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Do any of you guys have any book recommendations/tips for learning how to develop a keener eye for visual art, especially paintings? I've always wanted to understand visual art, but have never really understood how to. Of course, I still get emotional reactions from certain paintings, and one can say that this emotional reaction itself is an "understanding" of a sort, but I also want to develop a more concrete, technical sort of understanding.
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>>8484330
nice ivan the terrible and his son
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>>8484330
Buy an intro to art history book. Read it. Go from there. Google: prominent contemporary art critics and historians. Google: art museums near me. Go there. Too far? Read more books then.
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>>8484330 Read the following in order;
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction - Julian Stallabrass
Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained - Susie Hodge
Art as Experience – John Dewey
Ways of Seeing - John Berger
Design as Art - Bruno Munari
How to Write About Contemporary Art – Gilda Williams
Relational Aesthetics – Nicolas Bourriaud
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
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my tip is to avoid everything produced during the 19th century. you will not learn anything about art from that period
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