The development process of art

Primitive society is an extremely long historical process. The occurrence of art is also an extremely long historical process. As a work of art, it is not only a creation of human beings, but also an image creation with aesthetic value and emotion, and tools are only created for practical purposes. Production occurs before art and art occurs after production, which is the basic viewpoint of Marxist historical materialism.

From the appearance of tools to the appearance of art, it has gone through about three stages: the first stage: pure practical goods, whose symbol is the first stone knife made by human beings. The second stage: both practical and artistic, or neither practical nor artistic. This is the beginning of art, which we call "quasi-art", "prehistoric art" or "art before art" in Hegel's words. The process in which art occurs is the process in which the practical connotation of products manufactured by people gradually declines and the spiritual connotation gradually rises, that is, the process in which spiritual products gradually differentiate from practical products. The third stage: pure art, which is the art of civilized society.

The so-called historical process of art occurrence is actually a development process of "quasi-art" or "art precedes art"

One of the characteristics of "quasi-art" is its transition and development. "Quasi-art" develops with the development of primitive social economy, and declines with the decline of primitive social economy. With the emergence of a new social form, the real flower of art has broken ground in the declining soil of "quasi-art". The symbol of true art is the decline of practical value, the infiltration of hierarchical concept, the prosperity of jade and bronze art as symbols of rich ornaments or religious sacrifices, and the emergence of ugly and horrible artistic styles.