In this beautiful book, an artist who has lived with and enjoyed art for many years discusses with great perception and clarity the ways of viewing great paintings and other works of art, both in and out of museums. Line, form, color, and texture are lucidly explained, and the reader is encouraged to try many fascinating techniques for himself—making prints and collages, pen-and-ink drawing, sculpture, photography, painting—as well as to explore art in nature and in the world around him.
With over eighty black-and-white illustrations and thirty-two pages of superb color reproductions of great paintings from Giotto to Picasso, as well as student photographs and drawings, this is a book to be treasured by the beginning and experienced artist, the student of art history, the amateur collector, and anyone who finds joy in the world of art.
—from the dust jacket
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