Blankness-Greatness Contains Everything

The collision and mingling between modem and ancient designingthoughts and the blending between modern artistic ideas and ancient aesthetic thoughtsstimulate more and more designers to seek and explore into new ideas, original thinkingand cultural impetus, and to broaden new space, look for new perspectives and newtrain of thought.The traditional Chinese culture is extensively knowledgeable and scholarlyprofound. Therefore, the designers should introduce some valuable traditional ideas tomodern design, and make various kinds of creation and exploration to express theaesthetic styles and life attitudes of modern people. It can not only make designlocalized, but also provide the world a better and deeper comprehension of the classicalelements in the traditional Chinese culture, thus enlarging its scale of connotation andcreating new visual sensation.Blankness, as a traditional aesthetic idea, has been applied to many forms of art forthousands of years in China. As for now, to introduce blankness to art design, to takecreative advantage of it and to grasp blankness and emptiness precisely and skillfullycan have an artistic effect of 'Ens lies in non-existence', which is rather reasonable butout of imagination, and makes the whole magnificent. This, lying in indigenous cultureand drawing in the distillate from traditional Chinese art, is a symbol of the thought ofblending the unique native artistic aesthetic psychology and implicit traditional culturaldistillate into modern creative design.Blankness, as an artistic designing factor and technique, stresses 'The true mingleswith the false' and 'Greatness contains everything'. It aims at, in a counter-thinking way, creating artistic conception, imaginary space, and bringing about the artistic pleasure of'Fewness beats muchness'.The paper contains four parts.Partâ… . The philosophical basis and idealistic source of blankness. The paperexplores into Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism and finds out blankness, aseemingly simple but an actually subtle and abstruse and unique way of artistic representation, which can help designers sort out the developing clues of ens, non-existence, emptiness and solidness in traditional Chinese aesthetics.Partâ…¡. The representing styles and realizing ways of blankness. Ancientry evolvesand combines into modernity, which creates three concrete representing stylespositive and negative graph, incomplete graph and the true plus the false graph.Partâ…¢. The artistic and aesthetic connotation of blankness. The paper discussesthe topic from the two aspects of artistic aesthetic psychology and conception. Theconceptional structure of blankness represents the Chinese sense of universe andsentiment of life, which is the chorus of Chinese artistic soul and sense of universe.Partâ…£. The artistic and aesthetic value of blankness. This part mainly deals withthe concrete value of blankness in its application to various artistic forms, such asmodern design, calligraphy and painting.To sum up, the paper, by exploring into the philosophical and ideaistic sources, probing into the connotation between blankness and artistic aesthetic psychology and byconcluding the concrete representing styles and functions of blankness in various artisticforms, aims at broadening the horizon of modern designers and stimulating the creationof more and better works of design, which can really represent the unique Chinese senseof universe and life attitude.