1、1/3 Behind a remarkable scholar one finds，not infrequently，a mediocre man，and behind a mediocre artist quite often a very remarkable man. Nietzsche 在一个杰出的学者背后，往往是一个平庸的人，而在一个平庸的艺术家的背 后，往往是一个非常杰出的人。 尼采 Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience. Aristotle 艺术是比经验更高形态的知识。 亚里士多德 Art may be called
2、complete and perfect when it seems to be nature. Longinus 艺术接近自然时，就称得上是圆满完美了。 龙基纳 Art is the right hand of nature.The latter has only given us being；the former has made us men. Schiller 艺术是自然的得力助手。 后者仅赋予我们生命， 但前者却丰富了我们的人生。 席勒 A poor artist wanted to enter an important painting competition.One day he
3、 took his paints and brushes to a local caf to drink his coffee and get inspiration.The district where he lived was full of trees which formed a leafy avenue.As he looked around him，he noticed how the shadows of the trees were growing longer as time passed.He decided to paint them in the style of th
4、e Impressionists.Taking the 2/3 brushes from his bag，he chose one suitable for painting and began.The painting was completed soon.It looked so real that one could almost smell the flowers that hung from the branches of the trees.Happily he wrote his name at the bottom of the painting and sent it to
5、the competition committee.His painting was given high marks by the judges and he won the admiration of many people as a famous Impressionist painter. Some people like modern art，while others say that is rubbish.But a cleaner who works in the Tate Gallery in London isnt able to tell the difference.Th
6、e woman， whose name isnt known，mistook a work of art by the German painter Gustav Metzger as a bag of rubbish，and threw it out with other bags.Embarrassed officials at the museum had to call a meeting with cleaners to explain which things should not be touched.However，to make sure of not happening a
7、gain，they covered Mr.Metzgers work with a coloured cloth every evening.In this way the cleaners would realize they should not touch it. This is not the first time that museum cleaners have had trouble distinguishing exhibits from rubbish.In 2001，in another London gallery，a cleaner threw away a work
8、by the wellknown British artist Damien Hirst.It was an arrangement of empty beer bottles，coffee cups，and overflowing ashtrays，which was meant to indicate the chaos in the life of an artist.However，cleaners dont always throw things away sometimes they clean them！ This was the case with a dirty bathtu
9、b which was on show in a gallery in Germany.Without asking what the bathtub was doing in the gallery，the cleaners simply washed it clean. 探索发现 1What kind of modern art do you like best？Give an example. _ 2How do you find art attracts you？List out your reasons. _ 3What do you know about Chinese Art and what do you want to learn more? _ 答案 1.略 3/3 2略 3 As far as I know， Chinese Art includes paper cutting， embroidery， seal cutting， calligraphy，Chinese painting，porcelain and so on.Id like to learn calligraphy.
