and other aspects of the Song Dynasty. historical data.

As for the sister art of painting - film, when rehearsing Mr. Lao She's script "Longxugou", the director often took the actors to go deep into the residential area of ??this smelly ditch in old Beijing. Life, as well as the shooting of many movies, emphasizes going deep into life, and the purpose is to have real feelings in the process of artistic creation.

Many viewers criticized the famous director Xie Fei's "Ben Ming Nian" in 1989, thinking it was an ordinary film about urban ruffians. However, after analysis by critics, this film has a large number of It has a very profound color of the times. It shows that in the late 1980s and early 1990s, China was facing a major transformation in life and culture. In this transformation, different people will have different reactions. , the protagonist of the film, Li Huiquan, failed to adapt to this social transformation, and therefore became more and more unsuitable in the increasingly fierce social competition, leading to his ultimate death. (If there is a person like Li Huiquan in real life, 99% of the cases are... It will never die. This is a vivid example that art comes from life but is higher than life and is refined from life.) His death has profound practical significance. We can understand Xie Fei through a little person like Li Huiquan. Intellectuals have endured huge social pressure in the social transformation, and thus can grasp the humanistic mentality of contemporary intellectuals in the economic, social and consumer era.

The eternal masterpiece "The Moon Reflected in Two Springs" expresses the experience of moonlight and spring water and expects a cold and desolate musical image. It uses the scene to express emotions. This stems from A Bing's profound understanding of the bleak life of the working people of the lower class. Experience and observation led to the creation of such a stunning work. "Lonely Sandbank Cold" is a popular song that modern young people love to sing. I think the person who wrote the lyrics and composed the music probably had the same life experience as this song, so he could write such a song that can arouse some people's screams. A touching work.

Emotions in art come from people’s emotions in daily life, but they are different from emotions in daily life. The latter has very clear practical reasons and utilitarian colors, that is, it is based on one’s own interests. Determining the emotional tendency, the former has a certain distance from reality. Artistic creation examines and experiences the world with an aesthetic attitude. This kind of emotion is more lasting and profound. For example, when we see a vagrant who is idle and lazy, most of us will feel disgusted. Lu Xun discovered Ah Q from these people, coupled with the inferior images of other types of citizens, comprehensively created an immortal art A typical image, his feelings towards Ah Q are pity, sadness and hatred for the Chinese people.

The famous painting "The Noblewoman Molozova" created by the Russian painter Surikov was about one time he saw a crow standing on the snow, with one wing hanging downward...a black dot. Parked on the snow... For many years, he said that he could not forget this black spot... Later, he painted "The Noblewoman Molozova".

The famous Spanish painter Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica" (this painting is currently worth tens of millions of dollars), this painting combines the styles of Cubism, Realism and Surrealism. In this painting, Picasso mobilized various techniques, using Cubist deformation and arbitrary combination techniques, as well as Surrealist exaggeration, symbolism and other modeling techniques. He only used black, white and gray colors throughout, emphasizing the Tragic atmosphere and complex symbolism. Picasso created this painting to protest against the brutal bombing of the small Spanish town of Guernica by German fascists during World War II. According to the artist's own explanation, the central image of this painting is an injured horse that is uttering pain. The cry is a symbol of the Spanish people who were brutally massacred by the fascists. The grinning bull head in the upper left corner of the picture is a symbol of bestiality, cruelty and darkness. In addition, in order to show the suffering of the people and the atrocities of fascism, there are killed soldiers holding broken swords, women holding dead children, and various symbolic images, such as a head and an arm holding a lamp. Reaching forward, and the sun like eyes, etc. Obviously, Picasso contains profound rational content in the perceptual form of this painting, which strongly reflects the painter's distinct emotions of love and hate. It is said that when the German fascists occupied Paris, a German officer asked Picasso after seeing this painting: "Did you paint this?" Picasso replied angrily: "This is your work!"

"Snow on the River" written by Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty has only four lines in the poem: "Birds in thousands of mountains have disappeared, and all traces of people have been wiped out. A man in a boat with a coir raincoat fishing alone in the snow in the cold river."

"In just twenty words, the poet expresses the rationality of being aloof, arrogant, and daring to fight through perceptual images such as mountains, trails, cold rivers, lone boats, an old man wearing a bamboo hat and raincoat, holding a fishing rod, and white snow. Spirit. Reminiscing that Liu Zongyuan was being belittled when he wrote this poem, we can see that the poet used the scenery to express his feelings and express his depressed emotions and stubborn and unyielding character.

For example, Qi Baishi's "Shrimp" mainly uses light ink, with multiple layers and full of transparency, vividly showing the movement of the shrimp floating in the water, as well as the body of the shrimp that is hard on the outside and soft on the inside, as transparent as jade. The ability to achieve such a high artistic level is inseparable from Qi Baishi's long-term observation of the living habits of shrimps and his proficient use of the artistic language of traditional Chinese painting. Therefore, Qi Baishi's paintings of shrimps are well-known at home and abroad and have unique artistic charm.

It can be seen from the above parallel expansion discussion that art is derived from the observation, feeling, or experience of life, and based on this, artistic processing such as refining, analysis, selection, generalization, and synthesis is carried out, and then formed in life. of works of art.