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Leonardo's Ink Bottle: The Artist's Way of Seeing [Paperback]

Roberta Weir (Author)
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  • Paperback: 221 pages
  • Publisher: Celestial Arts (April 1, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0890878544
  • ISBN-13: 978-0890878545
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #856,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Enchanting yet practical! One to savour, November 18, 1999
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This review is from: Leonardo's Ink Bottle: The Artist's Way of Seeing (Paperback)
Roberta Weir has given visual artists a wonderful, enchanting work. She offers us not only a way of seeing but a way of being: open, receptive and true. It is a subtle blend of insight, very practical sugggestions for nurturing and developing one's creative work and selections of her fine drawings. It's wise, multi-layered and moving. I love this book. For visual arts students I would also recommend The Blank Canvas by Anna Held Audette.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ars Longa..., December 29, 2000
This review is from: Leonardo's Ink Bottle: The Artist's Way of Seeing (Paperback)
Even a cursory reading of "Leonardo's Ink Bottle" provides a rare glimpse into the mind of a working artist. Is is unusual to find an artist who excels in a variety of media and can as easily express herself in language as in paint or clay. The author's encyclopaedic knowledge of the arts and her craft of writing make her a wonderfully adept interpreter for those of us with a modest understanding of what drives a fully realized artist. Her approach to a life in art is as a process of spiritual discovery requiring the engagement of all the faculties: the eye that sees, the mind that conceives, the heart that feels and the hand that wields the brush or the pen to create something of beauty and value. The suggestions in Weir's book are drawn from her own life in the practice of art and are designed to take us beyond the conditioned framework of thought. These sharings of the journey to the wellsprings of creativity are a useful guide for the open-minded individual. This type of broad renaissance worldview is in such short suppply in our era that Weir's voice sounds a refreshing counterpoint, one that is not mawkish, new-agey or sentimental.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificiently written, well researched, unusual!!!, March 29, 1998
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Wonderful first book by a great American artist of the 20th century. Most unusual ability to make the reader understand a way to view the world in a most innocent (unbiased) way. A must read for any one searching for an understanding of one's own mind and the workings of the visual world.
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