One student, in the OCA Forum website, recommended the above book as an excellent support to this course and I have been ploughing through it. There are approximately 200 images contained within it covers (and it's quite a small book) and explanations given on what painters were trying to achieve when they put paint to canvas. It was hard going at first, and I remember another student writing in the blog that it was better to dip into the book rather than try to take it all in at once. This seems a good plan and having dipped I found a good explanation on Cubism which was something I never understood. John goes on the explain that a cubist painter trys to show something from several views not just a conventional view that you would normally see. After reading this explanation Picasso' cubist work seems clearer, and with the explanations accompanying the pictures, I can grasp the significance of some of his work.
I shall continue to dip in when I have a few minutes to broaden my understanding and appreciation of major works of art.
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