How to appreciate art?

Appreciating art is not only an aesthetic activity, but also a complex and special psychological activity, including cognitive processes such as feeling, perception, understanding, thinking, association and imagination, as well as subjective feelings and emotional activities accompanying the cognitive process.

In this process of appreciation, feeling is a key link. Only with accurate, keen and full feeling can we grasp the characteristics of artistic works in emotional form and image, thus forming a distinct and unique impression in our minds. The first impression of art appreciators on works of art, also known as "the first feeling of art", is very important;

Because it is a fresh stimulus to the human sensory organs, the feeling is the most acute and profound. Sometimes the viewer likes a song as soon as he hears it, and he is deeply attracted at the first sight of a painting. This is a fact.

However, art appreciation cannot be satisfied with "the first feeling of art". True artistic appreciation is not a fleeting glance, nor a glance back. Many works of art do not reveal its true meaning at once. So first of all, we need the appreciator's continuous attention to the aesthetic object.