Riegl "Artistic Will" And Worringer "Form Will" Comparison Research

In the 19-20 turn of the century, the art historian of Austrian, Alois Riegl thoroughly shaken up on the traditional concept of art with his "Art will", and brought fresh blood for art and aesthetics of the area. Alois Riegl would like to remind people that understanding art history, the core problem lies not in what kind of process art showed, but in why the arts showed this process. In his view, it was "Art will" who dominated the activities of the art and people made use of the "Art will" to fight against the world under the specific historical conditions .contending with the "Art will", the artist's ability to create artistic and creative impulse was the real content of the will, the history of art is the most essential vitality. As a result, the studies of art history should take revealing the "art will" under the age and ethnic specific as the main topic. The study of the History of Art needs to find the unique concept of psychological factors and the world beyond the art. Alois Riegl's "Art will" is not a psychological material, and it can generally be understood as: the comprehension of art intention which derives from a certain period within the scope of human societyThis "art will" was accepted by Wilhelm Worringer who is esthetics and art theorist of German, and was further developed into "form will". Worringer hold the view that the "Art will" determining the arts activities comes from the understanding and mentality to the world when people dealing with something and viewing the objects in their daily life, which we call it "sense of the world". His "form will" can be described in this way: A kind of inherent demand for the art form ,rooted in the "sense of the world", pre-experienced and can not be transferred by the momentum state and will. It is often overshadowed by Empathy impulse, and in keeping with the abstract impulses.Comparing to "Art will", "Form will" has both acceptance and developments. "Form will" placed more emphasis on its own ontology, but "Art will" more on understanding of the concept of depth and subjective. "Art will" expanded the significance of "art will". Alois Riegl and Worringer the two art Theorists and art historians both made the extension and expansion in the practice according to their own theory, completing the works "late Roman art technology" and "Gothic forms" separately.This "will" in the field of art had quite a lot foundation of "will philosophy", and it was influenced by modern scientific disciplines, which not only impacting on the West, but also the East and the world .This "will" recognize the art form of self-regulation, and it clearly shows the link between it and the Western traditional formalism aesthetic. Though this theory was not perfect, but it provided people with new understanding of the arts and broader vision, and even gave the new life to the Western traditional aesthetic principles in the modern times.