| A Closer Look: Pictorial Space Contributor(s): Penny, Nicholas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1857096169 ISBN-13: 9781857096163 Publisher: National Gallery London OUR PRICE: $14.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Techniques - Painting - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: 750.18 |
| LCCN: 2017434406 |
| Series: Closer Look |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.9" W x 8.2" (0.40 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For more than six centuries, European painters have been ambitious to depict objects as if they possessed volume, placing them in a space that seems equivalent to the real space of our world. This "fiction" was central to the artist's purpose. Through a close examination of paintings from the 1400s to the early 20th century, including works by Uccello, Vermeer, Titian, and Monet, Nicholas Penny explains in this latest title in the National Gallery's Closer Look series how artists sought to make the fiction of pictorial space compelling, not only through the use of linear or aerial perspective, but also through the choice and intensity of color, the variations in light, and the texture of the painted surface. |