Professor Zhu Wei, Executive Director of the Li Zhengdao Center for Science and Art at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, delivered a keynote speech on the 57th session of the Intercultural Leadership online Forum of the National School of Development, Peking University, titled "Through Time: A Journey from Classical to Contemporary Art". We will discuss the division criteria of each stage of art history, core characteristics, major differences between Eastern and Western art, and how to appreciate and interpret art history. Art history is not a history of the perfection of technical means, but a history of changes in concepts and needs.
The following is reproduced from the wechat public number "Yang Zhuang Talks about Leadership" "[Cross-cultural Leadership online Forum 57th] Through - from classical to contemporary art journey".
In this online forum on Intercultural Leadership, Mr. Zhu Wei is invited to discuss the criteria for the division of various stages of art history, core characteristics, the main differences between Eastern and Western art, and how to appreciate and interpret it. The history of art is not a history of the perfection of technical means, but a history of changes in ideas and needs.
Moderator: Dr. Wang Jinjie
Speaker: Mr. Zhu Wei
Guest Reviewer: Professor Yang Zhuang
Date: January 2, 2022
Guest introduction
Prof. Zhu Wei, Executive Director of the Li Zhengdao Center for Science and Art, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. President of the Institute of East-West Art.
01 Lecture Content
Yang Zhuang: Miss Zhu, a special welcome. I remember my first share last year was about the relationship between music and technology. For the first time this year, you'll talk about the relationship between art and science. I think this is very important for Chinese politicians, entrepreneurs, educators, as well as our entrepreneurs. Because now we not only have to care about hardware, but also care about software, we not only have to understand their own professional, may also understand literature and art, and you use your own experience and ideas today to share this topic, I think the timing is perfect. So I'm looking forward to your speech tonight, and I'm sure our audience will be very interested in your speech, and you'll learn a lot. Thank you.
Zhu Wei: OK, thank you Professor Yang. It is my special honor to be invited by the National Development Institute of Peking University to give a speech at the Peking University Intercultural Leadership Forum on the second day of 2022. I hope that my artistic journey this time can make everyone's life more artistic and more wonderful in the New Year. The topic of my lecture today is "The Journey from Classical to Contemporary Art".
The basic concept of art
Before I do that, let me make a couple of concepts clear. Why is it called an art tour and not an art tour? The history of art is divided into three stages: classical art, modern art and contemporary art. Contemporary art is a concept of The Times, not an academic concept. In addition, art is a small concept and cannot accurately express all the meanings of art. Aesthetics is not equal to art, because it does not cover art. In Chinese art history and art theory, there is no word for beauty, because the pursuit of Chinese art is always the combination of God and form, "God" is greater than "form", spirit is greater than vision. If art is equated with fine art, it may not be able to be studied in depth academically.
【 Value orientation of Chinese Art and Western Art 】
The origin of Chinese art is relatively noble, for example, calligraphy and painting are the same origin, you want to write with calligraphy, if there is no culture can not write, you can not even write, why talk about painting? Therefore, the origin of Chinese art belongs to the literati, that is, the upper class, not the public. China has a clear sense of cultural consciousness and discourse power, so the core has always been developed around traditional Chinese academic schools, such as Lao Tzu's Taoism, Zen Buddhism, and Confucius's Confucian ideological system. That's number one.
Second, it has always complied with the classical norms of the ancient masters, to learn from the authentic, to have a source of pride, to inherit the main.
The third is to learn from nature, get the heart source in the center, pay attention to both "form" and "God", and "God" is always above "form". As Qi Baishi said between "like and not like", "like is vulgar, not like is deceiving the world." In addition, it also pays attention to the artistic value of pen and ink independence, which is still true today. Chinese painting does not pay attention to the same as the real vision, the painter is after strict refinement pay attention to taste, wrinkle method, brush and ink, is completely not the Western concept of true mountains and true water. Even the man in the painting is not like the exact three-dimensional man in anatomy, he has his own value orientation. It's Chinese.
What is Western art like? From the point of view of the origin of art, the people engaged in art work in the West are mostly from a humble background, belonging to artisans and craftsmen, and are not respected by people. It was not until the Renaissance that the status of artists rose, most of them were in the service of religion, they did not have absolute authority, and the old art system was easy to be overthrown. Times have changed, ideas and needs have changed, and so has art history.
Why the history of Western art is a history of changes in ideas and needs, not a history of technological perfection?
First, it is based on innovation, the mission of the stage is different, and once the goal is reached, a new ideological system will replace it.
Second, the scientific method has always been in sync with the art, which is a question of demand. Unlike China, Chinese art does not want to achieve this goal, so he can not use science, so this is the pursuit of the whole direction of art, with different ways. And the methods of integrating science and art are different in different art periods.
Third, until the end of the development of modern art, the methods of defining art history in western art history, such as the iconology system with shape and vision as the core, disintegrated. Because classical art and modern art are two periods of visual work, but contemporary art is "when the idea becomes the form", is another level. So when it comes to contemporary art, the history of Western art disintegrates.
Fourth, although contemporary art was first defined and developed in the West, after "concept is form" became the core value of judging art standards, the West has been unable to dominate the trend of contemporary art, leaving the opportunity for other regions of the world to control the right to speak, and the definition of art in different regions is different. For example, in the period of classical and modern art, because oil painting was introduced to China relatively late, by the time it was introduced to China, Western art had already entered the period of modern art, and Chinese artists were relatively few in this stage, so few Chinese artists became masters of modern art.
The period of contemporary art is different, when ideas become forms, we and the West stand on the same starting line. Contemporary art is rational thinking first, the core value is not to let you look like or not, good-looking or not, but to use different ways of thinking, different points of view to ask questions. China's rapid development and 5,000 years of traditional culture are actually advantages. The West has Western ideas, the East has eastern ideas, we don't need to learn from the West, we can have equal dialogue, so there are many opportunities for Chinese contemporary artists to become international masters.
The above is a rough section of art, how the core values of Eastern and Western art are different, and how Chinese artists are involved in it. After you have a brief understanding of the basic concepts, I will take you from the basic context of Western art history to start a journey through classical to contemporary art.
Classical art
Let me first let you remember these two sentences, remember these two sentences, it will be easier to listen to my speech. The first sentence: "The name art, used at different times and in different places, refers to very different things." Another sentence: "The history of the development of art is the history of changes in ideas and needs", these are two sentences said by Gombrich. This could upset a lot of people. In the contemporary art period, if you still use the techniques and academic concepts of classical art and modern art, then you are engaged in classical art and modern art, which has nothing to do with contemporary art.
What is classical art? In fact, classical art is normal vision, what people look at is what it is.
In the history of Western art, although there are many schools in each period, from a large perspective, before Cezanne, it is called the classical period. We regard Impressionism as the last peak of classicism, because here human beings have solved the two major problems of form and color in art. From the perspective of restoring people's normal vision, art has completely solved the reproduction of real vision.
To talk about the origin of art, we can talk about prehistoric rock paintings. First of all, rock paintings have nothing to do with the art history we are talking about, because at that time, human beings painted cows and horses in rock caves, in fact, it has nothing to do with art, and it is not for people to see. If you want to talk about art history, you have to start with ancient Egypt, because ancient Egypt has a lot of overlap with ancient Greece. The Greeks were learning from Egypt, and the West looked to Greece as a teacher.
The ancient Egyptians regarded the sculptor as making people live, and their works were not for people to see, he had a strong purpose, that is, to ascend to heaven for the pharaoh. For example, those pharaohs in Egypt, that is, the Kings, when he died, he must keep the body, mummified, not rotten, and cut the king's head out of stone and put it in the tomb, and then apply its charm to help the king's soul parasitize the statue, so as to live forever. So the things they draw are different from what we see, such as parks and people, and he paints from which Angle he thinks best reflects his characteristics, and the paintings are particularly real. So Egyptian art, as Plato said, will not change for 10,000 years, and in fact ancient Egypt has survived for thousands of years. He changed little in three thousand years and added nothing new to art because he lacked the drive to be original in art, because art at this time was only for the pharaoh's ascension, not for people to appreciate. They paint what they know, not what they see. Any change that affects this purpose is not allowed and is not needed.
The Greeks learned a lot from the Egyptians, but they didn't think it was important to keep the body after death. Ancient Greece would use the Kings, generals and other important figures in the life of the relief carving, to record the great achievements on the line, but the human body does not need to be preserved. So beginning with ancient Greece, art began to transition from what was known in ancient Egyptian painting to what was seen in painting.
Ancient Rome continued the style of ancient Greece, mainly in the architectural differences, ancient Rome's architecture is relatively grand. The history of art development is not a history of the perfection of means, but the history of the change of needs. In the Middle Ages, because of anti-iconography, no other people or images of other gods were allowed in the church. Therefore, the Christ and the Virgin Mary in it are not real human beings at all, and God is God, and there is another world that has nothing to do with the human world, and he pays more attention to the spiritual portrayal of the characters.
The Renaissance saw the emergence of a very important figure, Filippo Brunelleschi, who designed and built the Cathedral of Florence, who made a great contribution to architecture, but his more important contribution to art was perspective. Filippo Brunelleschi made perspective scientific, using focal perspective to paint. China uses scatter perspective, which has better practicability and has its unique place in artistic expression. However, in the period from the West to modern art, there are a lot of scatter perspective, which is completely for the needs. Modern art is completely different from classical art, and it is painted how it needs to be. It is the style, form and language, rather than the purpose of restoring people's normal vision.
Van Eyck invented oil painting, including Da Vinci's painting of "The Last Supper" used tempera painting, using eggs as a medium to adjust color, because eggs have glue, can fix the color, but it has a disadvantage is that it dries particularly fast, painting very detailed things do not mix together, especially in the summer. Van Eyck turned the egg into linseed oil, so he could draw the object very carefully, because he did not do it for a long time, he could draw it repeatedly.
Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rafael are the three Renaissance masters, but today's main purpose is not to talk about this, is to talk about their contribution to the shape. Da Vinci is a scientist and an artist, so his works are particularly accurate and scientific, is a typical perspective textbook works, he also invented the fade method, the character's edge line is virtual, a little virtual past, so the feeling is particularly three-dimensional. So did Michelangelo, whose painting of God creating Adam in Genesis is particularly good at anatomy. The Madonna painted by Rafael is a beautiful woman, because the Renaissance changed the requirements of art in the Middle Ages. There are two words at the core of the Renaissance: First, happiness in the world, referring to the humanities; Second, knowledge is power, referring to science. The God of the Middle Ages did not eat fireworks, to the Renaissance, this mother is a real person in the world, needs are different.
Rembrandt is a mountain of art history and a representative figure of the Dutch school of painting. His contribution to portraiture goes without saying that he is the best at painting self-portraits and pioneered the use of thick painting techniques. In addition, the aesthetic value of the brushwork itself is reflected from him. Unlike Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo, who did not have any strokes in their paintings and reproduced the normal structure and image of people, Rembrandt sometimes used his pen, although not anatomically accurate, but played a particularly large role in the picture.
There are many other schools of classicism. For example, Ingres is neoclassicism, Delacroix is Romanticism, Courbet is realism. In fact, from the modeling language, there is no difference between the three of them, they are normal vision, and the people are very similar, but the subject matter of the painting is different. Davit is known as the last major figure in classical art, because he followed the emergence of Impressionism.
Impressionism itself is related to color science, which is related to science. The sciences in question are anatomy and perspective. This again involves colorology, which is itself a science, a physics. At that time, people discovered that there are seven colors in white light. Impressionism later found that two colors combined, than the color together more dynamic, more penetrating. For example, a stroke of yellow and a stroke of blue together is also green from a distance, but the actual yellow and blues together are green, and mixing together visually and mixing in the air is also green. Science at this time provided art with a better way to restore normal vision.
The Impressionist painting method is a combination of colors, which can better reflect the authenticity of the natural appearance of the world, and in order to record the instantaneous change of light in a short time, it is necessary to invent a very practical method, so most of them are external light sketching, directly to the outside of the painting. Most of the previous paintings looked like stage sets, not real scenes, because color science was not that developed at that time. This is the promotion of science to art, providing a new way for it.
Monet's "Impression of Sunrise" and "Water Lilies" were painted by the artist who grasped the impression of the object at the moment, but later people found that only this painting method can express the feeling of light in a timely manner. Renoir believed that objects have no edges, because objects are in space, and space has atmospheric flow, so the edges cannot be clear. His views are similar to Da Vinci's use of the fading method, and he was also influenced by Da Vinci's fading method.
It has been proved that the invention of oil painting has greatly advanced human ability and techniques to express things, so that the texture formed by optimizing materials has independent aesthetic value, and impressionism has another contribution, he turned the drawing into writing. Because his purpose of expression is different, the techniques produced are different, and he has formed a unique value in artistic expression. Just like Chinese pen and ink, Impressionist painting has its own independent aesthetic value.
Impressionism is actually the last peak of classicism, is realistic, his purpose is to restore normal vision, which is the same as the previous classicism, but the development of new methods, so we must be clear about this concept, Impressionism is actually very classical, is the last peak of classical art.
Modern art
The core of modern art is abnormal vision. At the end of the 19th century, Cezanne brought people into another new visual world, and art history began to enter the modern art period. Since then, changing the normal vision in plastic art, exploring new visual forms in human art, and artists' personalized expression have become the mainstream values of modern art. Art in this period has contributed a colorful and wonderful world to human beings, and greatly enriched human visual habits. Classicism is normal vision, while modern art is non-normal vision. They pursue completely different goals in visual expression.
Cezanne is changing the normal vision, completely breaking the reality of the world, and has his own pursuit. He thought Impressionism was too normal, missing a lot of what was central to art, so he picked it up and re-reinforced it. Van Gogh had a strong influence on later Expressionism, including Fauvism. He is not realistic at all, not normal visual, is out of the world real work. Although Seurat's works have the principle of impressionist color, he belongs to modernism, and he is not normal vision. Matisse is brutalist, visually very comfortable, he is not realistic at all, it is against the real world. Picasso is the same as ancient Egyptian art. It's Cubism.
There are many other schools of modern art, such as structuralism, mannerism, minimalism and abstract expressionism. Abstract Expressionism is a very important painting school that transferred the art center of the world from Europe to the United States, and it is also the most important painting school in the later period of modern art. The representative figure Pollock is to directly throw the color onto the canvas, and the human body rolls on the canvas, which is performance art. Abstract Expressionism is more inclusive, many people are actually not pure abstract, academic pursuit is similar, all belong to here. Abstract expressionism also promoted the disintegration of modern art. Because abstract expressionism, in the end, drained the image from the plastic arts. And modern art and classical art itself are in the visual and modeling of the work, is based on iconography. If you take away the image, modern art has no way to go, so the replacement of modern art by contemporary art is also an inevitable result of the development of art history to this period.
Contemporary art
What is contemporary art? It's when ideas become forms. When ideas become forms, they are not the Western position, because people in different countries have their own ideas, and ideas are forms, which are not affected by the forms themselves. Influenced by the form itself, China is learning from the West, and only contemporary art gives Chinese artists the opportunity to become masters. The values of contemporary art were laid in the early 20th century, but the term contemporary art was really fixed from the 1960s in the United States. Its core was the aesthetic concept of anti-formalism. Formalism is modern art, individuation and formalism, and everyone has his own style. Therefore, after the return of the concept of contemporary art, the opposite is abstractionism, referring to contemporary art, we cannot but mention Duchamp. Dadaism means to give up the original things, like a baby born again.
One of the most typical works is the urinal, which is placed in the art museum and named "Spring", meaning that if an object removes its original function, changes a scene, and gives a different name, its essence will change, which is the earliest contemporary art. This installation breaks down the boundaries between works of art and works of non-art, which is characteristic of contemporary art. Anything can be art, and in turn anyone can be an artist, which is the core of contemporary art.
In fact, surrealism has many characteristics: dreams, unconsciousness, because people in the real world are controlled by reason, many instinctive things are suppressed, so surrealism has nothing to do with reality, and there is no internal logical connection between the picture itself.
Pop art, such as packaging, comic strips, posters, bottles and cans, can all appear as works of art. It is also anti-abstraction, which democratizes and popularizes elite culture. Pop art reflects popular material and commercial consumption among the masses.
When this thing is not tied to the banner of pop art, can it still appear as art? I wrote a paper on where the commercial value of a work of art comes from, in fact, from the academic value. Everyone is familiar with the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, she belongs to feminism, minimalism, surrealism, original ecology, pop, and abstract expressionism, she herself is a mental patient, but her life is full of energy, creating a large number of works. She's totally commercial. Installations, paintings, acts, everything. Fashion shows. And then there's Takashi Murakami, whose idea is that society has flattened people, and it's all like formatting, and there's nothing personal in it.
Artists can create freely and reflect things and images that ordinary people do not dare to express, which is the charm and ability of artists, but also the right of artists.
Chinese art
If we talk about world-class artists, we cannot but talk about Chinese artist Xu Bing, who is currently the most influential Chinese contemporary artist in the world. His work "Book of Heaven" uses traditional Chinese movable type printing, all are Chinese characters. He believes that writing is used for communication, and as a result, China and the West cannot understand each other's writing, which is a pity. He wanted to make a work that neither Chinese nor Westerners could understand, that Chinese people looked at Chinese characters, and Westerners looked at Chinese characters. The Book of Heaven reflects the regret in the communication of words, in which not a single word is right. Another artist, CAI Guoqiang, blasted the world with traditional Chinese gunpowder. He sprinkles gunpowder on the rice paper, and the Chinese landscape painted on it is burned with gunpowder, which is a bit like abstract art, and has the feeling of Chinese ink painting.
I talked about classical art, modern art and contemporary art. To sum up, classical art is normal vision, modern art is not normal vision, contemporary art is not a visual problem, it is an idea, that is, a form, breaking all kinds of boundaries. In fact, there are many types of contemporary art. Because of time constraints, I chose some works that are easier to understand. In fact, contemporary art covers a large amount of information and a large variety of types, so you can explore it if you are interested.
02 Guest Interaction
Yang Zhuang: Mr. Zhu, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you from the bottom of my heart on behalf of our Intercultural Leadership Forum and all the audience for your wonderful sharing this evening. Because I'm actually not qualified to judge a lot of your artistic stuff here, because we're not experts. You gave a simple definition today, classical art is normal visual art, modern art is abnormal visual art, and the definition of contemporary art you talked about is quite shocking, it is a vision of ideas, and the vision considered through ideas, content, ideas, views, may be greater than forms, these things have brought us great help. I also benefited a lot, gave us a very important art cultivation lesson.
I have prepared a question that has to do with art, but it may also have to do with management, because we have artists, we have management scientists, we have entrepreneurs, we have educators, we have publishers. Mr. Zhu, can you tell us about your center, the Lee Jung Dao Science and Art Center, your mission and your legacy in simple words?
Zhu Wei: Well, thank you Professor Yang for giving me this opportunity to talk about our center. In fact, our center was officially established in 2018. Mr. Li Zhengdao is the honorary director of our center, Academician Ouyang Ziyuan is the director of the Center, I am the executive director, and there are three deputy directors, all of whom are experts in various fields. Our main task is to put Li Zhengdao's concept of integrating science and art into practice. In the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, we mainly do two aspects of content. First, we give art appreciation classes for future scientists of Chinese Academy of Sciences, so we do a dialogue series with masters, which is spring, summer, autumn and winter, inviting international masters to visit us. We hope that by teaching students, we can let scientists know what art is all about, and integrate the artist's mind into the scientist's mind. In addition, Mr. Li Zhengdao also hopes that we can use the new way of science and art integration to change the traditional backward art education mode in China and train art masters. Second, we should make an in-depth study of Li Zhengdao's scientific theories and strive to come up with some theories with more basis to guide our teaching. That's roughly the case.
Yang Zhuang: Very good. Let me ask you two more questions. You just mentioned two core points, the first is that you think that if we just pursue traditional classical art, Chinese artists will never catch up. In the field of contemporary art, as ideas come first, Chinese artists are likely to become great artists in the world, that is to say, Chinese artists are likely to surpass in contemporary art. Can you briefly explain why this is so? My understanding is that because the function and role of art has changed in today's humanistic environment, we may have different means to transcend. Facing the same cultural environment, the same information environment, we get these external technologies are the same, so it is possible for Chinese artists to surpass. To make an inappropriate analogy, if we were making cars, the Chinese would not be able to build BMW or Toyota engines for any length of time. But if today we build electric cars, and we overtake cars from this field, it could be the leading edge of the world, I don't know if that's the right metaphor, do you think?
Zhu Wei: Yes, that's a good analogy. But let me correct it, not to build Toyota engines, the future cars do not use engines, just like classical art, classical art no matter how powerful, you can not paint, because there is no environment, not that era. But what are China's advantages? I have repeatedly emphasized that culture is a way of life. Why is Chinese culture different from Western culture? Because the Chinese way of life is different from the West, we have Chinese culture.
For contemporary art, art and science are the same thing. You can use a lot of other people's stuff in basic science, but all of a sudden it's useless, and then we're at a starting line, and that's what contemporary art is. So contemporary art is not saying that China could become something, it is not possible, it has become. In the world of contemporary art, China is indispensable, not to say that I talk about China only China.
Yang Zhuang: I think it's great. Let me ask another question, if you want to truly become a contemporary artist and want to transcend the original art, even if you are not necessarily good at the original art, do you need to know them? In other words, does art itself have a heritage? Combined with the management field, if I don't have a basic management, how likely is it that I can really create a strong innovative product? Can you become a great artist without the original art accumulation?
Zhu Wei: Your question is very good, but there is a statement that I may not agree with, that you have any artistic foundation. Actually, you're talking about technology, the foundation of art technology, like painting. You can't draw well without drawing. But I don't do it that way anymore. It's useless. Just like management, when the original kind of management is useless, there can be no management art. But management and art are not quite the same. If I don't have traditional skills, I can't do art, because I use the original way, so I must have excellent skills.
Yang Zhuang: That's particularly interesting. I have a second question after listening to your point of view. When it comes to science, the Lee Jung-dao Center aims to train scientists, so that scientists can have artistic cultivation. So I think the purpose of this is to enable scientists to innovate and break their original thinking concepts, not only with technical logic and mathematics, but also with a space for art and imagination. Is that what it means?
Zhu Wei: That's right. Because this involves the academic integration of science and art, science and art should be integrated, one is the integration of means, the other is the way of thinking, whether scientists can use the thinking of artists when doing scientific research, and whether artists can use the thinking of scientists when creating. Or both, like "Qian Xuesen's question" is such, Qian Xuesen said why China can not train masters, in fact, art education is one of the most important ways to solve "Qian Xuesen's question", science and art must be integrated in education. The third point is the integration of values, science has no national boundaries, but scientists have national boundaries, scientific research results to become a useful thing, useful for human progress, scientists must have humanistic feelings, which is one of the problems to be solved by art education.
Yang Zhuang: This involves a lot of questions about the nature of education, the forms of education, the ways of education, and the values of education. My last question is, Chinese education has its own characteristics and the tradition of separating subjects, which can tap talents in certain professional fields. But in today's humanistic environment, it is more difficult for artists to think like scientists. I want to hear what you think because I've been in management education for 20 years, and our definition of management is that it's both a science and an art. In the face of the great changes happening now, what kind of education do you think the ideal education should be in the future?
Zhu Wei: Actually, I feel that the ideal education should be a kind of balance. Any kind of education that is biased towards one kind of education is undesirable. I used to believe that if you don't know art, art has nothing to do with you. In other words, you can't get all the things in the works of art, which not only means that you can't enjoy the art, you can't get happiness and enjoyment in the process of appreciating the works of art, but also includes the deeper and most essential humanistic spirit in the works of art, you can't get through the process of appreciating the works of art. Of course, seeing and learning about art can also develop your imagination and promote a change in your way of thinking, which in turn can help you achieve major breakthroughs and success in your professional field. According to a survey, none of the top 150 scientists in the world does not know art, and they know it deeply. The current problem in China's education is that there is a shortage of high-level teachers, and many teachers who are engaged in art do not know art. Of course, this is another topic, involving the problem of teachers and training, is a systemic problem.
Yang Zhuang: It is very wonderful. In fact, from your conclusion, we can draw that science and art are completely connected. We can't say definitively that this matter is scientific or artistic. By extension, some people say that Western management is scientific, while Chinese management is artistic. I think from your speech, this view is wrong, I don't know what you think?
Zhu Wei: No, that's absolutely wrong. Because Chinese food is art, does it have no science? How to mix it, how to cook it, it's science. And art is not a simple image, now I talk about art, art is beautiful? You say Chinese food is art. Is Chinese food good? Isn't Western food beautiful? Just as a gentleman asked me the other day that science is the pursuit of truth, humanity is the pursuit of goodness, and art is the pursuit of beauty, these are not true in themselves, they are all wrong. What is art if it can't even be true? How to talk about humanity, how to talk about guidance, how to talk about education, how to talk about enlightenment, can not be divided into such.
Yang Zhuang: That's very good, and a lot of the points you talked about deserve our current education, and all our students and entrepreneurs to think seriously. One thing I know is that when we learn management and economy, we'd better learn more humanities, especially art, for the development of our thinking, for our perspective on problems, and for our enterprises
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Yang Zhuang: Thank you, Professor Zhu, for giving us a particularly wonderful lecture on art and science today. After listening to this, I personally am most impressed by the concept, because art is not good enough to do other things are not good, I believe this. If art is not well done, there is no innovation, there is no imagination, and if you do not have an artistic sense, you may not be able to capture many innovative points in the world. Today many enterprises have encountered a lot of problems, the reason why some entrepreneurs get up is to find innovation points, he can break the original rules, just like what you said, he is not particular about the form, the key is that he is constantly innovating with the changes of the environment and market demand. This point is the same as the core point you talked about today, contemporary art is an innovation of ideas, it is a demand for ideas, and it is an expression of ideas, so this point may be the most rewarding for entrepreneurs.
In today's social and cultural environment facing so many challenges, as an entrepreneur, perhaps the most critical point is to have imagination, to have rich interests, to have a strong idea of the surrounding, and to have a vision and pattern for the future. In this way, you can go beyond the original knowledge, and really make innovation and progress in today's human environment. And I think maybe that's one of the big lessons that your talk has for a lot of entrepreneurs and managers. Thank you very much.
Those of us who study economics, operations, marketing, should learn a little more art, develop our right brain, develop our innovation, develop our way of thinking about problems beyond the original rules.
Zhu Wei: Yes, art is definitely not optional, it is a compulsory course in one's life.
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