The Confutation And Sublimation Of Art Spirit

In China, Mr. ZHANG Daoyi is a famous theoretician of Arts and Crafts, Folk Art, Design, and the initiator for the Department of Arts Discipline, Southeast University. He whose academic thought has covered the Arts and Crafts Discipline, Folk Art Discipline, Arts Discipline and Art and Design Discipline has constructed distinctive outlook of Handicraft Culture, Artificiality, Folk Art and Art Education, which has aroused lots of experts'attention. Presently, however, there still are out of systematic research and synthetical discussion about his achievement. According to this situation, the author has intended to study and elucidate Mr. ZHANG's marrow of theory with comparatively rounded angle of view, and aimed for discussing art and the regularity of the development of art though realizing and analyzing the accomplishment of one organizer on road of development of art, seeking for the approach that will enlighten the development of Chinese Art and Design Discipline.Firstly, the author has historically summarized the academic course of Mr. ZHANG Daoyi, which has meant the forshadowing for further study on his art thought. From the study, we can be obviously conscious of the the certain wellhead and basis about his view of Arts and Crafts Discipline, Folk Art Discipline, Design Discipline, Art Discipline and Art and Design Discipline. Especially the experiences that he followed the Mr. CHEN Zhifo, PANG Xunqin to study the theory laid the foundation of the development of his academic thought.Research in Mr. ZHANG's thought about Arts and Crafts is one of the focal point in the article. His consideration of the essence of Arts and Crafts particularly displays the soul of outlook in Handicraft Culture. Moreover, the emphasis of the thesis of"Primitive Culture"is even his rational thought in depth study on idiosyncrasy of Arts and Crafts, and is an important contribution to Arts and Crafts and the Art and Design. The article has also elucidated his point of view about Artificiality, and summarized the essential regularity. Mr. ZHANG's confutation and re-interpretation about Design Discipline is also the domain of the research. Combing out his substance has been focused on that he clarified the conception of Design, and hatched the assumption of Chinese Modern Design System. The research indicates that rebuilding the Chinese Modern Design System is the consequence of Mr. ZHANG's keen realization of study on the conception and essence of Design. In the meanwhile, proposing to study foreign Design is one of the way and method for perfecting the Chinese Modern Design System.By researching in Mr. ZHANG's opinion of the importance of Folk Culture in culture classification, the relation of Folk Art to Folk Fine Art and Folk Craft, and the foundation of Chinese Folk Art Discipline, the author has analyzed and explained his insight of"Parent Form Culture", then analyzed his ideal and method of renaissance of Folk Culture and Folk Art based on the Chinese traditional culture.The author has unscrambled theoretical essentials concerned with the construction of Fine Art Discipline, and elucidated his rational consideration in aesthetics. In the meanwhile, by showing through that Mr. ZHANG founded the Art Discipline, the author has manifested his distillate of the Art itself, macroexamination of the Art Discipline and systematical outlook of Art Education. Lastly, the author summarized the characteristic of Mr. ZHANG's writings and academic studies, and the inspiration of his theoretical creation in the future.