Research Catalog

Title

Understanding paintings : the elements of composition / Frederick Malins.

Author

Malins, Frederick.

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Details

Description

128 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm.

Series Statement

• Art & design series
• A Spectrum book

Uniform Title

Art & design series.

Subjects

• Visual perception
• Composition (Art)
• Painting > Technique

Contents

Point: point as position; grouping; point as pattern; point as focus; point as movement; point as texture -- Line: line used to express feelings and emotions; line as a compositional element; the line analyzsed; line as structure; line as contour; line expressing transparency; line as movement; line as force; line as pattern; line as texture -- Perspective: aspects of linear perspective in composition; the eye level or horizon ine; one-point, two-point, three-point perspective; the rectagle in one-point perspective; the circle in perspective; early beginnings; development of one-point perspective; multiple viewpoint; forced perspective; perspective of the dream; ambiguous perspective -- Geometry: geometry and the golden section; the golden section as the basis of geometric proportion; geometry as pattern; geometry as construction; the circle; geometry as movement; geometry as shape and form; geometry as subject -- Tone: tone as form; tonal composition and tone values; tone as lighting; tonal simplicfication; tone as distance (aerial perspective); tone as pattern; pattern by counter-change of tones; tone as rhythum; tonality-the tonal concept -- Colour: hue; value; chroma; colour as mood; colour as symbol; colour as space (aerial perspective); colour as light and movement; colour as form -- Drawing: the point, and the point as movement; line as contour; line as movement; line as perspective and implied perspective; line as geometry; line as form by cross-section; line as form by direction of oplane; line and tone; tone as form by lighting and by plane; tone as space and as value; tonal analysis -- Composition: analysis of composition.

ISBN

• 0139367322
• 9780139367328
• 0139367241
• 9780139367243

LCCN

80020201

OCLC

• ocm06602138
• 6602138
• SCSB-29946

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library