Every Picture Hides a Story
The Secret Ways Artists Make Their Work More Seductive
Zusammenfassung
Each year 11 million people trek to the Louvre to gawk at the Mona Lisa. Many visitors clutch guide books in hand describing the painting. For some, it’s the experience of a lifetime, one they’ll talk about with friends and family for decades.
Yet some modern researchers say that the vast majority of people will never recognize the hidden messages in this painting. That’s because those hidden messages are subliminal.
Buried below the threshold of conscious awareness, Da Vinci used techniques people never notice. Not only don’t people know what they’re seeing, they would be shocked to find out.
A surprisingly large number of famous paintings fall into the same category. That is, they employ subliminal techniques to enhance the effectiveness of the work or to encode messages within portraits and landscapes. No book, however, has ever attempted to provide an overview of the technical sophistication and arcane methods that artists worldwide have used to conceal secret meaning in their work. Every Picture Hides a Story is the first book to expose the subliminal content in the world’s greatest paintings. Titillating, subversive, and building on the groundbreaking work of pioneers of art criticism, this book will enable readers to view art masterpieces with greater understanding. And their enjoyment of these works will be exponentially enhanced.
This full-color book contains 86 images of the paintings and their details.
Schlagworte
art appreciation Subliminal messages Artistic techniquesKeywords
art history- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- i–xiv Preface i–xiv
- 9–22 2 Michelangelo 9–22
- 23–34 3 Raphael 23–34
- 35–46 4 Hans Holbein 35–46
- 47–58 5 Caravaggio 47–58
- 59–68 6 Titian 59–68
- 79–88 8 Diego Velázquez 79–88
- 89–98 9 Johannes Vermeer 89–98
- 113–126 11 William Bouguereau 113–126
- 127–138 12 John Everett Millais 127–138
- 139–152 13 Édouard Manet 139–152
- 153–166 14 Edgar Degas 153–166
- 167–176 15 Berthe Morisot 167–176
- 177–186 16 Mary Cassatt 177–186
- 187–198 17 Thomas Eakins 187–198
- 217–226 19 Vincent Van Gogh 217–226
- 227–246 20 John Singer Sargent 227–246
- 247–260 21 John William Godward 247–260
- 261–272 22 Gustav Klimt 261–272
- 273–278 Epilogue 273–278
- 279–282 Acknowledgments 279–282
- 283–284 Photo Credits 283–284
- 285–296 Index 285–296
- 297–298 About the Authors 297–298