Abstract
This paper aims at theoretical and empirical consideration of eye tracing on pictures as an art appreciation method. The following four conclusions have been obtained. 1. College students in the natural state are not interested in the aesthetic quality of artworks but the meaning of them. 2. Eye tracing route with verbalizing is effective to objectify the appreciation experience of the individual. As well, by specifying the nodule count and emotion word descriptions, the method can be further enhanced. 3. A description of the eye tracing route facilitates writing an appreciation statement. But the appreciation itself is not the same as its statement writing. One does not succeed the other automatically. For lessons on appreciation statement writing, the following points are essential: first, writing does not interfere with appreciation; second, high quality should not be required in student statements. 4. It is supposed that artists also set eye tracing routes on their works. So examination of the eye tracing route of the artist in each of their works by the grid of composition found by the author has a possibility as art teaching material.
