Abstract Art Painting
Abstract Art Painting

Author: Debora Stewart

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-05-06

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1440335842

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Would you love to take your art in a new direction? In Abstract Art Painting, you will enter a realm of tactile, intuitive excitement, combining pastel and acrylic to achieve results as unique as you are. You'll learn how to explore the use of color theory in abstraction and to use underpainting to bring structure and depth to your art. In addition you'll begin to understand how to work in a series and how this can help you develop your own personal style. A sampling of what you'll add to your creative toolbox: • Pastel and acrylic techniques to use to complete your own paintings • The benefits of expressing your ideas abstractly • How to loosen up by using your nondominant hand and drawing to music • Ways to express emotions through mark-making • Using color and symbolism for expression • Working with photos for inspiration • Tips for using color studies Step into your own abstract frame of mind today!

Abstract Art
Abstract Art

Author: Pepe Karmel

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0500239584

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A leading authority on the subject presents a radically new approach to the understanding of abstract art, in this richly illustrated and persuasive history. In his fresh take on abstract art, noted art historian Pepe Karmel chronicles the movement from a global perspective, while embedding abstraction in a recognizable reality. Moving beyond the canonical terrain of abstract art, the author demonstrates how artists from around the world have used abstract imagery to express social, cultural, and spiritual experience. Karmel builds this fresh approach to abstract art around five inclusive themes: body, landscape, cosmology, architecture, and man-made signs and patterns. In the process, this history develops a series of narratives that go far beyond the established figures and movements traditionally associated with abstract art. Each narrative is complemented by a number of featured abstract works, arranged in thought-provoking pairings with accompanying extended captions that provide an in-depth analysis. This wide-ranging examination incorporates work from Asia, Australia, Africa, and South America, as well as Europe and North America, through artists ranging from Wu Guanzhong, Joan Miró, Jackson Pollock, to Hilma af Klint, and Odili Donald Odita. Breaking new ground, Karmel has forged a new history of this key art movement.

An Abstract Life
An Abstract Life

Author: Avery Paul Findley

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-03-07

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781530333592

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This book contains some of my abstract works of art.I live in Amarillo Texas and went to art school for animation and graphic design.I hope this book will inspire other artists to create and not to be too hard on their finished work. Art lives in everyone and the beauty or importance of each work is in the eye of the beholder.I don't like to mention this part of my life but I am very sick and these books are my only outlet for the debilitating pain I have endured.I used to work on a much more ambitious level but am limited to what I can do now.I hope you enjoy this book and hope to bring to life many more.My projects are never the same I like to explore as many different forms as my mind and body allow.I'm sure the next one will be completely different.I hope you enjoy this one.

Meanings of Abstract Art
Meanings of Abstract Art

Author: Paul Crowther

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1136455019

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Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature (taking nature in the broadest sense—the world of recognisable objects, creatures, organisms, processes, and states of affairs). Abstract art takes many different forms, but there are shared key structural features centered on two basic relations to nature. The first abstracts from nature, to give selected aspects of it a new and extremely unfamiliar appearance. The second affirms a natural creativity that issues in new, autonomous forms that are not constrained by mimetic conventions. (Such creativity is often attributed to the power of the unconscious.) The book covers three categories: classical modernism (Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Arp, early American abstraction); post-war abstraction (Pollock, Still, Newman, Smithson, Noguchi, Arte Povera, Michaux, postmodern developments); and the broader historical and philosophical scope.

Abstract City
Abstract City

Author: Christoph Niemann

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1613123205

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This anthology of the illustrator’s New York Times blog features a chapter of all-new material: “a masterpiece of sophisticated humor” (Library Journal, starred review). In July 2008, illustrator and designer Christoph Niemann began Abstract City, a visual blog for the New York Times. His posts were inspired by the desire to re-create simple and everyday observations and stories from his own life that everyone could relate to. In Niemann’s hands, mundane experiences such as riding the subway or trying to get a good night’s sleep were transformed into delightful flights of visual fancy. In Abstract City, the struggle to keep up with housework becomes a battle against adorable but crafty goblins, and nostalgia about New York manifests in simple but strikingly spot-on LEGO creations. This brilliantly illustrated collection of reflections on modern life includes all sixteen of the original blog posts as well as a new chapter created exclusively for the book.

Cultural Realities of Being
Cultural Realities of Being

Author: Nandita Chaudhary

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1134743491

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Cultural Realities of Being offers a dialogue between academic activity and everyday lives by providing an interface between several perspectives on human conduct. Very often, academic pursuits are arcane and obscure for ordinary people, this book will attempt to disentangle these dialogues, lifting everyday discourse and providing a forum for advancing discussion and dialogue. Nandita Chaudhary, S. Anandalakshmy and Jaan Valsiner bring together contributors from the field of cultural psychology to consider how people living within social groups, regardless of how liberal, are guided by collective reality and interconnected with life circumstances. The book discusses experiences and events in the lives of people of Indian cultures covering topics including family, food, pilgrimages, social dynamics and truth, in order to expand the material on human phenomena under the broad frame of cultural psychology. The book builds upon rich cultural traditions present in India, and precisely because of this focus, the book has much larger implications and relevance to the field and aims to orient the academic reader from around the world to viewing India and Indian society as a valuable area for research. Divided into three sections, the book covers: • Social presentation in culture • Representing relations • Children and youth in culture This book includes commentaries from expert academics from outside of India, providing a bridge between academic reality and cultural discourse and throwing fresh light on the everyday events presented in the text. Cultural Realities of Being will be essential reading for those studying Cross Cultural Psychology as well as those interested in social representation and identity.

Bigger, Faster, Fresher, Looser Abstract Painting Workbook
Bigger, Faster, Fresher, Looser Abstract Painting Workbook

Author: David M. Kessler

Publisher:

Published: 2016-01-28

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781364421847

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Have you ever wondered how to Loosen-Up your painting style? Paint Fresher paintings? Be more Spontaneous? Be more Expressive? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then this book is for you! Here is what is included:Inspiration Motivation, InformationLearn to Loosen-Up and Let GoPaint from the HeartHow to Design a Better Composition using Shape, Value, Color, Edges and Center of InterestProfessional Practice TopicsResources for the Artist

Audrey Hepburn’s Abstract Life Guide
Audrey Hepburn’s Abstract Life Guide

Author: Sreechinth C

Publisher: UB Tech

Published:

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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Audrey Hepburn is one of the most talented English actresses in the film history. She was in her high during the golden age of Hollywood. Audrey Hepburn life motive was more than being an actress; she was a humanitarian and had donated herself to that field of service. Born in the year 1929, she had spent around sixty three years with us leaving her mark over the history of cinema. Audrey Hepburn hit the stardom spot with her movie “Roman Holiday” which made her an Academy Award winner. From there she continued her journey with lot more hits and awards as a result. Before her departure in the year of 1993, Audrey Hepburn had left a bunch of wordings to us, from that collection we may find some lines which can add along with our existing guidelines for life success... This book, "Audrey Hepburn’s Abstract Life Guide: Audrey Hepburn Quotes" contains the sayings and quotes of Audrey Hepburn, which is filled with thought generating sayings. Read through this book and discover the gift that she had left for us...

Dead Living
Dead Living

Author: Glenn Bullion

Publisher: Permuted Press+ORM

Published: 2013-01-12

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1618680722

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A child of the zombie apocalypse may be humanity’s last chance in this supernatural thriller by the author of Demonspawn. Born on the day everything ended, a world filled with the walking dead is the only one Aaron has ever known. Kept in seclusion, his family teaches him how to read, write, and survive. Then Aaron makes a shocking discovery. The undead, who desire nothing but flesh, ignore him. It’s as if he’s invisible to them. Living in the dilapidated old suburb of Lexington, Samantha is also a product of the new world. Alone and terrified, she has learned to look out only for herself. She and the other residents of Lexington feel their hope dwindling. They need change. They need someone who can face the corpses. They need someone who can live in a city of the dead. They need Aaron. “A wonderfully different zombie novel. Well worth the price and time.” —Jason Scott, author of Hotel Hell