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Over the last three decades, the visual artist William Kentridge
has garnered international acclaim for his work across media
including drawing, film, sculpture, printmaking, and theater.
Rendered in stark contrasts of black and white, his images reflect
his native South Africa and, like endlessly suggestive shadows,
point to something more elemental as well. Based on the 2012
Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Six Drawing Lessons "is the most
comprehensive collection available of Kentridge s thoughts on art,
art-making, and the studio.
Art, Kentridge says, is its own form of knowledge. It does not
simply supplement the real world, and it cannot be purely
understood in the rational terms of traditional academic
disciplines. The studio is the crucial location for the creation of
meaning: the place where linear thinking is abandoned and the
material processes of the eye, the hand, the charcoal and paper
become themselves the guides of creativity. Drawing has the
potential to educate us about the most complex issues of our time.
This is the real meaning of drawing lessons.
Incorporating elements of graphic design and ranging freely
from discussions of Plato s cave to the Enlightenment s role in
colonial oppression to the depiction of animals in art, Six Drawing
Lessons "is an illustration in print of its own thesis of how art
creates knowledge. Foregrounding the very processes by which we
see, Kentridge"makes us more aware of the mechanisms and deceptions
through which we construct meaning in the world."
Zwei Werkserien von Jeremias Altmann In seiner künstlerischen
Arbeit beschäftigt sich Jeremias Altmann mit den Themen Maschine,
Mensch und Entwicklung. Die aufwendig gestaltete
Künstlermonografie präsentiert die beiden Werkserien YOUNG
PROPHECIES und MACHINES. In der Serie YOUNG PROPHECIES
rekonstruiert Altmann seine eigenen Kinderzeichnungen. Die
Auseinandersetzung mit dem Innenleben technischer Apparaturen im
zeitlichen Wandel ist Ausgangspunkt für die Serie MACHINES. Die
Präsentation der Serien wird ergänzt durch einen essayistischen
Text des Künstlers, von Fragen kindlicher Entwicklungspsychologie
bis zu Reflexionen zum Spannungsfeld Mensch/Maschine. Die
ungewöhnliche Gestaltung des Buches mit zwei Leserichtungen
erlaubt das spielerische Erforschen der Serien: Leseroutinen werden
aufgebrochen; Texte und Bilder sind zu einer besonderen Einheit
verwoben. Präsentation zweier außergewöhnlicher Werkserien des
Künstlers Jeremias Altmann Unkonventionell gestaltetes Buchobjekt
mit zwei Leserichtungen Mit Beiträgen von Barbara Herbst, Antonia
Hoerschelmann, Esther Mlenek, Günther Oberhollenzer und Nina
Schedlmayer
With a rare combination of great economy of means and unfailing
panache, Antony Cleminson's drawings of palatial buildings and
urban settings are endlessly delightful and fascinating. Collected
from more than 60 years of traveling with his wife Jan, a concert
violinist, they take in England, France, Italy, Spain, Germany,
Croatia, Russia, Jordan, Syria, and Yemen. They bring not only
extreme sensitivity to place, but also an engineer's understanding
of structure, and an historian's understanding of style. Pencil,
chalk, charcoal, red and black ink, and india ink are some of the
media used, and the book is printed on genuine Ingres paper to
reproduce these beautiful drawings as closely as possible. Will
appeal to those with a love of architectural heritage in Europe and
the Middle East.
Whether you want to convince your co-workers of your ideas in
important meetings, or would do anything to have your presentations
remembered forever, or want to stand out as a coach and have your
ideas last forever in a company, you need to be able to visualise
your ideas. Start to Draw is a hands-on guide discussing the
positive aspects of drawing and visualising your ideas in your work
environment. It is an accessible, richly illustrated and bite-size
book providing insight into why drawing works, how you can have a
great impact on your own (and others') professional work, and how
you can end up with a more creative approach to your job.
This accessible book explains the significance of relationships
between the body and the mark, visual imitation, drawing and
writing and visual storytelling, providing a simple guide to these
key ideas. For millennia drawing has been conceived as an
exploratory activity, mediating between the vision of the drafter
and what they are drawing. Drawing reveals hidden relationships,
directs attention, scrutinises the material world and provides
plans for further action. The book unpacks the key ideas that have
shaped the rich, complex and foundational activity of drawing. It
presents an unexpected, engaging and authoritative range of
illustrated examples of drawings made by culturally and
historically diverse people for different purposes, with different
media, in widely different times and situations. Educator, author
and artist Simon Grennan builds together concepts to create a
complete guide to ideas about drawing.
In the tradition of Persepolis, In the Shadow of No Towers, and Our
Cancer Year, an illustrated memoir of remarkable depth, power, and
beauty Danny Gregory and his wife, Patti, hadn't been married long.
Their baby, Jack, was ten months old; life was pretty swell. And
then Patti fell under a subway train and was paralyzed from the
waist down. In a world where nothing seemed to have much meaning,
Danny decided to teach himself to draw, and what he learned stunned
him. Suddenly things had color again, and value. The result is
Everyday Matters, his journal of discovery, recovery, and daily
life in New York City. It is as funny, insightful, and surprising
as life itself.
This beginner's guide to drawing in graphite pencil uses
step-by-step exercises to teach fundamental methods for rendering
all aspects of the natural landscape, with additional lessons on
using charcoal, colored pencil, pastel, and other media. Following
in the footsteps of author, artist, and art instructor Suzanne
Brooker's previous title The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting,
this book pairs the most universally-pursued topic for artists
(drawing) with the popular subject matter of the natural landscape.
Brooker breaks down landscapes into their various
elements--including the earth, water, air, and trees--to convey how
the fundamentals of drawing are applied to capture each aspect.
Using the graphite pencil as her baseline instrument, Brooker
provides you with step-by-step lessons that help you improve your
rendering skills and re-create the beauty of the world outdoors.
Examples from art history and contemporary masters supplement these
lessons. The end result is a drawing instruction book that provides
artists with everything they need to render landscapes no matter
their skill level.
Following the success of Beginner's Guide to Sketching: Characters,
Creatures & Concepts, 3dtotal Publishing presents readers with
another fun, inspiring book on traditional sketching, with a focus
on sci-fi themes. From robots and spaceships to buildings and
aliens, Beginner's Guide to Sketching: Robots, Vehicles &
Sci-fi Concepts is an informative starting point for any
sci-fi-loving beginner artist who needs an introduction to
traditional drawing and rendering techniques. Richly illustrated
tutorials by industry professionals will guide the reader through
learning a wide range of drawing tools, the basics of lighting and
perspective, creating different rendering effects, and how to
create sci-fi concepts that are both convincing and excitingly
futuristic.
The Monochrome of the Sala delle Asse is a portion of wall
decoration left at the drawing stage and represents the roots of
one of the sixteen mulberry trees that, regularly spaced on the
walls of the room, intertwine above to create a polychrome arboreal
pavilion on the vault. The Monochrome of the Sala delle Asse is a
portion of wall decoration left at the drawing stage and represents
the roots of one of the sixteen mulberry trees that, regularly
spaced on the walls of the room, intertwine above to create a
polychrome arboreal pavilion on the vault. The decoration of the
room, which was never completed, is historically tied to the name
of Leonardo da Vinci by a letter written in April 1498 by Gualtiero
da Bascape, the secretary of Ludovico il Moro, to the duke of
Milan, explaining that Lunedi si desarmara la camera grande da le
Asse c[i]oe da la tore. Magistro Leonardo promete finirla per tuto
Septembre. The room was subjected to radically changing fortunes
over the centuries, and was later the object of two complex
restoration campaigns, the first carried out between 1893 and 1902
by Luca Beltrami and the second between 1955 and 1956 by Costantino
Baroni. This volume provides an account of the result of these
restorations. It describes the complex diagnostic research and the
technical assessments that form the foundations of a broader
project for the conservation of the painted area. Text in English
and Italian.
New Orleans-based painter and admired children's author Alex Beard
is the creator of a unique style of painting called "Abstract
Naturalism," which combines abstract expressionism with naturalist
environmental art. His precise yet abstract visual arithmetic is
why many consider Alex Beard a successor to the school of visual
mathematicians championed by M.C. Escher. Inspired by his travels,
wildlife, and recurring natural patterns, Beard draws and paints
intensely colourful, detailed interpretations of the world around
us. Included in this lavishly produced book are works made over the
past 25 years, and a handwritten introduction that illuminates
Beard's fascinating philosophy of the interconnectedness of life,
art, and mathematics. This magnificent collection of drawings and
paintings will have wide appeal, pleasing not only art aficionados,
but those whose enthusiasms range from the environment to
mathematics.
As the first serious study and presentation of the Sheldon Museum
of Art's collection of works on paper, this catalog introduces
students and art lovers alike to the largest, most international
area of the museum's holdings, which includes prints and drawings
from the European Renaissance to the present. Like the other
collection catalogs in the American Transnationalism series, this
publication draws together a team of distinguished scholars and
features some of the museum's most iconic works. These include
rarely seen yet important objects such as medieval manuscript
illuminations and Renaissance prints; nineteenth-century drawings
and prints by such artists as Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, and
James McNeill Whistler; twentieth-century works by Peggy Bacon,
George Bellows, Charles Demuth, Marjorie Organ Henri, John Marin,
Georgia O'Keeffe, Diego Rivera, and Charles White; and contemporary
works by Robert Colescott, Vija Celmins, Roy Lichtenstein, Judy
Pfaff, and Kara Walker.
Refresh your creativity and boost your motivation to draw with the
expert help of The Drawing Ideas Book. If you're stuck in a rut -
or simply just stuck - this book is filled with ideas for what to
draw, how to draw and even where and when to draw. Packed with
arresting examples of creatives' drawings and sketchbooks from all
over the world, it's sure to fire up your creativity. Imagine it,
doodle it, sketch it, ink it and more. Discover the infinite
possibilities of this essential art form, from its key mediums to
unusual processes, across subjects from figure drawing and
landscape sketching to abstract compositions.
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