Art of Seeing

by Paul Zelanski

• ISBN13: 9780130599162
• ISBN10: 0130599166
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-12-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference

Summary

This best-selling exploration of traditional and contemporary art and artistic media focuses on art as seen from the artist's point of view , treating artistic techniques and introductory aesthetic principles. It is an engaging, clear, and concise presentation with a multi-cultural emphasis. The careful design of the illustrations, text, headings, timelines, and boxes enhances the relationship between text and illustrations. The book has a four-part organization--Part I lays the foundation for seeing; Parts II and III views two-and three-dimensional art; and Part IV approaches art as it exists in time. Topics cover a broad range of media and traditional and contemporary art, including installation; video and performance art; encaustic; fresco; wood engraving; earthworks; computers and art.

Table of Contents

Learning To See

Understanding Art

The Creative Impulse

BOX:Maria Lewis on Suffering and Creativity

Content

Political Content

Power and Propaganda

Spiritual Purposes

Inner Experiences

BOX:Vincent van Gogh on Emotion and Intellect

Beauty in Form

Forms of Art

Two-and Three dimensional Art

Degrees of Realism

Fine and Applied Arts

BOX:Georgia O'Keefe on ldquo;Saying What I Want To

rdquo;Public and Private Art

Art Issues: Censorship of Offensive Art

Critical Opinion

Art Issues: Race and Gender Criticism

Greatness in Art

Visual Elements

Line

Seeing Lines

The World Seen: Islamic Calligraphy

Implied Line

Descriptive Line

Expressive Qualities of Line

Directional Line

Shape and Form

Characteristics of Three-Dimensional Form

BOX:Henry Moore on Form and Space

Two-Dimensional Illusion of Form Shapes

BOX:Arshile Gorky on the Intensity of Art

Space

Three-Dimensional Art in Space

Two-Dimensional Space

Scale

Spatial Illusion

Texture

Actual Texture

Simulated Texture

Value and Light

Local and Interpretive Values

Lighting

Reflections

Light as a Medium

Color

A Vocabulary of Color

Natural and Applied Color

Local, Atmospheric, and Interpretive Color

Emotional Effects of Color

Warm and Cool Colors

Advancing and Receding Colors

Color Combinations

Interaction of Color

Limited and Open Palette

BOX:Josef Albers on the Complexity of Color

Time

Actual Movement

Illusion of Movement

BOX:Auguste Rodin on the Illusion of Movement

The Captured Moment

Change Through Time

Organizing Principles of Design

Repetition

Variety

Rhythm

Balance

Compositional Unity

Emphasis

Economy

Proportion

BOX:Wassily Kandinsky on Underlying Harmony

Relationship to the Environment

Two-Dimensional Media and Methods

Drawing

Approaches to Drawing

Dry Media

Graphite Pencil

Silverpoint

Charcoal

Chalk

Pastel Crayon

Liquid Media

Pen and Ink

BOX:The World Seen: Chinese Landscape Paintings

Brush and Ink

Painting

Approaches to Painting

Paint Media

Encaustic

Leonardo da Vinci on Chiaroscuro

Fresco

Tempera

Art Issues: Are there Limits to the Restorer's Art? Oil

Art Issues: Cleaning and Restoring Paintings

Watercolor

Gouache

Synthetics

Collage

The Word Seen: Tibetan Sand Paintings

Mosaic

Mixed Media

Printmaking

Printmaking Processes

Relief

BOX:Stephen Alcorn on the Challenge of Linocuts

Intaglio

Planographic

Stencil

Mixed Print Media

Graphic Design

The Graphic Designer and Visual Ideas

BOX:Peter Good on the Art of Graphic Design

Typography

Illustration

Photography, Photocopy, and Film-Making

Photography

BOX:Edward Weston on Photography as a Way of Seeing

Photocopy and Fax Art

Film

Television and Video

Art Issues: Mixing Art and Politics: The Films of Leni Riefenstahl

Computer Graphics

The Computer as a Drawing Medium

The Computer as a Painting Medium

The Computer in Three-Dimensional Art

Video Graphics

Virtual Reality

The Computer as a Unique Art Medium

Art in Cyberspace

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