1、When one loves ones art，no service seems too hard.O.Henry一旦热爱艺术，什么奉献都不难。欧亨利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 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
2、 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One day, Beethoven came to a restaurant for dinner. After ordering, he suddenly got inspiration. He picked up the menu on the table and made a song on the back of the menu. After a while, he was completely immerse
3、d in the beautiful melody. When the waiter saw Beethovens devotion, he didnt dare to disturb him and decided to serve him later. About an hour later, the waiter finally came to Beethovens side: “Sir, will you serve？” Beethoven just woke up from a dream and immediately paid for it. Confused, the wait
4、er couldnt figure it out and said: “Sir, you havent eaten yet！” “No, Im sure I have.” Beethoven couldnt listen to the waiters explanation.After paying the order on the menu, he grabbed the menu full of notes and rushed out of the restaurant. Beethovens unconventional and eccentric behavior in life i
5、s out of tune with people. It seems unreasonable. In fact, it reflects the artists extremely devoted creative state.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.The woman，whose name isnt known，mist
6、ook 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 again，they covered Mr.Metzgers work
7、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 by the wellknown British artist Dami
8、en 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 awaysometimes they clean them！This was the case with a dirty bathtub which was on show in a gallery in Ge
9、rmany.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2略3As far as I know，Chinese Art includes paper cutting，embroidery，seal cutting，calligraphy，Chinese painting，porcelain and so on.Id like to learn calligraphy.