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The Elements of Drawing

Name: The Elements of Drawing
Author: John Ruskin
ISBN: 9781463718220

by John Ruskin

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Overview

Timeless work by one of the greatest art critics of all time begins with bare fundamentals and offers brilliant philosophical advise.

About the Author, John Ruskin

From his early youth John Ruskin drew obsessively, a discipline that he not only kept up right through the production of his great literary works, but which was essential to them. This book is the result of quite considerable teaching experience - Ruskin had been giving informal lessons by letter to friends for some time, for he could never resist giving advice; and he also taught more formal classes at the Working Men's college, a duty he shared with Rossetti.
It was as a sort of distillation of all this experience that The Elements of Drawing was born; and also from his development as a draughtsman.