形与神的交融——中国绘画美学发展趋向简析

Form and Essence in Perfect Harmony——A brief analysis of the development of Chinese painting aesthetics

中国绘画美学经历了从尚形到传神,再到形与神的统一,从而达到其最高层次意境阶段。在这个发展过程中,无不渗透着画家对于自由生命的不断追求,从最初的感性生命的满足,到对精神生命的自觉追求,再到感性生命与精神生命的统一,从而达到自由生命的最高境界。

Chinese painting aesthetics develops from advocating the form to showing the essence, and again to the harmonious blending of the two, reaching the highest level of artistic conception. The process of its development features painters＇pursuit of a free life, beginning from the satisfaction with the perceptual life to the conscious pursuit of the spiritual life, and again to the unification of the perceptual and the spiritual lives, thus reaching the highest level of artistic conception.