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Publisher: Scholastic Reference
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 45
ISBN-13: 9780590476485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interactive introduction to famous painters and their works of art invites young enthusiasts to see art from a creator's perspective with tracing paper, a distortion mirror, and a mix-and-match section.
Author: David Salle
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0393248143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“If John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is a classic of art criticism, looking at the ‘what’ of art, then David Salle’s How to See is the artist’s reply, a brilliant series of reflections on how artists think when they make their work. The ‘how’ of art has perhaps never been better explored.” —Salman Rushdie How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle’s incisive essay collection illuminates these questions by exploring the work of influential twentieth-century artists. Engaging with a wide range of Salle’s friends and contemporaries—from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alex Katz, among others—How to See explores not only the multilayered personalities of the artists themselves but also the distinctive character of their oeuvres. Salle writes with humor and verve, replacing the jargon of art theory with precise and evocative descriptions that help the reader develop a personal and intuitive engagement with art. The result: a master class on how to see with an artist’s eye.
Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780520045958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space
Author: James Gurney
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2010-11-30
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0740797719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike many other art books only give recipes for mixing colors or describe step-by-step painting techniques, *Color and Light* answers the questions that realist painters continually ask, such as: "What happens with sky colors at sunset?", "How do colors change with distance?", and "What makes a form look three-dimensional?" Author James Gurney draws on his experience as a plain-air painter and science illustrator to share a wealth of information about the realist painter's most fundamental tools: color and light. He bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical knowledge for traditional and digital artists of all levels of experience.
Author: James Elkins
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780415921138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere, Elkins argues that alchemists and painters have similar relationships to the substances they work with. Both try to transform the substance, while seeking to transform their own experience.
Author: Margaret S. Livingstone
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2014-03-25
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781419706929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Harvard neurobiologist explains how vision works, citing the scientific origins of artistic genius and providing coverage of such topics as optical illusions and the correlation between learning disabilities and artistic skill.
Author: John Berger
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2008-09-25
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 014103579X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains seven essays. Three of them use only pictures. Examines the relationship between what we see and what we know.
Author: Peter Heller
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2014-05-06
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0385352085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the national bestselling author of The River and The Dog Stars comes a "carefully composed story about one man’s downward turning life in the American West” (The Boston Globe). After having shot a man in a Santa Fe bar, the famous artist Jim Stegner served his time and has since struggled to manage the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Now he lives a quiet life ... until the day that he comes across a hunting guide beating a small horse, and a brutal act of new violence rips his quiet life right open. Pursued by men dead set on retribution, Jim is left with no choice but to return to New Mexico and the high-profile life he left behind, where he’ll reckon with past deeds and the dark shadows in his own heart. Look for Peter Heller's new novel, The Last Ranger, coming soon!
Author: Kathleen Benson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-01-06
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 0544106059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBenny Andrews loved to draw. He drew his nine brothers and sisters, and his parents. He drew the red earth of the fields where they all worked, the hot sun that beat down, and the rows and rows of crops. As Benny hauled buckets of water, he made pictures in his head. And he dreamed of a better life—something beyond the segregation, the backbreaking labor, and the limited opportunities of his world. Benny’s dreams took him far from the rural Georgia of his childhood. He became one of the most important African American painters of the twentieth century, and he opened doors for other artists of color. His story will inspire budding young artists to work hard and follow their dreams.
Author: John Berger
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-07-13
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0307794288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom John Berger, the Booker Prize-winning author of G., A Painter of Our Time is at once a gripping intellectual and moral detective story and a book whose aesthetic insights make it a companion piece to Berger's great works of art criticism. The year is 1956. Soviet tanks are rolling into Budapest. In London, an expatriate Hungarian painter named Janos Lavin has disappeared following a triumphant one-man show at a fashionable gallery. Where has he gone? Why has he gone? The only clues may lie in the diary, written in Hungarian, that Lavin has left behind in his studio. With uncanny understanding, John Berger has written oneo f hte most convincing portraits of a painter in modern literature, a revelation of art and exile.
