Learning to Look at Paintings

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.