Explanation And Development Of Modern Asthetic Experience

Aesthetics thought of Baudelaire about the relationship between art and morality, correspondences and modernity is new and profound. On the relationship between art and morality, Baudelaire opposes the traditional viewpoint which think art and morality are closely related and art restricted by moral. He considers art has its own independence with nothing purpose. On the other hand, Baudelaire approves the truly morality which have the quality of esthetic, because beautiful thing contains the moral strength by nature. Baudelaire puts the correspondence theory from the field of philosophy and religion into the aesthetic field. He divides it into horizontal correspondence and vertical correspondence, which riches the correspondence theory. Baudelaire's theory lays the foundation of symbolism. Baudelaire first gives the modernity a explicit and profound definition, he defined the modernity at the level of aesthetic, considering it is a merging by instantaneous and permanent. For modernity realization, not only needs sharp eyes, a child-like innocent curiosity mood, but also needs recording their own impressions into the works of art frame. Modernity is full of contradictions and disputes and contains all sorts of paradoxes. Baudelaire's modernity is inherently paradoxical. Foucault, Goldman and other contemporary thinkers have expounded on this issue. Like his poetry, Baudelaire's aesthetics has extremely subversion meaning. It breaks the shackles of traditional poetics, and develops the experience of modern aesthetic.