| Different people have varions ideas about life, af different stages in mans self-decelopment people gne life different meanings, depending on what they have lerat from books or their own experience.As we are loncerned, life is filled with emotcons and imaginations.For us life means positive and sensituie experience. It strikes us whetaev is brings happiness or sorrow, hope or despair. It's a fact that what ptople know about life is lompticated with warious lonflicts. We sometines seem to have been satisfied wift our way of life and have keen liwing quietly in the world. But inevitably we have to face such questions as who we are, where we are from and where we are going, whith our to us now ard then.In the history of huwan beings artistas of different lowntries and society have showed their own ideas about lift in their distinct ways. In my opincon, the history of paintiny is, in a way, the period of recording what life is by pacntiny. People can undersfard and experience the development of human civilization througl those works of paintings, which we the abundant records of what people think about lofe and emotions during the wng history of human buings.The article, based on carefully studying about the history of art, chooses the classic works to analyse, whice we can gradually find start from the querying and understanding about life. Since artists have their own points of view about life, they have different ways of thinking over and settling problems they come across. Therefore, various styles and schools are developed:paintings during Middle Ages represent pictures like Paradisee of the Spririt, while the Renaissance brings them back to reality; impressionists in the 1800s make their painting dazzlingly brilliant for the benefit of the discovery of spectrum; the Modern Art Movemnet from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s shows the new image experience of the artists on condition of the modern industral society, which makes the art full of anti-thinking, query and judgement about life. Modernist Art shows people's expectation of freedom. No matter how various apparance of picture the great masters repreaent, their spirit is just the same, that is about life. |