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Journeys To Abstraction

Author : Sue St. John
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440311536
Total Pages : 320 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 320 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.

Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944

Author : Ulrike Becks-Malorny
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
ISBN 13 : 9783822823491
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944 written by Ulrike Becks-Malorny and published by Taschen America Llc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Abstract Art Painting

Author : Debora Stewart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440335842
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Abstract Art Painting written by Debora Stewart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you love to take your art in a new direction? In Abstract Art Painting, you will enter a realm of tactile, intuitive excitement, combining pastel and acrylic to achieve results as unique as you are. You'll learn how to explore the use of color theory in abstraction and to use underpainting to bring structure and depth to your art. In addition you'll begin to understand how to work in a series and how this can help you develop your own personal style. A sampling of what you'll add to your creative toolbox: • Pastel and acrylic techniques to use to complete your own paintings • The benefits of expressing your ideas abstractly • How to loosen up by using your nondominant hand and drawing to music • Ways to express emotions through mark-making • Using color and symbolism for expression • Working with photos for inspiration • Tips for using color studies Step into your own abstract frame of mind today!

The Artist's Journey

Author : Nancy Hillis
Publisher : Artist's Journey Press
ISBN 13 : 9780999750438
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Artist's Journey written by Nancy Hillis and published by Artist's Journey Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you yearn to say yes to your deepest expression in your art and life, this self-help book is for you. Dr. Hillis guides you past resistance on your artist's journey so you can finally trust yourself, develop confidence and cultivate deep exploration and experimentation in your art. Bonus resource library with videos lessons and book club guide.

Exploring the Abstract

Author : Joan Blackburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781470131340
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Abstract written by Joan Blackburn and published by . This book was released on 2013* with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This fun, exciting book on workshop projects and assignments will be an "art altering" experience for the artist who is eager to learn, experiment, and explore various methods of developing and achieving a finished painting of abstract art. I have taught the content in this book in workshops for over fifteen years and have received great joy in watching students grow, some even winning awards in national competitions. It is only when you can let yourself be open to new experiences that you can experience something new. Experimental painting is not a style but an attitude: to take chances, let go, be free and try new things. In this instructional, tutorial workshop, the elements and principles of design, design formats, textures and content will be emphasized." -- Publisher's description.

Paths to the Absolute

Author : John Golding
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691252947
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Paths to the Absolute written by John Golding and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking account of the meaning of abstract painting From Mondrian's bold geometric forms to Kandinsky's use of symbols to Pollock's "dripped paintings," the richly diverse movement of abstract painting challenges anyone trying to make sense of either individual works or the phenomenon as a whole. Applying his insights as an art historian and a painter, John Golding offers a unique approach to understanding the evolution of abstractionism by looking at the personal artistic development of seven of its greatest practitioners. He re-creates the journey undertaken by each painter in his move from representational art to the abstract—a journey that in most cases began with cubism but led variously to symbolism, futurism, surrealism, theosophy, anthropology, Jungian analysis, and beyond. For each artist, spiritual quest and artistic experimentation became inseparable. And despite their different techniques and philosophies, these artists shared one goal: to break a path to a new, ultimate pictorial truth. The book first explores the works and concerns of three pioneering European abstract painters—Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky—and then those of their American successors—Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still. Golding shows how each painter sought to see the world and communicate his vision in the purest or most expressive form possible. For example, Mondrian found his way into abstraction through a spiritual response to the landscape of his native Holland, Malevich through his apprehension of the human body, Kandinsky through a blend of religious mysticism and symbolism. Line and color became the focus for many of their creative endeavors. In the 1940s and 50s, the Americans raised the level of pictorial innovation, beginning most notably with Pollock and his Jung-inspired concept of action. Golding makes a powerful case that at its best and most profound, abstract painting is heavily imbued with meaning and content. Through a blend of biography, art analysis, and cultural history, Paths to the Absolute offers remarkable insights into how a sense of purpose is achieved in painting, and how abstractionism engaged with the intellectual currents of its time. Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.

Discrepant Abstraction

Author : Kobena Mercer
Publisher : Turner A&r Press
ISBN 13 : 9781899846436
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Discrepant Abstraction written by Kobena Mercer and published by Turner A&r Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring cross-cultural scenarios in 20th-century art, this book introduces fresh perspectives on abstraction as a visual signifier of modernity by revealing the multiple directions that abstract art has taken in different international contexts. This groundbreaking collection shows how the heterogeneous qualities of abstraction have been cross-fertilised, from abstract expressionism onwards, by the creative discrepancies that arise when different cultural identities come face to face in the artistic imagination. Discrepant Abstraction is the second volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series. Contributors: Stanley Abe; David Clarke; Mark Cheetham; David Craven; Wilson Harris; Iftikhar Dadi; Kellie Jones; Nathaniel Mackey; Kobena Mercer and Angeline Morrison. Supported by the Getty Foundation.

Dunedevil

Author : Jacob Bannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692791912
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Dunedevil written by Jacob Bannon and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1976, Jacob Bannon is an artist, musician, and writer living in Massachusetts. He is the vocalist, lyricist, and founder of the influential band Converge, and others. He is also the co-founder of Deathwish Inc, an independent record label responsible for many acclaimed music releases.Bannon is a graduate of The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University were he received the excellence in design accolade. He is known for his iconic artwork and design on album covers in the underground music scene.For one week he resided in the C-Scape Dune Shack (formerly known as the Cohen Shack) within the Peaked Hill Bars National Register Historical District in Provincetown, Massachusetts. This primitive environment inspired an outpouring of abstract mixed media work, photography, and music. ?Dunedevil? is a collection of that visual material.

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

Cold America

Author : Osbel Suárez
Publisher : Fundacion Juan March
ISBN 13 : 9788470755880
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Cold America written by Osbel Suárez and published by Fundacion Juan March. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhibition sets out to chart the complex and fragmented path of geometric abstraction in Latin America so as to reveal the way in which it renovated and also differed from the constructions and inventions produced by European geometric abstraction. Painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture are represented through the nearly three hundred pieces on display, some never before viewed outside their country of origin, by a total of sixty-four artists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Uruguay, Venezuela and Mexico. The exhibition has a specific time frame defined by the dates in which two artists returned to America from Europe: 1934, the year when Joaquín Torres-García settled permanently in Montevideo following his European (and North American) tour, and 1973, when Venezuelan artist Jesus Rafael Soto returned to his native city of Ciudad Bolivar to attend the opening of the museum that carries his name ... The exhibition offers a vision of a Latin America that differs from the normal stereotype: rather than a hasty and cliched identification of the continent with the intense heat of spontaneity, or an association of the concept of the indigenous with that of the tropics and the Caribbean, the work of these artists in fact points to a 'cold' South America: objective, geometrical and rational, and one that gave rise to a fascinating and surprising type of abstract art.

Abstraction and Empathy

Author : Wilhelm Worringer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781614275879
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Abstraction and Empathy written by Wilhelm Worringer and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 Reprint of 1953 New York Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this text, Worringer identifies two opposing tendencies pervading the history of art from ancient times through the Enlightenment. He claims that in societies experiencing periods of anxiety and intense spirituality, such as those of ancient Egypt and the Middle Ages, artistic production tends toward a flat, crystalline "abstraction," while cultures that are oriented toward science and the physical world, like ancient Greece and Renaissance Italy, are dominated by more naturalistic, embodied styles, which he grouped under the term "empathy." As was traditional for art history at the time, Worringer's book remained firmly engaged with the past, ignoring contemporaneous artistic production. Yet in the wake of its publication-just one year after Pablo Picasso painted his masterpiece "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"-"Abstraction and Empathy" came to be seen as fundamental for understanding the rise of Expressionism and the role of abstraction in the early twentieth century.

The Joy of Abstraction

Author : Eugenia Cheng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108477224
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Joy of Abstraction written by Eugenia Cheng and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A uniquely accessible introduction to abstract mathematics and category theory written by popular science author of How to Bake Pi.

Liliane Tomasko: We Sleep Where We Fall

Author :
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
ISBN 13 : 9783775750912
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Liliane Tomasko: We Sleep Where We Fall written by and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over twenty years Liliane Tomasko has explored the themes of dreams, sleep, and the unconscious. This book follows the development of her work as a painter. It begins with figurative works in oil on canvas in which she captures the material qualities of unmade beds, piles of clothes, and other melancholy still lifes and somber interiors. It then traces the gradual dissolution of these initial motifs and the emergence of her abstract paintings in which intertwined lines and layers of color are woven into visual structures and materialized as emotions that allow us to look deep into our innermost being.

Understanding Abstract Art

Author : Frank Whitford
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Abstract Art written by Frank Whitford and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract paintings are discussed both from the point of the creator and from the point of view of the spectator.

Collage Journeys

Author : Jane Davies
Publisher : Potter Craft
ISBN 13 : 9780823099511
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Collage Journeys written by Jane Davies and published by Potter Craft. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collage can be a useful art form and a means of self-expression. This title covers gathering materials, generating ideas, painting with paper, working in layers, using text, and keeping a visual journal. It presents a series of workshop assignments, each designed to relate the technique and format of a collage to its subject.

Living with Art

Author : Rita Gilbert
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 : 9780079132123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Living with Art written by Rita Gilbert and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a basic art text for college students and other interested readers. It offers a broad introduction to the nature, vocabulary, media, and history of art, showing examples from many cultures.

Four Generations

Author : Courtney J. Martin
Publisher : Gregory R. Miller
ISBN 13 : 9781941366264
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Four Generations written by Courtney J. Martin and published by Gregory R. Miller. This book was released on 2019 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary work by artists of the African diaspora and from the continent of Africa itself. 'Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art' draws upon the collection's unparalleled holdings to explore the critical contributions made by black artists to the evolution of visual art in the 20th and 21st centuries.0This revised and expanded edition updates 'Four Generations' with several new texts and nearly 100 images of works that have been added to the collection since the initial publication of this influential and widely praised book. Lavishly illustrated and featuring important contributions by leading art historians, critics, and curators, Four Generations gives an essential overview of some of the most notable artists and movements of the past century, with an emphasis on black artists and their approaches to abstraction in its various forms.0Filled with countless insights and visual treasures, 'Four Generations' is a journey through the momentous legacy of postwar art of the African diaspora.