Picture This
How Pictures Work
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4.4 • 21 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas—about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story—remain unparalleled in their simplicity and genius. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold? First published in 1991, Picture This has changed the way artists, illustrators, reviewers, critics, and readers look at and understand art.
Customer Reviews
The best book I've read this year
Seriously…this is easily the best book I've read within the past year. I have never learned as much about how a visual image is composed as I have from this book. It's a short book…you can easily read it within a day or two…but then you'll want to read it again…slowly and carefully. Ms. Bang uses the absolute minimum to distill how emotion is conveyed through pictures…the examples are fantastically clear. If you want to learn how to look at art, read this book!
Inspiring
Inspiring and unique perspective to those looking for another mindset on functional art and how to provoke emotion in graphic design. Great book.