Understanding Abstract Art
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Understanding Abstract Art
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Author : Frank Whitford
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1987
Understanding Abstract Art written by Frank Whitford and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Art categories.
"Abstract paintings are discussed here both from the point of view of their creators and from the point of view of the spectator. Then, the kind of question repeatedly asked about abstraction is asked and answered: By what standards can an abstract painting be judged? ; Does abstraction set out to disregard the public's expectations and wishes? If so, is it unique in this? ; Does the viewer contribute more to an appreciation of an abstract painting than to a more traditional work? ; Does any abstract painting have a message? If so, how does it express it? ; Is it necessary to know anything about the artist himself in order to fully appreciate his work? ; Does an abstract painting require more or less skill in its execution than a traditional work? ; Is there anything more to abstraction than novelty?" - back cover.
Pictures Of Nothing
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Author : Kirk Varnedoe
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2006-10-29
Pictures Of Nothing written by Kirk Varnedoe and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-29 with Art categories.
He delivered the lectures, edited and reproduced here with their illustrations, to overflowing crowds at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in the spring of 2003, just months before his death. With brilliance, passion, and humor, Varnedoe addresses the skeptical attitudes and misunderstandings that we often bring to our experience of abstract art. Resisting grand generalizations, he makes a deliberate and scholarly case for abstraction--showing us that more than just pure looking is necessary to understand the self-made symbolic language of abstract art. Proceeding decade by decade, he brings alive the history and biography that inform the art while also challenging the received wisdom about distinctions between abstraction and representation, modernism and postmodernism, and minimalism and pop.
Painting And Understanding Abstract Art
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Author : Leonard Brooks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Painting And Understanding Abstract Art written by Leonard Brooks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Art, Abstract categories.
Painting And Understanding Abstract Art
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Author : John Lowry
language : en
Publisher: Crowood
Release Date : 2013-12-21
Painting And Understanding Abstract Art written by John Lowry and has been published by Crowood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-21 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
Painting and Understanding Abstract Art is a practical book on how to paint abstracts but it also explains how to approach and understand abstract art. It moves the teaching of art from a doing level of painting a certain subject in a particular medium to a thinking level of 'what am I doing when I paint?' and 'what am I trying to say in this painting?' Using practical exercises with explanatory text, John Lowry develops the thinking and doing processes together and leads the reader to a greater understanding and appreciation of this most exciting art genre. Gives advice on moving from figurative painting towards abstraction, and explains the tools to abstraction - simplifying and exaggerating; eliminating curves and straights; changing colours, lines and items ; emphasising positive and negative shapes; and using contrast. Includes practical exercises to help develop your own style and understand the techniques of the masters, and offers an overview of the lives and times of artists involved in the stage-by-stage evolution from realism to abstraction. Aimed at beginners and the more experienced, and illustrated with 229 colour illustrations.
Beginner S Guide To Abstract Art
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Author : Laura Reiter
language : en
Publisher: Batsford
Release Date : 2014-06-19
Beginner S Guide To Abstract Art written by Laura Reiter and has been published by Batsford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-19 with Art categories.
The Beginner's Guide to Abstract Art is an inspirational but practical book that will help artists to paint in a less figurative way. Laura Reiter demonstrates different ways to approach an abstract painting from ‘just a little bit abstract’ to ‘completely abstract’. She does this by focussing on ideas and themes as starting points, looking at the creative processes involved and more unusual techniques. Laura Reiter also covers how to use materials creatively – watercolour, acrylics, mixed media and collage – and how to experiment with colour and composition. There is also details on texture, simple printing, mark making, colour and its meaning, and sources of inspiration. Several projects are included, and, in addition to Laura’s vibrant, colourful paintings, the work of several other contemporary abstract artists is featured. Previously published in hardback as Painting Accessible Abstracts.
How To Paint Abstracts
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Author : Gabriel Martín i Roig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
How To Paint Abstracts written by Gabriel Martín i Roig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Art categories.
Beginning artists who wish to explore the satisfactions of abstract painting will find the systematic and structured direction they need in this book. This Pocket Art Guide gives students a solid introduction to abstract painting with practical explanations, useful suggestions, instructive exercises, and enlightening color illustrations.
Concerning The Spiritual In Art
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Author : Wassily Kandinsky
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-04-20
Concerning The Spiritual In Art written by Wassily Kandinsky and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-20 with Art categories.
Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.
Abstraction In Medieval Art
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Author : Elina Gertsman
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-26
Abstraction In Medieval Art written by Elina Gertsman and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with Architecture categories.
Abstraction haunts medieval art, both withdrawing figuration and suggesting elusive presence. How does it make or destroy meaning in the process? Does it suggest the failure of figuration, the faltering of iconography? Does medieval abstraction function because it is imperfect, incomplete, and uncorrected-and therefore cognitively, visually demanding? Is it, conversely, precisely about perfection? To what extent is the abstract predicated on theorization of the unrepresentable and imperceptible? Does medieval abstraction pit aesthetics against metaphysics, or does it enrich it, or frame it, or both? Essays in this collection explore these and other questions that coalesce around three broad themes: medieval abstraction as the untethering of image from what it purports to represent, abstraction as a vehicle for signification, and abstraction as a form of figuration. Contributors approach the concept of medieval abstraction from a multitude of perspectives-formal, semiotic, iconographic, material, phenomenological, epistemological.
Understanding Abstract Art
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Author : Frank Whitford
language : en
Publisher: Plume Books
Release Date : 1987
Understanding Abstract Art written by Frank Whitford and has been published by Plume Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Art categories.
Abstract paintings are discussed both from the point of the creator and from the point of view of the spectator.
Form Formlessness
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Author : Cheryl Akner-Koler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Form Formlessness written by Cheryl Akner-Koler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Aesthetics categories.