Visual arts

IT is much easier to understand and remember a thing when a reason is given for it, than when we are merely shown how to do it without being told why it is so done; for in the latter case, instead of being assisted by reason, our real help in all study.

It was not until some time after having passed through the course of training in two of our chief schools of art that the author got any idea of what drawing really meant.

It is impossible to understand principles without some statement of theory; and a book in order to be practical must therefore be to some extent theoretical. I have been as concise and brief in the theoretical parts as clearness would permit.

MODERN scientific publications, although they may in some or even many cases equal in their scientific quality the memoirs of earlier workers, do not, on the average, reach a high standard as regards illustration.

["The Elements of Drawing" was written during the winter of 1856. The First Edition was published in 1857; the Second followed in the same year, with some additions and slight alterations. The Third Edition consisted of sixth thousand, 1859.

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Art, with its finite means, cannot hope to record the infinite variety and complexity of Nature, and so contents itself with a partial statement, addressing this to the imagination for the full and perfect meaning.

As in the case of "The Bases of Design," to which this is intended to form a companion volume, the substance of the following chapters on Line and Form originally formed a series of lectures delivered to the students of the Manchester Municipal School

Leonardo Da Vinci, the many-sided genius of the Italian Renaissance, was born, as his name implies, at the little town of Vinci, which is about six miles from Empoli and twenty miles west of Florence.

DRAWING is the expression of an idea: “Art must come from within, and not from without. This fact has led some to assert that the study of nature is not essential to the student, and that careful training in the study.

AUTHOR OF "POOR BOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS," "GIRLS WHO BECAME FAMOUS," "STORIES FROM LIFE," "FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS," "FAMOUS AMERICAN STATESMEN," "SOCIAL STUDIES IN ENGLAND," "FROM HEART AND NATURE," "FAMOUS MEN OF SCIENCE," ETC.

More-over, it may be regarded as a fortunate circumstance that the three works, here reproduced with amazing fidelity in facsimile, represent happily the very chefs d'oeuvre of his wonderful productions; in their respective categories..

Complete Instructions for Making Crayon Portraits on Crayon Paper and on Platinum, Silver and Bromide Enlargements ALSO DIRECTIONS FOR THE USE OF “TRANSPARENT LIQUID WATER COLORS”, "THEORY OF COLORS" AND FOR MAKING “FRENCH CRYSTALS”

MemoMe is the author new collection of full pages dedicated to planner, time guide, journal and sketch. Poetry and art to assist the Memo memorable lead with special and structure areas to your writing support.

Art Book 2025 – A remarkable collection of contemporary artists from around the world, each revealing their inner studio and creative soul. A tribute to authenticity, diversity, and the universal language of art.

This book explores the dialogue between human intuition and artificial intelligence through the lens of street photography.

Art collect of BSJK 2001-2008

Collection of art of BSJK 2009-2021

The Biography of the Materials: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Ernesto León" By Abdel Hernández San Juan is monographic book on the visual art of venezuelan artist Ernesto León developing interdisciplinary interpretation, readings and analysis

"Another Decollages" is a monographic book theorizing and discussing lenguage and culture, sense and meaning, form and logic, in the complex work of venezuelan artist stablished in england, London, Cipriano Martínez

Reinscribing Inscription is a monography book on israel/venezuelan artist Lihie Talmor, the book collect several essays by Abdel Hernández San Juan written through the time, from the mid nineties to currently

The Interpretation of Art is composed of essays written on Venezuelan art between 1992 and 2025, in Houston, Texas, and Caracas.

If any cultural experience in contemporary art is susceptible to anthropological analysis, it is Cuban art. Most Cuban artists who emerged since the 1980s have explored quests that require anthropology for their understanding.

"Cultural Bodies: Art Criticism as Anthrology of Art" is a book of Abdel Hernández San juan that fully innovates and originally renew both the field of contemporary art criticism and the field of anthropology of art

An experimental photobook with photographs taken on the streets of Lisbon. cc-by-sa, 2025

Complete Instructions for Making Crayon Portraits on Crayon Paper and on Platinum, Silver and Bromide Enlargements ALSO DIRECTIONS FOR THE USE OF “TRANSPARENT LIQUID WATER COLORS”, "THEORY OF COLORS" AND FOR MAKING “FRENCH CRYSTALS”

More-over, it may be regarded as a fortunate circumstance that the three works, here reproduced with amazing fidelity in facsimile, represent happily the very chefs d'oeuvre of his wonderful productions; in their respective categories, preserving the best

The uncertain rate of progress in teaching drawing, the want of fixed principles that has prevailed in the instruction of it up to this day, even from remote ages, have long since rendered it desirable to have a method surer in its results.

As in the case of "The Bases of Design," to which this is intended to form a companion volume, the substance of the following chapters on Line and Form originally formed a series of lectures delivered to the students of the Manchester Municipal School.

'Art is universal in its influence ; so may it be in its practice,if it proceed from a sincere heart and quick observation. In this case it may be the merest sketch, or the most elaborate imitative finish. Either will be whole and perfect.' " GOETHE ".