In the spring of 2004 at the New York Sotheby's auction, Picasso's "Boy with a Pipe" sold for a high price of 104.16 million US dollars. Where does its value lie? And where does the charm of the "Mona Lisa's Smile" reside, which captivates the world and always draws crowds of visitors paying homage? How does one appreciate world-renowned paintings? This is a course that opens the door to appreciating famous paintings, proceeding in an accessible yet thorough manner under knowledgeable guidance, entering into the journey of Western civilization and reaching into the depths of the soul of each famous painting. It makes the general public's understanding of Western humanities no longer a difficult matter, or something out of reach.

It elevates people's appreciation abilities and holds the expectation of serving an enlightening role for Taiwan's culture, awakening the consciousness of local humanities and arts, popularizing civic aesthetics, elevating the humanistic quality of life, and becoming a harmonious and perfect new society. This series ranges from how to appreciate and interpret paintings, through classical, modern, to postmodern: from realism to figurative, depiction to expression, form to abstraction, consciousness to subconscious, from construction to deconstruction, concept to dialectics. Accompanied by splendid films of world-famous paintings, it offers multi-faceted appreciation with an all-encompassing view.

Systematically, from every angle of Western humanities, from breadth to depth, it lays out the context in an accessible yet thorough manner, surveying Western famous paintings in their entirety, guiding readers into the aesthetics of Western humanities, and guaranteeing entry through the threshold of appreciation, so that appreciating art will no longer be a difficult endeavor for people henceforth.