LOOKING AT ART (WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED) contains Michael Atavar's teaching from his three courses at Tate. The book helps you to build a relationship with contemporary art, using the gallery as a conduit to feeling and includes 52 exercises (with plenty of tips to assist you) for your next visit to the modern art museum. Take it with you...Sixth in a series of books by Michael Atavar about creativity that includes 'HOW TO BE AN ARTIST' and '12 RULES OF CREATIVITY'.
Creativity begins with you. Through a series of 20 practical and effective exercises, all using a unique visual approach, Michael Atavar challenges you to open your mind, shift your perspective and ignite your creativity. Whatever your passion, craft or aims, this book will expertly guide you from bright idea, through the tricky stages of development, to making your concepts a reality. We often treat creativity as if it was something separate from us – in fact it is, as this book demonstrates, incredibly simple: creativity is nothing other than the very core of 'you'.
EVERYONE IS CREATIVE is a book about the power of creativity and how it can transform your life. We already have the tools to change ourselves; we carry them with us every day - our eyes. All that is required is that we use our vision and accurately record what we see around us. Michael Atavar guides you through the process of creativity - where to begin, what to look at and how to develop your unique way of seeing. Using exercises and challenges, he takes you on a journey into the visual, into the self, into the artist in each of us. Everyone is creative, whether they admit it or not, whether they accept it or not. So try it. Look around you. Be bold - what is happening right now in front of you Trust your original seeing of the world. I believe that your experience is unique, intrinsic to you. EVERYONE IS CREATIVE is the third in the Michael Atavar series of books about creativity, following on from HOW TO BE AN ARTIST and 12 RULES OF CREATIVITY.
Michael Atavar guides you through the basic principles of the creative process - how to begin, developing an original voice and working with creative blocks. This book representa a useful repository of original ways of thinking - methods that can be applied to any area of creativity
HOW TO BE AN ARTIST is a book that develops your creativity and helps you, stage by stage, grow your own creative potential. Michael Atavar draws on his extensive experience as an artist and coach to offer you exercises, tips and extensive lists of choices in order to make your vision real. In three expansive sections, he moves you from beginning an idea, through developing a vocabulary, to working with your own intuitive process. For beginner or experienced practitioner, everyone can benefit from this encouraging and practical volume. Put it in your pocket, it will change your life.