Product Description

This book is a biography of the life of the artist John Asaro with over 100 full color reprductions of his water colors and oils. This covers over 30 years of his life and work (1960-1992). The reproductions include landscapes, dancers, beach scenes, nudes, and women and children.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1421457 in Books
• Published on: 1992-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 112 pages

Customer Reviews

Asaro: following Joaquin Sorolla... but one century after !
This books contains the work of John Asaro, who follows and clearly imitates the technique and style, even the compositions, of the painter Joaquin Sorolla.

He takes a step forward, using the color technique introduced by Pierre Bonnard both in oils and watercolours, together with interesting construction of tonality using planes instead of the traditional "sfumatto".

The result is excellent, extremely interesting for those concerned with tonality and colour theory, with good illustrations in size and quality. For sure, those who like Sorolla will find a nice surprise in this book. I highly recommend it.

Marvelous
The paintings are marvelous. I just wish there were some technical information.

Asaro A New Romanticism
I opened the first few pages and was really excited about reading the biography part and thought the whole book would be helpful for explaining techniques. The rest were paintings. There was no information on why or what was special about the paintings. So I was a little disappointed. The paintings were exceptional. So anyone who can't visit museums should buy this book.