First, the story of art
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The Story of Art generally describes the development process from the earliest cave painting to today's experimental art, so as to clarify that art history is "a history in which various traditions are constantly circuitous and changing, and every work in this history not only reviews the past, but also leads to the future.
There is no art at all. Only artists, both men and women, are talented and good at balancing shapes and colors to achieve "appropriate" results; What's more, they are honest people and will never give up halfway. They are always ready to give up all the effect of saving trouble and all the superficial success to experience the hard work and pain in honest work.
Two. History of art development
This book is written for readers who need to know a strange and fascinating field. This book can show the facts to beginners without confusing readers with details; It can help beginners to enrich their academic ability, so as to sort out countless names, periods and layout styles in their works with a higher goal and lay the foundation for reference to more professional books.
Third, "Wendy's sister tells the story of painting"
After an overview of early paintings, this book will take you to know about Giotto and the creations of every great western painter. More than 450 famous color pictures detail the trend, evolution and glory of western painting since its birth, and set up a sidebar to remind the relevant background. This book deeply analyzes more than 30 masterpieces, including Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, Rembrandt's The Jewish Bride, Monet's The Lotus Pond and Van Gogh's Self-portrait. And go deep into the master's spiritual world by enlarging the picture, prompting the details of the work and explaining the painting skills.
Fourth, the course of beauty.
This book is a classic of China's aesthetics. It embodies the research of the author Mr. Li Zehou for many years. He showed China people's feelings of beauty from ancient times to the present, so emotional and kind. Only with exquisite illustrations, this book shows the magnificent and beautiful course of China more concretely.
The History of Beauty is a big book (it should be said that it is several big books), including the history of Chinese aesthetics, art, China literature, China philosophy and China culture. -Feng Youlan
The book A Course of Beauty is really well written. Talent is in short supply. The title alone is extraordinary: while dancing. Bronze gluttony. Wei and Jin demeanor, the voice of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, not to mention that there are cadenzas every few pages. In fact, the course of beauty can be regarded as a work of art .. which fully shows Li Zehou's artistic skill. -Yi Zhongtian
Five, "painting pots and pans"
Before 1949, Shen Congwen was a writer and wrote more than forty novels and essays. After 1949, he turned to be an expert in cultural relics research, dealing with jars, jars and silks and satins for nearly 40 years. During this period, his concentration and investment were no less than those of his early literary creation, and his appreciation and accumulation of cultural relics were also master-level.
This book contains the author's "other half" creation: appreciation of cultural relics and artistic sentiment, including more than 40 notes, essays, lectures and academic articles, involving utensils, brocade, costumes, calligraphy and painting. , also talked about the folk culture of individual places. We can not only appreciate the rich and colorful archaeological art of cultural relics, but also look for Shen Congwen's life track after leaving the literary circle.
Shen Congwen, a great literary master, has worked hard in culture, art, archaeology, appreciation and cultural relics collection for decades.