如何欣赏绘画

书籍目录

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

作者简介

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!

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