Appearance & Reality: A Visual Handbook for Artists, Designers, and MakersA contemporary perspective on the problem of design and the visual arts, this book investigates the visual experience through four key disciplines: art, craft/technology, design, and science. It discusses visual fundamentals such as line, form, colour, and composition, as well as social issues such as environmental responsibility, non-Western art history, gender, locality, and cultural diversity -- all of which have an impact on current creative processes. This broad viewpoint shows how artists can create meaningful work that has cultural integrity. |
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abstract activity Appearance and Reality architecture artist AUSTRALIA balance become bowl Bruce County building Caryatids Charles Hobson complementary colors complex conceptual context craft/technology create creative critical culture depth develop disciplines dots Douglas Cardinal drawing E.H. Gombrich elements emotional environment evaluate express familiar feel Fractals Glynn Thomas Gothic Novel Grey County human icon idea identity illusion imagination Kathleen Edwards light live Longitude Prize look Magdalene Bridge maker materials meaning mind move movement nature NORTHERN CALIFORNIA object observation organization overlap painter painting pattern perception person perspective phenomena physical picture plane present primary colors problem quadriform region relationship represent representation retina sculpture sense sensory shape solid SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA SOUTHEAST ENGLAND space stories structure subtractive colors SURFACE QUALITY symbolic tactile texture things transformation tree understand viewer visual contrasts