An understanding of the true meaning of the life of art, the life of art is

The vitality of art refers to the time limit for which a work of art can be accepted by everyone.

And art here does not just refer to a painting or a sculpture, it can refer to everything around us in a broad sense. For example, a pair of jeans, a can. And their vitality is the time period when you love it.

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is still fascinated by the world even after n centuries, and this is the vitality of this work. Or the bottle of Coca-Cola, the Journey to the West, the Chanel set, these things that people loved from the very beginning until they have become classics, and this is also a kind of vitality. And the ** technique of the 80s, the bell bottoms of the 90s, and the paintings that were once very popular for a certain period of time, have been slowly replaced with time, but their artistic vitality is very weak.

The meaning of art

In "The Impermanence of Life", Yoshitomo Nara uses multiple pieces of wood to assemble a complete picture, and the deep lines and splicing gaps on the characters in the painting are full of rough feelings of brokenness and hints of injury, but all these are integrated with the characters in the painting and become a part of human nature.

In the picture, the little girl holds a skull in her hand, and her childish face contrasts strongly with the symbol of death, immersing us in the thoughtful and concise reflection of "life and death". The solitary figure of the little wide-trouser child conveys the artist's contemplation of life and the helplessness of fate.

Is art hard? Before reading "The History of Chinese Art", I thought it was very difficult.

Because every time I take my children to the museum, I see the exhibits in the cold glass display case, and a small name and card introducing the exhibits, and I don't have much connection with them. In addition to knowing the preciousness and rarity of the exhibits, it is rare to understand its significance and rarity from the aspect of historical and cultural value, let alone its past and present life.

Yi Gongzi, the author of "The History of Chinese Art", said: Art leads to the depths of our lives. What art really allows us to gain may not be the skill or the knowledge itself at all.

Opening "The History of Chinese Art", along the author's magical magic fingers, a piece of artwork full of vitality and tension slowly walks towards us, as if through thousands of years, we can see the endless source of life of Chinese history and art.

From ancient primitive society to modern society, from simple pottery to modern artworks using complex techniques, from craftsmen more than 3,000 years ago to modern art masters, each artwork either because of survival or because of the pursuit of life freely, all show traces of social development and the exploration of the pursuit of the meaning of life.

Art began to survive. Looking at the pottery of the Neolithic Age, the author uses the technique of immersive observation of the works, delves into the ancient society, imagines the work methods of people in ancient times, and how people learned to use pottery in the era of Ru Mao and drinking blood.

Perhaps after a heavy rain, people who were barbecuing food on the muddy ground found that there was a naughty child pinching a gadget, and after the barbecue, the gadget became hard. It was thought that the clay could be made into other vessels, and all kinds of pottery were born.

Our primitive ancestors constantly tapped into their own wisdom, tried different ways of life, and struggled to survive. When we are immersed in the production era of artworks, imagining the production methods and social environment at that time, each piece of art is no longer a cold object, but has vitality.

"Dahua Chinese Art History" produced by Reader, written by Yi Gongzi. Yi Gongzi has opened our eyes and pattern of appreciating artworks.

Yi Gongzi is the founder of the domestic head art science popularization self-** "Accidental Art". She uses storytelling to popularize popular art, so that more people can see the past and present, the past and present of those works of art, and the vitality they demonstrate. Even the talk show "Is Art Difficult" for six seasons has also gained hundreds of millions of **; Her first work, A History of Western Art, was included in the list of best-selling art books in 2020.

Today, when we follow Yu Gongzi to open "The History of Chinese Art", whether it is pottery or jade, whether it is calligraphy or art works, the author tells us the past and present lives of representative artworks in each era in the way of storytelling, and takes us into the world of the creators.

1. Bring spiritual pleasure.

For example, when you hear a good ** or song, people will be immersed in it, and their mood will be relaxed and excited;

2. Bring enlightenment of wisdom.

People can learn a lot of philosophies from art. For example, during the European Renaissance, a large number of paintings and literary works created by artists with humanism as the core played a great role in the emancipation of people's minds and human nature at that time. Another example is reading ** and other literary works, such as Lu Yao's "Life" and "Ordinary World", from which you can understand a lot of principles of life;

3. Give people strength.

Art can empower people and motivate them to forge ahead. For example, the symphony "Yellow River Cantata" has inspired many Chinese sons and daughters;

4. Give people the enjoyment of beauty.

For example, a beautiful dance, admiring a classic painting, everyone will be intoxicated by its beauty, and breathtaking, can't bear to take their eyes off.

What is art?

To put it simply, art is a cultural phenomenon, the essence of culture, and a product that mainly serves people's spiritual level. Art includes literature, dance, film and television, painting, photography, calligraphy, sculpture, architecture and other fields, which are manifested in all aspects of our lives.