如何欣赏绘画

How to Enjoy Painting is one in a series of five books.There are five chapters,each dealing with a different aspect of art and paintings;there are several different sections in each chapter.I hope you will find it all intererting,even entertaining,and that your reading of English will improve as enjoyment of paintings. ★Indicates that there is a question you should think about on your own. ★★Indicates that if you are reading the book with another person you should talk about this particular question with him or her. You may be reading the book while studying English in a class, with a teacher, or you may be reading it at home in the evenings, or on a train, or anywhere else-it doesn't matter! What I do hope is that you enioy reading about art. and paintings-in English!

Contents Thanks About this book Some thoughts about art Art is a selection of what we see and feel Painting is language Many languages Learning to see Expression How to recognise illusions Some painters play with us Your mind searches for meaning Try these experiments Can you recognise these drawings? One thing at a time I thought she was real How to understand the language of paintings Paint is your partner Fresco painting and oil painting What can different pens and pencils do? Reproductions of paintings Shape The living shape Shapes people like The golden rectangle Which is the friendly house? Shapes show thoughts...even woolly houghts! An artist's shapes The shape belongs to the object and to the artist Lines people like Taking a line for a walk More walking lines Space and volume The grammar of depth Pictures with and without perspective Perspective Can you read depth? Into the picture or across the picture...or both? The grammar of volume Tone Colour Some ways of using colour Helping people to recognise things Expressing feelings Directing attention Symbolising an idea Thousands of colours! Primary colours Secondary colours Tertiary colours Complementary colours Matisse loved colour How other artists used colour Which colours do you like? Design and composition The spot lives! Boring balance and interesting balance Giotto and Hokusai control your eyes Composition Six compositions How to read a picture Looking at pictures Art doesn't improve...it changes France Greece Rome Germany England France A famous painting Content of the picture Form in the picture How did he do it? Modern art One point of view? Different 'languages' Rene Magritte Jackson Pollock Henri Matisse Paul Klee Francis Bacon Fernand Leger Mark Rothko How to judge a picture Your collection of pictures Form and content in painting Characterless forms Is detail important? Isn't he clever? ￡7,200,000! Is it worth it? Here is one of mine! Last thoughts Answers Acknowledgements Index of paintings