Description
| Product ID: | 9781847971715 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IN |
| Title: | Painting and Understanding Abstract Art |
| Authors: | Author: John Lowry |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | History of art, Art & design styles: Abstract Expressionism, Painting, drawing and art manuals, Painting & art manuals |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Shows how to paint abstracts and explains how to approach and understand abstract art. This title moves the teaching of art from a doing level of painting a certain subject in a particular medium to a thinking level. It develops the thinking and doing processes together and leads the reader to an understanding of this genre. Painting and Understanding Abstract Art is a practical book on how to paint abstracts but it also explains how to approach and understand abstract art. It moves the teaching of art from a doing level of painting a certain subject in a particular medium to a thinking level of ''what am I doing when I paint?'' and ''what am I trying to say in this painting?'' Using practical exercises with explanatory text, John Lowry develops the thinking and doing processes together and leads the reader to a greater understanding and appreciation of this most exciting art genre.Advice on moving from figurative painting towards abstractionTools to abstraction explained - simplifying and exaggerating; eliminating curves and straights; changing colours, lines and items ; emphasising positive and negative shapes; and using contrastPractical exercises to help develop your own style and understand the techniques of the mastersOverview of the lives and times of artists involved in the stage-by-stage evolution from realism to abstraction |
| Imprint Name: | The Crowood Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | The Crowood Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-07-31 |
