艺术的本质就是通过某种特定的媒介符号如绘画、诗歌、音乐、舞蹈、小说、戏剧等来反映和描述事物及其价值关系的运动与变化过程，从而对人的情感、知识和意志进行交流、诱导、感化和训练。
艺术，是人们为了更好地满足自己对主观缺憾的慰藉需求和情感器官的行为需求而创造出的一种文化现象。艺术，是人们在日常生活中进行娱乐游戏的一种特殊方式，又是人们进行情感交流的一种重要手段，属于娱乐游戏文化的范畴。艺术文化的本质特点，就是用语言创造出虚拟的人类现实生活。艺术发生的基础是人类的语言，有效的艺术创造必须完全借助于语言。人类有什么样的语言形式，就会有什么样的艺术形式。不借助语言的所谓艺术创造，只能算是普通的游戏创造。在娱乐功能的层面上，艺术与普通的娱乐游戏具有同等重要的存在价值和发展价值。然而，艺术与普通的游戏在文化形态上毕竟存在着本质上的差异，在文化的社会功能上也存在着明显的差异，这种差异无论从理论上还是实践上都有着被认真关注的必要。
什么是艺术，艺术与人类的其他文化有什么本质的不同？目前似乎谁也不能够明确地给予回答。本文从人的主观行为的功能范畴及其所创造出的文化构成入手，试图回答这一问题。
The essence of art through the medium of a particular symbol, such as painting, poetry, music, dance, fiction, drama, etc. to reflect and describe the relationship between things and their value to the movement and changes in processes, and thus people's feelings, knowledge, and will exchange , induction, probation and training.
Art, is that people in order to better meet their own needs on the subjective and emotional comfort of imperfection acts of organs needs to create a cultural phenomenon. Art, is that people in their daily lives for a special way of amusement games, but also for emotional people are an important means of communication, are fun games and cultural areas. The essential characteristics of art and culture, is to use language to create a virtual human in real life. Place is based on the art of human language, an effective means of artistic creation must be fully language. What kind of language the human form, there will be what kind of art form.
Without recourse to language, the so-called artistic creation, can only be regarded as normal to create the game. Functional level in the entertainment, art and general entertainment value of the game with equal importance and the development value. However, art and common cultural patterns on the game, after all, there are substantial differences, in terms of cultural social functions are also obvious differences, such differences in terms of both theory and in practice has been serious concern necessary.
What is art, art and human nature of other cultures, what is different? No one seems able to give a clear answer. In this paper, subjective behavior of functional areas and are created by the cultural composition of starting to try to answer this question.
然而，对于人类所有的娱乐游戏活动，可以把其中的哪些明确地称为艺术，又把其余的哪些明确地称为不是艺术呢？目前似乎还没有人能够明确地回答。但是，问题还远不止于此。如，对于画画这种娱乐游戏活动，人们一般都会认为能够称其为艺术。然而，是不是对于所有的画画活动都能够称为艺术呢？同样都是画画，老画家的绘画就能够称为艺术，这似乎是没有疑问的。随便一个小孩子的信手涂鸦能够称为艺术吗，这似乎有很多人是不赞同的。只有当小孩子的“信手涂鸦”达到了“一定水平”，人们才会称其为艺术。那么，小孩子的“信手涂鸦”的水平达到了什么样的程度才能够称为艺术呢？这又是一个很难回答的问题。据说美国的一只黑猩猩会“作画”，人们给它纸和笔，它能够“饶有兴致”地作出很多“有意思”的“画”来。如果把黑猩猩的“作画”也称为艺术，似乎有很多人更是不赞同了。那么，我们在理论上应该怎样区分艺术和非艺术呢？或者说，从理论上讲，究竟什么是艺术，艺术的本质究竟是什么呢？
However, for all human recreational activities and games can be clear which of these is called art, which again the rest is not explicitly referred to as art? No one seems able to clearly answer. However, the problem is far more than that. For example, for drawing such a fun game activities, it is generally thought to call it art. However, it was not for all of the drawing activities that can be called art? Are in the same painting, the artist's painting on that can be called art, this seems to be no doubt. Random a child's doodles that can be called art do, it seems there are a lot of people disagree with.
Only when the child's "doodles" reached a "certain level", people would call it art. So, a child's "doodles" level reached before the extent of what can be called art? This in turn is a difficult question to answer. Said that the United States, a chimpanzee will "paint" and the people give it pen and paper, it could "with interest" to make a lot of "interesting" and "paint" to. If the chimpanzee's "painting" also known as the arts, it seems, many people are not in favor of. So, we should, in theory, how to distinguish between art and non-art? Or, in theory, what is art, and art the essence of what is it?
艺术属于娱乐游戏文化的范畴，是人们为了满足自己对主观缺憾的慰藉需求和情感器官的行为需求而创造出的一种文化现象，这种文化现象的本质特点是用语言创造出虚拟的人类现实生活。艺术是人们进行情感和思想交流的一种文化形式，人们进行情感和思想交流是以语言为基础的，所以，艺术的发生基础是人类的语言。在人们的艺术实践中，艺术的发生通常总是要完全借助于人类语言，人类有什么样的语言形式出现，就会有什么样的艺术形式产生。人类语言有许多种形式，如口头语言、文字语言、绘画语言、形体语言、音乐语言及现代的电影电视语言等等。书法家梅湘涵指出艺术的发生在形式上就相应地会出现故事、小说、诗歌、绘画、舞蹈、音乐、电影和电视剧等等艺术形态。没有语言，就没有艺术的发生基础；如果人们相互间语言不通，就不能够实现艺术的交流。
艺术用语言创造出虚幻的事件，让他人通过对语言的理解来感觉虚幻事件的发生情景，在感受情景的过程中，人的相应的主观缺憾就会得到适当的慰藉，人的情感器官就会产生出活跃、激烈的行为反应。人的主观缺憾的慰藉及情感器官的行为反应，完全是以人在社会生活中对一定客观事物的主观需求为根据的。所以，艺术所创造出的虚拟事件，就必须以人在社会生活中的主观需求为根据，才能够发挥出显著的艺术效果。
有句成语叫“画饼充饥”，是对艺术的最形象的诠释：人由于饥饿想吃饼子，没有饼子，只好画一张大大的饼子来自慰，饥饿的人看到画中的这张饼子，主观上能够获得些许的满足感，情感器官也会产生出些许的喜悦。古人有赋：说梅止渴，稍苏奔竞之心；画饼充饥，少谢腾骧之志。这实际上是对艺术的发生原理和社会功能的最生动和精辟的阐述。
对于艺术，通常可以从三个层面来认识。 第一是从精神层面，把艺术看作是文化的一个领域或文化价值的一种形态，把它与宗教、哲学、伦理等并列。第二是从活动过程的层面来认识艺术，认为艺术就是艺术家的自我表现、创造活动，或对现实的模仿活动。第三是从活动结果层面，认为艺术就是艺术品，强调艺术的客观存在。一般认为，艺术是人们把握现实世界的一种方式，艺术活动是人们以直觉的、整体的方式把握客观对象，并在此基础上以象征性符号形式创造某种艺术形象的精神性实践活动。它最终以艺术品的形式出现，这种艺术品既有艺术家对客观世界的认识和反映，也有艺术家本人的情感、理想和价值观等主体性因素，它是一种精神产品。艺术与其它意识形态的区别在于它的审美价值，这是它的最主要、舞蹈艺术最基本的特征。艺术家通过艺术创作来表现和传达自己的审美感受和审美理想，欣赏者通过艺术欣赏来获得美感，并满足自己的审美需要。唯美主义是审美的最完美发挥。除审美价值外，艺术还具有其它社会功能，如认识功能，教育和陶冶功能，娱乐功能等。其中艺术的社会功能是人们通过艺术活动而认识自然、认识社会、认识历史、了解人生，它不同于科学的认识功能。艺术的教育功能是人们通过艺术活动，受到真、善、美的熏陶和感染，而潜移默化地引起思想感情、人生态度、价值观念等的深刻变化，它不同于道德教育。艺术的娱乐观念是人们通过艺术活动而满足审美需要，获得精神享受和审美愉悦，它不同于生理快感。
艺术是一种特殊的社会意识形态和特殊的精神生产形态。通过生产实践活动，反映从物质世界到精神世界，从生产关系到思想关系的人类的全面的社会生活，创造美的精神产品，满足人类精神上的审美需要。通俗的说，艺术也就是人的知识、情感、理想、意念综合心理活动的有机产物，是人们现实生活和精神世界的形象表现。
Arts and entertainment games are cultural aspects that people in order to satisfy their own shortcomings on the subjective feelings of comfort needs and the needs of organ acts to create a cultural phenomenon, the essence of this cultural phenomenon is characterized by the language to create a virtual human reality of life. Art is emotion and ideas people into a cultural form, it is carried out emotions and ideas are the basis of language, so the art is based on the occurrence of human language. In people's artistic practice, the art was usually occurs by means of human language to be completely human, what kind of language form,
What would have produced an art form. Of human language can take many forms, such as oral language, written language, painting and language, body language, music, film and television language and modern languages, etc.. Han pointed out that the calligrapher Messiaen took place in the form of art will appear on the corresponding stories, novels, poetry, painting, dance, music, movies and TV dramas, and so art form. There is no language, there is no basis for the occurrence of the arts; if the language barrier between people, will not be able to achieve and art exchanges.
Artistic language to create unreal event, to let others through the understanding of language and feel unreal incident scene, the emotional scenes of the process, people will be a corresponding subjective shortcoming proper comfort, the human organs will be emotional to produce active, intense behavioral responses. People's subjective comfort and emotional disorder in behavioral responses of organs is entirely based on people in the social life of a certain objective and subjective things, needs-based. Therefore, the art created by the virtual events, it must be people in social life, the subjective needs-based to be able to play a significant artistic effect.
There is a proverb called "castles in the air" is the most vivid expression of art interpretation: people want to eat because of hunger, pancake, no pancake, but to draw a big pancake from the comfort, hunger, people who see the paintings in this pancake, subjective able to obtain a modicum of satisfaction, feelings of organs would produce a modicum of joy. The ancients have fu: that plum thirst quencher, and a little Ben Jing Su heart; castles in the air, less Teng-Xiang Xie ambition. This is in fact the occurrence of art theory and social functions of the most vivid and incisive elaboration.
And on this basis, in order to create some form of symbolic symbolic image of the spiritual nature of art practice. It is the ultimate form of works of art, this work of art both artists and reflect understanding of the objective world, but also the artist's own emotions, ideals and values of the main factors, it is a spiritual product. The difference between art and other ideologies lies in its aesthetic value, which is its most important and most basic features of the art of dance. Artists through artistic creation to represent and communicate their aesthetic feelings and aesthetic ideals, who enjoy to get through the beauty of art appreciation, and to meet their aesthetic needs. Aestheticism
For the art, usually three levels to understand. The first is from the spiritual level, the arts as an area of culture or cultural value as a form of it with religious, philosophical, ethical and other tie. The second is an active process to understand the level of art, that art is the artist's self-expression, creative activities, or activities in imitation of reality. Third, the results from the activity level, that art is art, emphasizing the objective existence of the arts. Is generally believed that art is there a way to grasp the real world, the arts is a people to intuitive, holistic approach to grasp the objective object,
And on this basis, in order to create some form of symbolic symbolic image of the spiritual nature of art practice. It is the ultimate form of works of art, this work of art both artists and reflect understanding of the objective world, but also the artist's own emotions, ideals and values of the main factors, it is a spiritual product. The difference between art and other ideologies lies in its aesthetic value, which is its most important and most basic features of the art of dance. Artists through artistic creation to represent and communicate their aesthetic feelings and aesthetic ideals, who enjoy to get through the beauty of art appreciation, and to meet their aesthetic needs. Aestheticism
Art is a special kind of social ideology and special spiritual production patterns. Production practice, reflecting from the material world to the spiritual world, from the relations of production to the thinking of the overall relations between the social life of human beings to create the spirit of beauty products to meet the aesthetic needs of the human spirit. Popular to say that art is man's knowledge, emotions, ideals, ideas, the organic product of a comprehensive mental activity, is that people in real life and the spiritual world the image of the performance.
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