Abstract: On the one hand, modern society develops at an extremely fast pace, bringing about tremendous advances in science and technology. On the other hand, it shows unprecedented pressure and unfamiliar living conditions for human beings. Art and design is a new discipline and career between art and science and technology. It not only needs to realize various physical functions, but also in the face of such pressure and unfamiliar living environment. Consolation function.
Keywords: modern society artistic design comfort function
As far as the creative activity of artistic design is concerned, rather than its name, it appears with the appearance of human material production activities and utensil culture. It is actually "the human creation activity for survival, and it is the materialized labor form that artificially realizes the functional value and aesthetic value. This kind of creation has certain aesthetic attributes and spiritual value, and thus is a kind of artistic quality creation." (1) Therefore, although art design did not become a system discipline before the 20th century, it did not appear as a special profession, but its above-mentioned characteristics can be fully reflected and played in various stages of historical development. According to the previous social development, the forms and functions included in various creations concerning clothing, food, housing, transportation, and music can basically achieve mutual unity. However, with the arrival of large-scale socialized production areas, and with the emergence of yet another industrial revolution triggered by advances in science and technology, there are certain deviations and omissions from various values ​​and functions that should be included in art design. At least at this stage, the consolation function to be embodied in art design has not been fully realized. This is unexpected.
From the Second World War to the present, human society has entered a new stage of rapid development, and various types of products in the physical and spiritual fields have been greatly enriched, and the "person" as a weak individual has been distributed at a rhythm. Rapidly moving and artificial objects flooding the surrounding environment will inevitably lead to various discomforts in their psychological and physiological conditions. At this time, the art and design that belong to the culture of superstructure should share the heavy responsibility of reducing this pressure. This article attempts to relate the influence of the development of modern society with artistic design and discuss the solace function of artistic design.
A stylized era of artistic design
Dana early in the "Philosophy of the Arts" in a book expounded the point that artistic works must not be separated from the environment. By the same token, before talking about the solace of art design, we should first analyze what kind of environment art design is in and what kind of influence this environment has on art design. After all, artistic design belongs to the category of superstructure. It should reflect on social life, and it must also react to society.
After the Second World War, human society entered a period of rapid development of science and technology. The so-called "jumping development" is due to the gradual progress of human progress. Because people can't always obtain direct experience in a limited life, they can only resort to complicated and indirect experiences of various types of knowledge, information, and technology in order to carry out reprocessing. Therefore, when a new creation appears, other products based on the creation will come into being, which will make the world develop tens or even hundreds of times faster than before. The most familiar example is the invention and application of computers based on big science and big science and technology. It marks the arrival of another revolution in science and technology, and has always instilled vitality for the development of modern society with its unique mode of production. The essence of design is "art for the artificial object" (2). It can better manifest its superiority in this kind of "jumping development". It can not only enrich scientific materials and enrich its own materials and production methods, but also counteracts technology. Give it a product with artistic features. From this, we can draw a conclusion: science and technology have played an important role in the process of promoting social progress in the change of production methods, and are increasingly linked with art design, and have become the focus of attention.
At the same time, the research, development and application of new technologies, new technologies and new materials provide possible factors for the diversity of arts in form and content. "Only modern furniture, for example, has unit system furniture, plastic inflatable furniture, cardboard furniture, polyester furniture, and ultra-high-stacking furniture. There are many different titles." (3) In addition, science and technology are the ways of thinking. The changes brought about new design concepts and thinking, and the artistic design presents a multiple trend. Especially in the post-industrial era, Pop Art, Op Art, Illusion Art, Sporadic Art, etc. have had a profound impact on modern life concepts and design concepts. It is precisely because of this that artistic design is more able to reflect stylistic creative tendencies in this era, while the degree of systematization and specialization is also aggravated by technological progress.
Two artistic design problems
However, science and technology have been hailed as a "double-edged sword". It has not only benefited mankind and transformed social economy, politics, and culture, but also opened up broad prospects. At the same time, it has brought about many global problems and social problems. Psychological problems... Brzezinski said: “The world is forming a 'technical electronics' society: one that is shaped in terms of technology, electronics, and especially computers and communications in all aspects of culture, psychology, society, and economy. Society.†(4) Therefore, if the negative impact of technology spreads to the entire society, the destructive power it generates is quite alarming. Problems such as energy shortages, depletion of resources, environmental pollution, ecological destruction, population expansion, and food shortages that have always plagued humanity are the best proof.
The influence of art design in this environment is also obvious to all. As far as the status quo is concerned, many art and design works give people impressions that are cramped, disturbed, anxious, overly machined, and lack of necessary links and communication among various types of designs. In particular, since the rise of computer art, people have become more dependent on computers as a tool, trying to get rid of the traditional way of thinking and the design and production of traditional handicrafts. Although computer and network art have created tremendous value in a certain period of time and opened up a variety of new design fields, the problem of overly obvious machine traces has been a lingering shadow of computer and network art.
As in the field of art design, other areas of artistic creation are also plagued with this acute problem to varying degrees. In terms of music creation, computer technology gives its own theme and style excessive anxiety and turmoil. It seems that there is a special feeling of friction between the parts of the machine. For example, in the 80s and 90s of the Western society, an electronic dance music, Techno, emerged. It created a radical and unrestrained new dance "Rave" into people's anxiety. channel. “Techno music, the Rave dance of day and night dancing, and the drugs that are widely used on the dance floor are what some English writers call “collective brain shock†and “didn't know the night with chemistryâ€.†(5) Regardless of the form of artistic creation, this kind of venting is not a healthy method at all. Its unique deformed character may eventually decline in social culture and art. Human beings have already been under so much pressure in this society. The greater the pace of social progress, the faster they go, and the stronger the feelings of crampedness, anxiety, panic, and depression in people's hearts. If the spiritual world is given a lack of human touch and stimuli, human psychology and physiological conditions will inevitably produce changes that are out of tune with the surrounding environment.
Although the economic foundations of human society in the 20th century have achieved a series of successful changes under the influence of science and technology, the counteraction of cultural superstructures has been characterized by the constant use of even backward ideologies that may not be compatible with the economic base, hindering the economy. The long-term development of the foundation. Therefore, to shrink into the field of art and design, people are in need of a completely new concept to seek an effective means to liberate their minds so that physical and psychological pressure can be eased. Only in this way can healthy thinking be put into normal material production. Go in practice. At this time, the design art solace function should be immediately put on the agenda. (to be continued)