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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art
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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art

by John A Parks
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Rockport Publishers
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035 Formal Innovation

From time to time, an artwork is produced that radically changes the formal means by which art may be made.

• The development of perspectival space in fifteenth-century Italy was an extraordinary formal innovation.

• Caravaggio’s development of a newly pungent sense of realism was both shocking and persuasive to his audience at the end of the sixteenth century.

• At the end of the eighteenth century, the Romantics introduced innovations in which spontaneity, open brushing, and highly flexible compositions replaced more stable and calculated approaches to painting.

• With Impressionism in the 1870s, artists discovered a whole new way to re-create a sense of light in painting.

From the late nineteenth century onward, the ...

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ISBN: 9781631595431