Making For The Aesthetic Life

Up to now a lot of research about Feng Zikai has been made, of which focuses three aspects: his essays, his cartoons and his aesthetic idea. About his artistic education, the research which has been made only focuses a certain educational idea and is not systematic. The thesis tries to do a comprehensive and systematic research in this field. The writer of the thesis discovers that harmony between the art of life and the artistic life is the liveliest expression on his thought of artistic education as well as his ultimate aim of his educational ideal. After comprehensive research, the thesis finds out the internal relativity of his thought of artistic education by means of aesthetics, art, history and culture. Keeping away from utility is the condition to realize artistic spirit;making for popular artistic education is the necessary means to harmonize the art of life and the artistic life;the key is to differentiate small artistic subjects and the big ones and defilitude the object of artistic education;the precondition is the idea that culture is prior toliterature. Aesthetic education on art is the content to realize artistic spirit. Through the artistic education, his educational thought is full of Chinesetraditional humanism ----realistic and humanistic careof Confucianism, artistic conception of Buddhism, poetic meditation of Tao, and consummate the cultivation of human' s spirit. Through his artistic education, his educational idea ultimately fulfills the theme of cultivating people. Furthermore, his emphasis on aesthetics in his artistic education has new meanings and revelation in our time.