Contents
Thanks
About this book
Some thoughts about art
Art is a selection of what we see and feel
Painting is language
Many languages
Learning to see
Expression
How to recognise illusions
Some painters play with us
Your mind searches for meaning
Try these experiments
Can you recognise these drawings?
One thing at a time
I thought she was real
How to understand the language of paintings
Paint is your partner
Fresco painting and oil painting
What can different pens and pencils do?
Reproductions of paintings
Shape
The living shape
Shapes people like
The golden rectangle
Which is the friendly house?
Shapes show thoughts...even woolly houghts!
An artist's shapes
The shape belongs to the object and to the artist
Lines people like
Taking a line for a walk
More walking lines
Space and volume
The grammar of depth
Pictures with and without perspective
Perspective
Can you read depth?
Into the picture or across the picture...or both?
The grammar of volume
Tone
Colour
Some ways of using colour
Helping people to recognise things
Expressing feelings
Directing attention
Symbolising an idea
Thousands of colours!
Primary colours
Secondary colours
Tertiary colours
Complementary colours
Matisse loved colour
How other artists used colour
Which colours do you like?
Design and composition
The spot lives!
Boring balance and interesting balance
Giotto and Hokusai control your eyes
Composition
Six compositions
How to read a picture
Looking at pictures
Art doesn't improve...it changes
France
Greece
Rome
Germany
England
France
A famous painting
Content of the picture
Form in the picture
How did he do it?
Modern art
One point of view?
Different 'languages'
Rene Magritte
Jackson Pollock
Henri Matisse
Paul Klee
Francis Bacon
Fernand Leger
Mark Rothko
How to judge a picture
Your collection of pictures
Form and content in painting
Characterless forms
Is detail important?
Isn't he clever?
￡7,200,000! Is it worth it?
Here is one of mine!
Last thoughts
Answers
Acknowledgements
Index of paintings
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