The differences are as follows:
1, Introduction to Fine Arts
Introduction to Fine Arts will be an excellent teaching material for graduate students and undergraduates to learn fine arts theory, and it is also a necessary reading material for readers with secondary education level or above to improve their fine arts literacy and cultivate their artistic appreciation ability.
2. Introduction to Art
Introduction to art is a course to study the basic laws of artistic activities, and it is a scientific system aimed at expounding the basic nature of art, the system of artistic activities and the characteristics of artistic types. It is one of the compulsory basic theoretical courses for students in art colleges and one of the compulsory professional basic courses for students majoring in art history.
To learn an introduction to art well, there are two prerequisites:
First, the foundation of Chinese and foreign art history, at least the cases mentioned in the Introduction to Art should be familiar with and understood.
Of course, some friends said that the exam subjects only wrote an introduction to art, and there is no need to study art history. Personally, I suggest that they must learn to prepare for a rainy day! Based on the basic foundation of Chinese and foreign art history, we can learn the history of Chinese and western aesthetics very smoothly and conveniently!
Second, the basis of Chinese and western aesthetics.
Why should we do a good job in aesthetic history before learning introduction?
Because the essence of the introduction to art is the thematic division of the theoretical history of various aesthetic history at home and abroad, because the general introduction is at least the following six theories, namely, essence theory, category theory, occurrence and development theory, creation theory, works theory and reception theory.
In each theme theory, there are both China's painting theory and western aesthetics, one is Pythagoras in ancient Greece, and the other is Wang Guowei in modern China. As long as they can be connected in series, they may appear in a theme theory. As a beginner, it is bound to be difficult to learn the ready-made art introduction directly.
Therefore, the book I want to talk about is also an advanced reading plan and the easiest and most reasonable step to learn an introduction to art.
There are many versions of the history of China's aesthetics (painting theory), so we must choose the simplest and most simple books as an introduction, such as Ge Lu's History of Painting in China and Ye Lang's Outline of the History of Chinese Aesthetics.
There are many versions of the history of western aesthetics, such as Ling's Fifteen Lectures on Aesthetics, Zhu Guangqian's History of Western Aesthetics, Zhang Fa's Western Aesthetics in the 20th Century, Gu Chengfeng's Western Art Theory Course, etc.
It should be noted that there are many overlaps between the history of western aesthetics and the history of western art history. Historiography is the study of the history of art historiography, and quite a few of them are aestheticians.
Recommended books are as follows:
Chen Ping's History of Western Art, Cao Yiqiang, Michael Baudelot, etc. Vision of Art History: Theory, Method and Significance of Image Research, A Brief History of Western Art Theory by Li Hong.