陆机、刘勰论艺术表现与审美形式

魏晋南北朝的杰出文艺理论家陆机、刘勰不仅深刻地论述了文艺创作的“神思”即创作的艺术思维 ,而且还客观而全面地阐析了艺术表现和作品的审美形式。陆机在《文赋》的序文中把“物———意———文”三者提炼成一组具有重要美学价值的命题 ,揭示了物象的充满生命力的变化对文思的影响 ,同时非常注重语言表现在传达作家文思中的审美功能。从物象到文思、再由文思到语言表现 ,形成了一个完整的序列。刘勰在《神思》等篇章中。深刻阐述了文学创作中的艺术思维 (即“神思”)的运思过程与内在规律 ,而且揭示了“神思”与语言表现之间的密切关联。刘勰还在《原道》、《情采》等篇中对于“文”作为审美形式作了本体性的规定和深入的分析

Lu Ji and Liu Xie on Artistic Representation and Aesthetic Form

Lu Ji and Liu Xie, the great art theoreticians of the Wei Jin period and Southern and Northern dynasties, have discussed deeply on both literary inspiration and artistic representation and the aesthetic form of literary works. Lu Ji, in the prelude of his On Literary Creation, reduced the object, the idea and the article into a group of concepts that were of great importance in aesthetic aspect. It pointed out the effect of the object's changing on literary idea. It also emphasized the aesthetic function of language expression in comveying the writer's thoughts. From the object to the idea and thus to the language expression, the theory made them a thorough sequence. Liu Xie, in his On Inspiration Of Literature, discussed the process and the inner rules of artistic thinking. He also revealed the inseparable connection between the inspiration and the language representation. He gave an essential definition and a thorough analysis for an article as an aesthetic form as well.