Painting as a Language Material, Technique, Form, Content,9780155056008

Painting as a Language Material, Technique, Form, Content

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780155056008
ISBN10: 015505600X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-08-30
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

Introduction. 1. Getting Started. 2. Materials & Techniques. 3. Color. 4. Objects. 5. Personal Identity. 6. Places. 7. Figures. 8. Expanded Forms & Ideas. 9. Contemporary Abstractions. 10. Narratives.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction 1(1)
The Concept and Approach of the Book
1(2)
The Diversity of Painting
3(1)
Getting Started
4(15)
What Is a Painting?
4(6)
What is a Painting Made of? Physical Materials
5(1)
What is a Painting Made of? Techniques
6(1)
What is a Painting Made of? Form
7(1)
What is a Painting Made of? Cognitive Meaning
7(1)
Focus on: Paintings of Horses
8(2)
Content
10(1)
Painting as a Language
11(3)
Modes of Pictorial Representation
11(1)
Research and Discussion Exercise: What is Realism?
11(1)
Focus on: Paintings of Animals
12(2)
Keeping a Studio Journal
14(1)
Using Writing to Explore Content
14(1)
Guidelines for Journal Writing
14(1)
Visiting Museums and Libraries
15(1)
Using Drawing to Prepare for Painting
16(1)
Tips for Using a Sketchbook
16(1)
Developing Hand and Eye Skills
17(1)
Research in Visual Perception
18(1)
A Word about the Creative Process
18(1)
Materials and Techniques
19(22)
Materials
19(11)
The Support
20(2)
The Stretcher
22(1)
Preparing the Support: Priming
23(1)
Solvent, Thinner, Medium
24(2)
Recipes for Oil Paint Mediums
26(1)
Brushes
27(2)
Other Painting Equipment
29(1)
Cleaning up
30(1)
Safety and Health Precautions
30(1)
Painting Techniques
31(6)
Preliminary Stages
31(1)
Direct and Indirect Painting
32(2)
Paint Application Principles and Techniques
34(2)
Care of Completed Paintings
36(1)
Optional Materials and Techniques
37(3)
Water-Miscible Oil Paints
37(1)
Acrylic Paints
38(1)
Alkyds
39(1)
Oil Pastels
39(1)
Other Optional Supplies
39(1)
Recommended Materials to Get Started
40(1)
Color---A Defining Element of Painting
41(16)
Introduction to Color
41(1)
The Development of New Colors
42(1)
Approaches to Color in Painting
42(1)
Local Color
42(1)
Optical Color
43(1)
Arbitrary Color
43(1)
Symbolic Color
43(1)
Writing and Discussion Exercises: Color Symbolism
43(1)
Basic Vocabulary and Properties of Color
43(3)
Color and Light
44(1)
Hue, Value, and Saturation
44(1)
The Color Wheel
44(1)
Saturation Scales
45(1)
Temperature: Warm and Cool Colors
45(1)
Advancing and Retreating Colors
46(1)
Color in Context
46(1)
Choosing Colors in a Composition
46(3)
Color Key
46(1)
Color Scheme
47(1)
Color Palette
48(1)
Analyzing Color Palettes by a Grid System
48(1)
Working with Oil Colors
49(6)
Properties of Oil Paints
49(1)
Focus On: Diebenkorn and Lomahaftewa
50(2)
Mixing Oil Colors
52(1)
Choosing your Working Palette
53(2)
Working Palette Layout
55(1)
Studio Exercises: Color Mixing
55(2)
The Picture Plane---Practice Subject: Still Lifes and Objects
57(24)
Starting with the Whole
57(1)
Composition and Picture Plane
57(1)
Studio Exercise: Seeing the Whole Composition
58(1)
Painting the Largest Shapes First (Positive and Negative Shapes)
58(6)
Focus On: Richard Diebenkorn, Ed Baynard, and Hector Hyppolite
60(3)
Preliminary Drawing Exercise: Exploring Positive and Negative Shapes
63(1)
Studio Exercise: Making a Monotype
63(1)
Painting Exercise: Defining Objects as Shapes
63(1)
Discussion Exercise: Emphasis on the Picture Plane, Developing Shape Awareness
64(1)
Establishing Visual Rhythm
64(1)
Articulating the Picture Plane: Balance
65(4)
Discussion Exercise: Diagramming Examples of Visual Balance
67(1)
Focus on: Catherine Murphy and Philip Guston
68(1)
Drawing Exercise: Exploring Asymmetry
69(1)
Painting Exercise: Simplified Shapes in Asymmetrical Balance
69(1)
The Idea of Content
69(6)
History and Meaning of Objects and Still Lifes as Subject Matter
70(2)
Focus On: Lisa Milroy, Miriam Schapiro, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
72(2)
Journal Exercise: Consumer Goods (or Not-So Good?)
74(1)
Painting Exercise: Consumer Goods Still Life
74(1)
Iconography
75(4)
Journal Exercise: A Symbolic Still Life
77(1)
Preliminary Drawing Exercise
77(1)
Painting Exercise: Personal Symbolism
77(1)
Painting Exercise: Luminosity
78(1)
Painting Exercise: Expanded Picture Plane
79(1)
Group Critique
79(1)
Recommended Artists to Explore
80(1)
Shape, Plane, Volume, and Brushstroke---Practice Subject: The Self-Image
81(21)
Shapes, Planes, and Volumes
81(3)
Preliminary Drawing Exercise: Self-Portrait in Planes
82(1)
Painting Exercise: Self-Portrait in Planes
83(1)
Dynamic Brushstrokes
84(4)
Painting Exercise: Practicing Brushstrokes
85(1)
Journal Exercise: Strong Emotions
85(1)
Painting Exercise: Strong Emotions
86(2)
Painting Exercise: Modified Pointillism
88(1)
Studying Self-Portraits and the Theme of Personal Identity
88(4)
The History of Self-Portraits
90(2)
Gesture, Pose, and Facial Expression
92(8)
Discussion Exercise: Body Language
93(1)
Preliminary Drawing and Painting Exercises: Gesture Drawings and Paintings
94(1)
Painting Exercise: Sustained Gestures and Expressions
94(1)
Focus On: Frida Kahlo
95(1)
Painting Exercise: Imaginary Self-Portraits
96(1)
Journal Exercise: The Body
97(1)
Drawing Exercise: Body Parts
97(1)
Painting Exercise: The Body
97(1)
Focus On: Ernest Pepion
98(1)
Journal Exercise: Age
99(1)
Painting Exercise: Aging Self-Portrait
100(1)
Recommended Artists to Explore
100(2)
Space---Practice Subject: Places
102(31)
Introduction to Place as Subject Matter
102(3)
Outdoor Scenes: Landscapes
102(2)
Indoor Scenes: Interiors
104(1)
The Articulation of Space
105(5)
Strategies For the Articulation of Space
106(2)
Focus On: Mark Tansey
108(1)
Painting Exercise: The View from a Window
108(2)
The Meaning of Space and Place
110(5)
Place as Metaphor
110(1)
Spiritual or Sacred Places
110(1)
Place as Social Commentary
111(1)
Unexpected Places
111(1)
Drawing Exercise: Keeping a Visual Diary
112(1)
Painting Exercise: Painting the Unexpected
112(2)
Journal Exercise: A Sense of Place
114(1)
Painting Outdoors
115(2)
Drawing Exercise: Sketching Outdoors
116(1)
Painting Exercise: Painting Outdoors
116(1)
Public versus Private Space
117(2)
Journal and Discussion Exercise: Public versus Private Space
117(1)
Painting Exercises: Interiors
118(1)
More Strategies for the Articulation of Space
119(7)
Linear Perspective
119(2)
Diagonals
121(1)
Isometric Perspective
121(1)
Framing
122(1)
Shifting Perspective
122(1)
Mapping and Other Ways to Represent Space
123(1)
Research and Discussion Exercise: Different Spatial Systems
123(2)
Painting Exercise: Linear Perspective
125(1)
Sketching Exercise: Imaginary Cityscape
126(1)
Painting Exercises: The Painter's Studio---Exploring Perspective
126(1)
Combining the Articulation of Space and the Articulation of the Picture Plane
126(5)
Focus On: Jennifer Bartlett
127(1)
Strategies for the Articulation of the Picture Plane
128(1)
Journal Exercise: Landmarks Remembered
128(1)
Painting Exercise: An Invented View
128(1)
Focus on: April Gornik
129(1)
Painting Exercise: Painting a Nocturne Using Grattage
130(1)
Painting Exercise: Sand Painting
130(1)
Recommended Artists to Explore
131(2)
Form and Light---Practice Subject: The Human Figure
133(28)
Introduction to the Human Figure as a Subject
133(2)
Strategies for the Articulation of Figurative Form
135(7)
Standards for Proportions
135(1)
Geometric Simplification
136(1)
Analyzing Anatomical Structure
137(1)
Focus On: Reginald Gammon and Raymond Saunders
138(2)
Foreshortening
140(1)
Painting Exercises: Painting the Structure of the Body
141(1)
Strategies for the Articulation of Light
142(6)
Chiaroscuro (Light and Shadow)
143(1)
Directional Lighting
144(2)
Luminosity
146(1)
Illusions of Texture Created through Effects of Light
146(1)
Journal and Sketchbook Exercise: The Symbolism of Light
146(1)
Painting Exercises: Painting Figures Defined by Light
147(1)
Exploration of Figurative Themes
148(6)
Human Physicality
148(2)
Deriving Thematic Ideas for (Figurative) Painting from Photographs and Other Media Images
150(2)
Journal and Sketchbook Exercises
152(1)
Painting Exercises
152(2)
Exploring More Techniques
154(3)
Collage
154(1)
More Brushstroke Techniques
155(1)
Wiping-Out Technique
156(1)
Painting Exercises: Practicing Techniques
156(1)
More Exploration of Figurative Meaning
157(3)
Human Relationships
157(2)
Journal and Sketchbook Exercise: Personal Relationships
159(1)
Painting Exercise: Family Portrait
159(1)
Painting Exercise: Reviewing Strategies and Concepts
159(1)
Recommended Artists to Explore
160(1)
Expanded Forms and Ideas
161(20)
Introduction to Expanded Forms and Ideas
161(2)
Criteria for Judging Paintings
163(2)
Journal and Discussion Exercise: Criteria for Judging Paintings
164(1)
Expanded Forms
165(7)
Breaking the Rectangle
166(2)
Painting Exercises: Expanded Form Paintings
168(4)
Expanded Ideas
172(8)
Topic #1: Challenging Hierarchies
173(3)
Topic #2: Painting as a Language
176(1)
Discussion Exercise: Postmodernism and the Moral Code
177(1)
Expanded Strategies for Image Making
177(2)
Painting Exercises: Exploring Expanded Ideas
179(1)
Group Critique: Expanded Ideas
180(1)
Recommended Artists to Explore
180(1)
Contemporary Abstraction
181(26)
Introduction to Abstraction
181(4)
A Short History of Abstraction in Art
185(2)
Discussion Exercise: What Makes a Painting Abstract?
187(1)
Sketchbook Exercises
187(1)
Contrast
187(3)
The Articulation of Formal Contrast
187(1)
Painting Exercise: Establishing Formal Contrasts
188(1)
Painting Exercise: Abstracting in Stages
189(1)
Topics of Current Abstraction
190(15)
Topic #1: Nonobjective Painting
190(2)
Painting Exercises: Exploring Nonobjective Painting
192(2)
Journal and Sketchbook Exercise: Researching Approaches to Abstraction
194(1)
Topic #2: Abstracting Nature
195(1)
Painting Exercises: Abstracting Nature
196(1)
Focus on: Terry Winters
197(1)
Focus on: Djalu Gurruwiwi
198(1)
Topic #3: Abstracting the Spiritual
199(1)
Journal Exercise: Taking Measure of Your Spiritual Dimension
199(2)
Painting Exercise: Spirituality: a Multi-Part Painting
201(1)
Topic #4: Abstraction as Commentary
201(2)
Painting Exercises: Abstracted Appropriation
203(1)
Painting Exercises: Expanded Form Abstraction
203(2)
Group Critique
205(1)
Recommended Artists to Explore
205(2)
Narrative Painting
207(22)
Introduction to Narrative Painting
207(2)
Narrative Factors
207(2)
History of Narrative Painting
209(1)
Narrative Painting Today: What and Why
210(5)
Framing History
210(1)
Capturing the Mood of the Times
211(1)
Personal Memory
212(1)
Journal Exercises: Personal Narratives
212(3)
Narrative Painting Today: How
215(13)
Narrative Formats
215(3)
Painting Exercises: Exploring Narrative Formats
218(2)
Focus On: John Singleton Copley and Dotty Attie
220(3)
Strategies for Expressing Narratives
223(2)
Painting Exercises: Painted Stories---Single Scene Narratives
225(1)
Focus On: Deborah Oropallo and Carole Caroompas
226(1)
Journal and Discussion Exercise: What is Time?
227(1)
Painting Exercises: Expanded Form Narrative Paintings
228(1)
Recommended Artists to Explore
228(1)
Society and Issues
229(28)
Introduction to Art about Society and Issues
229(4)
Journal and Discussion Exercise: Roles of the Artist
231(1)
Focus On: Sue Coe
232(1)
Defining Your Issue, Your Audience, Your Goals, Your Effect
233(2)
Painting Exercise: Framing the News
233(2)
Topics of Issue-Based Art
235(20)
Topic #1: Group Identity---When the Personal is Political
235(1)
Focus On: Ken Chu and Phyllis Bramson
236(2)
Journal Exercise: Group Identity
238(1)
Painting Exercise: Group Artwork on Stereotypes
238(1)
Discussion Exercise: Breaking Stereotypes
239(2)
Painting Exercise: Breaking Stereotypes
241(1)
Topic #2: Health
241(1)
Journal and Sketchbook Exercise: Illness and Death
241(1)
Focus On: Hollis Sigler
242(2)
Painting Exercise: Expanded Form Project on a Group Health Issue
244(1)
Topic #3: Conflict and Violence
245(1)
Research and Painting Exercise: Root Causes of Conflict
245(1)
Painting Exercise: Information Sign Painting
245(1)
Focus On: Janice Hartwell
246(1)
Focus On: Kerry James Marshall
247(1)
Focus On: Roger Brown and R. B. Kitaj
248(2)
Topic #4: Censorship and the First Amendment
250(1)
Journal Exercise: Taboo Topics (a List to Burn)
250(1)
Discussion Exercise: Censorship
250(1)
Painting Exercise: A Humorous Look at a Taboo Topic
251(1)
Topic #5: Imperiled Ecology and the Future of the Planet
251(1)
Journal and Sketchbook Exercise: Prophecies for the Year 3000
252(3)
Painting Exercise: Prophecies for the Year 3000
255(1)
Summary Critique
255(1)
Discussion Topic: Standards of Quality
255(1)
Outside Feedback
256(1)
Recommended Artists to Explore
256(1)
Glossary 257(4)
Credits 261(4)
Index 265

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