First, truth, goodness and beauty are related to each other, but there is no equal sign between the three.
Second, truth, goodness, and beauty depend on the "superficial" and "deep" differences. (1) The relativity of truth, goodness and beauty on the surface is extremely large 1, "good beauty" and "evil and ugliness". For example, the relativity of right and wrong, good and evil. The limitations of ideology (ethics) in different eras – social customs are constantly changing at different times. The ephemerality of popular fashion also forms the relativity of the beauty and ugliness standard.
2. "True" and "false" and "true" are not necessarily good and beautiful (the hypocrite's fierce appearance is true, although true but not good and not beautiful) "false" can have the surface of good beauty. (2) Only the deep truth, goodness and beauty have eternity. But it is difficult to identify. For example: 1. The higher the level of the painter, the more beautiful people (including positive figures) are real people with different personalities and characteristics. Nature can break the fashion of the moment, but it does not fall into the eyes of the layman. (Low-energy painters can only paint beauty in a unified mode, all of them are fake beauties, and dummies do not enter the eyes of high people.) 2. The higher the level of film directors, the actors who choose positive characters will find a wide range of people with different personalities and characteristics. But it is difficult to get into the eyes of the layman, and even mistaken for the ugly face (incompetent directors choose positive characters, actors are the unified model). (Note: From the perspective of cultural appreciation, those whose appreciation level is too low are laymen)
3. Chinese painting theory calls "vivid rhyme" the first element. If you paint people, you must really and vividly paint a person's unique inner spiritual temperament. That is, the harmonious unity of truth, goodness and beauty. 4. Bole Soma has only the limitations of "discovery" and no relativity of "ethics", just like the "discovery" and "invention" of natural science, only the limitation of "discovery", and there is no relativity of "ethics". Therefore, the deep truth, goodness and beauty can have eternity and strive to be free from the limitations of ethics. Third, among the three "true", "good" and "beautiful", what is the status of the word "true"? Stressing "goodness" and "beauty", if we ignore "truth" and there is "falseness", it will be: false beauty as beauty, false goodness as goodness. That would be often black and white upside down, promoting evil and suppressing good, referring to deer as horses, which is destructive. This is the harm of looking only at the surface, the superficial harm and destructiveness.
Fourth, the status of "true" in the artist (1), "false" is the beetle in the soul of the artist "true" represents the artist's pious attitude towards art, the lack of truth is self-deception, deception of the world, and even the scum of the art world, hooligans and liars!!! (2) If a work of art lacks "truth", it cannot be truly moving, and it is a waste product. "Fake" is a silverfish in "fine art". "False" is the most terrible enemy of literature and art.
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