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Abstraction In Art and Nature
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May 21, 2011
This explains so much about the patterns formed by forces of nature with good illustrations.
June 26, 2021
Nathan Cabot Hale’s narrative explores all aspects of the natural world in the way an artist desires to observe and understand it. We can all benefit from observing and understanding nature and its vast and complex realm as the author teaches us.
March 31, 2011
Read alongside Point and Line to Plane. These two books take diametrically opposite, and supplementary approaches.
Point and Line to Plane is primarily a priori and Abstraction in Art and Nature a posteriori. They benefit from being read together.
Unlike Point and Line to Plane, this derives formal relationship through observation, knowledge and analogy and applies them. This is more of a workbook or a reference book, I therefore skimmed it (I didn't do the exercises.)
The "abstraction" in the title is deceptive, as the primary emphasis is on the way that abstract forms inform the observation and representation of nature, although it may also prove valuable to those who work in "purer" abstract forms.
Point and Line to Plane is primarily a priori and Abstraction in Art and Nature a posteriori. They benefit from being read together.
Unlike Point and Line to Plane, this derives formal relationship through observation, knowledge and analogy and applies them. This is more of a workbook or a reference book, I therefore skimmed it (I didn't do the exercises.)
The "abstraction" in the title is deceptive, as the primary emphasis is on the way that abstract forms inform the observation and representation of nature, although it may also prove valuable to those who work in "purer" abstract forms.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews