{"product_id":"how-painting-happens","title":"How Painting Happens","description":"A Times Book of the Year. \"Among the clearest pieces of writing I have encountered on the experience of viewing a masterpiece... Gayford seems to have seen everything and contemplated it all with great depth.\" – Andrew Marr, New Statesman. \"If you relish the lusciousness of oil paint, looking at it and wanting, as Damien Hirst phrased it, 'to eat it like ice cream', Martin Gayford's latest work will be an absolute treat for you.\" – The Spectator. \"A critic and art historian over many decades, Martin Gayford is a trusted insider and a favoured guest among the most celebrated talents across Britain and beyond. If anyone knows them best, it must be this latter-day Vasari... Provocative and packed with rich imagery.\" – Financial Times. \"From El Greco to Picasso, Martin Gayford's How Painting Happens presents an encyclopaedic journey through art history.\" – Daily Telegraph. \"An extraordinary painting can move the soul. But how does it come to be? Martin Gayford skillfully traces the path running from inspiration through to execution.\" – The Irish Times.\n\nDrawing upon many years of conversations with working practitioners, Martin Gayford provides an intimate look into the practice, meaning, and possibilities of painting. Even though painting is an unimaginably ancient endeavour, it remains entirely vigorous in the twenty-first century. Every accomplished picture brings a fresh world into being, one in which we reside for as long as we choose to gaze at it. Paintings can embody profound concepts and paradoxes that are understood without any requirement for spoken or written words. For those who devote themselves to the craft, painting can turn into a lifelong obsession.\n\nArtists themselves frequently provide the most penetrating commentary on the subject. Gayford's captivating and heavily illustrated volume brings together a multitude of artists' perspectives spanning both the past and the modern era. The text draws on more than three decades of dialogues held with Frank Auerbach, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling, Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Lucian Freud, Katharina Fritsch, David Hockney, Claudette Johnson, Lee Ufan, Paula Rego, Gerhard Richter, Bridget Riley, Jenny Saville, Frank Stella, Luc Tuymans, Zeng Fanzhi, and numerous others.\n\nIn addition, the work includes the reflections of Vincent van Gogh on Rembrandt, John Constable on Titian, Francis Bacon on Velázquez, R. B. Kitaj on Cézanne, and Jean-Michel Basquiat on Picasso. These creators offer their personal thoughts regarding their chosen medium, explaining the reasons and methods behind their painting, how their journey with the craft first began, the impression left on them by fellow painters, and the ways in which they discover creative inspiration and nourishment within their art.\n\nTraversing multiple centuries, How Painting Happens delivers an expansive and rewarding investigation into the figures who paint and the endlessly fascinating phenomenon of painting itself.","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55984674210114,"sku":"2226","price":3016.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0942\/5734\/8930\/files\/how-painting-happens-sanat-thames-hudson-martin-gayford-8402-22-O.jpg?v=1787595444","url":"https:\/\/lumiefilm.com\/products\/how-painting-happens","provider":"LUMIE FILM","version":"1.0","type":"link"}