Author: Benjamin Robert HaydonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Lectures on Painting and Design
Author: Benjamin Robert HaydonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Six Drawing Lessons
Author: William KentridgePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674504259
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Over the last three decades, the visual artist William Kentridge has garnered international acclaim for his work across media including drawing, film, sculpture, printmaking, and theater. Rendered in stark contrasts of black and white, his images reflect his native South Africa and, like endlessly suggestive shadows, point to something more elemental as well. Based on the 2012 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Six Drawing Lessons is the most comprehensive collection available of Kentridge’s thoughts on art, art-making, and the studio. Art, Kentridge says, is its own form of knowledge. It does not simply supplement the real world, and it cannot be purely understood in the rational terms of traditional academic disciplines. The studio is the crucial location for the creation of meaning: the place where linear thinking is abandoned and the material processes of the eye, the hand, the charcoal and paper become themselves the guides of creativity. Drawing has the potential to educate us about the most complex issues of our time. This is the real meaning of “drawing lessons.” Incorporating elements of graphic design and ranging freely from discussions of Plato’s cave to the Enlightenment’s role in colonial oppression to the depiction of animals in art, Six Drawing Lessons is an illustration in print of its own thesis of how art creates knowledge. Foregrounding the very processes by which we see, Kentridge makes us more aware of the mechanisms—and deceptions—through which we construct meaning in the world.
Lectures on Painting and Design
Author: Benjamin Robert HaydonPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781357622855
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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Author: Benjamin Robert 1786-1846 HaydonPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015164291
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Lectures on Painting and Design
Author: Benjamin Robert HaydonPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230315898
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ... of invention, is the choice of subject, and the choice of the most interesting moment in that choice. There is nothing more important than this tact, for nothing is so often intruded on painters as subjects for painting, the prospects of which exist only in the imagination of the chooser. Coleridge, with all his wild dreams, was always selecting for the artist; and I never in my life remember one of his subjects which had a single qualification. Coleridge was seldom intelligible, with the subtle distinctions of words, much less likely was it in art, which requires gross palpability, he could make himself understood. I have seen the finest scenes in the world between Coleridge and Sir George Beaumont Sir George's adoration of Sir Joshua was sincere. Coleridge would often attack him; the agony of Sir George between his enthusiasm for the genius of Coleridge and his awe for his departed friend are not to be done justice to. Sir Joshua relates a very curious anecdote of some one wishing to have painted what passed in Council with James the Second before the Revolution. As a painter has but one moment, --first, it must be a subject of palpable and gross interest, big with the past and pregnant with the future; next, your actions must be doing, your passions expressing, your lights and shadows fleeting, something must have passed, and something must be coming, and you choose the point of interest--the point between. There is Ananias, he has just dropped, why? for some cause passed, it is the moment, because the effect has not yet reached the extremities. For choice of moment, subject, and composition, Raffaelle is perfection, study him for ever. To return to the epic or sublime, I conceive it more peculiarly belongs to the elements, the air, .
Allan Wexler
Author: Allan WexlerPublisher:
ISBN: 9783037785164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book features projects, developed during the artist Allan Wexler's forty-five-year career, which mediate the gap between fine and applied art using the mediums of architecture, sculpture, photography, painting, and drawing. Wexler's production can be broadly described as tactile poetry composed by re-framing the ordinary with the intention of sustaining a narrative about landscape, nature, and the built environment that highlights the intriguing and surprising characteristics latent in the elements and rituals that pervade daily life. His work demonstrates a commitment to re-evaluating basic assumptions about our relationship to the built and natural environments. Organized thematically across four categories--abstraction, landscape, private space, and public places--this publication is a richly illustrated cross section of Wexler's multi-scale, multi-media work, featuring his own writings, narratives, and reflections.
Doris Salcedo
Author: Mary Schneider EnriquezPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300222513
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
In Context: Violence and Contemporary Art in Colombia -- Salcedo's Influences: Artists, Works, Practices -- The Six Visual Strategies -- Organic and Ephemeral: Materiality in Salcedo's Most Recent Works -- Inherent Vice and the Ship of Theseus / Narayan Khandekar -- Artist Biography and Exhibition History
Arts of the South Pacific
Author: The Art of Noticing
Author: Rob WalkerPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525521259
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
An imaginative, thought-provoking gift book to awaken your senses and attune them to the things that matter in your life. Welcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be present is often lost: to think and to see and to listen. Enter Rob Walker's The Art of Noticing. This gorgeously illustrated volume will spark your creativity--and most importantly, help you see the world anew. Through a series of simple and playful exercises--131 of them--Walker maps ways for you to become a clearer thinker, a better listener, a more creative workplace colleague and finally, to rediscover your sense of passion and to notice what really matters to you.
Author: Alphonse Mucha