Picture This: How Pictures Work
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (921 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1452151997 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Molly Bang has authored and illustrated more than three dozen books and has won three Caldecott Honors, a Kate Greenaway Honor, and a Charlotte Zolotow Award, among other accolades, in her long career as a writer and artist
Bang's powerful ideas—about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story—remain unparalleled in their simplicity and genius. Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold? First published in 1991, Picture This has changed the way artists, illustrators, reviewers, critics, and readers look at and understand art.
Students of art and design will benefit from its crisp examples and insightful analysis of form in visual communication while enjoying the book's elegant synthesis of type and image." -Robert Brinkerhoff, Head of the Illustration Department, Rhode Island School of Design"Imaginative and impressive."-Noam Chomsky"For the past twenty-five years I have had the privilege of seeing Picture This work with a wide range of audiences, from middle school art classes to children's literature graduate students learning a
It's ok, but I am new to painting Amazon Customer As a new, but interested,acrylic painting student, I have little knowledge of what makes paintings 'work'. This book is 'information dense' and the logical extensions or implications of the writer are not always apparent to me. Specifically, 'composition' seems to be lightly covered. By that I mean explaining how an . "Elegant, simple, visual understanding of artistic composition." according to mmk. I am constantly searching for better ways to understand photographic composition, not only so that I can take better photographs in the field/in camera but so that I can make good editing decisions in the digital darkroom. So when a photographer recommended this book I jumped on the opportunity and I'm very happy tha. A good start for those curious about design Daniel Picture This: How Pictures Work is a good place to start if you’re curious about design. While not meant for everyone, it has some eye-opening insights to those new to the subject.Using the story of Little Red Riding Hood and basic shapes and colors, Molly Bang shows why certain colors and shapes elicit specifi