Book description
In today's fast-paced world, creative people are as eager as ever to pursue their artistic passions, but many of them simply don't have enough time. Catering to this modern dilemma, we've concocted the perfect remedy for over-burdened artists. The Daily Book of Art includes a year's worth of brief daily readings and lessons about the visual arts that entertain as they inform. Ten exciting categories of discussion rotate throughout the course of a year, giving readers a well-rounded experience in the art world. From color psychology and aesthetic philosophy to the proverbial argument over whether elephants really can paint, art-starved readers will encounter a broad range of inspiring subjects. The ten categories of discussion include Art 101, Philosophy of Art, Art Through the Ages, Profiles in Art, A Picture’s Worth 200 Words, Art from the Inside Out, Art Around the World, Artistic Oddities, Unexpected Art Forms, and Step-by-Step Exercises.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Introductions
- Day 1: The Elements of Art
- Day 2: What is Aesthetics?
- Day 3: Paleolithic Painting
- Day 4: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
- Day 5: Mona Lisa
- Day 6: Cabinet of Curiosity
- Day 7: Tupilak
- Day 8: Covered in Clay, Plastic, and Concrete
- Day 9: Painting Pachyderms
- Day 10: Exercise 1
- Day 11: Line, Shape & Form
- Day 12: What is Art?
- Day 13: Ancient Egyptian Art
- Day 14: Jan Vermeer (1632-1675)
- Day 15: Sunflowers
- Day 16: The Permanent Collection
- Day 17: Those Lovely Bones
- Day 18: Happenings
- Day 19: The Museum of Bad Art
- Day 20: Exercise 2
- Day 21: Value
- Day 22: What is an Artist?
- Day 23: Classical Greek & Roman Art
- Day 24: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
- Day 25: The Birth of Venus
- Day 26: Behind the Scenes
- Day 27: Retablos and Ex-votos Paintings
- Day 28: The Vintage Collages of Anne Taintor
- Day 29: Camera Obscura
- Day 30: Exercise 3
- Day 31: Texture
- Day 32: The Purpose of Art
- Day 33: Early Christian & Byzantine Art
- Day 34: Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
- Day 35: The Last Supper
- Day 36: Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Day 37: Propaganda Art
- Day 38: Painted Tennis Shoes of Mesoamerica
- Day 39: Nazca Lines
- Day 40: Exercise 4
- Day 41: What is Color?
- Day 42: The Value of Art
- Day 43: The Art of the Middle Ages
- Day 44: Sandro Botticelli (1444/5-1510)
- Day 45: The Gleaners
- Day 46: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Day 47: Arpilleras
- Day 48: Talent Emerges in the Classroom
- Day 49: The Watts Towers
- Day 50: Exercise 5
- Day 51: The Color Wheel
- Day 52: What Makes Something Beautiful?
- Day 53: The Italian Renaissance
- Day 54: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669)
- Day 55: Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Whistler’s Mother
- Day 56: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Day 57: Six Decades of Sensuality
- Day 58: Bleed
- Day 59: The Smallest of the Small
- Day 60: Exercise 6
- Day 61: Color Temperature
- Day 62: Creativity
- Day 63: The Northern Renaissance
- Day 64: Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
- Day 65: The Creation of Adam
- Day 66: The School and Art Institute of Chicago
- Day 67: Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926)
- Day 68: Shattered Glass
- Day 69: The Largest of the Large
- Day 70: Exercise 7
- Day 71: Color Psychology
- Day 72: Plato (427-347 BCE)
- Day 73: Baroque Art
- Day 74: Michelangelo (1475-1564)
- Day 75: End of an Arabesque
- Day 76: Palacio Nacional
- Day 77: Glasgow School of Art
- Day 78: Murals of the Border Wall
- Day 79: Synesthesia and Art
- Day 80: Exercise 8
- Day 81: Color Schemes
- Day 82: Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
- Day 83: The Rococo
- Day 84: Francisco Goya (1746-1828)
- Day 85: Ophelia
- Day 86: Museo Nacional del Prado
- Day 87: If Walls Could Talk
- Day 88: Latte Art
- Day 89: Art-o-mat®
- Day 90: Exercise 9
- Day 91: Linear Perspective
- Day 92: St. Augustine (354-430 CE)
- Day 93: Neoclassicism
- Day 94: Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
- Day 95: The Houses of Parliament, London, with the Sun Breaking Through the Fog
- Day 96: Musée du Louvre
- Day 97: Il Palio or Palio di Siena
- Day 98: Massive Expanses of Fabric
- Day 99: Museum Mixup
- Day 100: Exercise 10
- Day 101: Atmospheric Perspective
- Day 102: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
- Day 103: Romanticism
- Day 104: Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337)
- Day 105: Self-Portrait
- Day 106: The National Gallery
- Day 107: Presepe
- Day 108: Date Palms and Pine Needles
- Day 109: Mechanical Mirrors
- Day 110: Exercise 11
- Day 111: Contrast
- Day 112: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
- Day 113: Realism
- Day 114: Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
- Day 115: Mont Sainte-Victoire
- Day 116: Vatican Museums
- Day 117: The Bone Church of Sedlec
- Day 118: The Art of Adaptation
- Day 119: New York City Garbage
- Day 120: Exercise 12
- Day 121: Principles of Composition
- Day 122: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
- Day 123: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Day 124: Raphael (1483-1520)
- Day 125: The Starry Night
- Day 126: Acropolis Museum
- Day 127: Pysanky
- Day 128: Dust in the Windshield
- Day 129: Processing
- Day 130: Exercise 13
- Day 131: Steps to Effective Composition
- Day 132: Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
- Day 133: Symbolism
- Day 134: Diego Velázquez (1599-1660)
- Day 135: The Tempest
- Day 136: The Hermitage
- Day 137: Dalecarlian Horses
- Day 138: One Unbroken Line
- Day 139: You’ve Been Dumped
- Day 140: Exercise 14
- Day 141: Positive and Negative Space
- Day 142: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- Day 143: Impressionism
- Day 144: Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
- Day 145: The Young Bacchus
- Day 146: Birth of the Cool
- Day 147: Icon Art
- Day 148: Gemüseorchester
- Day 149: Top Sellers
- Day 150: Exercise 15
- Day 151: Creating the Perfect Studio
- Day 152: Benedetto Croce (1866-1952)
- Day 153: Post-Impressionism
- Day 154: Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
- Day 155: The Third of May, 1808
- Day 156: Los Angeles in the 1960s
- Day 157: Persian Miniatures
- Day 158: Walk-Through Exhibits
- Day 159: Burning Man
- Day 160: Exercise 16
- Day 161: Paint Palettes
- Day 162: Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
- Day 163: Art Nouveau
- Day 164: Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
- Day 165: When Are You Getting Married?
- Day 166: This is London
- Day 167: Islamic Calligraphy
- Day 168: The Art of the Uncontrollable
- Day 169: Foodscapes
- Day 170: Exercise 17
- Day 171: Paintbrushes
- Day 172: Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
- Day 173: Fauvism
- Day 174: Caravaggio (1571-1610)
- Day 175: The Milkmaid
- Day 176: “Impressions” of 19th-Century Paris
- Day 177: Deer Stones
- Day 178: The Dead House
- Day 179: The Secret Language of Comics
- Day 180: Exercise 18
- Day 181: Drawing and Painting Surfaces
- Day 182: The Human Body
- Day 183: Expressionism
- Day 184: Claude Monet (1840-1926)
- Day 185: L'Absinthe
- Day 186: Black Mountain College
- Day 187: Cheongsam
- Day 188: Rebirth of the Synthetic
- Day 189: Coral Castle
- Day 190: Exercise 19
- Day 191: Introduction to Drawing
- Day 192: Nature in Art
- Day 193: Cubism
- Day 194: Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
- Day 195: Luncheon of the Boating Party
- Day 196: Into the Woods
- Day 197: Longmen Grottoes
- Day 198: Sand, Hands, and Soul
- Day 199: Crop Circles
- Day 200: Exercise 20
- Day 201: Drawing What You See
- Day 202: Patterns of Beauty in Nature and Art
- Day 203: The Ashcan School and The Eight
- Day 204: Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
- Day 205: Vanitas
- Day 206: Pilchuck Glass School
- Day 207: Hahoe Mask Dance of South Korea
- Day 208: Nothingness
- Day 209: The da Vinci... Horse Picture?
- Day 210: Exercise 21
- Day 211: Graphite Pencil
- Day 212: Animals, Art, and Consciousness
- Day 213: Futurism
- Day 214: Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
- Day 215: Snap the Whip
- Day 216: Dorland Mountain Arts Colony
- Day 217: “Tiger and Magpie” Paintings
- Day 218: Sand Mermaids
- Day 219: Fig Leaves
- Day 220: Exercise 22
- Day 221: Introduction to Pastel
- Day 222: Art as Therapy
- Day 223: Russian Avant-Garde
- Day 224: Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
- Day 225: Portrait of Pope Innocent X
- Day 226: Collecting Art
- Day 227: Sumi-e
- Day 228: Drawn to the Ocean
- Day 229: The Gardner Heist
- Day 230: Exercise 23
- Day 231: Introduction to Oil Painting
- Day 232: Perception and Reality
- Day 233: Dada
- Day 234: Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
- Day 235: Jane Avril
- Day 236: Art Collections of the Rich and Famous
- Day 237: Netsuke
- Day 238: Tactile Painting
- Day 239: Stock, Money, and Art
- Day 240: Exercise 24
- Day 241: A Brief History of Oil Painting
- Day 242: Art and Christianity
- Day 243: De Stijl & Neo Plasticism
- Day 244: Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
- Day 245: The Ashes of Phocion Collected by His Widow
- Day 246: Celebrity Art Collectors
- Day 247: Hand-Painted Pop
- Day 248: Les Coléres
- Day 249: Trash or Treasure?
- Day 250: Exercise 25
- Day 251: Using an Underpainting
- Day 252: Art and Judaism
- Day 253: The Bauhaus
- Day 254: Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)
- Day 255: Rain, Steam, and Speed
- Day 256: What is a Biennial?
- Day 257: Tibetan Sand Paintings
- Day 258: Cosmetic Interpretation
- Day 259: Scanwiches
- Day 260: Exercise 26
- Day 261: Building an Oil or Acrylic Painting
- Day 262: Art and Islam
- Day 263: The Harlem Renaissance
- Day 264: Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
- Day 265: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
- Day 266: Art at the Venice Biennale
- Day 267: Skin Deep
- Day 268: Marbles and Hair
- Day 269: The Amber Room
- Day 270: Exercise 27
- Day 271: Applying the Paint
- Day 272: Eastern Aesthetics
- Day 273: The Mexican Renaissance
- Day 274: Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
- Day 275: Disputation of the Holy Sacrament
- Day 276: The Whitney Biennial
- Day 277: Shadows and Light
- Day 278: Tractor as Pencil
- Day 279: Superman
- Day 280: Exercise 28
- Day 281: Alla Prima Painting
- Day 282: African Aesthetics
- Day 283: Surrealism
- Day 284: Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
- Day 285: The Arnolfini Marriage
- Day 286: Art Basel
- Day 287: West African Barber Shop Signs
- Day 288: Junk Art in the Desert
- Day 289: Great Bowls o’ Fire!
- Day 290: Exercise 29
- Day 291: Painting en Plein Air
- Day 292: Art and Language
- Day 293: Abstract Expressionism
- Day 294: Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
- Day 295: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
- Day 296: Old Favorites, New Discoveries
- Day 297: Holy Rollin’
- Day 298: Homeless in Russia
- Day 299: Artistic Syndromes
- Day 300: Exercise 30
- Day 301: Introduction to Acrylic
- Day 302: Art and Politics
- Day 303: Pop Art
- Day 304: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
- Day 305: Self-Portait
- Day 306: Living Pictures
- Day 307: Kente Cloth of Western Africa
- Day 308: Morpho Towers
- Day 309: Math + Physics = ART?
- Day 310: Exercise 31
- Day 311: Acrylic Mediums
- Day 312: Ancient Aesthetics
- Day 313: Minimalism
- Day 314: Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
- Day 315: Breakfast in Bed
- Day 316: Taking Art to the Streets
- Day 317: Spirits in Stone
- Day 318: Post-Human
- Day 319: The Bad Dream
- Day 320: Exercise 32
- Day 321: Introduction to Watercolor
- Day 322: Medieval Aesthetics
- Day 323: Performance Art
- Day 324: Jan van Eyck (1390-1441)
- Day 325: Adele Bloch-Bauer I
- Day 326: The Auction House
- Day 327: A House United
- Day 328: Strandbeest
- Day 329: Mona Lisa Lifted
- Day 330: Exercise 33
- Day 331: Watercolor Pigments
- Day 332: Modern Aesthetics
- Day 333: Land & Environmental Art
- Day 334: Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
- Day 335: Jeremiah Mourning Over the Destruction of Jerusalem
- Day 336: Sotheby’s
- Day 337: More than Meets the Eye
- Day 338: Shoes on a Wire
- Day 339: Prison Art
- Day 340: Exercise 34
- Day 341: Watercolor Techniques
- Day 342: Postmodern Aesthetics (Part 1)
- Day 343: Feminist Art
- Day 344: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
- Day 345: Bridge Over a Pond with Water Lilies
- Day 346: Christie’s
- Day 347: Second Skin
- Day 348: The Videos of Fischli and Weiss
- Day 349: Vegas, Baby
- Day 350: Exercise 35
- Day 351: Creating an Artist’s Sketchbook
- Day 352: Postmodern Aesthetics (Part 2)
- Day 353: American Folk Art
- Day 354: Titian (1488-1576)
- Day 355: The Blue Boy
- Day 356: Out West with Bonhams & Butterfield’s
- Day 357: Moai
- Day 358: Ancient Form Profaned by Pop Culture
- Day 359: Radiology Art
- Day 360: Exercise 36
- Day 361: Art Appreciation
- Day 362: Tips for Further Study
- Day 363: Postmodern and Contemporary Art
- Day 364: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
- Day 365: Lovers in a Park
- Sources Cited
- Bridgeman art Library Credits
- Additional Credits
- About the Authors
- Copyright Page
Product information
- Title: The Daily Book of Art
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2009
- Publisher(s): Walter Foster
- ISBN: 9781616737016
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