HOW TO APPRECIATE ART I am an arts teacher in a high school, here, in Ciudad Real and, in addition, I love art. Therefore, this is the reason why the topic chosen is about art. And in this speech I would like to show you how to appreciate and understand art better. In order to achieve this I have brought here three completely different pictures from different periods in Art History because historic context is important as well as design, colours or composition I hope you like art. Do you like art? We can start by asking ourselves: what is the purpose of these pieces of art? IN THIS PREHISTORICAL PAINTING, we can imagine the life of the human beings who painted this bison, on the ceiling of a cave, and we can assume that they were really concerned about hunting and getting food in order to assure their own survival. This leads me to believe that this picture has to be necessarily linked to this fact. Maybe achieving the magic skills necessary in order to get food was the objective of this picture. On the other hand, here, there is no composition at all because all the ceiling of the cave is full of bison, all together, mixed ones each others. In contrast, THE SECOND IMAGE is very different from the previous one, as can be seen, because the composition is very simple, very clear, very symmetrical with the main character, Jesus, in the middle and the crowd, represented just by four people, two on the left, and other two ones on the right. In this way, there is nothing to distract the viewer's attention in order for the message to be as clear as possible: Jesus and the miracle of bread and fish. The point I am trying to make is that, in this case, the function of this image was to tell as simply as possible this story from the Bible to people who couldn’t read. Of course, it is not as energetic as the bison, although the message is much clearer. However, if you look at THE THIRD PICTURE, called ‘Allegory of Love’ by Bronzino, you can see it is a very sophisticated painting. Don’t you agree? So, with all of this in mind, What did the painter really want to tell us? In my humble opinion, this picture shows that love and pain are two sides of the same coin, or in other words, Pleasure goes with love as Jealousy and deception as well.