How Long to Read How to Understand a Painting

How Long Does it Take to Read How to Understand a Painting?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 14 minutes to read How to Understand a Painting by Francoise Barbe-Gall

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Choosing ten symbols from the natural world (the sun, the shell, the bird) and ten man-made (the window, the book, the mirror), Françoise Barbe-Gall illuminates our understanding of how these have been used and developed in art from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century, with sixty-eight wonderfully vivid examples. Painting has always made abundant use of forms and objects to convey abstract ideas: love, hope for eternal life, loyalty or betrayal. These recurring motifs, which were familiar to many in the past, have mostly become mysterious to the audiences of today. Today's art-lover will have to learn to look out for all the small things that can so easily seem like unimportant details, or simply decoration. But a flower, a reflection in a mirror or a bird in flight nearly always mean more than they first appear to. From Holbein's apple of knowledge to the black cat at the foot of Manet's Olympia, from Magritte's mysterious candles to Georgia O'Keeffe's flowers, this book shows how each work makes use of the language of symbols in an original and more meaningful way.

How long is How to Understand a Painting?

How to Understand a Painting by Francoise Barbe-Gall is 312 pages long, and a total of 78,624 words.

This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read How to Understand a Painting Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 9 minutes to read How to Understand a Painting aloud.

What Reading Level is How to Understand a Painting?

How to Understand a Painting is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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