by Li Lian When we think of art exhibitions we probably think of something boring. Many people I know don’t go to museums or art galleries because they think they can’ t understand what artists are trying to express and don’t know enough about the background of artworks. But you should try to put aside your prejudice for a while! Why do I love art? Definitely not because I memorize history. I love artworks because I am touched by their colors and their beauty. I will always remember being in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and nearly being brought to tears by Claude Monet’s water lilies. I was so thankful to this person who brought me such great beauty and emotion. Try to appreciate the painting itself, see the colors on the canvas with your imagination and heart. Don’t try to push yourself to remember the name and dates of the painter or the work. Try to be more comfortable when you visit a museum. To get you started, here are some super easy tips on art history, But don’t worry about learning them by heart! Gothic to Renaissance: Many illustrated manuscripts can be regarded as paintings, but in general, true Gothic art typically consists of fresco paintings and altar paintings, with content being varied and imaginative. Gradually this style evolves into the Renaissance. Renaissance: Begins in 14th-century Florence, in Tuscany. Specialties include the re- learning of classical literature and the development of linear perspective. 17-18th Century: The Baroque era corresponds to an ideological revolution: an energetic spirit, tense feelings, constant motion, and non-static harmony. The Baroque was followed by Rococo, which mainly refers to the court and decorative arts. Paintings focus on joyous features, gorgeous lighting, and bright colors. The last stage of the 18th century is classicism, characterized by paintings limited by many doctrines, drawing with precision, and putting less emphasis on color. 19th Century: Romanticism puts emphasis on color, texture, light, and asymmetrical balance, showing the power of emotions and individual freedom. Realism recorded daily things faithfully. Naturalist painters brought out their easels outdoors, unprecedented in Western art. Impressionism captured natural light in a rapidly changing scene, focusing on painting shadows with colors and using free strokes without contour lines. 20th Century: Fauvism was affected by impressionism. Their paintings express subject tive feelings, applied trichromatic colors, used curved undulation and simplified scenes. The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, and modeling. Futurism, coined by Marinet ti, reflected an emphasis on discarding what was perceived as static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and inno vation. Dadaism embodied anti-aesthetic creations and protest active ties, engendered by disgust for bourgeois values and despair over World War I. In Expressionism, artists seek to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in us. Surrealism, finally, grew out of the Dada movement, pro ducing works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason. But the most important thing of all is that you begin to love art! You don’t have to be an art critic but simply someone who wants to see or feel something new. Monet once said that “people discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand. But the only thing necessary is to love.” Go and experience art for yourself! a
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