The Blank Canvas offers solid advice for everyone who struggles with artist's block or other problems of creative expression, including: drawing subject matter from unexpected sources, mining one's daily visual responses for images, overcoming self-doubt and criticism, making choices when torn between several ideas, and getting started on assignments.
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"As a painter and an art educator, I found Professor Audette's The Blank Canvas to be both compelling and useful. The writer makes no apologies for honoring the history of art. She supports her views with apt quotations from artists and provides many suggestions that art teachers should find useful. She knows more than anyone I know about how to cope with 'creative dry spells,' and her treatment of the artist's studio should impel anyone to view the private work space with a fresh eye. I loved the book and wish it were twice its modest size."—Al Hurwitz, author of Gifted and Talented in Art
"The Blank Canvas unlocks, unblocks and stimulates the creative mind. Anna Held Audette offers a supermarket of ideas from the history of art, presenting the wisdom of—and anecdotes about—artists from centuries past up to the present day. It is comprehensive, honest, and inclusive, offering comments and views both psychological and intellectual, aesthetic and practical."—Audrey Flack, author of Art and Soul
"The Blank Canvas unlocks, unblocks and stimulates the creative mind. Anna Held Audette offers a supermarket of ideas from the history of art, presenting the wisdom of—and anecdotes about—artists from centuries past up to the present day. It is comprehensive, honest, and inclusive, offering comments and views both psychological and intellectual, aesthetic and practical."—Audrey Flack, author of Art and Soul
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Anna Held Audette is a painter, printmaker, and photographer with works in numerous collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery. She is Professor of Art at Southern Connecticut State University.
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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
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A Must Read for all Artists,
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What a wonderful book - I go back to it again and again. While "Art and Fear" is a great source of information, it is a little dry. I truly enjoy reading "The Blank Canvas", because it is a concise and witty source of inspiration. I wish I had read it sooner!
29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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ExcellentThe Blank Canvas is an excellent guide for visual arts students. It is concise, insightful and packed with practical suggestions for `getting started', nurturing ideas and developing one's painting/drawing. All of this valuable advice, plus insights from other painters and illustrations in a little over 100 pages. It's a small treasure. I like this book a lot!. I highly recommend it. Another wonderful, very special book for visual artists is Roberta Weir's The Artist's Way of Seeing.
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Enormously helpful strategies to keep from getting stuck,
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I disagree strongly with the previous review. While this book is targeted at beginning artists, I think there is much to offer those further along in their careers. I return to it regularly. I would also recommend a book called "Art and Fear." They should sell these two books together and make every aspiring artist read them (during breaks from their copious studio work, of course...). It's nice to see a small book like this one packed full of useful ideas.
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At various times throughout this century, there have been artists who denied their cultural heritage as a source for their images. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Van Gogh, New York, Larry Rivers, Fairfield Porter, Audrey Flack, Leon Battista Alberti, Pat Steir, Robert Motherwell New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- On Painting (Penguin Classics) by Leon Battista Alberti on 4 pages
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke on page 98, and Back Matter
- The Courage to Create by Rollo May in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Painters on Painting (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) by Eric Protter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Wayne Thiebaud by Karen Tsujimoto in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Artist's Quest of Inspiration (Aesthetics Today) by Peggy Hadden on page 218, and Back Matter
- Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience (Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School Series) by Nicholas Addison in Back Matter
- Fearless Creating: A Step-by-Step Guide To Starting and Completing Your Work of Art by Eric Maisel in Back Matter
- Faces of Your Soul: Rituals in Art, Maskmaking, and Guided Imagery with Ancestors, Spirit Guides, and Totem Animals by Kaleo Ching in Back Matter
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