Abstract

“Fortuity” reflects the unique characteristics of “Shen Si” as a Chinese theory of thinking in artistic creation. In my view, “fortuity” refers to a kind of thinking that is accidental and spontaneous but enables a creative subject to stimulate his aesthetic emotions, thoughts, and creative impulse. It occurs with no pre-arrangement, but in response to the changes in the external objects that stimulate a creative subject. As something pivotal to “Shen Si” in artistic creation, “fortuity” enables an artistic product to have an air of “grandness,” artistic individuality that beyond replication, natural and perfect aesthetic conceptualization, aesthetic images, and astonishing aesthetic effects.