The artist's design:  probing the hidden order
By: Marie MacDonnell Roberts.
Publisher: Fradema Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780963975805
Subjects: Composition (Art); Painting -- Technique.
Description: The book has been called, "The classic.  Simply the best book on design."  Readers will be fascinated at Marie MacDonnell Roberts' luminous and lucid description of the elements of design in realist painting, illustrated with over 230 photographs and paintings, which for nearly 20 years has educated and delighted artists, teachers, students, and art connoisseurs around the world.  Still available on amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 2 of cover).
Cover title.
Table of contents: title: Section I IDEA OF DESIGN; title: Chapter 1  What is Design?; title: Chapter 2  The Importance of Shapes; title: Section II  ELEMENTS OF DESIGN; title: Chapter 3  Unity; title: Chapter 4  Balance; title: Chapter 5  Rhythm; title: Chapter 6 Proportion; title: SECTION III  THE ARTIST'S MEANS; title: Chapter 7 Line; title: Chapter 8 Light; title: Chapter 9 Color; title: Chapter 10 Texture; title: Chapter 11 Form; title: SECTION IV MOVEMENT; title: Chapter 12 Track of Vision; title: Chapter 13 Movement and Countermovement; title: SECTION V THE THIRD DIMENSION; title: Chapter 14 Historic Means of Depth Perception; title: Chapter 15 Perspective; title: Chapter 16 20th Century Freedom; title: SECTION VI ENERGY AND TENSION; title: Chapter 17 Energy and Tension; title: SECTION VII SPECIFIC STRUCTURES; title: Chapter 18 Pyramidal and Axial Structures; title: Chapter 19 Division of Space Structures; title: Chapter 20 Radial/Nucleal and Cantilever Structures; title: Chapter 21 Meander, Circular, and Repeated Shapes Structures; title: CONCLUSION