Our ancestors created the Chinese characters, and the aesthetics was formed in the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC).
Lao-tzu, an ancient Chinese philosopher, said: "Great music has the faintest notes; the great form is without shape."
Mencius said: "He whose goodness has been filled up is what is called beautiful man. He whose completed goodness is brightly displayed is what is called a great man. "
Zhuang Zhou said: "The heaven and the earth have the highest virtue, but they do not speak a single word."
Plato argued that "Beauty is eternal, absolute, and is the object of rational knowledge, and it subordinates to good. Beauty is really brilliant."
Aristotle said: "Beauty is the idea, is the form, and is the whole."
Hegel said: "Beauty is the concept of emotional display."
Kant argued that "Beauty is free" and "Beauty is aesthetic judgment."
Joseph Schelling said: "Beauty is limited in the infinite." Si Kongtu said: "Beauty is outside the form."
Zhu Guangqian said: "Beauty of the world is purely the image of the world."
Zong Baihua argued that "Beauty is in the spiritual environment."
Ye Lang said: "Beauty lies in the form."
Pan Zhichang argued that "Beauty is the realm of freedom; it lies in the value."
Wang Jianjiang argued that "Beauty is transcending and Beauty lies in infinity."
Lv Guoying’s Art Theory argues that "Beauty is Qimolingxiang". Qimo and Ling xiang are both content and form and represent the future of art and beauty of creation.
Lv Guoying’s Art Theory of of Qimolingxiang consists of a series of new art theories including "Spirit and Form of Great Art", "Ink Carries Spirit and Form Brings Vital Energy", "Qimo Painting, Lingxiang Art" , "Artistic Lingxiang Represents Ultimate Aesthetics", "Qimolingxiang Reflect Profound Knowledge and Lofty Morality", "Spiritual Joy Peaks through ‘Push-Pull’", "Innovative Art, Transcendent Realm" and "Aesthetic Beauty Is the Essential Nature of Qimolingxiang ."
I
The new series of art theories of Qimolingxiang are separate chapters but are also supplementary to each other.
The first chapter "Spirit and Form of Great Art" and second chapter "Ink Carries Spirit and Form Brings Vital Energy" are sub-pandect theories. They propose the concepts of Ling Xiang and Qi Mo based on the interpretation of Ling and Form, Qi and Ink and the natural and human codes. The argument from these two chapters is: "Ling Xiang builds the base and Qi Mo constitutes the carrier."
The third chapter "Qimo Painting, Lingxiang Art" is combined theory. It extends Ling xiang and Qimo, and puts forward the new concepts of "Painting of Qimo" and “Art of Lingxiang", and then builds the new form, new language and new argument: " Qimolingxiang build the peak of the art and present the ultimate Beauty."
The fourth chapter "Artistic Lingxiang Represents Ultimate Aesthetics" is pandect theory. It interprets the origin of art and the meaning of law. According to the chapter, the artistic form and other forms are relative art laws. The essence of the law is embodied in the ultimate guidelines and fundamental rules of art.
The fifth chapter " Qimolingxiang Reflect Profound Knowledge and Lofty Morality", and the sixth chapter "Spiritual Joy Peaks through ‘Push-Pull’" are complementary theories. They conduct research and interpretation of art, art history, artists and readers (audience). Based on the responsibility and purpose of the aesthetics, these chapters propose that only the highest level of knowledge and morals can reach Qimolingxiang; theoretical innovation controls the future of art and the creation of Beauty builds transcendental realm.
The seventh chapter "Innovative Art, Transcendent Realm" and the eighth chapter “Aesthetic Beauty Is the Essential Nature of Qimolingxiang” are extension theories. Based on the analysis of the challenges faced by present literary and artistic creation, the crucial points lying in writers’ and artists’ low-level aesthetic realm, and the inevitable association between artistic phenomenon and aesthetic thought and artistic concept, they put forward that the innovation of artistic thought is the highland of literary and artistic innovation, and is also the core of innovation. The innovation of artistic thought is in the leading position for other elements. The art needs to go beyond the new artistic forms to express the beauty beyond life. The Qimolingxiang art theory carries the outstanding aesthetic thought and artistic tradition, and leads the artistic creation from the realm of necessity into the realm of freedom.
II
The construction of the Qimolingxiang art theory puts forward new conclusions, explores new ideas, and then expands the new category of artistic cognition. Meanwhile, it builds new system of artistic theory and constructs new aesthetic coordinates from different angles and at different levels.
The Qimolingxiang art theory proposes new concepts including Lingxiang, Qimo, Qi mo Painting, Lingxiang Art, Gaoxue Dade (Profound Knowledge and Lofty Morality), Runling Lejing (Realm of Spiritual Joy) and Transcendental Realm. The core concepts include Lingxiang, Qimo, Qimo and Lingxiang, Qimo Painting and Ling xiang Art.
Lingxang is the combination of Spirit and Form. It is the highest level of aesthetics. Lingxiang came from the figurative and it went through the form, the abstract, the truth (figurative, imagery, abstract), and finally became Lingxiang.
Qimo is the combination of Vital Energy and Ink. It is both the highest level of the ink painting development and the carrier of the beauty of art. It is the ultimate ink level of heaven and earth together including ink and pen, heaven and people, technology and art elements. Qimo originated from Xianmo (Ink Outlining) and it went through Yi mo (Freehand Ink), Pomo (Splash Ink) and Pumo (an ink painting technique combining Xianmo, Yimo and Pomo), and ultimately became Qimo.
Qimo Painting refers to all the creation forms of art and Qimo refers to all the materials, tools and carriers in art creation.
The "painting" in Qimo Painting can be literature, drama, folk art, calligraphy, music, dance, movies, television, mass art and so on. The "Ink" of Qimo Painting can be text, material, water ink, color ink, watercolor and oil color.
Qimo is the way, the method, the channel, the concept, the thought, the road and the main road of art. Lingxiang is the foundation, the core, the soul, the truth, the good, the truth and the Beauty and the ultimate Beauty.
Qimo and Lingxiang are both the form and content of each other and are the general principles of literary and artistic creation.
Lingxiang Art is the future of Form Art and the peak. It is the highest state of Form Art and its transcendental aesthetic. Lingxiang Art has magnificent and pure beauty, as well as the rare ethereal, spiritual, harmonious, pure, noble, quiet make it the great Beauty. Only artists with great wisdom, great enlightenment, challenging attitude, freedom of life and self-salvation sacrifice, painstaking attainments can have such achievements.
Qimolingxiang is the ultimate Beauty of artistic creation. Qi Mo Ling Xiang are interwoven and indispensable. Qimolingxiang are both the form and content of each other. Qimolingxiang evolved from the image, the abstract, the truth and finally became Qimolingxiang.
III
The Qimolingxiang art theory proposes new ideas. Lingxiang is the future of Form and Qimo is the future of Ink. Qimo and Lingxiang are both the form and content of each other. Lingxiang Art seeks the ultimate Beauty and reveals the essence of art. Gaoxue Dade sets the tone for Qimo and Lingxiang. Runling Lejing shapes the style of art.
Transcendental Realm leads the creation of art. In other words, such assertion as Ling xiang is the future of Form, Qimo is the future of Ink, and that Qimo and Lingxiang are both the form and content of each other is the core.
Lingxiang is the future of Form. The evolution and the development of art are the evolution and the development of Form. Form derives from the universe and it is deeply rooted in the heart. Form is the expression of the heart. According to the history of art, Form evolved from the figurative, the abstract, the truth and finally became Lingxiang. This is the advanced form of art form and also the highest art form so far.
Qimo is the future of Ink. Ink contains both the natural form and the many strokes and skills amid the development of ink technology, as well as unique artistic modality during the creation of art. The convergence of "three states" of ink is at the highest level and the integration of space and time realm of Ink. After Yimo, Pomo and Pumo, it ultimately became Qimo. It is the future of ink, and also the highest level of development of ink.
Qimo and Lingxiang are both the form and content of each other. Qimo and Ling xiang are interwoven and indispensable. From the figurative Xianmo to imagery Yi mo, to abstract Pomo, and to true Pumo, the Xianmo, Yimo, Pomo are always combined with the figurative, the imagery, the abstract and the true.
For this reason, when we judge from true Pumo to Qimo and Lingxiang, we say that Qimo always co-exists with Lingxiang, Qimo is the ink of Lingxiang, Lingxiang is the Qimo of ink, and both of them are indispensable as they are the form and content of each other.
Art Law and Lingxiang reveal the essence of art. Law is the guidance and the model. Lingxiang is the future of Form and the ultimate Beauty. Therefore, Art, Law and Form are the relative laws of art. Art Law and Lingxiang are the nature of the art and the ultimate law. Lingxiang pursues Beauty and it does not stagnate.
Beauty is Qimolingxiang. Philosophy breeds aesthetics. Aesthetics is the philosophy of art. Beauty, as the soul of aesthetics, is the object of art. Aesthetics studies beauty. Art shows beauty and creates beauty, while creating beauty is the highest value of art. Transcending life, entering the spiritual realm and pursuing the spiritual realization of life value are the beauty of aesthetics and the highest achievement of modern aesthetics. The manifestation and spiritual realm of Qimolingxiang transcend the art form, and also transcend the beauty of art, presenting the acme of art and reflecting the aesthetic appreciation of beauty.
IV
The new ideas proposed by Qimolingxiang involve many spheres. For example, "the history of art is the evolutional history of Xiang", "the history of Ink showcases the development of Xiang". Let's take another example, Qimo is the highest artistic state and Lingxiang is the ultimate aesthetic level. Qimolingxiang are both the form and content of each other.
Qimolingxiang are the art of philosophy, as well as the philosophy of art. Beauty is Qimolingxiang, and Qimolingxiang are the art of the future, the Beauty of creation. The "Harmony between Nature and Mankind" sets no limits to exploration. Qimolingxiang pursue Beauty and it does not stagnate.
The law of the Tao is being what it is. Art Law and Lingxiang pursue the ultimate Beauty and art history must have Tao. The artist must have "name" in order to be considered in the art history and the reader (audience) must have the appreciation to promote the "responsibility". The artist's aesthetic realm determines the artistic realm of the work. Qimolingxiang represent a state of transcendence, and is an artistic form of the spiritual realization of the life ideal.
V
Qimolingxiang constitute new art coordinate system with the artistic creation of Qimolingxiang as the axis and unbounded art as the high ground.
Qimolingxiang consist of the above-mentioned new concepts, new naming, new conclusions and new ideas. From the perspective of philosophical aesthetics, the art theory is nourishing spirit and warming the soul, the freedom of life and the value of meaning. From the artistic perspective, it is the innovation of art, transcendental realm and the ultimate establishment of Form.
In terms of artistic form and language, it is the Ling Xiang Art. In terms of artistic techniques (ink method), it is Qimo Painting. From the aesthetic point of view, it is unbounded art. From the perspective of the law of art, it is the Art Law and Ling xiang.
In terms of the relationship between art, art history, artist and audience, it is the peak constituted by Gaoxue Dade and Runling Lejing. It is a brand new art system integrating the past, the present and the future and blending the West and the East.
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Qimolingxiang are philosophical and aesthetical concepts, and represent an idea and also a kind of existence. The art theory is a kind of unrealistic context of the Beauty, but also the art, the reality and the creation in the context of reality. It is an aesthetic form, art materialization, an artistic way, state and method.
It takes a lot of thinking, meditation, exploration and other difficult process to believe and admire the philosophy of Qimolingxiang.
The wisdom of the philosophy, good virtue, subversive thinking and creative skills are required to look for this way, build this aesthetic and showcase this art.
Only in this way, Qimolingxiang can bring the Beauty and light up the road ahead.
VII
Lao-tzu said:"Ways which can be spoken of are not the eternal way. Names which can be spoken are not eternal names." It is of vital importance to have the way and names.
To some extent, the history of human civilization is the history of naming. Naming means judgment, cognition and control. It also means innovation, creation and transcendence.
The new art of naming aims to build and establish a new concept of art, to climb and stand the new height of art and to enter or feel the new realm of art. New theory and new ideas constitute the new category, new extension and new expansion of artistic cognition. The new view and new vision are the new observation, new excavation and new understanding of art.
It is also about the new judgment and new conclusion of the artistic development and the future, the new realm of distance, new construction, new leadership, and new view. This state is a pure realm,
This construction is the ultimate construction, this guidance is the ultimate aesthetics, and this view constantly goes beyond.
March 16, 2018, Beijing
(About the author: Senior Colonel Lv Guoying is a writer, literary critic, director of the Culture Department of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Daily and editor-in-chief of the Long March Supplement and a senior editor. He has written and published many literature works, commentaries, monographs and hundreds of art reviews. His monographs such as Art of the Three Poles, Road to Future Art (Chinese and English bilingual version), Pottery Madman, Shen Diao and Amazing Chinese People have been reprinted for many times. His commentaries such as Password of Jia's Landscape, Only Crazy Heart Makes Artist and Noble Character helps to enter Fantastic Realm have been reposted by lots of media. Many of Lv Guoying’s works have won important national or military awards.)
