(Department of Sports Culture Art,Tianjin University of Sport,Tianjin 300381,China) Abstract: By recognizing the characteristics and objective existence manners of art, sport and body movement, the author expiated on the dialectically unified relations between these three elements existing as an integrated whole, and according to the “Event Classification Theory”, pointed out the generality and orientation of artistic aesthetics expressed by different artistic sports, and hence defined the concept of artistic sport. By analyzing social causes for the generation of artistic sports as well as their internal and external characteristics, the author specified scientific principles for and common characteristics of artistic sports showing sciences and making artistic achievements by basing their support on modern scientific sports theories and their carrier on body movement. Key words: artistic sport;human motion;Event Classification Theory |