Learning to Look at Paintings

Acton, Mary

ISBN 10: 0415148901 / ISBN 13: 9780415148900

Published by Routledge, London, 1997

About this Item

The introduction to these 241 - INDEX at the back - pages speaks of a charcoal drawing as a free and improvisatory way to plan a painting. LEARN more about : Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Mannerist painters, tone, Sistine Chapel, space, canvas, lithography, Duchess of Chinchon, surface technique, materials, reality, form, delight, beauty, Tintoretto, Piet Mondrian, and Andy Goldsworthy. About 40% of the examples given are in colour. Cond : Paper wrapper is green with white lettering. Cover image - ` Lady with a Fan ' - is by Picasso (1909). Volume is clean, square, and bright. Minimal wear. No names marks, creases, nor tears. Giftable !! QUote (p. 160) : " Most artists would agree that drawing is of supreme importance for all sorts of reasons. It is a craft which essentially has to do with the training of the co-ordination of hand and eye through constant practice. It then enables the artist to translate whatever ._._._. . " Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learning to Look at Paintings
• Publisher: Routledge, London
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415148901
• ISBN 13: 9780415148900
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Colour and B/W Plates
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Arts

About this title

Synopsis

This is a critique of works of art dating from the early fifteenth century through to modern installations. Suggesting a series of questions to ask when looking at a painting this will help develop a critical understanding of art.

About the Author

Mary Acton is Co-Director of History of Art Certification Course at Oxford University.