These crippling fears are laid to rest through insightful discussions of personal experiences, the struggles of famous artists, and the rewards of producing art that comes from an authentic creative core. Providing sensitive reassurances that these struggles are normal, these essays encourage artists to focus on the development of their crafts and find inspiration to work through self-doubt.
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The View From The Studio Door: How Artists Find Their Way In An Uncertain World
. As a teacher and working artist himself, Orland brings authentic insight and encouragement to all those who face the challenge of making art in an uncertain world. The breadth of material covered is reflected in chapters that include Making Sense of the World, Making Art That Matters, Art & Society, The Education of the Artist, The Artistic Community, Surviving Graduation, and more.
The view from the studio door is the perfect companion piece to Art & Fear, and will appeal to a similar and already-established audience of students, working artists, teachers and professionals. There are timeless philosophical questions how do we make sense of the world? that address the very nature of art making, as well as gritty real-world questions Is there art after graduation? that artists encounter the moment they’re off the starting blocks and producing work on a regular basis.
Simply put, this is a book of practical philosophy. Now, in the view from the studio door, Orland turns his attention to broader issues that stand to either side of that artistic moment of truth. In a text marked by grace, brevity and humor, Orland argues that when it comes to art making, theory and practice are always intertwined.
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Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go
There is a magic to this process that cannot be controlled by the ego. Trust the process. Somehow it always finds the way to the place where you need to be, and a destination you never could have known in advance. When everything seems as if it is hopeless and going nowhere.
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils and Rewards of Artmaking
From the introductionart & fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius removes this intimately human activity to a strangely unreachable and unknowable place.
Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. You have to find your work. Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is expeienced by artmakers themselves. This is not your typical self-help book. Word-of-mouth response alone—now enhanced by internet posting—has placed it among the best-selling books on artmaking and creativity nationally.
Art & fear has attracted a remarkably diverse audience, ranging from beginning to accomplished artists in every medium, and including an exceptional concentration among students and teachers.
The Simple Secret to Better Painting
Create art that's more attractive, a weak composition - predictable, your subject realistic and colors vibrant, interesting and eye-catching!Even if your perspective is accurate, repetitious or monotonous - means a weak painting. The simple secret to Better Painting ensures that your compositions work every time.
It's an insightful artistic philosophy that boils down the many technical principles of composition into a single master rule that's easy to remember and apply: Never make any two intervals the same. You can make every painting more interesting, length and space, dynamic and technically sound by varying intervals of distance, as well as intervals of value and color.
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Imagination in Action: Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression
The wealth of instruction he provides here in these essential things will be indispensable to artists of all stripes, as well as to all who strive to express themselves with honesty and authenticity using any of the media life makes available. The result is nothing less than a master class in creativity by one of the great creative theorists—and practitioners—of our time.
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The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity
You've got paintings inside you waiting to be expressed. You know that, while you could keep repeating what's worked before in your art, this is a kind of soul death. P. P1 {margin: 00px 00px 00px 00px; line-height: 16. 0px; font: 14. 0px verdana; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff}span. S1 {font-kerning: none}from best selling author, artist, Stanford trained psychiatrist and founder of The Artist's Journey courses in creativity: the path to the art and life you've dreamed of.
It's later than you think. You don't want to play it safe anymore. You want to experiment, take risks and explore a deeper self expression.
Composition: Understanding Line, Notan and Color Dover Art Instruction
Practical and well-illustrated, this classic guide offers valuable insights into modern design. A thought-provoking examination of the nature of visual representation, it remains ever-relevant to all the visual arts. A well-known painter and printmaker, Dow taught for many years at Columbia University and acted as a mentor to countless young artists, including Georgia O'Keeffe.
At the turn of the twentieth century, arthur wesley Dow literally "wrote the book" on composition—and this is it! Dow's Composition exercised an enormous influence on emerging modern artists of a century ago.
The Art Spirit Icon Editions
. Filled with valuable technical advice as well as wisdom about the place of art and the artist in American society, this classic work continues to be a must-read for anyone interested in the power of creation and the beauty of art. Henri, who painted in the realist style and was a founding member of the Ashcan School, was known for his belief in interactive nature of creativity and inspiration, and the enduring power of art.
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A Visual Guide to Classical Art Theory for Drawing and Painting Students Our National Conversation
Students will see the complexities of color theory and understand how to create the illusion of volume and depth on a 2-dimensional surface. His book features diagrams that illustrate every concept. Through their use, the artist will find an infinite number of solutions. As an art student, ” professor mantle recalls, “I was frequently frustrated by instructional books that gave lengthy verbal descriptions of visual concepts and then showed small and/or unclear diagrams of those concepts.
Artists also may use the book to create a trompe-l’oeil effect in graffiti art or the illusion of volume and depth on the computer. As an art teacher, i found that my students would gain a clearer understanding of a visual concept if my verbal explanation was combined with a diagram of that concept.
A visual guide to classical Art Theory is great for both traditional and non-traditional media.
Notan: The Dark-Light Principle of Design Dover Art Instruction
Clearly and concisely, the authors demonstrate Notan's practical applications in six problems of progressive difficulty — creative exercises that will fascinate artists and designers of every calling and level of expertise. In composition, it recognizes the separate but equally important identity of both a shape and its background.
Since their introduction in the West, the intriguing exercises associated with Notan have produced striking results in every branch of Western art and design. As a guiding principle of eastern art and design, Notan a Japanese word meaning dark-light focuses on the interaction between positive and negative space, a relationship embodied in the ancient symbolism of the Yang and the Yin.
Painters, jewelry, potters, architects, sculptors, and textile designers, and interior designers all will discover — or rediscover — in these pages an ancient principle of composition that can help them meet creative challenges with fresh new perspective. Along with these exercises, a painting by robert motherwell, a psychedelic poster, a Museum of Modern Art shopping bag, the book includes many illustrations of the principle of Notan, New England gravestone rubbings, a Samoan tapa cloth, among them images as diverse as a sculpture by David Smith, Japanese wrapping paper, and a carved and dyed Nigerian calabash.
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