[00:00.800]--- Lesson 26 The best art critics
[00:08.640]--- First listen and then answer the question.
[00:14.560]--- Who is the student's best critic?
[00:20.240]I am an art student and I paint a lot of pictures.
[00:25.920]Many people pretend that they understand modern art
[00:31.560]They always tell you what a picture is 'about'.
[00:36.080]Of course, many pictures are not 'about' anything.
[00:41.200]They are just pretty patterns.
[00:45.360]We like them in the same way that we like pretty curtain material.
[00:51.840]I think that young children often appreciate modern pictures better than anyone else. They notice more.
[01:02.360]My sister is only seven, but she always tells me whether my pictures are good or not.
[01:10.840]She came into my room yesterday.
[01:14.640]'What are you doing?' she asked.
[01:19.000]'I'm hanging this picture on the wall,' I answered. 'It's a new one. Do you like it?'^“
[01:27.160]She looked at it critically for a moment.
[01:30.680]'It's all right,' she said, 'but isn't it upside down?'
[01:39.200]I looked at it again.
[01:41.520]She was right! It was!
[01:45.920]--- end