Art of the Storyboard - John Hart

If you don't know anything about art and wish you did, The Story of Art will help. It will ONLY help you to understand art according to a modernist, Western European narrative. If you want to critique art, this is a pretty important narrative to understand, due to its dominance in the field of art theory(I mean, as far as I know). John Hart covers painting, sculpture, and architecture from pre-history to the mid-twentieth century. He explains what makes particular artists so important by placing their work in the context of problems that artists try to solve: how to convey depth, how to arrange the figures in a painting, how use color, and so on. This will be helpful to anyone who, like me, has stood before the Mona Lisa and wondered what in God's name was so great about it.

The first few chapters are SPECTACULARLY RACIST in a genial, 1950's upper-class Englishman kind of way. If you DON'T assume that art produced anywhere but Western Europe or America is contemptible or trivial, you can probably just skip the first few chapters, because they don't add much to the rest of the book. If you DO assume that art produced anywhere but Western Europe or America is contemptible or trivial, then I imagine the first few chapters WON'T sound racist to you, and may in fact sound SPECTACULARLY GENEROUS.!.!

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John Hart is exacting in his efforts.Whether it be his books on lighting for photographs, his teaching at New York University, celebrity headshots or this current book

"The Art of the Story Board" one finds the well-researched efforts with first-class information very helpful. If you need information on "The Art of the Story Board" John Hart's book is most likely the best and most current book on the subject.

If you find a better one on this subject or have any other recommendations please let me, Michael de la Force, know. Otherwise pick up "The Art of the Storyboard" and this will assist in making your presentation second to none while impressing and entertaining your audience with such strong knowledge regarding the storyboard!

If you wish to see some of John Hart's photographs or paintings go to https://artsreportcard.com where nice representations of his artistic abilities can be seen.

Best regards,

Michael de la Force

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