The Daily Book of art
by David Schmidt, Rebecca J Razo, Elizabeth T. Gilbert, Amy Runyen, Sharon Robinson
The Daily Book of Art
- Cover
- Title Page
- Introductions
- Day 1: The Elements of Art
- Day 2: What is Aesthetics?
- Day 3: Paleolithic Painting
- Day 4: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
- Day 5: Mona Lisa
- Day 6: Cabinet of Curiosity
- Day 7: Tupilak
- Day 8: Covered in Clay, Plastic, and Concrete
- Day 9: Painting Pachyderms
- Day 10: Exercise 1
- Day 11: Line, Shape & Form
- Day 12: What is Art?
- Day 13: Ancient Egyptian Art
- Day 14: Jan Vermeer (1632-1675)
- Day 15: Sunflowers
- Day 16: The Permanent Collection
- Day 17: Those Lovely Bones
- Day 18: Happenings
- Day 19: The Museum of Bad Art
- Day 20: Exercise 2
- Day 21: Value
- Day 22: What is an Artist?
- Day 23: Classical Greek & Roman Art
- Day 24: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
- Day 25: The Birth of Venus
- Day 26: Behind the Scenes
- Day 27: Retablos and Ex-votos Paintings
- Day 28: The Vintage Collages of Anne Taintor
- Day 29: Camera Obscura
- Day 30: Exercise 3
- Day 31: Texture
- Day 32: The Purpose of Art
- Day 33: Early Christian & Byzantine Art
- Day 34: Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
- Day 35: The Last Supper
- Day 36: Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Day 37: Propaganda Art
- Day 38: Painted Tennis Shoes of Mesoamerica
- Day 39: Nazca Lines
- Day 40: Exercise 4
- Day 41: What is Color?
- Day 42: The Value of Art
- Day 43: The Art of the Middle Ages
- Day 44: Sandro Botticelli (1444/5-1510)
- Day 45: The Gleaners
- Day 46: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Day 47: Arpilleras
- Day 48: Talent Emerges in the Classroom
- Day 49: The Watts Towers
- Day 50: Exercise 5
- Day 51: The Color Wheel
- Day 52: What Makes Something Beautiful?
- Day 53: The Italian Renaissance
- Day 54: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669)
- Day 55: Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Whistler’s Mother
- Day 56: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Day 57: Six Decades of Sensuality
- Day 58: Bleed
- Day 59: The Smallest of the Small
- Day 60: Exercise 6
- Day 61: Color Temperature
- Day 62: Creativity
- Day 63: The Northern Renaissance
- Day 64: Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
- Day 65: The Creation of Adam
- Day 66: The School and Art Institute of Chicago
- Day 67: Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926)
- Day 68: Shattered Glass
- Day 69: The Largest of the Large
- Day 70: Exercise 7
- Day 71: Color Psychology
- Day 72: Plato (427-347 BCE)
- Day 73: Baroque Art
- Day 74: Michelangelo (1475-1564)
- Day 75: End of an Arabesque
- Day 76: Palacio Nacional
- Day 77: Glasgow School of Art
- Day 78: Murals of the Border Wall
- Day 79: Synesthesia and Art
- Day 80: Exercise 8
- Day 81: Color Schemes
- Day 82: Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
- Day 83: The Rococo
- Day 84: Francisco Goya (1746-1828)
- Day 85: Ophelia
- Day 86: Museo Nacional del Prado
- Day 87: If Walls Could Talk
- Day 88: Latte Art
- Day 89: Art-o-mat®
- Day 90: Exercise 9
- Day 91: Linear Perspective
- Day 92: St. Augustine (354-430 CE)
- Day 93: Neoclassicism
- Day 94: Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
- Day 95: The Houses of Parliament, London, with the Sun Breaking Through the Fog
- Day 96: Musée du Louvre
- Day 97: Il Palio or Palio di Siena
- Day 99: Museum Mixup
- Day 100: Exercise 10
- Day 101: Atmospheric Perspective
- Day 102: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
- Day 103: Romanticism
- Day 104: Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337)
- Day 105: Self-Portrait
- Day 106: The National Gallery
- Day 107: Presepe
- Day 108: Date Palms and Pine Needles
- Day 109: Mechanical Mirrors
- Day 110: Exercise 11
- Day 111: Contrast
- Day 112: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
- Day 113: Realism
- Day 114: Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
- Day 115: Mont Sainte-Victoire
- Day 116: Vatican Museums
- Day 117: The Bone Church of Sedlec
- Day 118: The Art of Adaptation
- Day 119: New York City Garbage
- Day 120: Exercise 12
- Day 121: Principles of Composition
- Day 122: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
- Day 123: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Day 124: Raphael (1483-1520)
- Day 125: The Starry Night
- Day 126: Acropolis Museum
- Day 127: Pysanky
- Day 128: Dust in the Windshield
- Day 129: Processing
- Day 130: Exercise 13
- Day 131: Steps to Effective Composition
- Day 132: Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
- Day 133: Symbolism
- Day 134: Diego Velázquez (1599-1660)
- Day 135: The Tempest
- Day 136: The Hermitage
- Day 137: Dalecarlian Horses
- Day 138: One Unbroken Line
- Day 139: You’ve Been Dumped
- Day 140: Exercise 14
- Day 141: Positive and Negative Space
- Day 142: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- Day 143: Impressionism
- Day 144: Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
- Day 145: The Young Bacchus
- Day 146: Birth of the Cool
- Day 147: Icon Art
- Day 148: Gemüseorchester
- Day 149: Top Sellers
- Day 150: Exercise 15
- Day 151: Creating the Perfect Studio
- Day 152: Benedetto Croce (1866-1952)
- Day 153: Post-Impressionism
- Day 154: Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
- Day 155: The Third of May, 1808
- Day 156: Los Angeles in the 1960s
- Day 157: Persian Miniatures
- Day 158: Walk-Through Exhibits
- Day 159: Burning Man
- Day 160: Exercise 16
- Day 161: Paint Palettes
- Day 162: Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
- Day 163: Art Nouveau
- Day 164: Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
- Day 165: When Are You Getting Married?
- Day 166: This is London
- Day 167: Islamic Calligraphy
- Day 168: The Art of the Uncontrollable
- Day 169: Foodscapes
- Day 170: Exercise 17
- Day 171: Paintbrushes
- Day 172: Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
- Day 173: Fauvism
- Day 174: Caravaggio (1571-1610)
- Day 175: The Milkmaid
- Day 176: “Impressions” of 19th-Century Paris
- Day 177: Deer Stones
- Day 178: The Dead House
- Day 179: The Secret Language of Comics
- Day 180: Exercise 18
- Day 181: Drawing and Painting Surfaces
- Day 182: The Human Body
- Day 183: Expressionism
- Day 184: Claude Monet (1840-1926)
- Day 185: L'Absinthe
- Day 186: Black Mountain College
- Day 187: Cheongsam
- Day 188: Rebirth of the Synthetic
- Day 189: Coral Castle
- Day 190: Exercise 19
- Day 191: Introduction to Drawing
- Day 192: Nature in Art
- Day 193: Cubism
- Day 194: Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
- Day 195: Luncheon of the Boating Party
- Day 196: Into the Woods
- Day 197: Longmen Grottoes
- Day 198: Sand, Hands, and Soul
- Day 199: Crop Circles
- Day 200: Exercise 20
- Day 201: Drawing What You See
- Day 202: Patterns of Beauty in Nature and Art
- Day 203: The Ashcan School and The Eight
- Day 204: Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
- Day 205: Vanitas
- Day 206: Pilchuck Glass School
- Day 207: Hahoe Mask Dance of South Korea
- Day 208: Nothingness
- Day 209: The da Vinci... Horse Picture?
- Day 210: Exercise 21
- Day 211: Graphite Pencil
- Day 212: Animals, Art, and Consciousness
- Day 213: Futurism
- Day 214: Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
- Day 215: Snap the Whip
- Day 216: Dorland Mountain Arts Colony
- Day 217: “Tiger and Magpie” Paintings
- Day 218: Sand Mermaids
- Day 219: Fig Leaves
- Day 220: Exercise 22
- Day 221: Introduction to Pastel
- Day 222: Art as Therapy
- Day 223: Russian Avant-Garde
- Day 224: Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
- Day 225: Portrait of Pope Innocent X
- Day 226: Collecting Art
- Day 227: Sumi-e
- Day 228: Drawn to the Ocean
- Day 229: The Gardner Heist
- Day 230: Exercise 23
- Day 231: Introduction to Oil Painting
- Day 232: Perception and Reality
- Day 233: Dada
- Day 234: Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
- Day 235: Jane Avril
- Day 236: Art Collections of the Rich and Famous
- Day 237: Netsuke
- Day 238: Tactile Painting
- Day 239: Stock, Money, and Art
- Day 240: Exercise 24
- Day 241: A Brief History of Oil Painting
- Day 242: Art and Christianity
- Day 243: De Stijl & Neo Plasticism
- Day 244: Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
- Day 245: The Ashes of Phocion Collected by His Widow
- Day 246: Celebrity Art Collectors
- Day 247: Hand-Painted Pop
- Day 248: Les Coléres
- Day 249: Trash or Treasure?
- Day 250: Exercise 25
- Day 251: Using an Underpainting
- Day 252: Art and Judaism
- Day 253: The Bauhaus
- Day 254: Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)
- Day 255: Rain, Steam, and Speed
- Day 256: What is a Biennial?
- Day 257: Tibetan Sand Paintings
- Day 258: Cosmetic Interpretation
- Day 259: Scanwiches
- Day 260: Exercise 26
- Day 261: Building an Oil or Acrylic Painting
- Day 262: Art and Islam
- Day 263: The Harlem Renaissance
- Day 264: Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
- Day 265: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
- Day 266: Art at the Venice Biennale
- Day 267: Skin Deep
- Day 268: Marbles and Hair
- Day 269: The Amber Room
- Day 270: Exercise 27
- Day 271: Applying the Paint
- Day 272: Eastern Aesthetics
- Day 273: The Mexican Renaissance
- Day 274: Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
- Day 275: Disputation of the Holy Sacrament
- Day 276: The Whitney Biennial
- Day 277: Shadows and Light
- Day 278: Tractor as Pencil
- Day 279: Superman
- Day 280: Exercise 28
- Day 281: Alla Prima Painting
- Day 282: African Aesthetics
- Day 283: Surrealism
- Day 284: Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
- Day 285: The Arnolfini Marriage
- Day 286: Art Basel
- Day 287: West African Barber Shop Signs
- Day 288: Junk Art in the Desert
- Day 289: Great Bowls o’ Fire!
- Day 290: Exercise 29
- Day 291: Painting en Plein Air
- Day 292: Art and Language
- Day 293: Abstract Expressionism
- Day 294: Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
- Day 295: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
- Day 296: Old Favorites, New Discoveries
- Day 297: Holy Rollin’
- Day 298: Homeless in Russia
- Day 299: Artistic Syndromes
- Day 300: Exercise 30
- Day 301: Introduction to Acrylic
- Day 302: Art and Politics
- Day 303: Pop Art
- Day 304: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
- Day 305: Self-Portait
- Day 306: Living Pictures
- Day 307: Kente Cloth of Western Africa
- Day 308: Morpho Towers
- Day 309: Math + Physics = ART?
- Day 310: Exercise 31
- Day 311: Acrylic Mediums
- Day 312: Ancient Aesthetics
- Day 313: Minimalism
- Day 314: Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
- Day 315: Breakfast in Bed
- Day 316: Taking Art to the Streets
- Day 317: Spirits in Stone
- Day 318: Post-Human
- Day 319: The Bad Dream
- Day 320: Exercise 32
- Day 321: Introduction to Watercolor
- Day 322: Medieval Aesthetics
- Day 323: Performance Art
- Day 324: Jan van Eyck (1390-1441)
- Day 325: Adele Bloch-Bauer I
- Day 326: The Auction House
- Day 327: A House United
- Day 328: Strandbeest
- Day 329: Mona Lisa Lifted
- Day 330: Exercise 33
- Day 331: Watercolor Pigments
- Day 332: Modern Aesthetics
- Day 333: Land & Environmental Art
- Day 334: Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
- Day 335: Jeremiah Mourning Over the Destruction of Jerusalem
- Day 336: Sotheby’s
- Day 337: More than Meets the Eye
- Day 338: Shoes on a Wire
- Day 339: Prison Art
- Day 340: Exercise 34
- Day 341: Watercolor Techniques
- Day 342: Postmodern Aesthetics (Part 1)
- Day 343: Feminist Art
- Day 344: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
- Day 345: Bridge Over a Pond with Water Lilies
- Day 346: Christie’s
- Day 347: Second Skin
- Day 348: The Videos of Fischli and Weiss
- Day 349: Vegas, Baby
- Day 350: Exercise 35
- Day 351: Creating an Artist’s Sketchbook
- Day 352: Postmodern Aesthetics (Part 2)
- Day 353: American Folk Art
- Day 354: Titian (1488-1576)
- Day 355: The Blue Boy
- Day 356: Out West with Bonhams & Butterfield’s
- Day 357: Moai
- Day 358: Ancient Form Profaned by Pop Culture
- Day 359: Radiology Art
- Day 360: Exercise 36
- Day 361: Art Appreciation
- Day 362: Tips for Further Study
- Day 363: Postmodern and Contemporary Art
- Day 364: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
- Day 365: Lovers in a Park
- Sources Cited
- Bridgeman art Library Credits
- Additional Credits
- About the Authors
- Copyright Page