The Art Book: New Edition

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Art made its final flight, climbed higher and higher in an ever decreasing tighter turning spiral until. Is that even legal by the way, using photographs of dead people from local newspapers for the unauthorized purpose of an art installation? It was also pleasing to find women represented as far back as the 1600s, their work being of a quality matching that of the book generally. other thing is for the the art have mandy year's old and have mandy people want to learn more about art. Some of it is artful and appropriate, but there were some that I felt the artist used only for shock value.

Also Many of the photos also display a strange yellow and orange colour cast, making the paintings look worse than they should. This is also by far the heaviest book I own--you could do strength training with it--but it's worth its weight. Great little book if you take it for what it is - something to dip into to stimulate ideas or discussion. Baumeister, mortaruru with red overhead (Willi by name, Baumeister by nature, or vice versa, just too easy, so no retitling. No more realism, no more representation objects, no more lines, colours, forms, and contours, no more pigments, no more brushstrokes.A selection of 500 works of art, paintings and sculptures alike, from 500 different artists with no reference to nationality, school of thought, medium, date or topic. I'd normally laugh at the artwork's description but considering the topic, the blurb angered me instead "in previous works, Boltanski had used photographs of Jewish children. Another observation, from someone with a lack of knowledge in art, it's interesting how artists seem to fall either above or below a very narrow threshold. A small detail, I wish the artwork dates were moved from the bottom to the top (next to the artwork's title and artist's name), so one has seen all the info/context before checking out the art.

There are a few Japanese and South-American artists here and there, but the overwhelming majority are from mainland Europe and English speaking countries. The perfect prescription for someone who thinks Kupka might have something to do with the continuing cup-cake craze. Impressionism was as an interesting experiment and the last of the tolerable departures from traditional painting, but everything after that - I just found myself turning the pages without even looking at the names of the authors of yet another solid cube, formless splatter or weird installation.Anyway, art is different, it requires technical skill (well, see subsequent paragraphs on that), and comes from a tradition of manual workmanship, perhaps it makes sense that when the apprenticeship system weakened amidst the social changes of the modern age, substitute forms would take its place. Also the depicted scenes (at least until the beginning of the 20th century) are from either Roman or Christian mythology or Western European aristocratic and everyday life. Ryman's work concentrates on emphasizing the qualities of the materials used, both the paint itself and its support (canvas, plastic, aluminium and so on). If however you are interested in only certain time periods or art styles, you'd be better off purchasing a more focused book with better quality prints. As the editors note, the alphabetical arrangement leads to some startling contrasts since proximate works in the book can be separated by centuries and continents in terms of their actual production.