Today I recommend a book to everyone, it is called artistic enlightenment. Children who know famous paintings have temperament is such a book published by Jiangsu Phoenix Science and Technology Press. I've actually been getting it for a month, and I'll read a little bit every day.
The book has a nearly perfect score on Douban, and I think the only score it has is its name. In fact, it does not mean that the children of Dong Minghua have temperament, it should be said that people who understand famous paintings have temperament. This book is not just for children, of course, if you are an art major, you must have this book.
So now for many parents and teachers, there are many college students and young people who have just entered the company should go to see, because this cultivation of beauty is not only to be able to paint, most people do not necessarily have to be able to paint, or I can do sculpture works is beauty. In fact, beauty and life are everywhere.
For example, every modified word in the work, every PPT done. Every report, the structural design inside, the illustrations inside, and the text inside it are all beautiful. For life, your dress, your matching, and the overall feeling and temperament to others are also beautiful.
The book is divided into two parts. Its first part is a world famous painting and a famous museum. The next part is a famous Chinese painting and a famous museum. The first part, from the 5th century to the 20th century, from the Renaissance to modern art, is clearly deconstructed. The next part is from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties to modern times, deconstructing Chinese culture, Chinese art, and these unknown stories behind these famous Chinese artists.
After I read this book, I frankly think that everyone should own this book, because it is very characteristic of its deconstruction of each famous work. I'll show you one, which I think is very shocking. Michelangelo, Michelangelo's Mourning Christ. You can look at this sculpture, every fold in its clothes is carved so delicately, which is amazing.
Michelangelo's artistic literacy, this part of it is for you to explain in detail. How should I see the focus of this work? The expressions of the characters, the folds of their clothes, and Michelangelo's signature are all reflected here.
So often adults will say that we may not understand this work of art, go to art galleries, museums.
I think this is a particularly good book, to give us a little bit to deconstruct such a work of art, Han Xizai Night Banquet Map. You can see that you can look at each page here, deconstruct every part of it, and then explain the characters here in detail. The scene inside then reflects some of Han Xizai's expressions, including the different characters of it throughout the night party, and the roles it plays are explained here.
So when we got the book, it was actually a tool that helped us interpret the historical context at that time. For example, Han Xizai, you see what you see from the expression, the author finally interprets that Han Xizai is actually not as dashing as he seems, and in fact, he is full of this worried melancholy about the future of the Southern Tang Dynasty. It was only through this way of night banquet, through this way of singing and dancing to relieve some of his worries about Southern Tang.
In addition, I found out that the book actually has a vignette, it actually has QR codes on famous paintings. It is that after everyone buys it, in fact, these paintings are its originals. The video taken at that time can be seen by scanning the QR code, and it is also equipped with an interpretation.
So this book, I don't think it's meant for children to read, or just for children. More importantly, I think parents, teachers, especially today's white-collar young people, should actually take a look. It is not only Western sentiment, but also a kind of edification of one's own cultural accomplishment.
In addition, to share a small story, after dismantling GPT and other biological mode artificial intelligence, there is actually a mainstream view, that is, when intelligence appears, we no longer need to learn art. Because artificial intelligence can generate art, especially programmers, are very attached to this concept.
I have several programmers around me who have told me about this. Last week I took one of my teachers and happened to go on a business trip to Guangzhou, and Guangzhou had one of our technical team over there, and then we happened to be chatting together, and the head of this technical team happened to be there.
I also talked about this, and then I told him, I said that you have this equipment on your side, let's do a test, let's let this teacher at the same time, because it is learning art.
→ and you at the same time input a command to the artificial intelligence, and then let it input the same work, you see if there is a difference in the effect of the last work. As a result, when this picture is presented, the programmer's partner stops talking. Why? Because the image generated after the art teacher describes it and the program description, the generated picture after that is completely two things. Although we had the same goal at the time, why did this happen? In fact, this is whether the brain has this image in the head.
What is innovation? Innovation is that you must first have this thing in the brain, of course, through hard work, through the use of tools to make it generate this thing. The production tools of the past and the current CPT-style artificial intelligence are completely two concepts, so it is indeed very powerful, but no matter how powerful the tool, the key is whether the user has this thing in the brain.
So I say why improve artistic literacy? Artistic literacy is not everyone has to paint, not this means, but artistic literacy is that there must be beauty in the mind, even beauty is not understood, and the things generated are not beautiful. To put it badly, for example: if you think it is beautiful in the brain, then the GPT generation is also; But if angels are considered beautiful, rainbows are beautiful; GPT must be something more beautiful than an angel or a rainbow.
Therefore, the more in this era of technological explosion, the more everyone should improve your artistic literacy in a more comprehensive way. Because the tool has greatly liberated a lot of your fragmented work, you don't need to do it, so what do you need to do with the whole piece of time? It is to improve the cultivation of beauty.
So I especially recommend this book: