Learning to Look at Paintings
Title | Learning to Look at Paintings PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Acton |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Art appreciation |
ISBN | 9780415148894 |
Mary Acton shows how you can learn to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are and how they relate to each other. She describes the ingredients of composition, space, form, tone and colour which make up a picture, and discusses the importance of subject matter and the original function and setting of a picture in appreciating its visual meanings.
PAINTING AND PAINTERS HOW TO LOOK AT A PICTURE
Title | PAINTING AND PAINTERS HOW TO LOOK AT A PICTURE PDF eBook |
Author | LIONELLO VENTURI |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1945 |
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Matisse
Title | Matisse PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca A. Rabinow |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art, Modern |
ISBN | 1588394670 |
"Throughout his long career, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) continually expanded the boundaries of his art. By repeating images in pairs, trios, and series, he conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting." In this fresh approach to a much-studied artist, prominent scholars from the United States and Europe examine more than sixty works in concise chapters that focus on this aspect of Matisse's working process. From early pairs such as Young Sailor I and II (1906) and Le Lexe I and II (1907-8) through a series of late studio scenes from Vence (1946-48), Matisse is shown revisiting a given theme with the aim of devising innovative, often radical, solutions to such problems as how to portray light, handle paint, select colors, and manipulate perspective. New technical studies of the early paired works and photographs documenting the evolution of his later paintings help to elucidate Matisse's complex evolution. In numerous excerpts from letters and interviews, he is revealed as an artist who regularly questioned himself and his methods, a man of powerful intellect who regarded each new painting as an adventure. A significant addition to art historical literature, Matisse: In Search of True Painting is a revelatory study of a seminal figure in 20th-century modernism."--Page 4 of cover.
How to Look at a Painting
Title | How to Look at a Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Paton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-05-20 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781877551291 |
Acclaimed art writer Justin Paton takes us on a journey of exploration through the centuries and across the painted world - from the luscious fruit of Italy's Caravaggio to the lonely landscapes of New Zealand's Rita Angus, the dazzling panoramas of America's Lari Pittman and the mysterious 'tombstones' of Japanese artist On Kawara. Whether you're a keen art collector, a serious student or just visit a gallery occasionally, this brilliant exposition of painting in all its forms will open your eyes to things you've never seen before.
Light
Title | Light PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy Willis |
Publisher | Betterway Books |
Total Pages | 150 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
How to capture the emotions and effects of light, you see, in your paintings.
Paintings: how to Look at Great Art
Title | Paintings: how to Look at Great Art PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Raymond Campbell |
Publisher | Franklin Watts |
Total Pages | 136 |
Release | 1970-01-01 |
Genre | Art appreciation |
ISBN | 9780531018675 |
Explains, with photographs of well-known paintings, the meaning of design, pattern, composition, space, perspective, light and shade, movement, sfumato, and many other concepts.
How to Look at Pictures
Title | How to Look at Pictures PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Robert Clermont Witt |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Painting |
ISBN |