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Synopsis

This book analyses the processes involved with creating a work of Art. It will be of interest to the “novice” as well as to all artists, students, teachers, readers and critics, as it provides and instruction to the serious practice, understanding and judging of art.

“The Elements of Art” an analysis of the process involved in creating works of art at all local bookstores. Underlining the principle that “all art is one” it aims to establish a standard by which the artist, student, teacher or critic can judge his own or others work.

Review 1

The author has been inspired by the Barbadian environment to produce a reference work for the uninitiated and the accomplished alike. The treatment given to the subject is exhaustive, but at least the author sought to create the condition by which you should judge art. Art is based on the exposure of the truth and beauty of that experience. What the author seeks to emphasize is that the experience is not only a physical one but also a mental and spiritual realization, whatever he thee medium, technique or form applied. If this work does no more than stimulate conscious intellectualization of art and what it and what makes for art, then it would have achieved its major objective in bringing the study and pursuance of the art to a higher level of existence, namely, understanding based on scientific principles. For anyone who shall go on to read the following pages, there is a chance of an exposure to new technique of relating to the arts.

- Review by
Louis R Tull M.P.
Minister of Education and Culture
Barbados, 1977

Review 2

They say good things come in small packages. Nowhere is the truth of this adage better illustrated that in a little pocket-sized booklet of a mere 24 pages, now on sale in Bridgetown.

What Mr. Callender does and does wells is to reduce art to its basic components, and to show the infinite extent to which the permutations and combinations resulting from their admixture, afford us a cornucopia of enjoyment for the senses.

Theme, he explains is sparked off by observation and is Inner. Subject is sparked off by observation and is Outer. In other words,  the force of inspiration can be received by thinking about an abstract thing, or by seeing  or experiencing something that makes one feel that it should be recorded.

- Review by
Topic for Today, E.L.C. Article – A Precious Gift In A Small Parcel
(See other articles on Elements of Art in Appendix, pages 54 & 55)

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Dedicated (by Timothy Callender) to:
“THE SCULPTOR”
Karl Broodhagen
 My Teacher