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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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083 Simplification

Simplifying form is one of the foundational strategies of art. Ancient civilizations generally rendered figures and settings as simplified formations. More sophisticated simplification occurred in the Renaissance, as in the work of Piero della Francesca (c. 1416–1492), whose interest in Euclidean geometry led him to reduce forms toward the condition of geometric solids. Much modern art involves the reduction of appearances to sets of simple forms.

FOUR STAGES OF SIMPLIFICATION

1. Objective. The subject is examined carefully.

2. Analytic. The central and distinguishing features of the subject are identified.

3. Reductive. Extraneous, unnecessary, confusing, and distracting information is stripped away.

4. Synthetic. The remaining ...

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ISBN: 9781631595431