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The DEMO reading room.
Eight practical reading guides: painting, prints, photography, sculpture, textiles, glass and collecting. Museum sources, clear image credits and original exercises.
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Ten minutes with a painting: the art of looking closely
Let Van Gogh and Monet guide you through colour, composition and detail. A simple way of looking to take into a museum or your own gallery.
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A print has its own language: Dürer, Hokusai and good questions
From engraved lines to the colour areas of a woodblock print. How to look at prints and distinguish technique, reproduction and a particular copy.
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Sculpture needs space: look from three directions
Silhouette, scale and the viewer’s route. Rodin’s Thinker helps you prepare questions about sculpture, presentation and its place at home.
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Morris and the rhythm of textiles: beyond ornament
Birds, leaves and repetitions. An exercise in looking at pattern, questions about material and the distinction between a design and its later example.
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An artwork record that brings order to a collection
Ceramics as a starting point for useful documentation. A practical set of fields, photographs and questions separating sources from observations.
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Photography in a collection: what to check
An image and a print raise different questions. Stieglitz helps us read dates, techniques, formats and the details of a particular copy.
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Light held in glass: Gallé and Tiffany
Contour, surface and colour. How to look at glass, compare photographs and ask an artist about presenting a particular work.
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Collage: fragments and the art of placing things together
Begin with Schwitters to explore layers, edges and meanings. Try an exercise of your own: six paper fragments in three different arrangements.
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