Description
Molly Bang’s sensible, insightful, and out there treatise is now revised and multiplied for its twenty fifth anniversary.
Bang’s tough concepts stay extraordinary of their simplicity and genius: Discover the difficult and idea upsetting concepts that Bang brings to Picture This together with feelings approximately how the visible composition of pictures works to have interaction the sentiments, and the way the weather of an paintings can provide it the facility to inform a tale. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does purple really feel scorching and blue really feel chilly? She asks the appropriate inquiries to get your wheels turning even as the illustrations and considerate designs carry the phrases to lifestyles.
- Explores the combination of geometrical abstraction and emotional expressions, plus how a couple of transparent ideas can be utilized to construct tough visible statements.
- Encourages you to respond to the query, “How does the construction of an image—or any visible artwork shape—have an effect on our emotional reaction?”
- Includes tough imagery and lovely illustrations to assist readers really feel hooked up to the textual content.
First printed in 1991, Picture This has modified the best way artists, illustrators, reviewers, critics, and readers take a look at and take note artwork.
Molly Bang has authored and illustrated greater than 3 dozen books and has gained 3 Caldecott Honors, a Kate Greenaway Honor, and a Charlotte Zolotow Award, amongst different accolades, in her lengthy profession as a creator and artist.
Picture This makes an ingenious and galvanizing present for any artist or cherished person who is focused on layout.
