艺术家兼作家Matthew Collings带领我们探索艺术中的美的概念。
何为美？
在这部只有一个小时的影片里，制作者希望用自己最喜爱的10部艺术作品来表达自己对美的10种判断标准。
关于这种抽象的问题，最好的回答就是：仁者见仁，智者见智。正像那句话说的，一千个读者有一千个哈姆雷特。
这也就是为什么 Collings 给出的 10 个美的标准很难令大家（包括我在内）接受的原因。
简单说来，作者给出的标准，既有令人信服的地方，却也有差强人意之处。像“简洁”（ simplicity ）就是我个人一直很推崇的一个设计概念，有点类似于哲学上的“奥卡姆的剃刀”，砍去枝叶，保留主干，无需赘余。而例如“模式”（ pattern ）这个概念就有些空泛，说了等于没说，真是应了他喜欢抽象艺术的偏好。
那么，美到底是什么？从源头上说，美可以说是我们内心的一种追求，可以简单地把它概括为：内心的愉悦。我们认为它美，是因为人们乐于见到它，抑或说，它会让人们产生愉悦。这样来说，其他的那些表面上的东西，都是让人产生愉悦的东西，也就让人产生了美感。
我们会对简洁的线条感到美，会对自然感到美，会对统一感到美，也会对惊喜感到美。既然一样东西是美的，如果我们所希望的只是获得那种身美的享受的话，那么，是内容上的美，还是表达形式上的美这个问题就无足轻重，应该来说，作者给出的最后答案比较中肯：内容和形式兼而有之。不过，这是他们艺术家和专业人员考虑的具体问题了。我们普罗大众，只要看得愉悦，满足就好。毕竟，我们的目的是从艺术中获得审美享受，理论上的问题还是交给别人考虑吧。
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Documentary in which artist and writer Matthew Collings explores the concept of beauty in art. Is beauty only in the eye of the beholder, or is there something more universal we can say about it?
Collings takes the viewer on a sumptuously illustrated tour of 10 of his favourite beauty experiences from the history of art. The works of art he chooses each illustrate one of the timeless principles which he believes underpin and explain the rush of pleasure we get from beautiful art. They are all art experiences which he has loved for many years, but in this film he explores with each artwork what it is that is making their particular kind of beauty happen. Collings's personal list inspires some big questions about why art matters to us, and aims to get viewers thinking and arguing about what their own personal Top 10 might look like.
The 10 art experiences range right across history, from the prehistoric cave art of the Dordogne to the hi-tech super-modernity of a Norman Foster-designed bridge in southern France, and from some of the indisputable masterpieces of the Renaissance to the much more debatable pleasures of contemporary art. Collings leaps fearlessly across history, making unexpected and revelatory comparisons between the art of different eras, and helping us to see the principles that underlie them.
Collings's list includes works by Piero della Francesca, Michelangelo, Magritte, Gauguin and American artist Robert Rauschenberg, amongst others.
