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Abstract Art Painting

Debora Stewart
Abstract Art Painting Book PDF

Author : Debora Stewart
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781440335884

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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!

Abstract Art (Second) (World of Art)

Anna Moszynska
Abstract Art Second World of Art Book PDF

Author : Anna Moszynska
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500775882

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An exceptionally clear, thorough, and well- illustrated introduction to abstract art since 1900. Since the early years of the twentieth century, Western abstract art has fascinated, outraged, and bewildered audiences. Its path to acceptance within the artistic mainstream was slow. This revised edition traces the origins and evolution of abstract art, placing it in broad cultural context. Well-respected scholar Anna Moszynska examines the pioneering work of Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Piet Mondrian alongside the Russian Constructivists, the De Stijl group, and the Bauhaus artists, contrasting European geometric abstraction in the 1930s and ’40s with the emphasis on personal expression after World War II. Op, kinetic, and minimal art of the postwar period is discussed and illustrated in detail, and new chapters bring the account up to date, exploring the crisis in abstraction of the 1980s and its revival—in paint, fabric, sculpture, and installation—in recent decades. The first edition of Abstract Art, published in 1990, was acclaimed by reviewers. Revised with extensive updates, this book includes new chapters on recent trends and offers fully global coverage of art produced in North and South America, Europe, China, Korea, and the Middle East. Now in full color and comprehensively revised, it will serve as the best introduction to abstract art for a new generation.

Pictures of Nothing

Kirk Varnedoe
Pictures of Nothing Book PDF

Author : Kirk Varnedoe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691252964

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An illuminating exploration of the meaning of abstract art by acclaimed art historian Kirk Varnedoe "What is abstract art good for? What's the use—for us as individuals, or for any society—of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?" In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art historian Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, asks these and other questions as he frankly confronts the uncertainties we may have about the nonrepresentational art produced in the past five decades. He makes a compelling argument for its history and value, much as E. H. Gombrich tackled representation fifty years ago in Art and Illusion, another landmark A. W. Mellon Lectures volume. Realizing that these lectures might be his final work, Varnedoe conceived of them as a statement of his faith in modern art and as the culminating example of his lucidly pragmatic and philosophical approach to art history. He delivered the lectures, edited and reproduced here with their illustrations, to overflowing crowds at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in the spring of 2003, just months before his death. With brilliance, passion, and humor, Varnedoe addresses the skeptical attitudes and misunderstandings that we often bring to our experience of abstract art. Resisting grand generalizations, he makes a deliberate and scholarly case for abstraction—showing us that more than just pure looking is necessary to understand the self-made symbolic language of abstract art. Proceeding decade by decade, he brings alive the history and biography that inform the art while also challenging the received wisdom about distinctions between abstraction and representation, modernism and postmodernism, and minimalism and pop. The result is a fascinating and ultimately moving tour through a half century of abstract art, concluding with an unforgettable description of one of Varnedoe's favorite works. Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.

Abstract Art

Pepe Karmel
Abstract Art Book PDF

Author : Pepe Karmel
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500239582

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A leading authority on the subject presents a radically new approach to the understanding of abstract art, in this richly illustrated and persuasive history. In his fresh take on abstract art, noted art historian Pepe Karmel chronicles the movement from a global perspective, while embedding abstraction in a recognizable reality. Moving beyond the canonical terrain of abstract art, the author demonstrates how artists from around the world have used abstract imagery to express social, cultural, and spiritual experience. Karmel builds this fresh approach to abstract art around five inclusive themes: body, landscape, cosmology, architecture, and man-made signs and patterns. In the process, this history develops a series of narratives that go far beyond the established figures and movements traditionally associated with abstract art. Each narrative is complemented by a number of featured abstract works, arranged in thought-provoking pairings with accompanying extended captions that provide an in-depth analysis. This wide-ranging examination incorporates work from Asia, Australia, Africa, and South America, as well as Europe and North America, through artists ranging from Wu Guanzhong, Joan Miró, Jackson Pollock, to Hilma af Klint, and Odili Donald Odita. Breaking new ground, Karmel has forged a new history of this key art movement.

Creating Abstract Art

Dean Nimmer
Creating Abstract Art Book PDF

Author : Dean Nimmer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781440335464

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Celebrate your own nonconformist place in the world of art. Going far beyond standard notions of developing an abstract "style" or particular "look," Creating Abstract Art unleashes the numerous possibilities that abound in your creative subconscious. Familiar obstacles such as "I don't know what to paint" or "How do I know if this is good?" are easily set aside as you explore fun exercises such as connecting dots, automatic drawing, shadow hunting, working with haiku poetry paintings and much more. So turn off the noise in your head, follow your own instincts and delight in what emerges! • 40 exercises exploring original ideas and inventive techniques for making abstract art. • Projects can be done in any order and with nearly any materials--start working right away on any project that grabs your attention! • 50 contemporary artists share diverse work and viewpoints on the process of working abstractly. Write your own artistic license and start Creating Abstract Artyour way, today!

Abstract Painting

Jane Davies
Abstract Painting Book PDF

Author : Jane Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Art, Abstract
ISBN : 0692619801

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Abstract Painting: The Elements of Visual Language examines and articulates a vocabulary of visual elements from which you build images, abstract or otherwise. As you examine line, shape, pattern, texture, depth, and color in detail, you become more aware of the elements that make up a painting, and better able to observe your own work without judgment and self-criticism. Generously illustrated with over 200 color images, this book will open your eyes to a whole new way of seeing your paintings as they develop, allowing you to be more personally expressive and authentic in your artistic expression.

Abstract Painting in Canada

Roald Nasgaard,Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Abstract Painting in Canada Book PDF

Author : Roald Nasgaard,Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 1553653947

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Abstract Painting in Canada by Roald Nasgaard,Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Pdf

In the tradition of the distinguished Douglas & McIntyre art program, this lavishly illustrated and superbly printed book is a rich, readable history of abstract painting in Canada. The story begins in the 1920s with the sometimes eccentric but remarkable work, rooted in symbolism and theosophy, of pioneers such as Kathleen Munn, Bertram Brooker and Lawren Harris. Two decades later the Automatistes-Canada's first truly independent avant-garde art movement-burst onto the scene in Montreal. After the Second World War, the urge to abstraction spread across Canada, manifesting itself in significant regional movements. Vancouver painters retained a British flavour, while in Toronto, the Painters Eleven looked south to New York. Montreal's Plasticiens launched their own razor-edged interpretation of the European tradition of geometric abstraction. In the sixties and seventies, the Prairies were influenced by Clement Greenberg's post-painterly abstraction, while Halifax became a hub of conceptual art and concrete painting. The book continues through the eighties and nineties, during which critics largely denounced painting, and concludes in the twenty-first century, with abstract painting alive and well again in the studios of Canada's young artists. A monumental tome containing 200 color reproductions, it mines a rich vein of art history ripe for international discovery.

Painting and Understanding Abstract Art

John Lowry
Painting and Understanding Abstract Art Book PDF

Author : John Lowry
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-21
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781847977311

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Painting and Understanding Abstract Art by John Lowry Pdf

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. Gives advice on moving from figurative painting towards abstraction, and explains the tools to abstraction - simplifying and exaggerating; eliminating curves and straights; changing colours, lines and items ; emphasising positive and negative shapes; and using contrast. Includes practical exercises to help develop your own style and understand the techniques of the masters, and offers an overview of the lives and times of artists involved in the stage-by-stage evolution from realism to abstraction. Aimed at beginners and the more experienced, and illustrated with 229 colour illustrations.

Abstract Painting and Abstraction

Emyr Williams
Abstract Painting and Abstraction Book PDF

Author : Emyr Williams
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781785003622

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Abstract painting and abstraction can be a daunting and frustrating genre of art. How should you approach a surface? How can you use colour effectively? How can you make better, more expressive paintings? This inspiring book answers these questions and many more. By looking at his own work, Emyr Williams covers the practical issues of abstract art before explaining techniques to develop your own personal style and approach. He emphasizes the relationship of colour to surface and the importance of seeking a profound connection with your art. The book will help you to learn about the difference between abstract and abstraction and see how an artist has developed expressive art in many different ways. Superbly illustrated with 167 colour images.

Meanings of Abstract Art

Paul Crowther,Isabel Wünsche
Meanings of Abstract Art Book PDF

Author : Paul Crowther,Isabel Wünsche
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136455018

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Meanings of Abstract Art by Paul Crowther,Isabel Wünsche Pdf

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.

Understanding Abstract Art

Frank Whitford
Understanding Abstract Art Book PDF

Author : Frank Whitford
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39076000709811

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Abstract paintings are discussed both from the point of the creator and from the point of view of the spectator.

Abstract America

Saatchi Gallery
Abstract America Book PDF

Author : Saatchi Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Painting, Abstract
ISBN : 0224079409

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Abstract America by Saatchi Gallery Pdf

The Complete Volume, at close to 600 pages, will be the definitive book on the whole current of new painting. No such reference exists in the art world. It includes the most influential European figures, new painters from Eastern Europe and the U.S.

Abstract Painting

Vicky Perry
Abstract Painting Book PDF

Author : Vicky Perry
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Painting, Abstract
ISBN : 0823095428

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Build on the techniques of the great abstract artists to create their own innovative new work. Clear, comprehensible sections let artists focus quickly on their specific areas of interest. The first section, on Traditional Painterly Abstraction, using brush and easel, looks at pictorial space, brushwork, paint quality, and college. The second section, on Post-Painterly Modern Abstraction, considers options ranging from the pour-and-spatter techniques of Jackson Pollock to the staining, scraping, and abrading of modern acrylic artists. Step-by-step recipes for key approaches show artists how to get the best aesthetic results.

Abstract Art

Dietmar Elger
Abstract Art Book PDF

Author : Dietmar Elger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art, Abstract
ISBN : 3836546787

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Abstract Art by Dietmar Elger Pdf

The 20th century saw art go abstract. Where once clear certainties and indisputable forms prevailed, now anarchy seemed to reign supreme. Sensibilities diffused into strange new shapes, colors assumed new significance, lines abandoned literal meaning. Dive in and discover some of the most dynamic and progressive art of modernity.

Abstract Art

Mel Gooding
Abstract Art Book PDF

Author : Mel Gooding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art, Abstract
ISBN : 1854373021

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Abstract Art by Mel Gooding Pdf

This series introduces the major movements in late nineteenth and twentieth-century art. Each book is illustrated with works from Tate and other major collections around the world. In a new approach to the subject, the author rejects the view that the story of abstraction can be traced as a succession if stylistic trends each set within its particular art-historical context. He offers instead readings of specific paintings and sculptures by artists such as Kasimir Malevich, Naum Gabo, Piet Mondrian, and Jackson Pollock, treating them as exemplary of particular tendancies within the overlapping histories of abstraction.