Art Water (Artistic Culture of Water Environment)

Author: Chen Liuting
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: The Art and Culture of Water Environments for the First Time Proposes the Concept of Water Environment Art Design, Which Is an Emerging and Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Topic in the Field of Design Arts. It Is a Framework Constructed by Integrating Natural Sciences, Humanities, and Art Disciplines Against the Background of the Human Ecological Era. Water Environment Art Design Is Derived from the Broad Concept of Ecological Environments and Is Specifically Directed at Water, Focusing on the Natural and Cultural Water Environments Formed by Surface Water Elements in Human Settlement Spaces. It Includes Water Bodies, Water-adjacent Landscapes, and Different Forms of Water in Human Settlements. From the Initial Simple Morphology of Settlements to the Complex Morphology; From Ancient Villages to the Emergence of Urban Forms and the Inevitable Choice of Reliance on Water Environments; From the Urbanization Process to the Formation of Urban Quality and Character and the Role of Water Environment Design; and from the Spiritual Existence of Water Environment Design as Public Art—various aspects are explored in depth to Discuss the Influence of Water Environments on the Formation of Human Culture and the Three-Dimensional Cultural Connotations of Human Settlement Environments in Terms of Ecological Functions, Survival Functions, Landscape Art, and Spiritual Enhancement.
This book is based on the principle of ecological priority, aiming to establish an environmental ethics design philosophy and clarify the resource status of water environment art design. It traces and compares water civilization, identifies historical contexts, derives the categories and forms of water environment art design, and constructs its deep cultural framework. It Explains the Philosophical, Aesthetic, Artistic, Life, and Spiritual Meanings Reflected in the Transition from Functional Needs to Spiritual Needs, Proposing a Value Orientation for Future Human Settlement Design.
Thus, this topic involves numerous fields such as ecology, ethics, water resources, water civilization, art design, water worship, feng shui theory, garden water management, landscape painting art, landscape poetry, philosophy, aesthetics, and human settlement design, with the research value of "the Practical Manifestation of the Ideal Human Survival Model." The core of this field is to study the cultural phenomena and essence of water environment art design in human settlement science, establish a water environment evaluation system, lifestyles, behavioral patterns, and spiritual spaces that align with the principles of sustainable human survival, and thereby create a human settlement environment with an Eastern character and landscape model, enhancing human life value.