What is an artistic activity?

Artistic activity is not only the social practice of human beings, but also a spiritual activity with personal artistic creation as the basic form of expression. It mainly expresses some thoughts and feelings through concrete and sensible aesthetic images, images and artistic conception. It is a way to master the world with aesthetic images and imagery, and its image and aesthetic form are ambiguous. In most artistic styles, it is an individual's independent creation, and the individual's subjective aesthetic spirit has been fully displayed and publicized in artistic activities, which has concentrated the artist's aesthetic consciousness, psychological function, will power and all wisdom.

Functions of artistic activities

As a special spiritual production activity, artistic activities have many functions and influences on social life, but in the final analysis, artistic activities meet people's aesthetic needs by creating works of art with aesthetic value. In artistic activities, artists express and convey their aesthetic consciousness and ideals through artistic creation; Readers, audiences and listeners gain aesthetic feeling through art appreciation and meet their own aesthetic needs. As a special social ideology, art affects people's mental outlook and thoughts and feelings through the whole process of artistic creation-artistic works-artistic appreciation, and finally has various functions and influences on social life.

The social functions of artistic activities mainly include aesthetic cognition function, aesthetic education function and aesthetic entertainment function.

(A) the aesthetic cognitive function

The aesthetic cognitive function of art means that people acquire knowledge and information about nature and society through artistic activities. As early as the pre-Qin period, Confucius said: "Poetry can be appreciated, considerable, collective and resentful; Your father is a thing, and your father is a distant thing; Learn more about the names of birds, animals and plants. "One is observability, that is, it has the function of understanding social history; The second is to "know more about the names of some birds, animals and plants", that is, it has the function of knowing natural things.

First of all, art has aesthetic cognitive function to society, history and life, and can often reveal the true meaning and connotation of society, history and life more deeply.

Secondly, for many natural phenomena, art also has the function of aesthetic cognition, which can help people increase all kinds of scientific knowledge. In a word, artistic activities have their unique aesthetic cognitive function and can play an irreplaceable role in other social sciences and natural sciences.

(B) aesthetic function

The aesthetic education function of art mainly means that people are influenced and infected by truth, goodness and beauty through artistic activities, enlightened in thought, found an example in practice and improved in understanding.

⑴. Artistic aesthetics can subtly bring profound changes to people's thoughts, feelings, ideals and pursuits, guide people to correctly understand and understand life, and establish a correct outlook on life and world. Thinkers, educators and artists all over the world attach great importance to the aesthetic function of art.

Artistic aesthetic education is different from other types of education. Based on aesthetic value, it is an education that is "emotional", "subtle" and "entertaining".

⑵. Features of artistic aesthetic education function

The first feature of the function of artistic aesthetic education is "caring for people with emotion". Works of art are always full of the artist's thoughts and feelings, and through vivid and touching artistic descriptions, they act on the emotions of the appreciator, which makes people strongly infected and edified. Therefore, the educational function of art is by no means a dry moral sermon, let alone a sermon. But with emotional people, through the powerful appeal of art, let the appreciator consciously and voluntarily receive education.

The second feature of the function of artistic aesthetic education is "imperceptible". The education of artistic works to people is often in the absence of strong plot, which makes the appreciator unconsciously infected and exerts a subtle influence on people's thoughts, feelings and mental outlook. The third feature of artistic aesthetic education function is "entertainment", that is, the educational function is integrated into artistic aesthetic entertainment.

There is also a problem of moderate evaluation of the aesthetic education function of art, which can neither be ignored nor exaggerated. Because of different genres and categories of art, different themes and contents of works, different creative methods and styles of artists, artistic works have different aesthetic education functions. For artistic schools such as landscape poetry, flower-and-bird painting, serenade and classical dance, there is no need to look for ideological depth and historical height from their works. Their education and edification is often an emotional infection and influence.

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