Aesthetic Illustration Of Feng Zikai's "Artistic Heart"

Chinese and Western culture began to get fusion at the beginning of 20th Century.China was faced with two major themes of enlightenment movement and national salvation.Feng Zikai absorbed and transformed Western aesthetics of Theodor Lipps and Kant,and Confucianism aesthetic conception and Buddhist philosophical aesthetics.Then he put forward the theory of "Artistic Heart" into the tide of the times of enlightenment and salvation.Feng's idea of "Artistic Heart" has a rich theoretical connotation.It is also a fusion of aesthetic heart,moral heart and religion heart.The aesthetic heart is the core and foundation of artistic heart.It is the"insulation" and ultra-utilitarian heart.Feng Zikai believes that the real world is a huge net formed by money and fame,in which people become more and more indifferent,fickle,mechanical,selfish and boring.The theory of "Insulation" can help people use aesthetics and arts to cut the interests of net.After that people could found the fun in life and arts through their bright eyes.Feng Zikai speaks highly of'innocence",and he believes that" innocence' is the most transparent,real,pure and good heart,with strong interest and childlike creativity.these are all the characteristics of aesthetics and arts.The aesthetic heart is also an emotional experience that people can feel themselves and the world are one thing.The relationship between people and the world is the most primitive relation.In that kind of relationship,people can return to their spiritual home and achieve a great spiritual enjoyment and emotional pleasure.The moral heart is an important function of the artistic heart.As we all know,virtue and benevolence is the premise of the artists' creation.In the sense of aesthetic and artistic sympathy,people and everything in the world become an intimate community of life,in which people's love feelings and benevolence will imperceptibly be influenced and developed.In the ideal state of aesthetic intuition and content accommodation,people can get rid of practical utility and show a true self in the real world.Aesthetics and arts can stimulate and cultivate rich feelings,emotions,freedom of imagination and a rich emotional life,which make people get balance between sensibility and reason.Aesthetics and arts can cultivate people's moral emotion and volition,and get the instrumental rationality and value rationality balanced.Therefore,it can cultivate the "perfect personality".The "religion heart" is the highest realm of artistic heart.Aesthetics and arts can make people feel the consciousness that all things of man are sentient and equal.Aesthetics and arts can help people cultivate the merciful heart.The highest point of arts is connect with religion.Because arts can cultivate lofty personality which can bear the human suffering can love everything.In the aesthetic and artistic experience,people can comprehend the holy realm of the confluence of heaven and earth.Feng's "Artistic Heart" owns beyond the practical significance of the times.Today,the first dilemma we human confront is the instrumental rationality and materialism completely dominate life and the whole society.Nature's punishment for people today become the primary element that influence Chinese's happiness no matter weather they are rich or not.At the same time,the moral rationality and aesthetic feelings is shrinking and marginalized.All these call for human found their aesthetic heart,moral heart and religion heart.Therefore,the essence of the interpretation of Feng Zikai's "artistic heart",has great implication to solve the problems we are confronted with today.