My lessons on art history can be different. I read lectures to adult people, and I try to talk, play with children. Especially fascinatingly for students pass classes devoted to a landscape genre. The first lesson about a landscape passes traditionally ? at first after all it is necessary to get acquainted with features of a genre, its versions, with the most known landscape painters. The real education of feelings begins at a following lesson, which is called ?The landscape poetry?. Considering landscape pictures we will try to comprehend an image poetically. For me it is very much a right moment, when I can bring students to understanding of affinity of painting and poetry.

It is known that arts do not outline the borders and do not reject relationship. Image art, word art, music as smokes of three fires, being combined, intertwine in uniform space and participate in the general sacrament ? poetic development of the world. It would be desirable, that children have felt this deep connection as soon as possible. It would mean to make their spiritual life more difficult, to fill it with associations without which is impossible the real creativity.

In different cultures, we know, there were periods when the fine art was read in poetry reflections, and the poetry lived with art suggestions. I suggest to students the product of the Japanese classical art, as an example. We know also that in the fine arts of Japan, deep penetration into the nature world has generated a genre of a landscape much earlier, than it has appeared in the European painting. The feeling of the nature penetrates the literature, painting, and an applied art of Japan since ancient times. Sources of such relation are in attitude of the Japanese ? they love and value the nature.

I show decorative lists on screens, roll painting, and engravings of the Japanese masters. They notice that many images are devoted to sunrise and a sunset, certain hours in the afternoon, holidays of an admiring by the moon and colors of a cherry and plum, to iris gardens in color, the hills, covered with snow, etc. Then I read them verses of the Japanese poets, and tell them about classical form of Japanese versifications. They attentively listened, sometimes asked to repeat, and have written down and have learnt verses, which they liked.

I have paid attention to unity, indissolubility of the image and poetry and that the aesthetics both that, and another is based on the underlined role of a detail and implied sense. At first, when I read verses, children tried to imagine a visible image.

Art is amazing and it always brings good positive expression to every person. Enjoy art and be happy!

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Every brush consists of three basic parts: a hair bunch, a metal holder and the wooden handle.

Metal clamp. Metal clamps of qualitative brushes are seamless, made of seamless copper or a brass and can be covered by chrome or nickel. The brush clamp should be densely filled with hairs and strongly cover the handle on a circle. The hair bunch is glued to the handle and gives to brush bigger durability, but the gluing structure should not reach the top end of a clamp. It leads to necessity to use longer hairs that the brush at work could be turned on desirable degree.

The handle. High quality handles can be made only of firm wood of deciduous trees, such, as a beech, an oak, and a birch. The handle and a metal clamp are pressed with each other for better durability.

Hair bunch. The hair bunch, actually working part of a brush, is natural or synthetic hair of different shape and size. It is impossible to find universal brush, each brush has own mission. Brushes of natural hair are good for work with liquid paints, as main criteria here - control over fluidity of paint, ability of a brush to form a thin tip and elasticity of a hair bunch. The soft structure of natural hair and its natural form as well as possible meet these requirements.

Kolinsky is the best hair for a brush; it has gold-brown coloring, with sharp, as a needle, tip. It holds paint very well; its soft structure, the conic form and return make its ideal for all liquid paints and a portrayal of details. Besides the bunch of kolinsky brushes consists of hairs of different length, which at contact of the filled brush with a surface, create a capillary stream - continuous, with an excellent consistence.

Least weasel is an alternative to kolinsky hair. Hairs of red-brown color, with the good sharp tip, of quite good filling, but not such long, as at a kolinsky hair.

Hair of the squirrel is very thin, of blue, black or brown color. The tip of a brush from the squirrel hair reminds a rapier edge, under the control over fluidity does not concede a kolinsky hair, but it is not so elastic by the nature.

Easy bull hair. Brushes from the bull hair also are good for liquid paints at the expense of softness and elasticity though haven?t such sharp conic form, as kolinsky or squirrel hair. Brushes for pastose paints are estimated only on one parameter: the denser is paint the hair should be firmer. Brushes from a bristle hair are considered as the most suitable. Slightly diluted paints require softer hair.

Badger hair has the conic form and a dense top part, closer to the hair end, but near hair root it is rather thin, therefore a brush is very fluffy. It is considered ideal at work with moderately diluted oil paints. The best badger brushes have a tip of white color and a dark strip in the middle.

Pig bristle - elastic and strong, from it can be made the best brushes for oil and acrylic. The major characteristic of a bristle is its split tip - it promotes good fullness of a brush and equal drawing of paint on a basis surface.

Synthetic brushes are not similar with each other and behave differently. Nylon brushes are not good for work with a watercolor, but are good for moderately diluted acrylic as possess the necessary durability and elasticity. Synthetic hair on the basis of polyesters possesses various degree of elasticity. It can be collected in bunches of various diameters for creation of capillary action between fibres, with what is reached the good control over fluidity.

Also you can meet brushes with the mixed structure of natural and synthetic hair. The brushes containing hairs of a red sable, it is possible to use for work with oil paints, acrylic and a watercolor. Others on the contrary have been made specially for liquid acrylic paints and are too soft for oil paints.

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In the Middle Ages it was considered that the nature couldn?t become a picture theme. Usually landscapes appeared on cloths as a background for any historical scene. Sometimes the landscape consisted only of several rocks ? one guide on painting of XIV century even advised to artists to heat up rocks on the background. But in XVI-XVII centuries the relation to landscapes began to vary.

In XV century artists have started to comprehend prospect laws. This revolutionary opening has allowed them to represent space more precisely. Hence, they could create more realistic landscapes. It gradually began to appear pictures, where the landscape played more important role, than people, and even pictures, where at all there were no people.

To seventeenth century the nature became a popular theme in painting, and a landscape ? a full genre. Artists, especially in Northern Europe, created a large quantity of landscapes ? from imagined idyllic scenes to the most detailed kinds of real places.

The first landscape writers did not create a picture directly outside on the nature. Having made some sketches, they came back in studio and already finished the work there. But in the middle of nineteenth century there was a fashion to write pictures in the open air. Artists were inspired by a changeable play of light and the atmospheric phenomena, and they aspired to write landscapes directly ?from nature?.

Eventually the relation of artists to landscapes varied not less, than landscapes. For last century there were especially many various styles ? from frightening urban landscapes of cubists and lyrical city images to ?land-art? (artists of this direction work with a landscape, using for creation of the works the ground, stones and other natural materials). As a source of inspiration for artists of ?land-art? serves the surrounding landscape, and their products become its part then.

Still life works.

The still life is an image of motionless objects, such, as flowers or fruit, musical instruments etc.
Till the end of nineteenth century main principles of creation of still life works were defined by aspiration to make them, as it is possible realistic. And artists have reached such skill in it that could represent everything ? from a bunch of grapes, which looks so realistic, to jugs and bowls which, apparently, go beyond from a picture plane.

Creation of a still life works demands the big skill. It is necessary for artist to make an interesting composition, to show light, the texture of subjects. Such pictures force you to believe that you look at real volume subjects, instead of on the plane covered with paint. However, critics up to nineteenth century scornfully concerned still life art ? they saw only practice in the picturesque techniques in it.

The still life can be the simple image of subjects, and can comprise any hidden sense. Artists often make a composition expressing certain ideas. So, books symbolize knowledge, musical instruments ? pleasure, and skulls, trembling body of flame or decaying fruit urged to remind of death. Pictures with the hidden symbolical sense are called as allegories. Allegorical pictures became so popular that some artists almost have completely devoted themselves to this genre.

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The term ?art? can define the most different objects ? from prehistoric drawings on stones and ceramics to obstruction of household and industrial stuff in art galleries. But though to art area also refer music, theatre, ballet and the literature, more often this term means the fine arts, and first of all painting.

For centuries people tried to understand what is art. Artists and critics quarreled and argued about this, adhering to the most different opinions. The French artist Manet has so strongly differed in opinion from one of critics that has challenged him on duel. There are many questions at issue, but there is not and will not be unequivocal, intelligible answers. Everybody has own tastes and opinions ? and only you should choose what you like more.

For someone art should be, first of all, fine, for others ? realistic, for third it is more important, that it transfers mood or feeling. There are many diversified pictures in the world: one differs with almost photographic accuracy, others are much more outlined, but very precisely shows the mood ?

One people believe that art should express certain ideas; others prefer to enjoy art for the sake of art. Just about it impressionists also had big discussions ? someone from them considered that it is necessary to reproduce scenes from a modern life, others were more interested in studying of influence of light on subjects.

It frequently becomes a subject of fierce disputes also cost of art works. Vincent Van Gogh has died in poverty as nobody wished to buy his pictures, and today his art works have big prices among the most valuable works of art in the world.

To help the spectator to understand sense of a picture, artists frequently place the hidden helps ? symbols on it. They are connected with the general concepts sometimes. For example, the book symbolizes the doctrine, a sword or other weapon - fights, and a blossoming branch of a tree or a flower - beauty and pleasure. Besides, symbols help to understand, who is represented in a picture. Known characters, for example sacred, are often represented with the symbolical subjects associating with history of their life so experts can understand whom the artist has presented in the picture. In any pictures it is possible to find set of helps ? here only it is necessary to know what to search.

For perception of a picture it is also very important to know, for what purpose it was created: did the artist wish to decorate a palace with it or write it for church? And it can be, it intended for an exhibition in gallery where visitors would admire with the beauty or it would force them to reflect on the ideas expressed in it? Is there in product any political, social either moral sense or the main thing in it is to express emotions?

Though? Artist Renoir wrote various paintings, and people bought his pictures just because they liked them.

At studying of painting works is important not only style of the image, but also paints. Art materials and methods were changed. The manner of painting is so individual, as handwriting. Some artists put paints smoothly, creating a smooth surface; others use separate, sometimes sharp dabs. Everything depends only on preference of the artist.

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Today from art is demanded novelty and originality more than ever. Artists constantly aspire to move apart borders of that we have got used to name art. The imagination of public is amazed also with the huge sums, which collectors are sometimes ready to pay for products of ?new art?. Today among subjects, which are exposed by artists, it is possible to find the bicycle wheel placed on a stool; the image of a pipe with the board: ?It is not a pipe?; a brick heap; a pure white cloth; a heap of the dust, which has remained after a banquet; a bed with not cleaned bed? Do you think it is art? Most likely, you at all do not expect to meet similar things in art gallery! However they are capable to cause rough reaction and to force to look at things with a new point of view ? and after all to it quite often aspire also products of traditional painting.

If we address to history of arts we can see how art styles and receptions varied eventually. But only one remains invariable ? the real work of art always should excite soul, not to leave indifferent anybody?

Many people are interested, are there any rules concerning viewing of pictures? I think that to enjoy contemplation of a picturesque cloth, it is unessential to know much about painting, but knowledge, probably, will help you to receive more pleasures from pictures.

Depending on what is represented, painting products are divided on some groups or genres. The basic genres: a portrait, a landscape and a still life. Some pictures in general are difficult for carrying to a certain genre. And there are more and more of such pictures.

In works of art all space, as a rule, is organized: its composition is that what forces us to perceive a picture definitely. The most important characters or subjects, which should draw attention of the spectator, can be allocated in the sizes, brightness of paints; the artist can place them in the center.

And now, let me share with you some information for beginning artists.

How is to pick up a frame for a picture correctly?

The first rule and actually unique, there is no any rules on a frame of pictures. You do not have need to choose any certain color in a picture so that it was combined with passe-partout; passe-partout shouldn?t supplement on color of a frame, and the frame shouldn?t suit to wall-paper in the house of your customer. It is necessary to experiment safely. And the most important thing is to choose that is pleasant to you and the customer.

The second: a choice of width of a frame. The main criterion is size of a framed subject. Too wide frame ?will close? a small picture, and narrow will not add anything to the big cloth.

The third: a choice of passe-partout. There are only two parameters, which you should take into consideration: color and the size. The main rule consists in choosing such color, which would supplement a picture and not spoil it. The size of passe-partout usually gets out according to the size of the picture, but here is allowed some freedom while you will not come to the most optimum combination of width, from normal width of passe-partout about 50 mm to 100 mm.

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