1990s Aesthetic Variation Study

Traditional aesthetic activities (including 1980's) paid close attention to promoting the people's thoughts and spirits. In contrast to them, the activities in 1990s brought about variation. They gave more attention to expressing people's perceptional desire and common life. So they showed the trend of secularize.First, describing the expression of the aesthetic variation in 1990's. Inl990's, daily necessities were becoming more and more beautiful, and beautiful things might be seen everywhere . our common life became secularize. As to literary and artistic creation, the artists attached importance to common people, their common desire, and common events in the life. The ways of the work's existence were closer to people. For example, literary works were adapted into films and TV plays. So art became dailies. Art and life came closer each other, therefore, the aesthetic activities in 1990's appeared the trend of secularize.Second, exploring the reasons of the variation. Market mechanism changed the people's social position and their values, which provided material base for the variation. Technology not only improved the quality of people's life, but also enriched the ways to creation, enlarged the media. So it supplied the effective instruments to variation. Classical humanitarianism was failure in life, which made the flowers see the society with pragmatic eyes. This was the inter reason of the variation.Third, estimating the variation, Although secularize of aesthetic activities made aesthetic democracy come true in aesthetic field and promoted the people's aesthetic judgment, but because they rigidly adhered to life, they expand perceptual desires (For example, material desire), and lost spiritual dimension.