艺术中情感与形式之关系——贝尔与朗格美学思想比较与述评

The Relationship Between Emotion and Form in Art——Review and Comparison of the Aesthetics Thoughts Between Bell and Lange

情感与形式是西方现代艺术中的一对重要概念,人们试图通过回答两者的关系来解决艺术的本质问题。贝尔反对传统的形式和内容论,认为艺术的本质是"有意味的形式"。朗格在贝尔理论的基础上指出艺术从本质上是一种表现人类情感的符号形式。这两种艺术观点对西方艺术理论界产生了重大影响,但两者都没有解决情感的本质问题。事实上,艺术中情感与形式都来自现实生活,并在漫长的历史过程中生成的,而艺术则是人的自由本质的感性直观。

Emotion and form are a pair of important concepts in the Western modern art,people attempt to solve the problem of the relationship between emotion and form to find the answer of the essence of art.Bell opposed to the traditional theory of form and content.He believed that the essence of art is ＂significant form＂.This view goes beyond the subject-object dichotomy in modern Western aesthetic.However,Susanne K.Langer believed that on essence art is a form which expresses the human feeling.Bell and Langer＇s theories have significant impact on Western art,but they failed to resolve the problem of the nature of emotional.In fact,emotion and form are from real life,and have developed in the long course of history.Art is the sensuous intuition of the essence of human freedom.