The Beauty Of Distance

Psychological distance as a complete aesthetic concept put forward from the Swiss psychologist and esthetician Bullough. He criticized the traditional aesthetics stick to the objectivity of beauty and more emphasized on the psychological effects of the process of artistic appreciation, that is, aesthetic consciousness or attitude. He thought aesthetic subject in the face of the objective image maintained emotional or psychological maintained a certain psychological distance, namely "psychological distance", which denies the objective standard to define beauty. Aesthetic subject obtains the new aesthetic experience by eliminating the practical and realistic attitude needs. Based on the theory of Bullough, Zhu Guangqian made the development of interpretation. He used the psychological distance as a kind of aesthetic experience to analyze the creation and appreciation of Chinese art, its aesthetic principle as same as the literati painting art aesthetic connotation. Literati painting has been the pursuit of the spirit of freehand brushwork and "expressing spirit by shape", is the psychological distance in the creation of the ingenious use of. The artist through the natural reflection and personal feelings through the choice of thinking, there is a certain distance to the performance of the media, more conducive to the occurrence of aesthetic.This paper attempts to psychological distance as a clue, using the review and case analysis method, starting from the Bullough’s psychological distance, reling on Zhu Guangqian acceptance, the transformation and development of research results, in the arts category of Chinese literati painting re understanding the modern aesthetic proposition, and explore how did the literati painters in the creative process to be influenced by psychological distance, thus has formed the different aesthetic interest in Western painting. At the same time, in today’s ink practice context, from the traditional literati painting continuation distance of the aesthetic experience plays a role in the creation. The artist’s mastery of "distance" often determines the aesthetic experience in the process of artistic expression and appreciation of the audience, it attempts to elucidate the value and the significance of the psychological distance for the contemporary Chinese ink painting of the aesthetic and artistic activities.