Portland Public Library

Universal principles of art, 100 key concepts for understanding, analyzing, and practicing art, John A. Parks

eng

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Universal principles of art

dictionaries

875645343

John A. Parks

100 key concepts for understanding, analyzing, and practicing art

"A follow-up to Rockport Publishers' best-selling Universal Principles of Design, a new volume will present one hundred principles, fundamental ideas and approaches to making art, that will guide, challenge and inspire any artist to make better, more focused art. Universal Principles of Art serves as a wealth of prompts, hints, insights and roadmaps that will open a world of possibilities and provide invaluable keys to both understanding art works and generating new ones. Respected artist John A. Parks will explore principles that involve both techniques and concepts in art-making, covering everything from the idea of beauty to glazing techniques to geometric ideas in composition to minimalist ideology. Techniques are simple, direct and easily followed by any artist at any level. This incredibly detailed reference book is the standard for artists, historians, educators, professionals and students who seek to broaden and improve their art expertise"--, Provided by publisher

Abstraction -- Allegory -- Ambiguity -- Appropriation -- Areas of competence -- Authenticity and outsider art -- Autobiography -- Balance -- Beauty -- Boundaries -- Brush techniques -- Chance -- Classicism and Renaissance -- Collage and assemblage -- Color as light - Color as limit -- Color theory -- Composition -- Conceptual art -- Consistency of visual language -- Craft -- Creativity -- Cross-cultural fertilization -- Cubism -- Dada -- Decoration -- Distortion -- Distribution -- Drawing language -- The emotive object -- Erotic art -- Expression in the abstract -- Fantasy and visionary art -- Finish -- Formal innovation -- Form rendered -- Gender -- Harmony -- Hierarchical proportion -- Imagination -- Installation -- Intentionality -- Interactive art -- Juxtaposition -- Kinetic art -- Land art -- Layers -- Linear basics -- Mannerism -- Mass -- Materials as art -- Minimalism -- Mixed media and multimedia -- Motif -- Movement -- Narrative -- Op art -- Overload -- Performance art -- Perspective -- Plasticity -- Politics and polemics -- Prepare and develop -- Printmaking -- Process as meaning -- Proportion and ratio -- Quality -- Quoting -- Readymades -- Realism -- Religiosity -- Repetition -- Representation -- Restraint -- Rhythm -- Romanticism -- Scale -- Semiotics -- Semiotics 2 : deconstruction -- Sensitivity and sensibility -- Shape -- Shock -- Simplification -- Space and volume -- Spectacle -- Style and stylishness -- Successive approximation -- Sufficiency and means -- Surrealism -- Symbols -- Symmetry -- Temporary art -- Texture -- Theme -- Tone as structure -- Touch communicates -- Tribal art -- Trompe l'Oeil -- Underpainting -- Video art