Study On The Artistic View Of Anjan Chatterjee

As an expert in Neuroaesthetics,Anjan Chatterjee consciously recognizes and attempts to merge the differences between science and humanities in art research.He studied aesthetics and art from the perspectives of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology,and tried to build a framework of artistic views with universal interpretation.Its ideas are concentrated in the following aspects:First,on the occurrence of aesthetics and art.By investigating the beauty of people,scenery,and digits,Chatterjee explained the relatively stable and universal aesthetic psychological form and requirements formed by the evolution and accumulation of human life experience,which is beneficial to life in the early days of people.This is the direct reason for the occurrence of art.Since its inception,art has reflected the biological basis and adaptability to evolution,and has shown richness and change in evolution.Secondly,on the essence and function of art.Based on the analysis of various artistic concepts and "essentialism," Chatterjee explained that art is the instinct to the production and expression of culture,has the consistency of the neurobiological basis,and the flexible response to the environment during evolution.It is essentially the unity of biology and culture.Based on this duality of artistic essence,Chatterjee explained the seemingly contradictory but dualistic coexistence in art,such as the contradiction between instinct and culture,the contradiction between profitability and non-profitability,the contradiction between the "universal grammar" of deep consistency and the difference of flexible expressions and the "disinterested interest " in artistic function,emphasizing the broad utilitarianism in which art is beneficial to life,survival,and lifestyles at different levels.Finally,on the principle of aesthetic perception of art.Chatterjee used neuroscience experiments and observations to explain the two major principles of aesthetic perception of art: one is the principle of concurrency,that is,the sensory characteristics of art and deep aesthetic perception are consistent with the way the brain nerves operate;the other is the principle of hierarchy,that is,the aesthetic perception of art follows the informationprocessing method of the hierarchical sequence of the nervous system,which is embodied in the sensory layer,emotional layer and meaning layer,which are relatively independent and mutual infiltration and fusion,advancing layer by layer.Chatterjee's view of art gave a rooted explanation to the universality of naturalness and the beneficial of life in art,and also noted its expression as cultural richness in its evolution.It expands new perspectives and problems domains for traditional art research,and helps to correct the tendency of traditional aesthetics to be too rational.However,his mode of modest interpretation was limited to the basic level of art,and he paid less attention to the complex relationship between art and social historical cultures,which also affected the pattern of his artistic view.