On Fulei's Art Criticism

Fulei is a great translator as well as an outstanding art critic. Being a translator, and as an art critic, he has gradually been paid attention to for his great thoughts in the academic circles.The key of Fulei's art criticism is a stress on the subjectivity. He emphasizes the value of subject matter, and closely integrates art creation with the distillation of the subject. In order to show this, I have outlined the basic points of Fulei's art criticism including 1.Learn to be a man before being an artist; 2. Honesty is the first key to art; 3. Great artists' "tragedy" and "sufferings" 4. The highly balanced state of feelings and reason is the ideal state; 5. Art borrows materials and hint of feelings from nature; 6. Without skill, without art; 7. Search for the combination of both Western and Eastern art. On the basis of this, I choose two cases that are closely related with Fulei's art criticism. By analysing the relationship between Fulei and Juelanshe. Fulei and Pangxunqin , as well as Fulei and HuangBinhong, Fulei's personal artistic ideal, as well as his reasonable choice have been clearly showed.