Russian literary theorist, Nikolai Gavrinovich Chernyshevsky.

"Art originates from life and is higher than life."

The reason why art is said to originate from life is because the so-called life gives the creator experience. Beethoven composed the Symphony of Destiny after being deafened, and Li Bai composed Will Entering the Wine after being exiled. There must be an extraordinary life behind the immortal masterpieces.

For most people, even if their fate is bumpy and they have rich experiences, it is difficult to express them through art.

The so-called art comes from life, it is better to say that art comes from people’s feelings about life. Experience and thought are higher than life, precisely because creation is a process of condensation and sublimation.

It is a process of constantly diverging around a theme and finally converging. The object is not fixed. Everyone has the ability to create, and whether it can become art depends on their perception and control.

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Character evaluation of Nikolay Gavrinovich Chernyshevsky

Chernyshevsky is The second generation of Russian revolutionary warriors who stepped onto the stage of history after the aristocratic revolutionaries, that is, the most outstanding representatives of civilian intellectual revolutionaries, have been fighting for the truth throughout their lives.

He developed Russian revolutionary democratic ideas to unprecedented heights and was praised by Lenin as "the young helmsman in the storm of the future". Plekhanov compared him to Russia's Prometheus.

His glorious works and mighty and unyielding character won him high prestige and became a hero admired by a generation of progressive young people in Russia. He had a huge impact on the Russian revolutionary movement.

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