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Color And Composition: Twelve Letters To Val Hall, Johannes H. Von Gumppenberg, Janet Von Gumppenberg
Color And Composition: Twelve Letters To Val Hall, Johannes H. Von Gumppenberg, Janet Von Gumppenberg
Johannes von Gumppenberg Books
From 2008 through 2013 Johannes led an extracurricular seminar in the Circle of Scholars at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. As usual, every year and for every presentation he prepared full teaching notes and copious slides and handouts. In the middle years, from 2010 through 2013, he started these Letters underlying the seminars: "As I thought about my own work as an artist and my eyesight weakened, I ventured to write down my understanding of Visual Art, and decided to write the essays as personal letters to my fellow artist."
Johannes often said this would provide the needed …
The Formulation Of A Graphic Language, Johannes H. Von Gumppenberg
The Formulation Of A Graphic Language, Johannes H. Von Gumppenberg
Johannes von Gumppenberg Books
A philosophical study of fundamental concepts in delivering the two-dimensional rendition of basic forms. Starting in the late 1950s, the artist posed himself multiple problems about pictorial perception discovered when rendering form, then created 70 black-and-white plates and 20 figures, each a separate work of art, to illustrate the effort. The accompanying text discusses his reflections on his successes and failures and his philosophy regarding the artistic attempt in general, a personal aesthetics.
A Lexicon Of Drawing Problems And Solutions, Johannes H. Von Gumppenberg
A Lexicon Of Drawing Problems And Solutions, Johannes H. Von Gumppenberg
Johannes von Gumppenberg Books
Not so much a "how-to" on drawing, this book of unique art plates adds new insights to modern concepts of composition and design. Its beautiful presentation seeks to please the art collector as well as the student.
A single theme, whose nuggets are scattered throughout, unifies these varied and original drawings done over a period of ten years: Understanding fundamentals enables the modern artist to present "all things in all ways," making the most of both observation and inventiveness.
This volume consists only of images. While including "teaching text" handwritten into the illustrations, at the same time the artist crafted …