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Introduction and Materials

Cézanne, Paul. Letters. Edited by John Rewald. Translated by Marguerite Kay. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995.

Cennini, Cennino. Il libro dell’arte: The craftsman’s handbook. Translated by D.V. Thompson, Jr. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1933.

Fuga, Anotella. Artist’s Techniques and Materials. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006.

Ruskin, John. Notes by Mr. Ruskin on His Collection of Drawings by the Late J. M. W. Turner, R.A. London: Spottiswoode & Co., 1878.

Elements of Art & Principles of Design

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Gesture

Line

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Klee, Paul. Pedagogical Sketchbook. Translated by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy. London: Faber and Faber, 1953.

Perspective

Observation

Value

Wet Media

Color

Bashkoff, Tracey, ed. Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2018.

Drawing Concepts

LeWitt, Sol. “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art.” Artforum 5, no. 10 (June 1967): 79–83. Monoskop PDF.

The Museum of Modern Art. “Kara Walker, Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b’tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart 1994.” The Museum of Modern Art Collection. Accessed July 15, 2026. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/110565.

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