The Art Of Work

The article tries to study on the historical position, skill achievement and working attitude of the artisan. By study and research on the literatures, this text explained the important position of artisan on the Chinese art phylogeny. their greatest art works, their spirits and attitudes, and how they combined the skills into the art works. Today, instead of the hand-making, the batch production by machines is more popular, the excellent artisan and good hand-making work became very valuable, and we lost the simple and steady attitude on the lifestyles. How we can get the balance point between skill and art on the art creation, how we can relief the conflict between traditional art and modern civilization, how we can retrieve the sincere attitude of artisan, are the questions to be consider and resolve in this article.