Unit 1 Traditional Chinese Painting 1
Text 1 Three Important Categories of Traditional Chinese Painting 3
Text 2 Chinese Landscape 6
Text 3 Techniques of Freehand Painting 9
Text 4 Perspective in Chinese Painting 13
Text 5 Gu Kaizhi—King of Painting 15
Text 6 Painting Clouds 18
Unit Exercise 20
Unit 2 Chinese Calligraphy 23
Text 1 The Art of Chinese Calligraphy 25
Text 2 Copy,Follow and Read 29
Text 3 Ink—A Main Medium in Far Eastern Painting and Calligraphy 31
Text 4 Wang Xizhi and His Calligraphy 33
Text 5 Zhuanshu in the Han Dynasty 36
Text 6 The Four Treasures of the Study 40
Text 7 Seals and Calligraphy on Chinese Paintings 43
Unit Exercise 45
Unit 3 Oil Painting 47
Text 1 Landscape 49
Text 2 Leonardo da Vinci and Portrait of Mona Lisa 53
Text 3 Surface Effects of Oils 56
Text 4 Direct Methods of Oils 59
Text 5 Van Gogh's Still Life 63
Text 6 Portrait Painter 66
Unit Exercise 68
Unit 4 Graphic Arts 71
Text 1 Painters and Printmaking 73
Text 2 Printmaking Techniques 76
Text 3 Dürer:The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 79
Text 4 Engraving and Stone Rubbing 82
Text 5 Can Graphics Be Called Art? 84
Text 6 Japanese Art—Ukiyo-e 86
Unit Exercise 89
Unit 5 Sculpture 91
Text 1 Sculpture 93
Text 2 Cast Metal Sculpture 97
Text 3 Rodin:The Gates of Hell 101
Text 4 Small Portable Sculpture 104
Text 5 Sculpture and Two Artistic Movements 106
Text 6 Modern Sculptors in the Field 110
Unit Exercise 113
Unit 6 Synthesis Painting 115
Text 1 Twentieth-Century Developments 117
Text 2 Mixed Media 121
Text 3 Collage 125
Text 4 Georges Braque 128
Text 5 Assemblages 131
Text 6 Photo-collage 133
Unit Exercise 138
Unit 7 Photography 141
Text 1 What ls a Fine Art Photography Print? 143
Text 2 Focal Length and Perspective 146
Text 3 Light 148
Text 4 Chiaroscuro 152
Text 5 Sport and Action—Classic Themes 155
Text 6 Developing a Film 157
Unit Exercise 159
Unit 8 Other Plastic Arts 161
Text 1 Water-colour 163
Text 2 Two Artists and Their Work 166
Text 3 Wall-painting 170
Text 4 Kinetic and Op Art 173
Text 5 Art of Fresco 175
Text 6 Pastel and Gouache 177
Text 7 Land Art 179
Unit Exercise 182
Unit 9 Basic Principles 185
Text 1 Composition 187
Text 2 Perspective 190
Text 3 Modeling 194
Text 4 Proportion 197
Text 5 Ways of Using Colour 199
Text 6 Matisse,Master of Colour 202
Unit Exercise 205
Unit 10 Masters Speak 207
Text 1 Nature and Art 209
Text 2 The Sculptor Speaks 212
Text 3 Music and Painting 214
Text 4 What Is the"New"? 217
Text 5 Artist-Dealer Relations 220
Text 6 Writing Your Artist Statement 222
Unit Exercise 225
Glossary 228
Answer Key 257