Chapter 631 "Is Mona Lisa really beautiful?" "Professor Li, it's up to you to teach this first class." Professor Zhang said with a smile. "It just so happens that you are back and you have to show your face in front of the students." "Hahaha, it's really time to take a lesson." Li Jinglin smiled happily and joked. "Otherwise, the salary will be very hot." "Hahaha!" The professors chuckled, and some fine-tuning of the subsequent teaching work was finalized. In fact, it is not difficult to increase the weight ratio of some courses.
“If you want to be a qualified musician, you need to have a solid philosophy, and if you want to be an artist, you must determine your own philosophy.” However, many students still don’t quite understand the title of this class - "Is Art a Cognition or a Definition?" 》 The quality of the students was extremely high, and the classroom immediately became quiet. Amidst the applause, Li Jinglin bowed, opened the courseware, raised his hands with a smile, and prepared to go to class. Soon, the class begins. After all, Li Jinglin's class may not be difficult, but novel angles can always open up new ideas, which benefits even the teacher. Even many teachers and instructors took pens and papers and sat down obediently, ready to start summarizing. If Li Jinglin came to take a big class, he would still be very attractive. "In this way, you can find deeper ideological meaning in creation or performance." It was absolutely packed. Stay until class day. But even now. Sometimes, maybe only more credits are needed. Students can really cultivate to the extreme. Of course, this will need to be fine-tuned between semesters. Li Jinglin's speech made many teachers and classmates understand the content of this class. After the notice was posted in major class groups, it immediately aroused a strong response. "Any artist with excellent works of art has a very high level of philosophical literacy. At least he has profound attainments in the philosophical thoughts he practices and believes in. Philosophy is not a surface, but a core. We should use art to build Philosophical core.” It seems to be some questions about the nature of philosophy and art. Let the teachers and students in the audience nod continuously.
Li Jinglin’s words. "Perhaps many people think that philosophy is rationality and art is sensibility. Philosophy is the opposite of art and boring. Adding philosophy seems to make art lose its agile life. But in fact, this view is completely wrong." These are actually the so-called "professional barriers" or "cognitive biases" that easily lead to cognitive gaps between insiders and laypeople. But the meaning itself is actually easy to understand. At least it is not difficult for the students. Art and philosophy are not separate in themselves. Rather, art is a means for artists to express their philosophical thoughts. "Art is used to express beauty, and aesthetics is actually a kind of philosophy." Smile. Li Jinglin paused. Everyone raised their heads and saw Li Jinglin adjusting the courseware. "Okay, having said all that, let's do a practice." "Next, I will show a masterpiece. Everyone needs to explain why this masterpiece is so famous, why it is beautiful, and how it expresses aesthetic philosophy." He raised his head slightly. While talking, Li Jinglin clicked on a picture. After the picture was loaded, all the students were stunned. Not unfamiliar. But it's too familiar. The painting displayed on the projection screen is the world-famous masterpiece - "Mona Lisa's Smile". While the students were in a daze, Li Jinglin smiled and spoke. "So, what I want to ask you is" "Mona Lisa, is she really beautiful? In other words, is this painting of Mona Lisa good-looking?" "." The classmates and teachers were all surprised. Regarding the work "Mona Lisa Smile", there are many experts who have interpreted it from various angles. For example, what is the pyramid structure, what is the golden ratio, what is the mysterious smile, or even what is the Da Vinci Code It even rises to the level of metaphysics. But what Li Jinglin asked was not these common popular research topics. Instead, he asked the simplest questions directly. 【Do you think this painting is good-looking? 】 soon.
The students in the audience spoke subconsciously, and they all spoke in unison. "nice." "really?" After hearing what the students said, Li Jinglin smiled mysteriously. All I can say is that this is a sign of emotional intelligence. It doesn’t matter whether it looks good or not, just praise it first. It’s important not to make anyone lose face. However, what Li Jinglin wants to talk about is lessons, not face. In the next sentence, Li Jinglin didn't give everyone face at all. "Then I can only say that your aesthetics is centuries ahead of mankind." Li Jinglin shrugged. "Anyway, from my personal point of view, this Mona Lisa doesn't look very good." "Hahaha!" The classmates all laughed. Don't say it. Li Jinglin's words really got into everyone's hearts. It is difficult for most people to think how beautiful the painting "Mona Lisa Smile" is. After seeing so many comments from artists, they even thought that they might not understand art. However, everyone is also more curious about what kind of insights Li Jinglin wants to express. "But why, this painting is highly praised by many artists, why has it been elevated to the level of a work of art?" Li Jinglin knocked on the blackboard. "The reason is not in the painting, or in other words, the important reason is not in the painting, but outside the painting." "I personally think that any evaluation of the Mona Lisa, based on how beautiful and beautiful the picture itself is, is all nonsense, or in other words, it's just an appearance." "In my opinion, the reason why this painting has become a work of art is that it expounds Leonardo da Vinci's most profound philosophical thoughts and played a huge breakthrough and symbolic role in the progress of Western philosophical thought. They were also the first group of people to cry out.” soon. Li Jinglin combined the actual history to analyze it for the students. Before the Renaissance, it was religion that controlled thought, and therefore art. At that time, portraits could only be painted of popes and kings. But Leonardo da Vinci didn't, so he painted the most ordinary and unremarkable woman, the Mona Lisa. At that time, painting required a solemn expression, and a smile would be considered bohemian, but Leonardo da Vinci just wanted the Mona Lisa to smile.
At that time, if it was a half-length portrait, you could not draw anything below the abdomen, because it was considered obscene. However, when Leonardo da Vinci composed the picture, he included the abdomen in this half-length portrait. "So, I want to say that the really attractive point of [beauty] is not the painting itself, let alone whether Mona Lisa is beautiful or not, but the reason for painting such a painting, the act of breaking the shackles. That’s art!” (End of this chapter)