Leisure and art: transparent cup, ethereal chair

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Sitting on such a chair, making a cup of tea, and praising each transparent and empty psychic. It is precisely because of these useless use that enriches our lives and decorate our aesthetics.

After making tea, stare at the transparent water cup and look at the golden brown brown in the water. These colors are very slow and layered in colorless water until the color of the water transforms golden yellow. Modern people invented the transparent water cup, and can have time to see the gradient tea color. Is it better than the ancients' enjoyment of tea drinking?

The advantage of the transparent tea cup is transparent, lies in simple and clear. Many people in reality do not like to be transparent people. More and more people around you choose nothing to make a circle of friends. For many people, sending friends in the circle of friends is tantamount to self -exposure. They said that they just read and exercise. Why should they send a circle of friends? Maybe it attracts unnecessary trouble, jealousy or irony.

When it comes to the circle of friends, the ancients also like to expose. Reading the "Changzhi" written by the humanities Zhenheng of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that he actively exposes all aspects of his life. He lists twelve types of houses, flowers, plants, poultry fish, calligraphy and painting, several couchs, etc. thing. Pile pile pieces are extremely delicate. For example, the chair specially mentioned, "The ancients made a few couchs, although the long, short and narrow, and the fasting of the fasting room will be elegant and cute, and they are also in the same way." The first is the requirements of the appearance, which is elegant and cute; the second is the requirements for the use of the chair, it must be convenient and comfortable.

The beginning of Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" said: "Thirty spokes together, when there is nothing, there is a car. I think that it is used, there is no, the device is used. It is used by the room. Therefore, it is considered to be profitable, and it is not used. "The reason why the tea cup is useful is that its hollow is nothing. Similarly, the reason why chairs are useful lies in its ethereal and "dissatisfaction".

Mr. Wang Shixiang, who has studied the furniture of the Ming Dynasty, has summarized the characteristics of Ming -style furniture as "sixteen products", that is, simplicity, simplicity, thick, dignified, majestic, round, Shen Mu, Hua Hua, Wen Qi, Yanxiu, Yanxiu , Strong, gentle, ethereal, exquisite, elegant, fresh. How is a chair ethereal? If there is no understanding of traditional culture, it is difficult to understand the artistic conception.

The British painter David Hockni is equally affectionate for the chair. He will describe the chairs in the full hall, dark green and orange; or separate the chair as the main body of the sketch and the main body of the collage. His work "Kristope, Tang Tong Saint -Monic Canyon", "Entering the living room, seeing two chairs, such a reverse perspective chair is common in his collage works. The two chairs are in front of The narrow back is wide, obviously the reverse viewpoint ... During the guidance process of the view of the point of view of the viewpoint, the viewer's eyes are constantly feeling more details in the screen space. The visual experience has become an emotional complex containing the depth of space, time, and movement. "Hockney said:" The painting activity has become a visible process, and it is not hidden behind the work. —— but what attracts me is the way the painter looks at the world. This means that the viewer participated in the picture. "

It is the painter's wonderful hand that makes you see more than just a chair, but also the life of the person in the chair. In the cultural scholar Wang Shixiang, the chair carries the ultimate aesthetic needs of Chinese literati, including majestic, Shen Mu, Wen Qi, and other aesthetic qualities; in the eyes of artist Hockney, these chairs can help him build space like the Rubik's Cube. Formed timeliness and sportiness. The peculiar exaggeration deformation of these chairs allow his works to get rid of the most common focus perspective in the West, and presents the unique scattered perspectives of oriental scroll painting Essence

Sitting on such a chair, making a cup of tea, and praising each transparent and empty psychic. It is precisely because of these useless use that enriches our lives and decorate our aesthetics.

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This article was published in "Well -off" in early July 2022

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