什麼是美？

What is beauty? Read:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lun...orks/puskin.htm

"When we speak of the beauty of a work of art, we always mean the strength of its influence, the captivating nature of the work, its ability to hold our interest, to make us happy, to illuminate our consciousness.

All "beauty" has specifically this intent. In uttering the word "beauty" one strives to indicate the objective quality in nature or in a work of art which he believes to be the reason for his elated mood, his emotional uplift.

From a narrow point of view, beauty reduces itself to those elements in nature or in art which are pleasant to the senses, or into correct, i.e. easily-grasped, combination (design, melody, harmony, rhythm, etc.), or into pleasing presentations of physical perfection, vital strength, health, intellectual brilliance, moral fascination, etc.

On the other hand, we know well enough that art does not reduce itself merely to this type of beauty. Art can include elements which from this narrow viewpoint are unbeautiful or downright ugly. Art, as Aristotle pointed out in his day, deals also with ashes, with pain, with unusually accurate reproductions of repelling phases of life (Flaubert). And all this the artist can nevertheless surmount. Whether they depict the stripped carcass of a bull or a brutal scuffle of warriors, Rembrandt or Leonardo da Vinci attain heights of beauty and compel us to exclaim--"excellent !" A powerful sensation, which overcomes the reader, compels him to see the world in a new light, makes him think differently of the world and thus moulds his world-outlook, this essentially is beauty. The more subtle it is, the more novel it is, the further it departs from elementary prettiness--the more we delight in it, for its influence operates in the most difficult realms.

Now for shortcomings. A shortcoming is that which repels us, that which reveals the artist's weakness, betrays his inability to cope with his task, shows that due to his impotence, or in order to be clever, he falsifies reality, or tells us things which are extraneous to us and therefore bore us".

什麼是美？內容如下：
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lun...orks/puskin.htm
“談到藝術作品的美，我們通常是指其作品影響力，其迷人的作品性質，它有能力持我們的兴趣，使我們快樂，启发我們的意識。
所有“美”具有這一意圖。在谈到 “美”字, 一个人努力的目標，在于顯示自然的或在一個藝術作品中de客观特性，他認為因此而产生興高采烈的情緒，使他的使精神振奋.
從狹窄的角度來看，美变化自身为那些在自然或在藝術作品中de因素, 那些因素使感官愉快，...

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张大千的画风经几度变化

2009-01-17 08:02:25

张大千的画风经几度变化，30岁以前可称“清新俊逸”、50岁是“瑰丽雄奇”、60岁以后“苍深渊穆”、80岁后则笔简墨淡，奇伟瑰丽，他所创作的“长江万里图”气势磅礡，深境幽远，为国画的传世之作。

http://www.artrenewal.org/images/artists/b/Bouguereau_William/large/Nymphes_et_satyre.jpg

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