Talk about how to improve your art appreciation?

I saw that this question was tagged with art appreciation, aesthetics, and fine arts. It means that this "beauty" does not generally refer to the aesthetic standards and aesthetic levels in real life, but specifically refers to "art." The ability to appreciate "beauty"? If I'm not wrong, the best way to improve your appreciation is to appreciate more excellent works of art. I wouldn't say that learning art appreciation is easier than professional art theory.

The probability that it is actually more difficult is over 90%. Because this requires not only the learning of pure skills or techniques, but more of your own understanding and knowledge of the development process of art, the emergence and rise of various art schools, and even knowledge of society, culture, history and other categories. Dabble.

"Appreciation of artistic beauty" is not simply appreciating artworks. The social and cultural depth behind artworks is the object of research on this kind of beauty.

Too academic, my statement, this is not to scare people, but to understand the beauty of art, you have to spend more energy to understand the things behind art, all kinds of knowledge, all kinds of history... and then you can Look at a work of art more comprehensively and objectively.

Appreciating excellent works of art is the beginning.

When deciding to appreciate a work of art, we should not just stop at the surface of the work of art. We need to know its content, theme, and creative background (the author’s background and social and historical background). Stuff also determines why the artwork ends up in the state it does. For example, the works of Turner, the pioneer of Impressionism, when many artists were still pursuing realism, he used rich color changes and diverse brushstrokes to create paintings that were more realistic than traditional realism, but did not appear cold and indifferent due to deliberate realism. Emotional paintings.

If you understand the social background of the time, including political, economic, and cultural changes, you will know how a unique artistic observation method that advocates nature and observes the real world with a freehand eye began. be used in artistic creation. Another example is the Russian Touring Painting School, which I personally admire. What kind of social changes caused cultural changes, and what kind of thinking did those artists create to create an artistic style of using large brush strokes to shape the body.

This kind of appreciation learning is a long-term process. It is not the discussion between me and my colleagues on purely professional skills such as technical foundation and creative conception, but it requires us to broaden our horizons, from art to the study and research of knowledge in multiple fields such as culture, society, history, etc., and use a A broader perspective to appreciate the artistic beauty of any work.

For example, although I don’t like deconstructive aesthetics, I also know that this theory originated from the criticism of structuralism in academic culture. Its core concept is the development of no center point. Or an unstable open art concept with a variable center point, pursuing an artistic imbalance. It is also true that deconstructionist cultural or artistic theory lacks practical value in society.

If you have no understanding of the cultural and social background of the time in your understanding of these artistic styles or genres, it will inevitably lead to deviations in your understanding of the artworks of these genres, and it will be difficult to make relatively objective judgments. Appreciation and evaluation. Similarly, just because I don’t like deconstruction does not mean that I think this genre is useless. At least it has developed a new mode of thinking. I am still willing to be tolerant of this artistic concept.

Just imagine, if I have no knowledge of these cultural aspects, then when I see this artistic style, I will definitely abandon it because I don’t understand it. What I may lose is not only the appreciation of a certain This kind of cognition of artistic beauty is more likely to be a different thinking perspective.