Discusses the nature of art, the painter and society, inspiration, style, the philosophy of modern painting, the picture plane, color and medium, creativity, an

Dunning draws on art, art criticism, his own insight, and various studies of those characteristics that lead to success in art by providing the student with use

Examines the life and works of the young Chinese girl who started painting animals at the age of three and in her teens became the youngest artist to have a one

Never before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke’s fascinating Letters to a Young Painter, written toward the end of his life between 1920 and 1926, i