More Joy of Art: Keys to Appreciating Art

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Find Even More Joy in Exploring and Appreciating Art, Guided by an Award-Winning Artist's Insights!

Perhaps the best quality of art is that it challenges presumptions and forces a second look. Likewise, this sequel to popular art appreciation book The Joy of Art delves even deeper to decode and present the elements of visual art, leading the reader to a greater understanding and perception. In doing so, even a novice art fan may become a connoisseur in their own right. An entertaining and informative read by artist Carolyn Schlam, More Joy of Art offers ways to broaden appreciation of the following major aesthetic criteria in visual art:

• Beauty
• Authenticity
• Originality
• Modernity
• Perspective
• ...and the indefinable quality that makes each artwork unique and compelling.

More Joy of Art

provides the reader with the framework to approach works of art from any period, style, medium, or genre. With a guided examination of many notable and acclaimed works of artincluding works that challenge expectations and defy categorization, such as traditional works that are modern and modern works that are traditionalSchlam allows aspiring art enthusiasts and art experts alike to see and understand each work with fresh eyes. With these revelations on historically acclaimed work in hand, Schlam goes on to present remarkable works by living artists, allowing readers to apply this new approach to the appreciation of unfamiliar works and explore their new skills to discover what they like, dislike, or love about each new work.

With 150 color photographs and foundational insights from an artist-author, More Joy of Art is your essential tool kit to further a deeper love of art and to make a museum visit or browsing a gallery truly rewarding.

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Praise for More Joy of Art
"A practical guide to making sense of pictures, designed to enhance the experiences of all avid art gallery visitors. This book nurtures our innate intelligence of seeing by stimulating levels of attention normally dormant in everyday life. We are encouraged to exercise our full range of attention, from focusing on the formal pictorial elements of line, shape, tone, colour, and texture, before attending to how combinations of visual elements afford insights to those perennial themes of truth, emotion, beauty (unencumbered by Kant), and taste (unbothered by Bourdieu). This approach is demonstrated through the author's friendly, accessible writing style applied to the analysis of work by a refreshing range of contemporary artists."
--Dr. Howard Riley, Professor Emeritus, Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Praise for The Joy of Art
"One way to really know someone's true character is to visit a museum and look at art with them. With Carolyn Schlam's The Joy of Art in hand, you will be led through a joyous discovery of art through the centuries as seen through the eyes and insights of an artist and educator who accumulatively reveals the literal and the mysterious building blocks that make art a viewing pleasure for the eyes and the soul."
--Jimmy Wright, artist, National Academician, and president of the Pastel Society of America

Author Bio

Carolyn Schlam is an award-winning American painter, sculptor, and author, born and raised in New York City. She studied painting with Norman Raeben, youngest son of the Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, in Carnegie Hall Studios and glassmaking at Urban Glass in Brooklyn. She is the author of The Creative Path: A View from the Studio on the Making of Art, The Joy of Art: How to Look at, Appreciate, and Talk About Art, The Zen of Art: With Notes on the Art of Life, and various illustrated books for children. Visit her at www.carolynschlam.com.