Take Art
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Take Art
For many people, the only thing stopping them from picking up a pencil or paint brush is the daunting notion of how to begin and the belief that they can’t do it. This wonderfully simple book will show such aspiring artists exactly where to begin, starting with how to sketch the basics, all in easy-to-follow, step-by-step stages. After this introduction, it explores using other materials, from acrylic paints to watercolors. Packed with useful advice and ideas, this invaluable resource reveals the tricks and techniques that artists have used over the centuries to make their pictures work, including advice on how to create a likeness, ideas to inspire simple but beautiful paintings, hints to make pictures look good, and more. Christian Furr is resident artist on the British television program Celebrity Art Club and is the youngest artist to have officially painted Queen Elizabeth II.
How Art Works
Author: Ellen Winner
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2018-10-04
There is no end of talk and of wondering about 'art' and 'the arts.' This book examines a number of questions about the arts (broadly defined to include all of the arts). Some of these questions come from philosophy. Examples include: · What makes something art? · Can anything be art? · Do we experience "real" emotions from the arts? · Why do we seek out and even cherish sorrow and fear from art when we go out of our way to avoid these very emotions in real life? · How do we decide what is good art? Do aesthetic judgments have any objective truth value? · Why do we devalue fakes even if we -- indeed, even the experts--- can't tell them apart from originals? · Does fiction enhance our empathy and understanding of others? Is art-making therapeutic? Others are "common sense" questions that laypersons wonder about. Examples include: · Does learning to play music raise a child's IQ? · Is modern art something my kid could do? · Is talent a matter of nature or nurture? This book examines puzzles about the arts wherever their provenance - as long as there is empirical research using the methods of social science (interviews, experimentation, data collection, statistical analysis) that can shed light on these questions. The examined research reveals how ordinary people think about these questions, and why they think the way they do - an inquiry referred to as intuitive aesthetics. The book shows how psychological research on the arts has shed light on and often offered surprising answers to such questions.
The Art of Mathematics
Author: Béla Bollobás
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2006-09-14
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