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2 comments about Draw: How to Master the Art.

1. To quote the author: "This is not a step-by-step guide todrawing - steps would only be useful if the destination were known. It is for individual journeys and the flights of steps would be as numerous as its readers." (p.54)

   The author advocates learning to draw by copying the Masters, and the book's copious illustrations consist largely of the author's own competent renderings of details from the drawings of van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Goya, Durer, Klee and numerous other greats - all for the purpose of illustrating various ideas concerning materials, techniques and subject matter.

   The book is essentially a very loosely structured compendium of ideas and concepts. Nothing covered in any depth, but on the whole very stimulating, thought-provoking and far-reaching.

   This book demands a great deal of self-motivation and initiative to be used effectively. But given the author's thesis that you learn by copying the Masters (and apparently they all copied each other!), the book provides excellent guidance on who to seek out and what to look for. They all favoured particular drawing materials and each excelled at achieving certain effects. ... but this one does offer a unique approach that is free of gimmicks.

   By the way, David Hockney wrote only the introduction, and except for advocating the copying method, adds nothing to the book. END




2. This is a most valuable book in the how to master the art world. It has many fun excercises to work on and many illustrations. If you are a beginner in art, like I am, I beleive this will be the best book on the subject.
   To me the most fun are the small in size easy illustrated tips throughout the book, that I can not help but to pick up a pencil and try them right away!

2 comments about Hockney on 'Art': Conversations with Paul Joyce.

1. a lot of chumming by Paul Joyce, pandering to Mr. Hockney who holds forth with nothing to give him pause.
   I admire mr. hockneys paintings but I think he should have heeded one of his heroes, Picasso, and say little. Let his work speak for itself.
   I am sorry I read it because now I will remember blah-blah-blah whenever I see one of his paintings. Regrettable.



2. I am an artist and have owned this book for years. I find it one of the most unique books on art I have read and continue to find it a valuable resource as a visual reference for Hockney's work, in particular his important photographic work and how photography relates to his painting. The book is constructed around a set of informal interviews by the friend and author, and as such is disarmingly informal in presentation yet thoroughly rigorous in critical thinking. Far from being merely an artist of pleasure, Hockney is revealed to be a formidable theorist with a crackling intelligence. This book pulls back the curtain of artist as celebrity and reveals a man who is vibrantly invested in his art, and in all of art, as well as in life. Recommended.

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No comments about Sex and the British : Slap and Tickle : A Perspective on the Sexual Content of British Art Since the 1960's.

1 comments about Cameraworks.

1. This heavy huge comprehensive book collects David Hockney's 49 Polaroid collages and 117 photocollages. Good reproduction quality. Highly recommended.

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