1、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 complete and
2、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 took his paints and br
3、ushes 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 the Impressionists.Taking
4、 the 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 the competition committee.H
5、is 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.The woman，whose name isnt know
6、n，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 again，they covered Mr.Metzgers
7、 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 by the wellknown British artis
8、t 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 awaysometimes they clean them！This was the case with a dirty bathtub which was on show in a gallery
9、 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.