Form

[back cover] CREATIVE PAINTING SERIES Titles in this very practical art instruction series are designed for use by advanced students and experienced amateurs. They can be used as self-teaching guides or as textbooks in art classes. A painting's form is the element that lends it visual coherence, and form derives from combinations of shapes as simple as triangles, circles, and squares, or as complex as intersecting lines and overlapping irregular shapes intended to suggest such qualities as motion, perspective, or repose. This book presents examples of still life, portraits, landscapes, water scenes, skies, and even abstract paintings, then analyzes them, demonstrating in clear illustrations the fundamental shapes from which each painting is constructed. Examples include works by famous artists, among them, Leonardo da Vinci, Joshua Reynolds, Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky, and many others.Guasch, Gemma is the author of 'Form', published 2004 under ISBN 9780764157790 and ISBN 0764157795.