From Life Artistry To Aestheticization Of Everyday Life

Take a wide view of Chinese modern esthetics of last one hundred-year, the esthetics view of" utility" and" super utility" entwined mutually, creating the tradition of the Chinese modern esthetics together . The footnote that explained this process that the esthetics problem of the extension come out by the relation between life and art. In big tide of the esthetics of this more than 100 years, two point of view jumped out. One was "life artistry" arised in 30s of last century, and another was aestheticization of Everyday appeared in 90s.Life Artistry" based itself in disorderly ages background of war, in order to look for the road that saves the country and people, a batch of the forerunners maintained view of promoting the spirit with esthetics , beautifying the will of people, then rescuing the whole society. In that clamor age , it throw out the lure coming from the politics and business, and created a kind of pure, nobility esthetics, then guarded securely their own elite esthetics personal integrity.After 90' s, the tide of consumerism changed the world silently. Aestheticization of Everyday Life become the center that the people payed attention to, and the esthetics turned to form from metaphysics character to bottom of experience personally. Hence, the people were surprised to shout" the art died", "and aesthetic judgment was already impossible", however in same time, people also discovered that " beauty turned up all over the place . beauty slipped from the very high chancel , and changed magically into innumerable beautiful fragment , and adhered to the surface of daily life. Appreciated beauty principle also came out from the traditional mode of the spirit distillation that was super utility , turned to satisfy release of usual desire and pursue with pleasant sensation, the main argument of esthetics adjust from recall of metaphysics to concrete sensory pleasure.With the same relation between life and art, the two point is similar in language expression . But different backgrounds of the times produce different humanities landscapes. Carding the origin and development of points, and then observe them diachronicly, meanwhile, compare them synchronicly . It is good for us to understand the history meanings of super utility aesthetics, and establish the way of present aesthetics research.