Learning to Look at Paintings

Author: Mary Acton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Learning to Look at Paintings is an accessible guide to the study and appraisal of paintings, drawings and prints. Mary Acton shows how you can develop visual, analytical and historical skills in learning to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are and how they relate to each other. This fully revised and updated new edition is illustrated with over 100 images by a wide range of Western European and American artists, ranging from Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Botticelli to Picasso, Matisse and Rothko, and now includes modern and contemporary artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Anselm Kiefer, Tacita Dean and Marlene Dumas. In addition, Mary Acton presents new examples highlighting the survival and revival of painting in recent years. A new introduction situates the book in the wider context of recent changes in the approach to Art History. A glossary of critical and technical terms used in the language of Art History is also included, with an updated but still selective reading list.

Learning to Look at Paintings

Author: Mary Acton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Learning to Look at Modern Art

Author: Mary Acton
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415238113
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
This companion text to the author's Learning to Look at Paintings addresses some of the questions most commonly asked about modern art, covering key movements of the modern and postmodern periods in a richly illustrated and engaging volume.

Slow Looking

Author: Shari Tishman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315283794
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
Slow Looking provides a robust argument for the importance of slow looking in learning environments both general and specialized, formal and informal, and its connection to major concepts in teaching, learning, and knowledge. A museum-originated practice increasingly seen as holding wide educational benefits, slow looking contends that patient, immersive attention to content can produce active cognitive opportunities for meaning-making and critical thinking that may not be possible though high-speed means of information delivery. Addressing the multi-disciplinary applications of this purposeful behavioral practice, this book draws examples from the visual arts, literature, science, and everyday life, using original, real-world scenarios to illustrate the complexities and rewards of slow looking.

How to Look at a Painting

Author: Fran oise Barbe-Gall
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711232129
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Which of us, in the presence of a painting, has not felt that we lack the keys to decipher it? We feel an emotional response, but the work still seems to evade our understanding. Francoise Barbe-Gall combines a nuanced understanding of the way viewers respond to paintings with a rich knowledge of their context and circumstances of their creation. The result is like a tour of an extraordinary museum in the company of a gentle yet authoritative guide. A fascinating range of works are grouped in six thought-provoking chapters that examine our different responses to the ways in which paintings define reality.ÿ The author takes as her point of departure the impressions that we all feel when confronted by a canvas and takes us on a voyage of discovery fired by her own passionate enthusiasm for the subject. What is the painting's relationship with the real world? Has the artist idealized nature, or distorted it? Did they want to shock the viewer, or provide consolation? With a clear approach and straightforward yet subtle analysis, the meaning of each work slowly becomes clear. From Raphael's penetrating character study of Castiglione, through Hopper's cinematic take on the wee small hours of the morning, Barbe-Gall begins by covering a number of ostensibly realistic works, made from the stuff of everyday life. Going in quite the other direction, she then looks at the way paintings can express moments of heightened reality, from the perfection of Boticelli's Primavera to the arresting glance of Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring. She discusses paintings that distort the visible world (Parmigianino's Madonna with an improbably long neck, Dali's melting clocks) and those that sow confusion to make us pay closer attention to the real world (Cezanne's depiction of a forest glade, a mysterious fifteenth century altarpiece). Questions of history, style, iconography and composition are dealt in context of the paintings she discusses. Lavishly illustrated and featuring thirty-six fascinating works from Raphael to Rothko, Breughel to Bacon, this is also a magnificent art book.

How to Look at Art

Author: Susie Hodge
Publisher: Tate
ISBN: 9781849762236
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Following on from her bestselling book How to Survive Modern Art, Susie Hodge once again tackles a dauntingly complex subject: how can we evaluate, explore and respond to art? With the power to affect us all, art can be enjoyed in many different ways. Its impact can be both straightforward and unexpected. It can change our minds or our attitudes, provoke anger or shock, or make us laugh or cry. It can intimidate, disconcert, pose conundrums or puzzles, or instruct or enlighten. Ultimately, it offers a window on society's values and ideals, and every work of art expresses the perceptions and memories of the artist who created it. In her characteristically engaging style, Susie Hodge shows us how to interpret and respond to a broad variety of artwork and artists' philosophies. This enormously stimulating book enriches our experience of art, and in the process enhances our own creativity.

Learning to Look at Paintings

Author: Mary Acton
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415148900
Category : Art appreciation
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
This accessible guide to the study and appraisal of paintings shows how you can learn to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are and how they relate to each other.

Learning to Look at Paintings

Author: Mary Acton
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415148894
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Mary Acton shows how you can learn to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are and how they relate to each other. She describes the ingredients of composition, space, form, tone and colour which make up a picture, and discusses the importance of subject matter and the original function and setting of a picture in appreciating its visual meanings.

Are You an Art Sleuth?

Author: Brooke DiGiovanni Evans
Publisher: Quarry Books Editions
ISBN: 1631591312
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107

Book Description
Help children think critically about art and learn an appreciation for the old masters. Kids will love this collection of thought provoking paintings!

Looking at Paintings

Author: Erika Langmuir
Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781593730086
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Follow Mickey and his friends through this most magical of worlds as they show us how to look at, understand, and enjoy the works of the greatest artists.