书名：Speed-The Practice and Science of Drawin绘画的实践与科学

作者：Harold Speed 

出版社名称：Dover Publications Inc. 

出版时间：2003

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780486228709 

商品尺寸：14.0 x 1.8 x 21.6 cm

包装：平装

页数：296（以实物为准）

学习实践以及欣赏艺术的大部分内容都与理解基本原则有关。其中一个原则就是哈罗德-斯比德所说的"抖动"，即允许现实主义和艺术视觉相互对抗的自由。对任何艺术家或艺术作品来说，这种品质非常重要，它将科学上的准确和艺术上的准确分开。斯比德对这一问题的处理方法现在被认为是经典之作，是本世纪初为数不多的几本持续被图形艺术界人士阅读和推荐的书籍之一。

在这部作品中，哈罗德-斯比德从许多不同的角度来处理绘画的这个动态方面。他将历史与科学、理论与精确的艺术定义对立起来。他从研究线描和大众绘画开始，这是艺术家需要学习两种基本方法。进一步的章节则通过线条和质量的统一和变化、平衡、比例、肖像画、视觉记忆、材料和程序来承载艺术视觉。在整个过程中，斯比德结合了历史背景，每种技术给艺术作品带来的动态方面，以及具体的练习，通过这些练习，年轻的绘图员可以开始他的训练。虽然不是一本严格意义上的技巧书，但《绘画的实践与科学》为初学者带来了一个清晰的陈述，说明了他将不得不发展的原则及其在创作艺术作品中的重要性。精心挑选的93张图版和图表，加强了斯比德一贯清晰的介绍。

Much of the learning to practice as well as to appreciate art is concerned with understanding the basic principles. One of these principles is what Harold Speed calls "dither," the freedom that allows realism and the artistic vision to play against each other. Very important to any artist or work of art, this quality separates the scientifically accurate from the artistically accurate. Speed's approach to this problem is now considered a classic, one of the few books from the early years of this century that has continued to be read and recommended by those in the graphic arts.

In this work, Harold Speed approaches this dynamic aspect of drawing and painting from many different points of view. He plays the historical against the scientific, theory against precise artistic definition. He begins with a study of line drawing and mass drawing, the two basic approaches the artist needs to learn. Further sections carry the artistic vision through unity and variety of line and mass, balance, proportion, portrait drawing, the visual memory, materials, and procedures. Throughout, Speed combines historical backgrounds, dynamic aspects which each technique brings to a work of art, and specific exercises through which the young draughtsman may begin his training. Although not a technique book in the strict sense of the terms, The Practice and Science of Drawing brings to the beginner a clear statement of the principles that he will have to develop and their importance in creating a work of art. Ninety-three plates and diagrams, masterfully selected, reinforce Speed's always clear presentation.

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