In last year's hit drama "Thirty Only", the rich lady bought a fake painting and hung it at home, obviously Monet's "water lilies", but when she introduced it to others, she made an oolong, saying that it was Van Gogh's "water lilies".
Writer Mu Xin said, "No aesthetic power is a terminal disease, and knowledge cannot be saved."
It can be seen that a person's artistic accomplishment has nothing to do with the money and social status she obtains, but if she can't even explain the common-sense art knowledge, no matter how expensive the bag she carries and how luxurious the house she lives, she is just an empty-minded "local tyrant" in the eyes of outsiders.
Not only ourselves, but also our next generation must know that we know more about beauty, how to appreciate aesthetics, and need to have artistic cultivation. But you can't learn this in school, and not everyone has the opportunity to go to the British Museum or the Louvre.
The publication of "DK Art Museum" is like a timely rain, it is called "rescuing the beauty of blindness", and after being introduced in China, it has become a hit on a certain sound for a long time. If you want to help your child or quickly build artistic literacy on your own, this book is enough.
To be honest, there are so many books on our platform, and this book is a book that I didn't read the content of, just looking at the cover and material is like a book that immediately planted grass.
When I got the DK Art Museum, my editorial colleagues exclaimed, "This book must be expensive!" Because this book is thick and beautiful, and it can be treasured at home, but after seeing the price, my friends and I were stunned!
For art books, one thing is more important to read pleasing to the eye, to read beautifully, rather than to be "scared" by those boring and complicated professional words, which puts forward high requirements for the quality of the book's paper, typography design, and content presentation.
With a thickness of 600 pages, it is very cost-effective
The book DK Art Museum does it perfectly, and why? because it is published by the famous DK Publishing House.
DK means accurate data and attention to detail. Its books are often used as reference materials and collector's books, which fully guarantees the high requirements for the quality of pictures and the accuracy of the content of the works of art.
Here we will focus on the way the content of the book is presented, which determines whether the reader really gains something.
I believe that many people may know a lot of masterpieces, but they may not know what is good about those masterpieces and why they have become masterpieces and classics.
At the beginning of this book, we will tell you how to appreciate the skills of artwork from different angles according to the different types of works, so readers will have a sudden "oh, so it is" after reading it.
Due to the informative content of this book, it spans more than 3,200 years of human art from prehistory to the Renaissance and then to contemporary art, and introduces more than 700 representatives of various artistic styles and genres around the world.
From the prehistoric clay ceramic doll to today's Damien Hirst, murals, sculptures, installation art, performance art... Everything but the kitchen sink.
Famous painting "Starry Night" - painted by Van Gogh
If you just list and pile it up, it will definitely be boring.
But DK Art Museum doesn't feel that way at all.
Each page of it is accompanied by beautiful pictures, and then annotated with explanations about the author's life and the background and story behind it, and buying it home has the feeling of bringing a museum home.
Picasso's world-famous masterpiece "Guernica", I believe many people have seen it from books, but how many people really understand it?
The famous painting "Guernica" - painted by Picasso
In this book, the author disassembles them one by one from three perspectives: composition, technique, and story.
It turns out that these seemingly strange combinations of geometric images depict a real human tragedy in Spain.
In these extremely exaggerated and distorted images, there are women fleeing from the toilet in confusion under the bombardment of war, and there are grief-stricken mothers holding their dead children.
And the most striking horse's head in the center of the picture is sticking out its barbed tongue and making a cry of pain from the victims.
After reading the detailed interpretation of the book, I realized that this was not the line that the painter smeared at random, but the fierce indictment of the war by this great painter who was compassionate to the world.
For example, how does "The Portrait of Arnolfini" use oil blending techniques to create a suspicious, hallucinatory artistic picture?
Renoir, the representative of Impressionism, actually expressed the effect of sunlight penetrating the woods by adding patches of different colors to the skin?
Famous painting "Luncheon on a Boat" - painted by Renoir
Many people have read "The Eternity of Memory", who has noticed that the group of ants in the lower left corner is the author's embodiment of death?
Famous painting "The Eternity of Memory" - painted by Salvador Dalí
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These interesting questions about art are all answered in the book. These works are not only displayed in a panoramic view, but also enlarged and split in detail, so that you can take a closer look.
The classic sculpture of ancient Greece "The Discus Thrower".
Leonardo da Vinci's classic The Last Supper.
Jacob-Louis David's famous The Death of Marat.
Every picture in the book is as beautiful as an oil painting.
The book is arranged in a way that breaks with the traditional way of categorizing art books according to geography or country.
It is not a linear walk through the West and then introducing the East, but a combination of China and the West.
For example, when you talk about the Renaissance, it suddenly jumps to the Ming Dynasty in China, and talks about the motivations of Tang Bohu and Wen Huiming, why they created it this way, and then it jumps to Japan.
Because of this interlude, the reader will understand why Ukiyo's arrival in Europe influenced Monet's painting of Impressionism, and then to the East.
The famous painting "Fuchun Mountain Residence" - painted by Huang Gongwang
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This comprehensive interspersing of geographical relationships and historical events quickly helps readers build a framework to better understand the connections between various works and the relationship between various genres.
When we read, we compare different cultures and what they did during that time period, and it is easier for us to build our own three-dimensional framework of aesthetics and art.
In addition, the main creative team of the book is also worth introducing, the main creator Andrew Graham-Dixon is the chief of BBC art films, has been the director of the phenomenal documentaries "British Art History", "Renaissance Era" and "Timeless Art", etc., and has hosted the art columns of "The Independent" and "The Sunday Telegraph" for more than 20 years, with rave reviews.
Andrew Graham-Dixon on the BBC
The general consultant of this book is the world's top art guru Ian Brown. Chilfus is the author of The Oxford Dictionary of Art, The Baroque and Neoclassical Eras, The Twentieth Century Art Dictionary, The Artist Unveiled: The Artist and His Self-Portrait, and many other works of art.
In addition, there are nearly 100 senior curators from museums and art scholars from well-known universities as expert advisory groups.
Since its debut in 2021, DK Art Museum has become a leader in the art world, and it also has a 5-star rating among readers.
Art Magazine said of it, "This is a magnificent work that will be passed down from generation to generation."
Cocteau said, "Art is a living science."
Taking this book home will not only give you and your child an understanding of the stories behind the arts, but most importantly help you build artistic literacy quickly.
Take an artistic journey and start with this book!