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The Art of Abstract Painting: A Guide to Creativity and Free Expression
Filled with inspired instruction, this detailed guide shows how to compose dramatic, beautiful, thought-provoking, and evocative abstract paintings. Providing background information about the artistic style, the procedures and aims of the abstract method are explored in depth. This manual also teaches where to find inspiration, how to develop ideas, the way to create lively effects, and how to apply a range of techniques on different surfaces, whether it be transparent watercolor or thickly applied acrylics. While focusing on the goal of developing the creativity and self-expression inherent in each individual, the approach is unique in that there are no step-by-step instructions.
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Not much help
By Hubies Brother "Printmaker" - December 3, 2009A disappointment. Unlike her earlier book on abstract painting, this one dwells little, if at all, on the practical aspects of making a painting. Indeed, early in the book Ms. van Vliet says there are no how-to-do-it instructions because abstract art comes from within, and we must not be constrained. I don't know about the rest of the world, but I read these painting guides to learn how to paint. The author seems to have discounted her readers' motivation in buying her book. Instead of instruction, she gives us endless convoluted riffs about the more spiritual and philosophical aspects of abstract art. Many of the photographs of paintings are badly done: fuzzy or out of focus. And many of her works she chose for the book are hardly exhibition quality; a few are just plain awful. I know it's difficult to talk about technique in abstract art because there are essentially no rules: anything goes. But let me at least understand how YOU do it, Ms. van Vliet -- then I'll go on to chart my... read more
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By truthseeker - January 31, 2010This is a well-written treatise on the validity, elements and process of abstract painting, but the style of the paintings within is a bit dated and unappealing, and even annoying. I do like the daily exercises, which I do with Caran d'Ache watercolor sticks in a watercolor sketchbook, but again, I do not like the images, which are all too much the same with what I consider little, if any, originality in composition or color. Just make a few scribbles on a piece of paper, and color them and this is what you get in the book. However, once I do the exercises, which do stimulate my own originality, I can then choose to do a painting on canvas of them, and in that regard, the book has been an impetus to my own work. The text is thoughtful and interesting and provides a sound basis for any abstractionist's artist statement. The merits of the book are in the text, not the images, which are redundant and boring.
She Strikes Again
By M. Carling - August 31, 2009If you like her last book, you'll like this one, too. It's pretty much the same material. And like the last one, I think this one's also handy to have around to dip into when times are dull. It's full of projects, so it's good for getting the juices flowing. Definitely belongs on an ideas shelf.
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