Picture This: How Pictures Work
Aug 2016 · Chronicle Books
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Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas—about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story—remain unparalleled in their simplicity and genius. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold? First published in 1991, Picture This has changed the way artists, illustrators, reviewers, critics, and readers look at and understand art.
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August 20, 2018
This book was good to learn the basic principles in an intuitive, casual
manner. But to me it wasn't worth the price of 12 pounds especially
considering there are books the same price with a far larger amount of
information available. But yeah. Good book.
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July 13, 2025
The book brilliant describe the imagination of art into understandable words
Rick Funcik
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June 19, 2023
fundamentals to remember!
About the author
Molly Bang has authored and illustrated more than three dozen books and has won three Caldecott Honors, a Kate Greenaway Honor, and a Charlotte Zolotow Award, among other accolades, in her long career as a writer and artist.
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