实践美学视野中“柔美”特性与形态

The subsantive Characteristics of Tenderness in the View of Practice Aesthetics

柔美是人类最早认识的美学范畴之一,它所指的是狭义的美,即西方传统美学的优美。柔美是与刚美相对的一种美的表现形态,是同刚美、丑、悲剧、喜剧、幽默、滑稽相关的美的范畴。柔美作为"阴柔"、 "优雅"、"秀婉"、"和静"的美,具有和谐性、静柔性、均衡性等特征。优美是柔美的自然形态,优雅是柔美的社会形态,秀美是柔美的艺术形态。

Tenderness is one of the earliest aesthetic categories that were recognized by human beings. It refers to the beauty in a narrow sense, which is called grace in the western traditional aesthetic field. As an Kind of beauty against the muscular beauty, tenderness is the category correlated with the muscular beauty, the ugliness, the tragic , the comic, the humor and the comicality . Tenderness, regarded as the beauty of gentleness, elegance, delicate meekness and mild quietness, has the charactistics of harmony , quiet softness, balance. Grace is the natural form of the tenderness and elegance is its social form of ; while delicateness is the artistic form of tenderness.