Gaze Of Death Aesthetics

Beauty of death can be classified as the beauty of death itself and the beauty of life facing death.This article started from the relationship between Beauty and Death. By summarizing the nature of death from ancient times to the present, the transcendence of death was found, and it was impossible to clarify death while outside it. But as Martin Heidegger said, each of the living could not escape death, this article analyzed death from the perspective of religion, philosophy, ethics. Religion and ethics both turned the question of the nature of death to the goodness or result of death, while philosophy fell into the contradiction pursuiting the truth. Aesthetic, through the gaze and analog of the entire process of becoming dead, in a sense, relieved the sadness of death, transformed "the irreversible time" to "the unchangeable time", so that death became life in cultural system. Thus, Aesthetics could play important part in death problem. The previous study on the beauty of death was essentially the beauty of life, because the core spirit of the text concerned with death,such as pain, passion mainly emphasized man’s freedom, for example, Romanticism and the Absurd. While Gothic Art tended to exclude subjective feelings and focus on the process of death, which had limited esthetics value in the form. Therefore, the latter should be classified as beauty of death itself, and the former beauty of life facing death.The chapter of beauty of death itself would be explained by analyzing these aesthetic features:"humble","obsession" and "paradigm". And references to psychological analysis of Fromm, this chapter would explain the cause of this kind of beauty, which is mentally week and the pursuit of the ultimate, then analyze the relations between them with "Inferiority" and "Model". Under the premise of acknowledging objectively its formal beauty, this chapter also pointed out the danger of becoming death themselves.The chapter of beauty of life facing death unfolded as a string of feelings from the existentialism perspective. In the beginning, man realized the exist of his very own death, he felt "shock"."Shock" quickly became "pain" or angst. In pain, some chose to go down and do nothing, some stood up against the painful state. In this part, it could be classified as the "Resist" and "Silence". Different characters and stories were divided into different kinds of feelings, and the inner psychological mechanisms of these different kinds were also explained. So the severe tension of life and death might appear.