What I read and think recently:
Illustrations
I find I prefer illustrations to paintings. Not because of their narrative, but because of their lightness. Most paintings seem so classic and serious that you have to be hat in hand, or even hold your breath to look at them, analyzing their outstanding. It is painful for me: it turns into a course similar with resolving a math problem, rather than just enjoy it. The fame makes the beauty of paintings become too heavy and hard to be enjoyed. In contract, illustrations are light and soft. They are usually considered as a trivial part of a story book: making the book look more beautiful, however, without them, the book may be still attractive. If paintings are academic papers frightening me, illustrations should be the light poems which I can pick up at anytime easily. Of course, the most suitable time is cold winter night: huddling in the warm quilt and read from whatever page you open, just enjoy it under the golden light from the bedside lamp. They are more approachable. I still remember the illustrations in the Andersen Fairy Stories which are the series with old, grass green covers.
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