Appreciating art is as easy as making a trip to your local museum where you can compare notes and make your own judgment about whether a work is any good or not. Art recognized as great works today were produced by the up-and-coming artists of yesteryear, so it pays to keep an eye on today’s future classics.
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How to Visit an Art Museum
Even if you’re not a professional curator or art director, you can visit an art museum the ways the pros do. Just use the tips in the following list:
Get a postcard: Postcards are cheaper and are a whole lot easier to lug around than three-pound guide books. When you lose your way, simply flash a postcard at a guard and get directions quickly.
Make a wish list: If you go in a small group, write down the three items you’d like to steal — that is, the three best works in the entire collection. It’s amusing to compare notes.
Look at what you don’t like: Go to the galleries containing materials you just know you don’t like. Also find out what section of the museum is the least visited and take a look. Wonderful finds may come out of that.
Become a member of the museum: Become a member of the museum even for a day’s visit: for freebies, discounts at the gift shops, and for the warm feeling you’ll get when you know you’ve become a lifelong supporter of a place that honors beauty, artistic excellence, and the truth.
Listen to some music: Bring along a portable CD or tape player and listen to classical music.
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The Greatest Art Works of Western Civilization
Any compilation of the greatest art is sure to be subjective. But the works in the following list are the ones that made the cut for Thomas Hoving, former director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and author of Art For Dummies. He looked upon these works as friends and found something new and inspirational in each every time he looked at them.
| King Tut’s Golden Mask | The Isenheim Altarpiece by Grünewald |
| The Sculptures of the Parthenon | El Greco’s Burial of Count Orgaz |
| The Scythian Gold Pectoral | Velázquez’s Las Meninas |
| Nicholas of Verdun’s Enameled Altar | Rembrandt’s Return of the Prodigal Son |
| Giotto’s Arena Chapel | Goya’s The Third of May, 1808 |
| The Ghent Altarpiece by van Eyck | Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party |
| Leonardo’s Mona Lisa | Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon |
| Michelangelo’s David |
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Tips for Appreciating and Evaluating Art
Art is for enjoyment, fun, lifting your spirits. Looking at art should be a pleasurable, immediate experience. You can read about art, but looking at it is the only way to appreciate it. To enlarge your appreciation, follow these tips:
Look at ten works of art each day and your life will change for the better.
Art and politics never mix.
Art is not utilitarian.
Forget about art as an investment. Maybe in 50 years the prices of your works will be higher than when you bought them, but probably not.
Collect living artists. That way you’ll never buy a fake. You’ll also gain great satisfaction in knowing you’re supporting a cause not usually known for its economic well-being.
Every work of art, except for those finished yesterday, has changed from its original appearance.
A reproduction is always a pale reflection of the original.
Be sure to watch what kind of art your children are creating. One — or more — could have that super touch.
To judge whether a work of art is any good, ask the following questions about it to see how many can be answered yes:
Does it express successfully what it’s intending to express?
Does it amaze you in a different way each time you look at it?
Does it grow in stature?
Does it continually mature?
Does its visual impact of mysterious, pure power increase every day?
Is it unforgettable?
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