The Mind's Eye - An Introduction to Making Images
Judith Masson
Publisher: Books & Books Press
Summary
Insightful, highly informative, always entertaining, wise and profound. Words on technique, ways of thinking, theory, drawing, painting from a modern day master. Strategies included address a range of art-making issues: conceptual, perceptual, technical, historical, philosophical, and psychological. Mason writes as she speaks, from the hip, from the heart and from the head. She addresses all the departments - the neuroses, the need for discipline, the compulsion to form. How does one tackle the metaphysics of the human face, the living anatomy, the stagnant psyche that refuses to paint? What is beautiful? Includes drawing games, how to think about drawing or painting, shrouded things, shadowed things, moving things, harsh, gross and edible things.