Sunday 14 March 2010
Reading:
Rose-Marie & Ranier Hagen What Great Paintings Say (Vol. 1)
Taschen, Köln, 2005
Pp 50-67
Total time: 29 min
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Thursday 11 March 2010
Reading:
Gemma Guasch and Josep Asunción Space
Barron’s Educational Series, Inc, Hauppage, New York, USA, 2005
Pp 84-151
(This book seems to me to be more useful than the two earlier volumes in the same series. It deals with composition and development of the illusion of space. As in the earlier volumes, the illustrations are more valuable than the somewhat rudimentary text: the latter is occasionally compromised by less-than-optimal translation from Spanish, or by what strike me as excessively florid flights of fancy. Nevertheless, I think this is a worthwhile book.)
Total time: 36 min
Reading:
Gemma Guasch and Josep Asunción Space
Barron’s Educational Series, Inc, Hauppage, New York, USA, 2005
Pp 84-151
(This book seems to me to be more useful than the two earlier volumes in the same series. It deals with composition and development of the illusion of space. As in the earlier volumes, the illustrations are more valuable than the somewhat rudimentary text: the latter is occasionally compromised by less-than-optimal translation from Spanish, or by what strike me as excessively florid flights of fancy. Nevertheless, I think this is a worthwhile book.)
Total time: 36 min
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Monday 8 March 2010
A hospital-acquired infection has kept me very ill for the past several days. Drawing still isn’t possible, but at least I can now read a bit.
Reading:
Gemma Guasch and Josep Asunción Space
Barron’s Educational Series, Inc, Hauppage, New York, USA, 2005
Pp 7-49
Total time: 26 min
A hospital-acquired infection has kept me very ill for the past several days. Drawing still isn’t possible, but at least I can now read a bit.
Reading:
Gemma Guasch and Josep Asunción Space
Barron’s Educational Series, Inc, Hauppage, New York, USA, 2005
Pp 7-49
Total time: 26 min
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Wednesday 3 March 2010
Home from hospital. Still not quite ready for the drawing board, but at least I can read.
Reading:
Gita May Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Yale University Press, New Haven Conn., USA, 2005
Pp 1-203 (This book concerns itself more with the artist’s travels and acquaintances, and with the political situation of the times, that with her paintings. The book could have benefited from a substantially larger number of color plates. Inexplicably omitted from discussion or reproduction is the Portrait of Countess Golovine, in my opinion one of the artist’s finer works, and one of the more sympathetic portraits painted by any artist.)
Total time: 3 hours 27 minutes
Home from hospital. Still not quite ready for the drawing board, but at least I can read.
Reading:
Gita May Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Yale University Press, New Haven Conn., USA, 2005
Pp 1-203 (This book concerns itself more with the artist’s travels and acquaintances, and with the political situation of the times, that with her paintings. The book could have benefited from a substantially larger number of color plates. Inexplicably omitted from discussion or reproduction is the Portrait of Countess Golovine, in my opinion one of the artist’s finer works, and one of the more sympathetic portraits painted by any artist.)
Total time: 3 hours 27 minutes
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