Ancient Near Eastern art is my favorite. Go to the Oriental Institute in Chicago and try not to be awed by their nearly two story Lamassu from an ancient palace in Babylon they have on display. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Lammasu.jpg . I hope one day to be able to go over to where they have a…
Still have my Art History book from college. Learned nothing there, but afterwords just reading the book over and over has been a dream. While I don't have any specific recommendations I enjoy going to the book store and digging around for anything that looks good, lists mediums, cultural reasoning, etc. Books on…
I find that art is also a great tool to understand how the world works. Drawing or modelling something accurately involves representing it's function - and you always have to research to find out what that function is. Form follows function is an educational tool on top of everything else. Combining aspects of modern…