The Emotion And Form

Time river’s running, the social development change rapidly. With the rapid developmenttof human in manyfieldsofknowledge, intelligence, technologand creative, artists have enough space and more likely to express ideas andemotional appeal. Video art as a relatively young art is developed based on camera technology, can also be saidderivatives it is science and technology. The application of new technologies do bringus unbelievable change, no matter what industries are trying to the application of new technology to make their work easier and simpler, artistsare no exception, and some are even addicted to new technology show fresh, stimulating and gorgeous effectcannot extricate oneself, pursuit of new technology fanaticism makes some artistic creation only stagnation in the form of visual stimulation on the gorgeous, gave up the artistic expression, the show and explain our view of the world and other universal human emotion is an eternal mission. This allows us to have to go back to the "feeling and form" the fine arts study a commonplace talk of an old scholar issues, from the beginning of twentieth Centuryto the present, there are many aestheticians have discussed this proposition. For example, Clive Bell put forward the common characteristics of all the visual arts should be "meaningful form", "moving in the form of" aesthetic, this view tend to form theory. Lev Tolstoy also said the works of art should arouse the emotion in the heart, and the use of action, lines, color and sound to convey the emotion. The expression of emotion theory that form is used to convey the feelings that already exist views tend emotion theory. The performance of Croce said that emphasizes the unified expression and intuition, also can saying is the unity of emotion and form. And they are different, the performance of Dewey theory is proposed for us another angle. He thinks work of art performance requires two conditions, internal and external pressure impulse, emotional performance process, process also is produced,corresponding relationship between emotion and form is a yuan instead of two yuan. This should be particularlyput forward "the self expression of emotion" theory and Susan Lange’s theory of "semiotic", has had the significantinfluence to the art world. In fact, art is not a complete non rational activity, emotion and form in art is a product of human material production practice.This article from the video art practice, taking Bill Viola as an example to explore the video works in new media artas an avant-garde art context, how to release their personality in the dynamic form of video art under the artist,make the emotion conveyed through a belongs to own the meaning.