A bearded Mona Lisa

Author: Guo Maocai
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: The history of art development is also the history of humans revealing the objective world and expressing the subjective world in different forms. In artworks from different periods, we can see various perspectives and observation methods through which humans understand the world: expressing the humanistic spirit, concepts, and cultural behaviors of different eras, regions, and ethnicities. This book provides an in-depth yet accessible introduction to the artistic concepts, key figures, and works of major Western art movements. By combining introductions and analyses of specific works, it compares the "new" insights and "new" forms of some Western modern art movements with similar claims and forms in traditional Chinese art. This allows readers to gain a fundamental understanding of the causes, stylistic characteristics, and reasons for existence of the diverse Western art movements through enjoyable reading.