On Fang Dongmei's Construction Of "Chinese Artistic Spirit

In the ideological trend of the construction of “Chinese artistic spirit” in the 20 th century,Fang Dongmei,known as “oriental poetry and philosophy”,has a new interpretation of “Chinese artistic spirit” and is quite exemplary in the field of thought,literature and art.It has a positive impact on the artistic pursuit of rebuilding the national spirit of intellectuals.Fang Dongmei’s thinking about “Chinese artistic spirit”mainly revolves around the following points: first,the ideological source of “Chinese artistic spirit”.Second,the aesthetic construction of “Chinese artistic spirit”.Third,the cross-cultural path of “Chinese artistic spirit”.In the ideological source of “Chinese artistic spirit”,Fang Dongmei absorbed the goodness of Confucian morality and Taoist artistic ideas of great beauty of universe and earth,and incorporated these ideas into his theory of “universal life”.To provide an ideological basis for the development of “Chinese artistic spirit”.Under the influence of Confucianism and Taoism,the “Chinese artistic spirit” has changed from the emotional group to the mysterious realm,forming the “upward flow” of the artistic spirit.In the aesthetic construction of “Chinese art spirit”,Fang Dongmei sums up the technical beauty of Chinese art and applies the word “artistic conception” to the beauty of art.Fang Dongmei’s interpretation of artistic conception is unique.He believes that artistic conception is full of “great vitality”,which contains the splendid beauty of living fragrance,the beauty of universe and earth with vivid charm and the magnificent artistic conception of building up vigor to become powerful and invincible.On the subject of artistic spirit,he advocates the artistic experience of the integration of things and self,pursuing the blending of beauty and goodness and spiritual sublimation in artistic life,so as to realize the artistic harmony of “great self”.In the form of expression of artistic life spirit,it is mainly reflected in the poetic aesthetics of philosophy and poetry,as well as the tragic aesthetics that highlights the sentiment of life.In the cross-cultural path of “Chinese artistic spirit”,Fang Dongmei intends to establish a culture that transcends China and the West in the comparison of Chinese and Western cultures.Drawing lessons from Oswald Spengler’s method of analyzing different cultures with symbols,he compared the cultures of China,ancient Greece and modern Europe,found out the uniqueness of Chinese cultural spirit,and then melted China and the West into his own artistic spirit system.Through the establishment of universal life spirit and critically inheriting Nietzsche’s thought of“Superman”,he completed the learning and integration of Chinese and Western thoughts.In addition,Fang Dongmei affirmed the artist’s psychological schema in literary psychology,reflecting his artistic spirit from the west to the middle.