Aesthetic education has important value in shaping aesthetic personality, encouraging moral speculation, guiding multiple value evaluations, opening up multiple lifestyles, satisfying people's yearning for a better life, and stimulating higher levels of aesthetic freedom and creative vitality. In the new era, fully combining the actual conditions of the country, based on the characteristics of national cultural aesthetics and the life of the times, combining the development of cultural diversity with the road of aesthetic education and self-consciousness under the global vision, can provide greater possibilities for the all-round development of people, and provide a more favorable environment for the burst of creativity and the construction of an innovative society.
Innocence is the life of creativity
What is "innocence"? "Zhuangzi Fisherman" said: "The liturgical one, the worldly deeds, the true one, so subject to heaven, naturally cannot be easily also." Therefore, the sage's law is noble and true, and it is not informal. Nature that is not influenced by etiquette is called "naïve." The "innocence" in Du Fu's poem "Sending Li Twelve Whites and Twenty Rhymes" in which "drama talks about pity and elegance, and alcoholism sees innocence" also refers to the simplicity and simplicity of the heart. Innocence, a simple and free nature, is associated with the unpolished purity and infinite possibilities at the beginning of life.
Southern Song Dynasty Ma Yuan ,West Garden Collection (partial) Collection of the Nelson Atkins Art Museum, USA
By nurturing innocence, we are able to preserve the spark of life and the vitality of creation. This is because creation stems from the desire for the unknown in human life, the embodiment of man's free will, the distinctive sense of innovation and the distinctive reflection of the personality of life. Hegel said that creation embodies the true unity of subjectivity and objectivity. Creation is different from subjective arbitrariness, it is the creator's deep understanding and aesthetic grasp of the object object. By applying laws, the creator embodies individuality in the creation, creating works or inventions that feel novel and can be understood and used. It can be said that the innocence is the necessary background of the identity of individual life and creative vitality.
Intuition is the soul of creativity
The study of modern thinking science holds that the understanding of science and art is related to intuition. Einstein once described intuition this way: "The understanding of a work of art should be based on intuitive feelings, and this intuition is consistent with scientific intuition." Ci Hai's interpretation of the word "intuition" is that it generally refers to the ability to know the truth directly without logical reasoning.
There have always been many different views on intuition. For example, in the 17th and 18th centuries, Western European theorists regarded intuition as an activity of the intellect, or thought that through it it was possible to discover the unquestionable and clearly understood concept (Descartes) as the starting point of reasoning, or to consider it a rational capacity higher than the knowledge of reasoning, through which it was possible to make people aware of the infinite entity or the nature of nature (Spinoza), or to claim that it was an ability to know self-evident rational truths. Modern Western philosophers such as Bergson believe that intuition is an innate ability to experience that can only be understood and cannot be expressed. They oppose philosophy and reason, emphasizing that human intuition is similar to animal instinct, and that the spiritual essence of the universe can be directly grasped by intuition. Modern thinking science research believes that intuition is a sudden clarification or concentrated embodiment of creative thinking after long-term thinking, and it is also an important way of thinking.
Wei Jin Gu Kaizhi "Luoshen Futu" (Song Facsimile) (partial) Collection of the Palace Museum
Aesthetic education is closely related to intuition. The process of aesthetic education is a process of emotional liberation, which can liberate the unconscious, can enable people to get appropriate release and cultural upgrading, thereby reducing the repression and bondage of deep psychological activities, so that they are constantly stimulated. The spontaneity of creative activity stems from the free emergence of deep psychological impulses, which are non-arousal in nature and cannot be achieved by the control or effort of consciousness, so they can only rely on the power of intuition, and aesthetic education is the best means to liberate nature and promote the burst of intuition.
This characteristic of aesthetic education determines the possibility of using beauty to introduce truth in scientific creation, reflects the high degree of consistency of the human spirit, and is also the basis for the coordinated development of aesthetic education and intellectual education. Around the world, many countries have recognized the importance of cultivating creativity and promoted it as an important task of education to promote the rapid development of science in their own countries. According to the American educator Bruner, the task of the school is to guide students to "master this talent, and more work should be done to discover and develop the student's intuitive talent from the earliest grade." It can be said that the contribution of aesthetic education in creativity is irreplaceable by other educations.
This article is excerpted from Aesthetic Education, No. 6, 2021
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