Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - The Orange and Red Age, 2019
People have two major mental faculties: one is rationality and the other is sensibility. The representative of reason is science, and the representative of sensibility is art. Science conquers the world, and art beautifies the world.
However, for a long time, art in China was only an after-dinner tea, something dispensable. As everyone knows, experiencing happiness requires quality. The material level has improved, but it is not necessarily possible to know how to feel happiness.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - Prosperous Time, 2019
Why? Because a person wants to get happiness for a lifetime, he must not only have the living conditions to get happiness, but also have the ability and quality to experience happiness feelings.
Why do some people live dirty, messy, poor, monotonous and boring lives? The problem is in the perceptual quality, because his perceptual quality is low, and he does not feel how disgusting the environment is. If a person's perceptual quality is low, his performance is to ignore or even abandon the requirements for the perceptual quality of the environment.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - "Absolutely Beautiful", 2019
There are couples fighting because they want to buy a washing machine, 1600 yuan for a better look, 1400 yuan for an ugly one. The wife has a higher emotional quality and wants to buy a good-looking one; the husband is lower, thinking that 1400 yuan can be used, why spend two hundred more?
On the surface, the husband and wife have differences, but in fact, the two sides have different requirements for the emotional quality of the environment, and the deep reason is the difference in the emotional quality of the two sides.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - Secret Language, 2019
As a result, the two sides will have serious differences in values. Those with high sensitivity are willing to pay the cost of beautifying the environment and enjoying life. This also explains why couples are particularly prone to quarrels during renovations.
Also, why do people always say to travel together once before getting married? Because that's a big exposure of the sensual qualities of both sides. I once took a bamboo raft tour in Guilin, with two people on board, and slept for three hours from beginning to end.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - Modern Afternoon, 2019
Therefore, when you go out to travel, do not partner with people with low emotional quality. They have no interest in anything, either sleep or play cards, it is very boring, it is a disaster.
Therefore, to find an object, we must find a perceptual quality comparable. If you want to talk about hygiene, find a beauty lover. If you want to mess around, find an oil-stained twist. One word: harmony! People with low perceptual qualities generally do not enjoy life. Will not enjoy life due to low perceptual qualities. Both positive and negative make sense.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - "Burning Love Years", 2019
If a person wants to achieve happiness for a lifetime, he must first have the ability to be happy. A delicate, sensitive, and rich person has a much higher quality of life than a boring, insensitive person.
Why do many people not feel that happiness has come as scheduled after the material level has improved? It is because of the ability to be happy, that is, the low quality of sensibility.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - Cross Street, 2019
When the level of material conditions is improved, when there is no ability to experience culture and art, it will also breed many social problems that were not originally there: domestic violence, alcoholism, drug addiction, gambling... Why? The total amount of life is a constant, and if it is not spent in these places, it will be spent elsewhere. If you don't grow crops, you will grow grass!
The future will be the era of "the elegant is king", if you do not pay attention to artistic quality, it will be as difficult as today's low learning, but want to succeed.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - "A Dream of Blue", 2019
Some people say that there are no material conditions for a happy life, how can we talk about the feeling of a happy life?! Even "Gou And" has not yet made a fuss, and talks about "poetry and far away"...
Well, let's talk about "utilitarianism." What is the use of art education with perceptual qualities? Everyone's so-called success now is not to get promoted and get rich. Let's talk about getting rich and not being afraid of vulgarity.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - Acacia, 2018
In the past, there was a clear difference between domestic goods and imported goods: our products had an ugly appearance, rough craftsmanship, and anti-human habits. From a philosophical point of view, the essence is what it is: the quality of sensibility is low.
The quality of a product consists of two qualities: functional quality, which solves practical problems. A cup can drink water into the mouth, and this problem is satisfied. The quality of sensibility emphasizes more aesthetics. Drink water from this cup, refreshing and endless. Practicality and aesthetics add up to the whole quality of a product.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - "Years", 2018
A lot of people don't realize this. A broken cup that can drink water into your mouth – a cup with a little design – a cup with a little good look, in the process, the improvement is not the functional quality, but the sensual quality. The increase in the price of the product is not a change in functionality, but a change in experience.
Many of our entrepreneurs, due to their own low perceptual quality, the upgrading of products can not be understood, rigid functionality, do not understand aesthetics, and are not willing to increase costs in perceptual quality. The result is that your product has been replaced, but it has not been upgraded, which is particularly regrettable.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - Yiren, 2018
The difference between high-end products and low-end products is not the difference in function. Which cottage goods do not have powerful features? Are luxury goods and daily necessities function the same? But is the experience the same? I think fools know the answer.
Think about why we have clothing and building materials, beauty makeup, decoration, cars and mobile phones, hotels and hospitals, where we need sensual quality, we all believe in foreign products, and even give high-end products to foreign companies.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - "Beautiful" 2018
We must analyze the reasons for the quality of the people in depth. In the 21st century, China has begun to enter the era of moderate prosperity in an all-round way. The era of moderate prosperity is an era of comprehensive upgrading of perceptual needs. The well-off economy is a perceptual economy, so the perceptual quality of entrepreneurs in this era has a vital impact on the survival and development of the entire enterprise.
What is life and death? The waveguide is dead, Huawei is alive.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - "Duoduo", 2018
Waveguide phone, who remembers where his phone is? Tens of millions of R & D funds are invested, hundreds of millions of production and sales, advertising funds are invested in, due to the ugly appearance, the use of inhumane, tragically eliminated.
I would like to ask you to think about it, what is the relationship between the disappearance of the waveguide mobile phone and his advertising slogan "fighter in the mobile phone"? This slogan comes from a sentence in the sketch. Mobile phone is a high-tech product, you take a vulgar thing, advertise for high-tech products, not suicide is what?
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - Twilight Spring, 2018
Looking at Huawei phones, I have been going to Huawei almost once a year for the past few years. In a lecture I gave to Huawei's R&D executive team, Huawei executives said: Huawei came out with a mobile phone that year, and the sample came out and found that the length was 4 mm longer than the design, and the thickness was 2 mm thicker. Can you imagine, can this phone still be seen?
This is because people in each link do not regard perceptual qualities as rigid requirements. Huawei said that we are engineer culture, 97% of Huawei employees are born in science and engineering, which is actually the lack of our education. Not because you are an engineer and study science and engineering, but because of the education of engineers and science and engineering, there is a serious lack of aesthetic and artistic education.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - Midsummer, 2018
Later, Huawei decided to put the product design center in France and the quality inspection center in Japan. The top level is aware of the crux of this problem, but the staff on hand lacks the basic quality to solve this problem, and education is inherently lacking...
Later, I once received a mobile phone from Huawei that was a local tycoon, and after getting it, I found that there was no LOGO, and asked the executive why, he said that the logo printed on the back of this metal brushed surface was particularly ugly, and it was not printed. I immediately liked it.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - Qingqiu, 2018
Because Huawei can not print the LOGO in order to look good, it can be seen how high they put the emotional quality. But it has to be mentioned that the executive added: This is because our foreign employees are unanimously opposed.
So why are not the Chinese people who oppose it? We should also say the other way around: if there is no consensus at the top and no aesthetic education, how can such an idea be accepted?
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - "Cold Winter", 2018
Entrepreneurs are divided into three generations, each of which has its own core competitiveness.
The first generation, the generation that took the lead in going to the sea during the reform and opening up, their core competitiveness is courage. In that era, as long as you dare to do it, you can make money.
The second generation of entrepreneurs are well-educated people, and their core competitiveness is intellectual rationality.
The third generation, represented by Jobs, has a high artistic accomplishment and aesthetic quality, and it is they who lead the future of this era.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - Townsville, 2018
I remind you: perhaps, you have caught up with this era. If in the future, you lack artistic accomplishment and perceptual wisdom, do you still want to succeed? The difficulties you encounter are the same as those of this generation of people who have not received a decent higher education.
Why is the level of service industry in our country generally low? But anyone in any link, with a little emotional demand, will not lead to this result. But unfortunately, every link of the people, there is no request. How can a person who doesn't even feel himself, how can he experience your feelings.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - Centripetal Force: The Power of China 1, 2020
So what we see is that there is confusion everywhere. The deepest and most fundamental reason why our country is currently facing such a terrible environmental problem lies in the low emotional quality of the whole people. Especially in history, we have promoted a large number of people with low emotional quality to leadership positions, and we need to solve this problem from the root.
Remember, people with low perceptual qualities are devastated. Where is the way out? There is no doubt that the perceptual quality of the whole nation is enhanced. How to improve? Please note that the cultivation of perceptual qualities is achieved through art education. The Chinese nation has never been a nation with low perceptual qualities.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - Centripetal Force: The Power of China 2, 2020
I have always believed that such a terrible environmental problem in China today is a retribution for suppressing people's desire for beauty and denying the aesthetic function of art for more than half a century. If after the reform and opening up, we can continue to strengthen art education for 30 years and cultivate a generation of citizens who love beauty and love art, many of the problems we are suffering from now do not exist.
But unfortunately, we have not done so for the past 30 years. In today's China, primary and secondary schools still stop classes such as sound, body, and beauty.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - Centripetal Force: The Power of China 3, 2020
Art can cultivate our perceptual qualities, enhance perceptual wisdom, and beautify our lives. It is an irreplaceable function of promoting the development of human perceptual civilization and human life. This function has been greatly neglected in the land of China, and even suppressed to a large extent.
In the early days of reform and opening up, the slogan of "learning mathematics, physics and chemistry well is not afraid to go all over the world" spread rapidly and was easy to understand. Let our people attach importance to science and reason. I also want to invent a similar communication phrase to make people pay attention to art: if you want to be successful and happy, love art from an early age.
Li Shoubai - Modern Oil Painting - Centripetal Force: The Power of China 4, 2020
That's why I go around appealing for our whole society to attach importance to art, to art education, and to all kinds of artistic literacy.
Especially among the elites here, you are the leaders of the development of this country; especially the young people here, you determine the future of your motherland.
Li Shoubai, born in Shanghai in 1962, is a native of Shangyu, Zhejiang Province, and specializes in painting and paper cutting. He is currently the vice chairman of the Paper-cutting Art Committee of the Chinese Association for the Advancement of Chinese Culture, the deputy director of the Paper-cutting Art Committee of the Chinese Culture Promotion Association, a deputy to the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, the vice chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, the chairman of the Shanghai Folk Writers Association, a member of the Shanghai Artists Association, a master of Arts and Crafts in Shanghai, a visiting professor of East China Normal University in Shanghai and the Shanghai Academy of Arts and Crafts. The representative inheritor of the "Intangible Cultural Heritage" Haipai paper-cutting school has created more than 1,500 works and won more than 10 gold awards, including the "Cultural Heritage Day Award" of the Ministry of Culture of China and the "Mountain Flower Award" of folk art of the China Federation of Literature and Art. His works have been exhibited and exhibited in France, Germany, Austria, Cuba, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Beijing, Guangzhou and other places at home and abroad. It is collected by the Shanghai Art Museum Collection Committee, Shanghai Municipal Archives, Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, Mali Art Museum, China Paper-cut Museum, Starbucks Enterprise Management Co., Ltd., CITIC Pacific Plaza and other institutions and private collectors.
Haihong Zhou, Ph.D., Professor, Doctoral Supervisor. Born on June 27, 1963 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. He was the vice president of the Central Conservatory of Music. Music aesthetician, music psychology, and educator. He has been engaged in the research and teaching of music aesthetics and educational psychology for many years, and has made outstanding achievements, and has in-depth research on philosophy, aesthetics, personality and motivation psychology. Vice President of the National Society of Music Psychology, Member of the National Education Examination Steering Committee, Vice Chairman of the Music and Dance Committee of the Teaching Guidance Committee of The Ministry of Education, Standing Committee member of the National Art Education Committee.
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