Appreciation of photography art

On the appreciation of photography art

Jiang Jianhua and Cai Lin.

1. The concept, nature and function of photographic art appreciation?

1. The concept of photography art appreciation? Appreciation of photography art is a process in which people feel, understand and judge the image of photography art. People's thinking and emotional activities in appreciation are generally based on their specific feelings about the image of photography art, thus realizing a leap from perceptual stage to rational stage, which is not only restricted by the image and content of photography, but also based on their own freedom? Viewpoint, social life experience, artistic concept and artistic interest supplement and enrich the artistic image of photographic works. Therefore, generally speaking, people with different positions and viewpoints have different identification and requirements for photographic works of art, and they will also have different feelings and evaluations. Even people in the same class will have differences in appreciation because of different social habits, experiences, artistic accomplishment and artistic feeling ability. ? Although there is only one word difference between photography art appreciation and photography art appreciation, there are obvious differences between them. Appreciation means recognition and appreciation, and appreciation does not mean recognition. For example, some people say that he appreciates Dada's photography art, which only shows that he fully affirms and appreciates this photography art school. Although some parts are sometimes discriminated against in appreciation, on the whole, they adopt a positive and appreciative attitude. If he wants to appreciate Dadaism photography, the situation is very different. First of all, it doesn't mean the affirmation and appreciation of this photography school, but only by carefully analyzing, studying and identifying the ideas of this photography school and the contents and artistic skills embodied in its works can we decide whether to adopt a completely affirmative and appreciative attitude or an analytical and critical or even completely negative attitude towards its works. Therefore, the concept of photography art appreciation is broader and more specific than photography art appreciation.

2. The essence of photography appreciation can be understood from the following two aspects:? First of all, the appreciation of photographic art is an important link for photographic works to play a social role. Because any kind of photographic work, if it is only owned by the creator and not made public, then the social function of this photographic work will not be brought into play. Therefore, without the appreciation of photographic art, photographic creation will lose its foundation of existence and creative significance. Therefore, photography creation and photography art appreciation are interrelated and mutually restricted. The former provides the object for the latter, and the latter is an indispensable link to play the social role of photography creation. ? Secondly, the appreciation of photographic art is a unique spiritual activity when people watch photographic works. The important characteristics of this spiritual activity are: on the one hand, the artistic image created by the photographic work itself brings the viewer to a specific artistic realm and stimulates the waves of the viewer's thoughts and feelings; On the other hand, the viewer will understand or interpret the artistic image in the photographic works according to his own thoughts, feelings and social life experience, and sometimes even use his own experience and knowledge to enrich and supplement the artistic image and ideological connotation in the works. ? An important reason why there are many excellent photographic works at all times and in all countries is that they can constantly stimulate the audience's interest in re-creation, so that the audience can have some new discoveries and experiences every time they watch them, thus becoming the object of constant appreciation. The appreciation of photography has the nature of artistic re-creation, which is a complex spiritual activity in every connoisseur's mind and also a cognitive activity. As the object of appreciation of photography, photographic works are not only the result of the photographer's understanding of life, but also the object of appreciation. However, this kind of cognitive activity has its particularity, that is, the viewer can correctly understand the photographic works through a series of interrelated spiritual activities such as feeling, imagination, experience, understanding and appreciation. This is the basic nature of photography appreciation. ?

3. What is the function of photography appreciation? The appreciation function of photography art is an important issue in photography art theory and photography aesthetics. Here, we only talk about its function from the specific appreciation of photographic works.

1) Expand your knowledge? For everyone, no matter how wide his knowledge is, how rich his social life is and how comprehensive his knowledge is, it is impossible for him to directly observe and experience all aspects of social life. However, with the help of many excellent photography works at all times and in all countries, we can get in touch with many fields that life experience can't touch. Therefore, the appreciation of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign photographic works can help people understand exotic customs, travel around the world, stroll through history and greatly expand the field of knowledge.