Picture this : how pictures work
Bang, Molly2016
Book
Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideasabout how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a storyremain unparalleled in their simplicity and genius. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold? First published in 1991, Picture This has changed the way artists, illustrators, reviewers, critics and readers look at and understand art.
Main title:
Picture this : how pictures work / Molly Bang.
Author:
Bang, Molly, author
Edition:
Revised and Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition.
Imprint:
San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2016]
Collation:
xiv, 134 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9781452135151145213515097814521519911452151997
Dewey class:
750.11
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
310650