Metropolitan Seminars in Art, Portfolio 4 (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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Metropolitan Seminars in Art, Portfolio 4: Abstraction is the fourth volume of a twelve-volume set from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This volume includes 12 glossy unbound plates (37-48) and a sheet of review questions. The Plates (37) The Artist in His Studio by Vermeer; (38) The Studio by Picasso; (39) The Wyndham Sisters by Sargent; (40) Les Demoiselles D'Avignon by Picasso; (41) Rhythm of Straight Lines by Mondrian; (42) Landscape with Farmhouse by Mondrian; (43) Horizontal Tree by Mondrian; (44) Black Lines, No. 189 by Kandinsky; (45) The Burning of the Houses of Parliament by Turner; (46) The Discovery of the True Cross; (47) Forest of Fontainebleau by Cezanne; and (48) Ia Orana Maria by Gauguin. About the entire These 12 Portfolios present a systematic course of art study. The plan of the course is original. It is a carefully considered program of art education and of self-education, especially developed by the Museum to help the layman reach some satisfactory understanding of the paintings that attract his interest in the museums of the world, or wherever else he may see them. Each portfolio contains an envelope of color reproduction plates, a sheet of review questions, and a preview sheet of the next lesson. The 12 portfolios (1) What is Painting?, (2) Realism, (3) Expressionism, (4) Abstraction, (5) Composition as Pattern, (6) Composition as Structure, (7) Composition as Expression, (8) Fresco, (9) Tempera and Oil, (10) Water Color, Pastel and Prints, (11) The Artist as a Social Critic, (12) The Artist as a Visionary.