Styles and theoretical concepts, techniques such as collage or background music, as well as key terms like abstraction and harmony, are vividly explained in this book through numerous visual examples. A wealth of tips and strategies not only helps to understand art but also to create artworks. Therefore, the book is invaluable for artists, students, art scholars, educators, and art lovers.

Styles include:

• Romanticism: spontaneity, emotion, imagination, and genius
• Cubism: the language of multiple perspectives
• Surrealism: uncovering the unconscious
• Completion: smoothing to perfection
• Printmaking techniques: through reproductions, art reaches a larger audience
• Plasticity: the material qualities of the object are reproduced in the medium

Key terms include perspective: a refined form of representing the three-dimensional.