Review of Negative Shape - The Defining Attribute
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Review of Negative Shape - The Defining Attribute
Negative Shapes: The Defining Attribute by Christine Archer is a book that explains the rudiments of drawing, painting, and art in general. The author discusses art’s sentimental value and importance to the world. The book is written in a way that encourages art appreciation with little snippets of the author’s life and experience as an artistic person infused in it. Christine narrates various experiences and worldviews from her perspective throughout the book and shows a lot of enthusiasm while at it. This book is more like a guide for anyone who is willing to take chances with expressing themselves through art in whatever medium they choose. It emphasizes a lot on the theory of negative shapes and spaces, a theory the author took a lot of time to master.
The book has intrinsic value to it. I gained a lot of information and knowledge while reading it, and it didn’t at any point seem boring. Its pacing and the organisation of chapters made it a smooth read. It also broadens a reader’s mind to the many possibilities and ways of approaching life by viewing it from different perspectives. I really appreciated how there was no ambiguity present in this book. The author clearly understood the ideas she wrote about, and it wasn’t surprising that she could explain them as well as she did.
The book started off a bit confusing; it felt scattered and all over the place at the beginning owing to the fact that there was hardly any context to the author’s writing. Some of the concepts would have been plain difficult to grasp if she wasn’t so good at explaining them. Pushing through the first couple of chapters with much patience, I became more interested in what she was writing about as the book went on. I would definitely call it a slow burner because of this. At the end of the book, I was a little bummed by how short it was because I had become fully invested in the author’s views and ideas.
I rate this book 5 out of 5 stars. I loved the author’s method or approach while writing about the things she is passionate about; you could feel the passion in her words. There were some grammatical errors in the book, but not so much to make it difficult to enjoy. It was professionally edited. I would have removed a star because of its confusing first few pages, but I enjoyed the story as I got deep into it, so it's needless to deduct any star.
I recommend this book to people who are interested in art, abstract ideas, and generally open-minded people who would love to see artworks in a different light.
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