HOW TO READ ART

The book explains the aesthetics of schools of painting from the Renaissance masters and Impressionists to the Cubists and Modernist s. It enables readers to develop swiftly an understanding of the vocabulary of painting and to discover how to look at diverse paint ings in detail.In the first part of the book, the author reveals how to read paintings by considering five key areas: shape and supp ort, style and medium, compositional devices, genre, and the meaning of recurring motifs and symbols