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How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone provides the tools to
understand and enjoy works of art. Debunking the pervasive idea
that specialist knowledge is required to understand and appreciate
art, instead How to Enjoy Art focuses on experience and pleasure,
demonstrating how anyone can find value and enjoyment in art.
Examples from around the world and throughout art history-from
works by Fra Angelico and Berthe Morisot to Kazuo Shiraga and Kara
Walker-are used to demonstrate how a handful of core strategies and
skills can help enhance the experience of viewing art works. With
these skills, anyone can encounter any work of art-regardless of
media, artist, or period-and find some resonance with their own
experiences. How to Enjoy Art encourages us to rediscover the
fundamental pleasure in viewing art.
This irreverent introduction to art gives children the confidence
to respond to art on their own terms, and - most importantly - to
have fun with it. Under the playful guidance of Leo, the museum
cat, readers encounter abstract, Surrealist, nude and contemporary
art, ancient sculpture, still lifes and portraits. But instead of
being told facts to memorize, they're equipped with the knowledge
that allows them to come up with their own interpretations of
famous art works. Knowing how symbols work, they'll decipher clues
in Frida Kahlo's self-portrait; understanding Surrealism, they'll
decide for themselves what Joan Miro's abstract doodles are all
about. This book shows that art isn't about knowing the right
answers - it's about having fun, making up your own mind and seeing
things from a different angle. With 46 illustrations
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Breathless (Hardcover)
Ben Street; Edited by Matt Price; Gabor Gyory; Introduction by Sacha Craddock
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'Breathless' is the first monograph on the emerging British painter
Benjamin Senior. His paintings conjure up a world that is
delightful, curious, quirky, and distinctly his own. It is a world
in which bathers lounge around pools and swimmers limber up before
finally diving in; where we find people doing yoga and various
exercise routines both indoors and out; where walkers and joggers
take us out into the countryside, or into the city with their dogs.
These physical activities - both leisure and sporting - would
undoubtedly leave some of their protagonists out of breath, as the
title of the monograph suggests, and may well inspire some viewers
to shake off any lethargy and get physical too. But despite their
clear iconography and endorphin-rousing semiotics, Senior's
paintings are no mere campaign to get, or to keep, art lovers fit
and healthy. For they are also carefully conceived and meticulously
executed studies of the human body, of shape, line and form, of
colour, tone, light and shadow. They are engaging explorations of
composition and colour, pattern and geometry, textures and
materials, the natural and the manmade. This interplay between the
natural and synthetic is played out in surprising juxtapositions,
such as blue rubber exercise balls in dialogue with various-sized
cacti, or between the materials and designs of sports clothing in
contrast to the rolling hills of a spring landscape, or to autumnal
trees at sunset. There are many other intriguing tropes, devices
and recurring motifs within Senior's repertoire, from cast iron
grilles to unorthodox hats and hairstyles, perhaps leading his
stylised vocabulary into the realms of nineteenth-century symbolist
painting as much as into the health clubs, spas, leisure centres
and parks of today. Indeed, there is a strange sense of
timelessness to Senior's practice that is matched by a captivating
sense of silence, loneliness and isolation, despite the figures
often being present in couples, clusters or small groups. Behind
their toned physiques, stripy towels and goggles, underneath their
winter coats, cagoules and peaked caps, there are, perhaps, some
small glimmers of inner lives- of sentient, intellectual, cultured,
emotional, sexual beings trapped within. Senior's oeuvre is, in
many ways, preoccupied with repression and expression, freedom and
conformity, motion and stasis, balance and inertia, engagement and
disengagement. One might even describe it as a bittersweet analogy
of the human body for human states of mind, for energy versus
futility, effort versus relaxation, health versus decline. Benjamin
Senior completed a BA in painting at Wimbledon School of Art before
graduating with an MA in painting from the Royal College of Art in
2010. Recent solo exhibitions include at Grey Noise, Dubai, Studio
Voltaire, London, Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan, James
Fuentes, New York, and BolteLang, Zurich. Featuring an introduction
by art critic, writer and curator Sacha Craddock, an essay by art
historian, museum educator and writer Ben Street, and a text by
curator, writer and lecturer Gabor Gyory, this 100-page hardback
monograph has been designed by Joe Gilmore / Qubik, edited by Matt
Price and published by Anomie.
An entertaining and lively guide to rediscovering the pleasure in
art How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone provides the tools to
understand and enjoy works of art. Debunking the pervasive idea
that specialist knowledge is required to understand and appreciate
art, instead How to Enjoy Art focuses on experience and pleasure,
demonstrating how anyone can find value and enjoyment in art.
Examples from around the world and throughout art history-from
works by Fra Angelico and Berthe Morisot to Kazuo Shiraga and Kara
Walker-are used to demonstrate how a handful of core strategies and
skills can help enhance the experience of viewing art works. With
these skills, anyone can encounter any work of art-regardless of
media, artist or period-and find some resonance with their own
experiences. How to Enjoy Art encourages us to rediscover the
fundamental pleasure in viewing art.
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