Abstract
The essence of art is neither inbuilt in human brains nor conceived by theorists, but constructed in the course of the practice of art. Any static transcendental and metaphysical circumscription is doomed to fail, and this failure provides an easy excuse for the analytical aesethtics to deny the study on the essence of arts. If a perspective of art history is taken to dynamically examine the essence of art, art may be easily defined as a collection of artifacts that people created by way of material medium and conceptual symbols on the basis of imagination gained from life experience and that could evoke emotions through senses. The five aspects in the process of artistic creation may be analyzed.
First Page
41
Last Page
47
Recommended Citation
Chen, Yan. 2013. "A Dynamic Analysis of the Essence of Art." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (3): pp.41-47. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss3/4
