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Abstraction in Art and Nature

Author : Nathan Cabot Hale
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486142302
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Abstraction in Art and Nature written by Nathan Cabot Hale and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stimulating, thought-provoking guide, a noted sculptor and teacher demonstrates how to discover a rich new design source in the abstractions inherent in natural forms. Through systematic study of such properties as line, form, shape, mass, pattern, light and dark, space, proportion, scale, perspective, and color as they appear in nature, students can learn to utilize the infinite variety and diversity of those elements as a wellspring of creative abstraction. The author invites students to learn the necessary techniques through a series of projects devoted to exploring and drawing plants, animals, birds, landscapes, seascapes, skies, and more. Lines of growth and structure, water and liquid forms, weather and atmospheric patterns, luminosity in plants and animals, earth colors and lightning are among the sources of abstraction available to the artist who is aware of them. This book will train you to see and use these elements and many more. An intriguing blend of art, psychology, and the natural sciences, Abstraction in Art and Nature is profusely illustrated with over 370 photographs, scientific illustrations, diagrams, and reproductions of works by the great masters. It not only offers a mind-stretching new way of learning and teaching basic design, but deepens our awareness of the natural environment. In short, Mr. Hale's book is an indispensable guide that artists, teachers, and students will want to have close at hand for instruction, inspiration, and practical guidance.

Hans Hofmann

Author : Lucinda Barnes
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520294475
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Hans Hofmann written by Lucinda Barnes and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction offers a fresh and revealing assessment of the artist’s prolific and innovative painterly career. The comprehensive exhibition and accompanying catalogue will feature approximately seventy paintings and works on paper by Hofmann from 1930 through the end of his life in 1966, including works from public and private collections across North America and Europe. Curator Lucinda Barnes builds on new scholarship published over the past ten years and the 2014 catalogue raisonné to present Hofmann as a unique synthesis of student, artist, teacher, and mentor who transcended generations and continents. His singular artistic achievement drew on artistic influences and innovations that spanned two world wars and transatlantic avant-gardes. Over the last fifty years Hofmann has come to be understood primarily from the vantage of his late color-plane abstractions. Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction expands our understanding and reinvigorates our appreciation of Hofmann through an inclusive presentation of his artistic arc, showing the vibrant interconnectedness and continuity in his work of European and American influences from the early twentieth century through the advent of abstract expressionism. Exhibition dates: Berkeley Museum of Art Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA): February 27–July 21, 2019 The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA: September 21, 2019–January 6, 2020

Meanings of Abstract Art

Author : Paul Crowther
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136455019
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Meanings of Abstract Art written by Paul Crowther and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature (taking nature in the broadest sense—the world of recognisable objects, creatures, organisms, processes, and states of affairs). Abstract art takes many different forms, but there are shared key structural features centered on two basic relations to nature. The first abstracts from nature, to give selected aspects of it a new and extremely unfamiliar appearance. The second affirms a natural creativity that issues in new, autonomous forms that are not constrained by mimetic conventions. (Such creativity is often attributed to the power of the unconscious.) The book covers three categories: classical modernism (Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Arp, early American abstraction); post-war abstraction (Pollock, Still, Newman, Smithson, Noguchi, Arte Povera, Michaux, postmodern developments); and the broader historical and philosophical scope.

Nature in Abstraction

Author : Whitney Museum of American Art
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Nature in Abstraction written by Whitney Museum of American Art and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Landscape Painting

Author : Mitchell Albala
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
ISBN 13 : 0823008347
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Landscape Painting written by Mitchell Albala and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because nature is so expansive and complex, so varied in its range of light, landscape painters often have to look further and more deeply to find form and structure, value patterns, and an organized arrangement of shapes. In Landscape Painting, Mitchell Albala shares his concepts and practices for translating nature's grandeur, complexity, and color dynamics into convincing representations of space and light. Concise, practical, and inspirational, Landscape Painting focuses on the greatest challenges for the landscape artist, such as: • Simplification and Massing: Learn to reduce nature's complexity by looking beneath the surface of a subject to discover the form's basic masses and shapes.• Color and Light: Explore color theory as it specifically applies to the landscape, and learn the various strategies painters use to capture the illusion of natural light.• Selection and Composition: Learn to select wisely from nature's vast panorama. Albala shows you the essential cues to look for and how to find the most promising subject from a world of possibilities. The lessons in Landscape Painting—based on observation rather than imitation and applicable to both plein air and studio practice—are accompanied by painting examples, demonstrations, photographs, and diagrams. Illustrations draw from the work of more than 40 contemporary artists and such masters of landscape painting as John Constable, Sanford Gifford, and Claude Monet. Based on Albala's 25 years of experience and the proven methods taught at his successful plein air workshops, this in-depth guide to all aspects of landscape painting is a must-have for anyone getting started in the genre, as well as more experienced practitioners who want to hone their skills or learn new perspectives.

Abstract Nature

Author : Nawratil
Publisher : Search Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 1781265372
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Abstract Nature written by Nawratil and published by Search Press Limited. This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nature in Abstraction, the Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in 20the Century American Art

Author : John I. H. Baur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Nature in Abstraction, the Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in 20the Century American Art written by John I. H. Baur and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Where We Belong

Author : Paul Shepard
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082033345X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Where We Belong written by Paul Shepard and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered here in book form for the first time, the fourteen essays in Where We Belong exemplify Paul Shepard's interdisciplinary approach to human interaction with the natural world. Drawn from Shepard's entire career and presented chronologically, these pieces vary in setting from the Hudson River to the American prairie to New Zealand. Equally impressive is Shepard's spatial range, as he moves from subtle differences to grand designs, from the intimacy of an artist's brush stroke to a vista of the harsh Greek terrain. Alluding to a range of sources from Star Trek to Marshall McLuhan to the Bible, the writings discuss such topics as the geomorphology of New England landscape paintings, beautification and conservation projects, the Oregon Trail, and tourism. Whether Shepard is pondering why the Great Plains conjured up sea imagery in early observers, or how pioneers often resorted to architectural terms--temple, castle, bridge, tower--when naming the West's natural formations, he exposes, and thus invites us to unshoulder, the cultural and historical baggage we bring to the act of seeing. Throughout the book, Shepard seeks the antecedents of environmental perception and questions whether the paradigm we inherited should be superseded by one that leads us to a greater concern for the health of the planet. This volume is an important addition to Shepard's canon if only for the new view it offers of his intellectual development. More important, however, these selections demonstrate Shepard's grasp of a wide range of ideas related to the physical environment, including the various factors--historical, aesthetic, and psychological--that have shaped our attitudes toward the natural world and color the way we see it.

Nature in Abstraction

Author : Whitney Museum of American Art (N.Y.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Nature in Abstraction written by Whitney Museum of American Art (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Abstract Wild

Author : Jack Turner
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816547394
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Abstract Wild written by Jack Turner and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature—gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us. How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it, asks Jack Turner in the pages of The Abstract Wild. His answer: not very wild. National parks and even so-called wilderness areas fall far short of offering the primal, mystic connection possible in wild places. And this is so, Turner avows, because any managed land, never mind what it's called, ceases to be wild. Moreover, what little wildness we have left is fast being destroyed by the very systems designed to preserve it. Natural resource managers, conservation biologists, environmental economists, park rangers, zoo directors, and environmental activists: Turner's new book takes aim at these and all others who labor in the name of preservation. He argues for a new conservation ethic that focuses less on preserving things and more on preserving process and "leaving things be." He takes off after zoos and wilderness tourism with a vengeance, and he cautions us to resist language that calls a tree "a resource" and wilderness "a management unit." Eloquent and fast-paced, The Abstract Wild takes a long view to ask whether ecosystem management isn't "a bit of a sham" and the control of grizzlies and wolves "at best a travesty." Next, the author might bring his readers up-close for a look at pelicans, mountain lions, or Shamu the whale. From whatever angle, Turner stirs into his arguments the words of dozens of other American writers including Thoreau, Hemingway, Faulkner, and environmentalist Doug Peacock. We hunger for a kind of experience deep enough to change our selves, our form of life, writes Turner. Readers who take his words to heart will find, if not their selves, their perspectives on the natural world recast in ways that are hard to ignore and harder to forget.

Abstraction in Art and Nature

Author : Nathan Cabot Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book Abstraction in Art and Nature written by Nathan Cabot Hale and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Abstraction in Art and Nature

Author : Nathan Cabot Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Abstraction in Art and Nature written by Nathan Cabot Hale and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Theory of Abstract Ethics

Author : Thomas Whittaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Abstract Ethics written by Thomas Whittaker and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What is Water?

Author : Jamie Linton
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774817011
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book What is Water? written by Jamie Linton and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural contexts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction - to mere H20 - this concept has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the way we see water. An original take on a deceptively complex issue, What Is Water? offers a fresh approach to a fundamental problem.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Author : Richard Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788861301283
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Georgia O'Keeffe written by Richard Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women in Abstraction

Author : Karolina Lewandowska
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500094373
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Abstraction written by Karolina Lewandowska and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking study of the women of abstract art and their works, presented as a richly illustrated visual history. Women in Abstraction reevaluates the work of women abstract artists, changing the story of modern and contemporary art. A tie-in catalog to a major exhibition at Paris’s Centre Pompidou, this volume explores the fundamental role women artists played in the development of abstract art in the twentieth century. In this rich, sweeping collection, editors Christine Macel and Karolina Lewandowska bring together more than one hundred artists in painting, sculpture, dance, applied arts, photography, film, and performing arts. Understanding that abstract art must be looked at in the light of the artists’ political and personal surroundings, this volume dives into the creation and reception of these artworks over time. From the symbolist abstraction of Hilma af Klint, now widely regarded as the first abstract artist, and the sensual abstraction of Huguette Caland, to the purist non-objective approach of Verena Loewensberg, each artist’s relationship to abstraction is examined. These artworks are presented with thought- provoking essays by esteemed critics, contextualizing and exploring the subjects and themes of the movement. Ultimately, this volume questions the legitimacy of the notion of “female artists” and presents this group as simply artists, full of complexities and paradoxes.

Journeys To Abstraction

Author : Sue St. John
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440311536
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Journeys To Abstraction written by Sue St. John and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We don't have to know what a painting is if we know how it makes us feel. A fun, fascinating survey of abstract art, Journeys to Abstraction offers a behind-the-scenes look at how contemporary artists break free from literal depiction to rejoice in the pure expressive power of color, line and texture. • 58 artists share 100 striking abstract paintings, along with the ideas, inspirations and diverse working processes behind them. • Covers a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional media and techniques, including watercolor, collage, acrylics, ink and more. • Four step-by-step demonstrations show how abstract pieces come together from start to finish. Discover how artists paint, pour, scrape, spray, carve, stamp, collage and otherwise build complex layers of texture and meaning. Painting with egg cartons, turning acrylic paints into shards of "stained glass," incorporating old "failed" paintings into fresh finished pieces...anything goes in abstract art! Marked by an inspiring freedom of form and content, this is a liberating book for any artist in search of new, dynamic forms of self-expression.