On Not Being Able To Paint

Author : Marion Blackett Milner
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014694051

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On Not Being Able to Paint by Marion Blackett Milner Pdf

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Author : Marion Milner
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X006016666

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On Not Being Able to Paint by Marion Milner Pdf

Discusses the nature of creativity, the separation of artistic expression from real life, technique to release one's creative impulses, and a new approach to painting and drawing.

Author : Marion Milner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781040025109

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A Life of One's Own by Marion Milner Pdf

'This is what I really want. I want to discover ways to discriminate the important things in human life. I want to find ways of getting past this blind fumbling with existence.' - Marion Milner, from A Life of One’s Own. How often do we really ask ourselves, 'What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?' In A Life of One’s Own Marion Milner, a renowned British psychoanalyst, artist and autobiographer, takes us on an extraordinary and compelling seven-year inward journey to discover what it is that makes her happy. On its first publication, W. H. Auden found the book 'as exciting as a detective story' and, as Milner searches out clues, the reader quickly becomes involved in the chase. Using her own personal diaries, she analyses moments of everyday life that can bring surprising joy, such as walking, listening to music, and drawing. She also records, in a disarmingly clear and insightful manner, the struggle between the urge to order and control one’s thoughts and standing back to let them wander where they may. A pioneering account of lived experience that also anticipates the contemporary phenomenon of mindfulness, A Life of One’s Own is a great adventure in thinking and living whose insights remain as fresh today as they were on the book’s first publication in the 1930s. This Routledge Classics edition includes a revised Introduction by Rachel Bowlby.

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Artists
ISBN : UVA:X001495798

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To Paint is to Love Again by Henry Miller Pdf

New and expanded edition of the title, first published in 1960.

Author : Carol Marine
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780770435332

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Daily Painting by Carol Marine Pdf

A unique system for jump-starting artistic creativity, encouraging experimentation and growth, and increasing sales for artists of all levels, from novices to professionals. Have you landed in a frustrating rut? Are you having trouble selling paintings in galleries, getting bogged down by projects you can’t seem to finish or abandon, or finding excuses to avoid working in the studio? Author Carol Marine knows exactly how you feel—she herself suffered from painter’s block, until she discovered “daily painting.” The idea is simple: do art (usually small) often (how often is up to you), and if you’d like, post and sell it online. Soon you’ll find that your block dissolves and you’re painting work you love—and more of it than you ever thought possible! With her encouraging tone and useful exercises, Marine teaches you to: -Master composition and value -Become confident in any medium including oil painting, acrylic painting, watercolors, and other media -Choose subjects wisely -Stay fresh and loose -Photograph, post, and sell your art online -Become connected to the growing movement of daily painters around the world

Author : Lesley Caldwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429910975

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Art, Creativity, Living by Lesley Caldwell Pdf

This volume in the Winnicott Studies series is dedicated to the life and work of Marion Milner and reflects, in varying ways, her unique use of Winnicott's work to shape her own thinking about art and creativity. Among the papers here are contemporary reviews of Milner's books by both Winnicott and the poet W.H. Auden - the latter providing fascinating insights into his own views on psychoanalysis. Malcolm Bowie discusses Winnicott's legacy to psychoanalysis and art; Adam Phillips writes on 'Winnicott's Hamlet' and John Fielding tackles another Shakepearean theme in examining Othello. The book also contains papers by the distinguished British authors Michael Podro and Ken Wright, several appreciations of Marion Milner by those who knew and worked with her, and an illuminating introduction by Lesley Caldwell drawing together the book's themes. The papers in this volume are united by a very Winnicottian concern with aliveness, and with art. They are both a fitting tribute to Marion Milner and a testimony to the range and depth of work taking place under the aegis of The Squiggle Foundation.

Author : Marion Milner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136844775

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The Hands of the Living God by Marion Milner Pdf

"[This is] a book about art (and writing about art), about emptiness, breathing, ordinary language, mysticism, the body, the sexes, childhood, parenting, impersonality, God, theory, exchange, change, tact, forms of inattention, belief, scepticism ..." Adam Phillips, from the new introduction.

Author : Donald Woods Winnicott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Child psychiatry
ISBN : 9780190271336

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The Collected Works of D.W. Winnicott by Donald Woods Winnicott Pdf

Author : Marion Milner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136844843

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On Not Being Able To Paint by Marion Milner Pdf

Milner’s great study, first published in 1950, discusses the nature of creativity and those forces which prevent its expression. In focusing on her own beginner’s efforts to draw and paint, she analyses not the mysterious and elusive ability of the genius but – as the title suggests – the all too common and distressing situation of ‘not being able’ to create. With a new introduction by Janet Sayers, this edition of On Not Being Able to Paint brings the text to the present generation of readers in the fields of psychoanalysis, education and all those, specialist and general audiences alike, with an interest or involvement in the creative process and those impulses impeding it in many fields.

Author : Mitchell Albala
Publisher : For Artists
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780760371350

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The Landscape Painter's Workbook by Mitchell Albala Pdf

"The Landscape Painter's Workbook takes a modern approach to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape painting, from accomplished artist, veteran art instructor, and established author Mitchell Albala"--

Author : Sara Blakely
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781250121370

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The Belly Art Project by Sara Blakely Pdf

The Belly Art Project is a celebration of one of humanity’s greatest gifts: motherhood! Created by Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx and the Sara Blakely Foundation, this beautiful, happy book features photographs of over 100 women who came together and used unlikely canvases - their bellies - as billboards of hope. The Belly Art Project showcases moms-to-be with their bellies transformed into works of art--witty, eye-bending and beautifully art directed--all posed to benefit mothers in need. All kinds of mamas bellied up to the cause, from celebrities like Kate Winslet, mother of three, and Milla Jovovich, mother of two, to business leaders like Zanna Roberts Rassi, fashion editor and TV host, and Stacey Bendet, founder and CEO of fashion brand Alice and Olivia, to everyday women from all over the globe. With a complete how-to belly paint section so readers can paint themselves or their friends, The Belly Art Project is an inventive piece of design and a perfect baby shower present. 100% of the author's proceeds benefit Every Mother Counts.

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226807690

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The Truth in Painting by Jacques Derrida Pdf

"The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics (Kant, Heidegger), partly by way of a commentary on art works and art scholarship (Van Gogh, Adami, Titus-Carmel). The illustrations are excellent, and the translators, who clearly see their work as both a rendering and a transformation, add yet another dimension to this richly layered composition. Indispensable to collections emphasizing art criticism and aesthetics."—Alexander Gelley, Library Journal

Author : Michele Cassou,Stewart Cubley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781101666913

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Life, Paint and Passion by Michele Cassou,Stewart Cubley Pdf

Life, Paint And Passion is a deeply involving approach to using the creative process as a tool for self-discovery. With vibrant and contagious enthusiasm, the authors liberate the reader's urge to create freely and spontaneously, as a painter or an artist in another medium, purely for the process of exploration, not for result. With eloquence and simplicity, the authors encourage the reader to journey inward toward his or her authentic self and discover the unique intuition awaiting there. It is this intuition that provides all the tools the reader needs to crumble the barrier between the innermost self and its uncensored manifestation. Through lively interviews with students, the authors explore painting as a practice that facilitates the ecstasy of unfettered expression. With simple brushes, a few dishes of paint, and this book, the reader will be able to coax the hidden self out of the heart and onto a paper. Life, Paint And Passion is the result of nearly thirty years of intensive work with the painting process. It provides powerful insights into the act of creation, a solid base for facing and transcending creative blocks, and brings fresh perceptions and healing to life.

Author : Patti Mollica
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781440342141

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How to Paint Fast, Loose and Bold by Patti Mollica Pdf

Bold Exciting Powerful A new level of artistic expression! Every artist strives to achieve the kind of painting that commands attention from across the room and delights the eye up close. In this book, artist and workshop teacher Patti Mollica walks you through surprisingly simple and efficient strategies for achieving that kind of powerful composition, whatever your subject. Complete with timed exercises and start-to-finish painting demonstrations, this book is for any artist who feels overwhelmed by where to start or daunted by the urge to paint everything in sight. Patti Mollica's mindful approach will lead you to better, bolder results, as well as greater confidence and joy in the process. So load your palette with ample paint, grab some fat brushes and get ready to paint fast, paint loose, paint bold. • Start with a strong, simple value statement • Get expressive with color • Be brave with your brushwork • 5 technique exercises • 5 start-to-finish painting demonstrations Paint fearlessly!

Author : Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486132488

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Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky Pdf

Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.