Studio Seeing

Michael Torlen

Description

Opens with several first-person anecdotes about the author’s life as a practicing artist and a discussion of the intellectual lineage of his vision-based pedagogy. Many more anecdotes from the author’s teaching appear in most chapters.

The author discusses perception as it benefits the artist in the studio. Perceptual laws govern both our experience of seeing and the artist’s process of creating. The book presents a proven process developed by the author over many decades of teaching and studio practice that the artist can apply to their own painting/drawing and/or teaching. The painting and drawing principles in the book are essential and yet not generally taught or understood. They will benefit anyone learning how to draw/paint or advance their practice. The book will also help practitioners to make rapid progress and to avoid clichéd, overused solutions. It also offers insights and discussions of interest to art lovers and “Sunday painters.” It is for everyone who enjoys viewing and thinking about art.

Integrated into the text are more than one hundred images—works of art by well-known historical and contemporary artists and students, photographs, and diagrams—to reinforce the concepts presented. A recap section ends each chapter, followed by an exercise, or group of related exercises, to encourage and guide the practitioner in immediate application of the concepts.

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Foreword

   Julian Kreimer

   A Practical-Meditative Lineage XVII

   Teaching XVIII

   Learning to “See the Ground”

Preface

   Learning to See

   The Brick

   The Lineage

Introduction

1. The Fear Factor

   The Bare Canvas

   Into the Void

   Course of Action

   Fear’s Tyranny

   Mistakes and Accidents

   Part-to-part

   Recap

2. How We See It, How We Don’t

   The 3D Cues

      Perspective

      Binocular Vision

      Light and Shadow

      Relative Motion

   Recap

   Exercises – Two or One Eyed

3. The Artist’s Vision

   The Monocular Cues

   Constancy

   2D Visual Cues

      Position

      Shape-Size

      Overlap

      Value Contrast

      Color Contrast

   Hierarchy and Interaction

   Recap

   Exercises – 2D Cues

4. More About Seeing

   Parts and Wholes

   The Gestalt Contribution

   Think Ahead

   Arnheim

   Where and What

   Figuring the Ground

   Object-Directed vs. Ground-Directed Seeing

   Past Experience, Purpose, and Action

   Recap

   Exercises – Parts and Whole

 5. Beyond Face or Vase

   Head First

   Figure-Ground

   Not Negative and Positive

   Edge-condition

   Yes and No

   Intentions, Meanings, and Context

   Recap

   Exercises – F/G

6. Forces in the Field

   Inner Necessity

   Closure

   Coincidence of Edge and Continuity

   Locales

   Recap

   Exercises – Three C’s

7. Line

   Positioning Line

   Contour

   Gesture

   Blind-contour

   Cross-contour

   Recap

   Exercises – DYI

8. Value

   Positioning Value

   Reserving the Light

   Adding and Subtracting

   On Readymade

   Adding Wash and Brush

   Elegance or Clumsiness

   Recap

   Exercises – Plus and Minus

9. Brush, Paint, Process

   Shape Paint, Don’t Paint Shapes

   Color Studies

   Bridging Triangle

   DLWCDI

   Recap

   Exercises–DLM

 10. Muscles and Marks

   The Body Against Itself

   Four Variables

      Pressure

      Tempo

      Duration

      Direction

   Deliberate Practice

   Recap

   Exercises–PTDD

 11. Figuring Where

   Plumb, Level, and Square

   The Frame

   Sighting and Measuring

   2D to 2D

   Linear Perspective

   Aerial Perspective

   Sfumato

   Recap

   Exercises–Devices

 12. Unmediated Response

   Focal Point

   Approximation

   The Great Law

   Recap

   Exercises–Focal Point

13. Fixing

   Jumping Parts

   Add More of It

   Build a Bridge

   Reverse the Overlap

   Adjust the Scale

   Do Something Else

   Recap

   Exercises–Ground-Directed

 14. The End is The Beginning

   Limits of Language

   Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes

   Meaning, Metaphor, Myth

   Last Words

Endnotes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index

Sujets

• Arts visuels
• Dessin
• Peinture
• Art Plastique
• Arts plastiques
• ART
• Technique
• Hoyt Sherman
• Drawing
• Gestalt psychology
• Study
• Overlap
• Figure and ground
• Painting
• Techniques
• Teaching

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 09 juin 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781789387919
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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STUDIO SEEING

Dedicated to Hoyt L. Sherman, Harold Gregor, and Charles Moone