Sorcery And Artists

By the comparison of the Eastern and Western art spirit, taking the typical thinkers of each side as the example for studying, the thesis is focusing on exploring the root culture of the Chinese art's spirit, which in fact, is the wisdom of wizard.Using Book of Changes'wizard thinking as the key clue, taking sacrifice painting from China Hunan folk painting as well as related artists as the major examples, the paper discuss this topic by anthroposociology's method. Begin with kinds of social phenomenon, the thesis focus on getting overall picture of "the witchcraft phenomenon", removes individual case. The paper intends to define "the witchcraft" under the entire social consciousness, differentiate the concept with religious' definition, in which all the remains of ancient worship belong to the witchcraft. The thesis put efforts on discovering the wizard's function and responsibility during the witchcraft ceremony; redefining the wizard's concept. Through these efforts, the author tries to explore the identical thinking logic between wizard and artist, which are based on similar social identity, status of daily activities, and key responsibilities.The conclusion of the thesis exhibit the artist's wizard's thinking characteristic. As the covert wizard, how can artist make their artwork demonstrate the same effect of as wizard did in witchcraft ceremony.