The Art of Seeing and Painting
Author : Henry Hensche
Publisher :
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9780962138201
Ways of Seeing
Author : John Berger
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 014103579X
Book Description
Contains seven essays. Three of them use only pictures. Examines the relationship between what we see and what we know.
Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting
Author : Yi Gu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1684176131
Book Description
"How did modern Chinese painters see landscape? Did they depict nature in the same way as premodern Chinese painters? What does the artistic perception of modern Chinese painters reveal about the relationship between artists and the nation-state? Could an understanding of modern Chinese landscape painting tell us something previously unknown about art, political change, and the epistemological and sensory regime of twentieth-century China? Yi Gu tackles these questions by focusing on the rise of open-air painting in modern China. Chinese artists almost never painted outdoors until the late 1910s, when the New Culture Movement prompted them to embrace direct observation, linear perspective, and a conception of vision based on Cartesian optics. The new landscape practice brought with it unprecedented emphasis on perception and redefined artistic expertise. Central to the pursuit of open-air painting from the late 1910s right through to the early 1960s was a reinvigorated and ever-growing urgency to see suitably as a Chinese and to see the Chinese homeland correctly. Examining this long-overlooked ocular turn, Gu not only provides an innovative perspective from which to reflect on complicated interactions of the global and local in China, but also calls for rethinking the nature of visual modernity there."
Georges Seurat
Author : Michelle Foa
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,1 MB
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300212828
Book Description
This revelatory study of Georges Seurat (1859–1891) explores the artist’s profound interest in theories of visual perception and analyzes how they influenced his celebrated seascape, urban, and suburban scenes. While Seurat is known for his innovative use of color theory to develop his pointillist technique, this book is the first to underscore the centrality of diverse ideas about vision to his seascapes, figural paintings, and drawings. Michelle Foa highlights the importance of the scientist Hermann von Helmholtz, whose work on the physiology of vision directly shaped the artist’s approach. Foa contends that Seurat’s body of work constitutes a far-reaching investigation into various modes of visual engagement with the world and into the different states of mind that visual experiences can produce. Foa’s analysis also brings to light Seurat’s sustained exploration of long-standing and new forms of illusionism in art. Beautifully illustrated with more than 140 paintings and drawings, this book serves as an essential reference on Seurat.
A Painter of Our Time
Author : John Berger
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307794288
Book Description
From 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.
Vision and Art (Updated and Expanded Edition)
Author : Margaret S. Livingstone
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781419706929
Book Description
A 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.
The Zen of Seeing
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
A Dutch artist offers his concept of seeing and drawing as a discipline by which the world may be rediscovered, a way of experiencing Zen.
Portrait Painting
Author : Michael Shane Neal
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
Release : 2019-02-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781733622509
Book Description
The Visual Language of Drawing
Author : James Lancel McElhinney
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781402768484
Book Description
Featuring the insights of 15 current and former Art Students League instructors, this stunning volume reassesses the art of drawing not as a technique, but as the essential grammar of all visual thinking. In an illuminating introductory essay, James Lancel McElhinney punctures the myth that learning to draw is something for experts only, and presents methods for making, appreciating, and teaching drawing. The 15 contributors then offer a broad range of stylistic approaches and methodologies, accompanied by examples of their own and their students' artwork. A final section of basic exercises, along with information on materials, techniques, and resources, completes this inspirational study.
Drawn to Nature
Author : Clare Walker Leslie
Publisher : Storey Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1580176143
Book Description
Reveling in the wonders of nature doesnÕt have to be reserved for vacation. By simply taking a few minutes to look up and observe the hawks hovering over their nest at the top of a city building, or to look down and note the variety of weeds growing in a small patch of earth, or just to glance through the window and appreciate the shapes of the clouds moving by, anyone can connect with natureÑanywhere, anytime. Clare Walker Leslie, author of the bestselling book Keeping a Nature Journal, has spent 25 years teaching and showing people how simple and rewarding it is to notice and record local nature. Nothing is more inspiring than the pages of her nature journals, which feature her daily recordings of small, but amazing natural events sheÕs seen while walking the dog, sitting in a park with her children, or driving around city streets. Drawn to Nature features a selection of LeslieÕs journal pages, arranged to inspire the reader to do as she does: look up, look down, look out and around, bring bits of nature indoors to observe and study, or take your eyes for a walk around the neighborhood. Using a combination of quick, impressionistic watercolors with more detailed pen and pencil drawings, along with the written word, Leslie invites readers to share in the pleasure of her nature watching, and to experience the joy of seeing and connecting with nature wherever they live, amidst the whirl of daily life. For journal keepers, nature lovers, birdwatchers, artists, and anyone interested in using nature as a source for self-reflection or meditation, this book will be a welcome companion and source of inspiration.
