Study On "Psychological Distance" In The Process Of Artistic Creation And Appreciation

Psychological distance has played an important role in artistic creation and appreciation. It concerns not only the problem of aesthetic psychology but also the initiative aesthetic, which transcends the aesthetic attitude bases on objective reflection theory. It refers to a specific psychological situation, and differs from space-distance and time-distance. It's unfavorable to the conduct of artistic creation and appreciation no matter whether the distance is too small or too great. Because if the distance is too small, the sense of beauty will be devastated by the practical or utilitarian motive; if the distance is too great, the artistic creation will be too hard to understand. An ambiguous distance should be the ideal artistic psychological distance. The psychological distance has been affected by various factors, including internal factors, such as culture level, interest, character, etc, and external factors, such as site, surroundings, ambience, etc. Certainly, the different conditions afforded by the different artistic forms must be taken into consideration. So the ambiguous distance acquisition is the common mission of artists and acceptors, and also embodied the subjective initiative of artists and acceptors during the course of "self-adjustment".Psychological distance can't be invariable in the whole process of artistic creation and appreciation according to the cognition rules of human beings. Sometimes the subject makes himself involved in the imagery or the artistic world, sometimes the subject ponders rationally over the productions. That is to say sometimes he is an actor, and sometimes is an onlooker, these two roles continually alternate or overlap through the course of artistic creation and appreciation. For this reason we have to discuss the significance of the psychological distance, especially the ambiguous distance on the basis of "process".