Dewey 's Artistic Theory

John Dewey is famous representatives of Classical Pragmatism and the synthesizer of the philosophy of Pragmatism. His researches cover a wide range of field:philosophy, ethics, education, aesthetics, and so on. He has made great achievements, and these studies have a broad and profound influence.He built his aesthetic ideology and aesthetic thought based on the concept of experience that it is different from the traditional experience point of view. At this point, he has experienced with an absorber-abandonment-remodeling process, he describes experience as a interactional unified whole from the perspective of the establishment of the relation between the subject and object, between experience and nature. Dewey think that experience is a continuous "can-not analysis" with nature, but is a "whole" which includes subject and object. He said:"Experience is the result of interaction between organisms and the environment, logos and reward." "An experience" is the beginning of aesthetic experience, when experience has integrity and perfection, it will have the aesthetic nature of aesthetic. Aesthetic experience is the strength and concentration of "an experience", and art is the outward manifestation of aesthetic experience.This article is based on Dewey’s "Art as Experience" and other originals and latest researches at home and abroad. The author studies Dewey’s aesthetic thought from a macro standpoint, and deeply analyses Dewey’s "experience" opinion to look forward to studying Dewey’s theory of art in greater detail and attempting to tap the deep connotation of Dewey’s theory of art. The author more deeply studies Dewey’s aesthetic thought on the basis of previous studies.