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"Painting and Understanding Abstract Art" is a practical book on how to paint abstracts but it also explains how to approach and understand abstract art. It moves the teaching of art from a doing level of painting a certain subject in a particular medium to a thinking level of 'what am I doing when I paint?' and 'what am I trying to say in this painting?' Using practical exercises with explanatory text, John Lowry develops the thinking and doing processes together and leads the reader to a greater understanding and appreciation of this most exciting art genre.
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John Lowry is a professional painter and a Master of Fine Art. His analytical approach to art is based on his scientific and engineering background. He teaches regularly throughout the UK.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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The nature and purpose of abstract art are widely misunderstood -- not the least by professional artists. John Lowry's book performs a service superbly. It demystifies abstract art, and introduces us the variety of ways in which it is possible to embark on the journey into abstraction. Even if you don't want to make this journey for yourself, a reading of his text will teach you a great deal about what it means to create and to understand visual art generally. The book is illustrated lavishly with a huge variety of inventive illustrations -- I gather painted or drawn by Lowry himself. Having endured the experience of being badly taught in this area (by somebody who had little sympathy with abstraction, and who seems to have assimilated incompletely Kandinsky) I'm sure that Lowry's book ought to be in every school, college and public library in the land.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Painting and Understanding Abstract Art
A wonderfully interesting and informative book. The title says it all. It is extremely instructive for both beginners and experienced artists and a thoroughly good read for those who wish to understand or know more about the subject.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, highly recommendable!
A wonderfully interesting and informative book. The title says it all. It is extremely instructive for both beginners and experienced artists and a thoroughly good read for those who wish to understand or know more about the subject.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, highly recommendable!
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Recent developments in the philosophy of mathematics and science have draw attention to the importance of creativity in breaking new boundaries. Leading scientists and mathematicians who have made significant breakthrough developments have relied on creative leaps of the imagination. In fact it is most noticeable that the world's greatest mathematicians such as Pythagoras, Descartes, Leibniz, Newton and Einstein have almost invariably been poor at arithmetic. Breakthrough developments in science, which increasingly have come to be dependent on mathematics, have also been made by men of ideas rather than the data collectors who provide the basic feedstuff of scientific research.
John Lowry who is both a scientist and one of the foremost abstract artists of our times, has introduced a disciplined creativity that is unrivalled amongst the melee of artists who adopt a less thorough approach to their work. Not for him the unbridled absurdity of brush-wielding horses or random paint throwing. Instead, he charts a journey from the representative into abstraction while keeping the artistic rules of composition, visual harmony, balance in shapes and colour and the use of form and texture.
This book gives to the inexperienced abstract artist or beginner a framework which, while conquering the stultifying effect of not quite knowing where to begin, leads steadily towards development of creative skills through process of mind and awakened understanding. For the more experienced and the professional, Painting and Understanding Abstract Art confirms the thinking process behind abstraction that has been the spur of all the leading creative artists in the field. To emphasise this point, Lowry finishes with a chapter showing how Matisse, Cézanne, Braque, Picasso, Gris, The Solon Cubists, The Purists and Futurists trod the path leading from figurative painting to the final steps of complete abstraction. This is demonstrated by examples from Mondrian, Goncharova, Larionov, Malevich, Klee, Kandinsky and Kupka until we come beyond modernism to an `ism' Lowry says is yet to be named, that of Hundertwasser, Vieira da Silva and Diebenkorn
While it is a book of profound leaning, it is also an easy guide from a highly respected teacher of art that is immediately comprehensible. For those who, like me are neither a beginner nor an expert but are among those admire abstract art, there are Lowry's stunning worked examples to enjoy; the product of a highly creative and organised mind.
Michael Southgate
John Lowry who is both a scientist and one of the foremost abstract artists of our times, has introduced a disciplined creativity that is unrivalled amongst the melee of artists who adopt a less thorough approach to their work. Not for him the unbridled absurdity of brush-wielding horses or random paint throwing. Instead, he charts a journey from the representative into abstraction while keeping the artistic rules of composition, visual harmony, balance in shapes and colour and the use of form and texture.
This book gives to the inexperienced abstract artist or beginner a framework which, while conquering the stultifying effect of not quite knowing where to begin, leads steadily towards development of creative skills through process of mind and awakened understanding. For the more experienced and the professional, Painting and Understanding Abstract Art confirms the thinking process behind abstraction that has been the spur of all the leading creative artists in the field. To emphasise this point, Lowry finishes with a chapter showing how Matisse, Cézanne, Braque, Picasso, Gris, The Solon Cubists, The Purists and Futurists trod the path leading from figurative painting to the final steps of complete abstraction. This is demonstrated by examples from Mondrian, Goncharova, Larionov, Malevich, Klee, Kandinsky and Kupka until we come beyond modernism to an `ism' Lowry says is yet to be named, that of Hundertwasser, Vieira da Silva and Diebenkorn
While it is a book of profound leaning, it is also an easy guide from a highly respected teacher of art that is immediately comprehensible. For those who, like me are neither a beginner nor an expert but are among those admire abstract art, there are Lowry's stunning worked examples to enjoy; the product of a highly creative and organised mind.
Michael Southgate
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