General Introduction to Western Art

Author: Chen Shining
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: In the ten years of exploring and advancing cultural quality education, contemporary Chinese people have gained a renewed and more comprehensive understanding of public art education: public art education is the primary to implement aesthetic education. Specifically, public art education helps improve the aesthetic taste, humanities literacy, and comprehensive qualities of its educational subjects; it fosters their innovative awareness, innovative thinking, and innovative abilities; it also helps perfect their healthy personalities and promotes holistic human development. In the systematic project of cultivating high-quality innovative talents, public art education has already played and will continue to play an indispensable and irreplaceable role. The writing style of this book combines the research findings of the contributing editors from their respective fields, making its content distinct from other similar works, all of which demonstrate a certain theoretical depth and a substantial amount of information. Another feature of this book is the collaborative effort between Western art historians and oil painters, with the main authors having visited Europe and America multiple times to observe original paintings. The discussed masterpieces are concise in language, well-analyzed, and highly readable. During the writing process, the book maintains selectivity and highlights key points, catering to both art professionals for reference while also serving as an accessible and in-depth textbook for universities to study and learn Western art history.