Every artists knows in his heart that he is saying something to the 【S1】______
public. Not only he want to say it well, but he wants it to be something 【S2】______
which has been said before. He hopes the public will listen and
under stand --he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from
them. 【S3】______
What visual artists as painters want to teach is easy to make 【S4】______
up but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experiences
into shapes and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certain
selection of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible is 【S5】______
exceptional interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without
their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and 【S6】______
colors, or felt the delight which they brought to the artists. 【S7】______
The most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature
and from human bodies in motion and repose; their choices indicate that
these aspects of the world are worth looking at, that they contain beautiful
sights. Contemporary artists might say that they merely choose subjects 【S8】______
that provide an interesting pattern, that there is something more in it. Yet 【S9】______
even they do not choose entirely with reference to the character of
their subjects.
If one painter chooses to paint a gangrenous leg and another a 【S10】______
lake in moonlight, each of them are directing our attention to a certain
aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something, showing us
something, emphasizing something- all of which means that,
consciously or unconsciously, he is trying to teach us.
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