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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, First World War to 1960 > Abstract Expressionism

The Drawings of Peter Lanyon (Hardcover): Margaret Garlake The Drawings of Peter Lanyon (Hardcover)
Margaret Garlake
R3,402 Discovery Miles 34 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This title was first published in 2003. Peter Lanyon stood at the forefront of landscape painting in Europe during the late 1950s and early 60s. A prominent St Ives artist, he was associated with Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo; his work also has affinities with abstract expressionism. Lanyon's career started just as the study of drawing was being liberated from 19th-century academic constrictions. His many drawings range from records of trips to the Netherlands and Italy to portrait sketches and abstract studies. Lanyon also used drawings extensively in the development of some of his most important paintings. In this study, Margaret Garlake explores Lanyon's theory and practice of drawing; the contribution of drawings to the evocation of place in paintings; his use of models and the metamorphosis of the human body into landscape images, as well as his use of three-dimensional constructions as equivalents to drawing.

Roger Hilton (Hardcover): Adrian Lewis Roger Hilton (Hardcover)
Adrian Lewis
R3,581 Discovery Miles 35 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This title was first published in 2003. Twenty-seven years after his death, Roger Hilton's reputation as a leading figure in British 'abstract expressionism' continues to rise. Following the major retrospective exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1993 and the drawings survey at the Tate St Ives in 1997, this lavishly illustrated account is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the life and work of this important artist. Hilton's extraordinary career is discussed in all its phases, from the intriguing earliest explorations in paint to the inception of his first abstract pieces around 1950 and the complex and intriguing interchanges of imagery and form that mark his final works. Adrian Lewis explains the artist's mature works as both attracting the viewer and resisting easy reading, and discusses in detail the artist's debt to the Ecole de Paris and his relation to the notion of the 'act of painting' that pervaded post-war culture.

Figuration Never Died - New York Painterly Painting, 1950-1970 (Hardcover): Karen Wilkin Figuration Never Died - New York Painterly Painting, 1950-1970 (Hardcover)
Karen Wilkin; Foreword by Bruce Weber; Contributions by Danny Lichtenfeld
R960 Discovery Miles 9 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This publication accompanies the Figuration Never Died: New York Painterly Painting, 1950-1970 exhibition at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. By about 1950, forward-looking New York painting was seen as synonymous with abstraction- especially charged, gestural Abstract Expressionism. But there was also a strong group of dissenters; artists, all born in the 1920s and many of them students of Hans Hofmann, who never lost their enthusiasm for the seductive qualities of thick, malleable oil paint. They remained, for the most part, 'painterly' painters. These rebellious artists include Lois Dodd, Jane Freilicher, Paul Georges, Grace Hartigan, Wolf Kahn, Alex Katz, Albert Kresch, Robert de Niro Sr., Paul Resika, and Anne Tabachnick. The compelling figurative work they made between about 1950 and 1970, in contrast to the prevailing Abstract Expressionism of the time, constitutes a significant chapter in the history of recent American Modernism.

Joan Mitchell: I carry my landscapes around with me (Hardcover): Joan Mitchell, Robert Slifkin, Suzanne Hudson Joan Mitchell: I carry my landscapes around with me (Hardcover)
Joan Mitchell, Robert Slifkin, Suzanne Hudson
R1,289 R1,192 Discovery Miles 11 920 Save R97 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

I carry my landscapes around with me focuses on American abstract artist Joan Mitchell's large-scale multipanel works from the 1960s through the 1990s. Mitchell's exploration of the possibilities afforded by combining two to five large canvases allowed her to simultaneously create continuity and rupture, while opening up a panoramic expanse referencing landscapes or the memory of landscapes. Mitchell established a singular approach to abstraction over the course of her career. Her inventive reinterpretation of the traditional figure-ground relationship and synesthetic use of color set her apart from her peers, resulting in intuitively constructed and emotionally charged compositions that alternately evoke individuals, observations, places, and points in time. Art critic John Yau lauded her paintings as "one of the towering achievements of the postwar period." Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner New York in 2019, this book offers a unique opportunity to explore the range of scale and formal experimentation of this innovative area of Mitchell's extensive body of work. It not only features reproductions of each painting in this selection as a whole, but also numerous details that allow an intimate understanding of the surface texture and brushwork. In the complementing essays, Suzanne Hudson examines boundaries, borders, and edges in Mitchell's multipanel paintings, beginning with her first work of this kind, The Bridge (1956), considering them as both physical and conceptual objects; Robert Slifkin discusses the dynamics of repetition and energy in the artist's paintings, in relation to works by Monet and Willem de Kooning, among others.

Bacon (Hardcover): Luigi Ficacci Bacon (Hardcover)
Luigi Ficacci 1
R552 R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Save R29 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions. Emerging into notoriety in the period following World War II, Bacon took the human body as his nominal subject, but a subject ravaged, distorted, and dismembered so as to writhe with intense emotional content. With flailing limbs, hollow voids, and tumurous growths, his gripping, often grotesque, portraits are as much reflections on the trials and the traumas of the human condition as they are character studies. These haunting forms were also among the first in art history to depict overtly homosexual themes. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

Variegation in the Triangle, Vasily Kandinsky Notecard Set (Cards): Kandinsky Variegation in the Triangle, Vasily Kandinsky Notecard Set (Cards)
Kandinsky
R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Forget ordinary stationery! teNeues, the luxury German publisher, transforms notecards, journals, puzzles and even clipboards into works of art, with its latest lineup highlighting paintings by celebrated names such as Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Claude Monet." - Life & Style Magazine Our notecard set features Vasily Kandinsky's Variegation in the Triangle in dynamic greens, yellows and reds with our gold foil accent touches. Vasily Kandinsky was a master of abstraction in it's earliest stages and brought bright geometrics to play in space on the canvas - with the concept that geometry is spiritual and alive, this painting was done during his Bauhaus years. The 4x5 notecards are blank inside, perfect for all occasions & adorned with painterly foil accents.

Mark Rothko (Paperback, New Ed): James E.B. Breslin Mark Rothko (Paperback, New Ed)
James E.B. Breslin
R1,066 R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Save R128 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A book of heroic dimensions, this is the first full-length biography of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century--a man as fascinating, difficult, and compelling as the paintings he produced. Drawing on exclusive access to Mark Rothko's personal papers and over one hundred interviews with artists, patrons, and dealers, James Breslin tells the story of a life in art--the personal costs and professional triumphs, the convergence of genius and ego, the clash of culture and commerce. Breslin offers us not only an enticing look at Rothko as a person, but delivers a lush, in-depth portrait of the New York art scene of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s--the world of Abstract Expressionism, of Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning, and Klein, which would influence artists for generations to come.
"In Breslin, Rothko has the ideal biographer--thorough but never tedious, a good storyteller with an ear for the spoken word, fond but not fawning, and possessed of a most rare ability to comment on non-representational art without sounding preposterous."--Robert Kiely, "Boston Book Review"
"Breslin impressively recreates Mark Rothko's troubled nature, his tormented life, and his disturbing canvases. . . . The artist's paintings become almost tangible within Breslin's pages, and Rothko himself emerges as an alarming physical force."--Robert Warde, "Hungry Mind Review"
"This remains beyond question the finest biography so far devoted to an artist of the New York School."-Arthur C. Danto, "Boston Sunday Globe"
"Clearly written, full of intelligent insights, and thorough."--Hayden Herrera, "Art in America"
"Breslin spent seven years working on this book, and he has definitely done his homework."-Nancy M. Barnes, "Boston Phoenix"
"He's made the tragedy of his subject's life the more poignant."--Eric Gibson, "The New Criterion"
"Mr. Breslin's book is, in my opinion, the best life of an American painter that has yet been written . . . a biographical classic. It is painstakingly researched, fluently written and unfailingly intelligent in tracing the tragic course of its subject's tormented character."--Hilton Kramer, "New York Times Book Review," front page review
James E. B. Breslin (1936-1996) was professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of "From Modern to Contemporary: American Poetry, 1945-1965" and "William Carlos Williams: An American Artist."

Pollock and After - The Critical Debate (Paperback, 2nd edition): Francis Frascina Pollock and After - The Critical Debate (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Francis Frascina
R1,255 Discovery Miles 12 550 Ships in 9 - 17 working days


Pollock and After: The Critical Debate brings together key writings on debates about Abstract Expressionism and Modernist art history. It is an essential resource for understanding post-war American art and culture. The second edition has been fully revised and updated in response to new critical approaches to post-war American art. It includes nine new articles and a substantial overview essay by Francis Frascina.
Articles are grouped into three parts, each with an introduction by Francis Frascina. Part One includes two foundational articles by the influential Modernist critic, Clement Greenberg, and represents the debate about Greenberg's work, with contributions by T.J. Clark and Michael Fried. Part Two focuses on revisionist writers, who questioned established ideas about Modernist art history, examining the relationship between Abstract Expressionism and the politics of McCarthyism and the Cold War.
The third part, which is new to the volume, is devoted to recent developments of revisionist critiques. Contributors explore the work of Greenberg's contemporaries, the relationship between critical and commercial responses to Abstract Expressionism, and perceptions of cultural value in the 1940s and 1950s, and challenge assumptions about ethnicity, gender and sexuality in the construction of the 'post-war American artist'.

Conrad Marca-Relli (Bilingual edition) - Il Maestro Irascibile (The Irascible Master) (Hardcover): Emilie Ryan Conrad Marca-Relli (Bilingual edition) - Il Maestro Irascibile (The Irascible Master) (Hardcover)
Emilie Ryan; Text written by David Anfam, Massimo Belli
R804 R746 Discovery Miles 7 460 Save R58 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Pollock (Hardcover): Leonhard Emmerling Pollock (Hardcover)
Leonhard Emmerling
R553 R524 Discovery Miles 5 240 Save R29 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Abstract action: The splattered oeuvre of a cultural iconThe rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912 1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso and Mexican surrealism, he rejected convention to develop his own way of seeing, interpreting, and expressing.Pollock s most famous works are his drip paintings, where he dripped and poured household enamel paint over the canvas with a variety of instruments, from sticks to syringes, hardened brushes to broken bits of glass. The splattered results pulsate with energy, replacing the refinement of easel and brush with something altogether more immediate, vivid, and physical. To evade the viewer s search for figurative elements in his paintings, Pollock abandoned titles and identified each work with a neutral number only.Notoriously reclusive and volatile, struggling with alcoholism, married to fellow Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner, and killed in a car crash aged just 44, Pollock is as much a compelling celebrity icon as an artistic pioneer. This essential artist introduction explores both his work and his fame to understand masterpieces of the modernist story, and the making of a cultural icon.About the series: Each book in TASCHEN s Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions"

Watercolour Nature Unleashed (Paperback): Jane Betteridge Watercolour Nature Unleashed (Paperback)
Jane Betteridge
R481 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R38 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Bursting with exciting and innovative techniques, best-selling author Jane Betteridge pushes watercolour to new heights, bringing nature to life with vibrancy, texture and dynamism. In this revised and revitalised edition of her best-selling book Dynamic Watercolours, Jane demonstrates an effective and vibrant use of a huge range of exciting ways of working, including the use of crackle paste, modelling pastes, metallic leaf, gilding flakes, print and much more. Inspired by nature on every page and showcasing 75 inspirational finished paintings, this book will excite and inspire watercolour artists of all abilities to experiment and approach their painting in a whole new way.

Abstract Painting and Abstraction (Paperback): Emyr Williams Abstract Painting and Abstraction (Paperback)
Emyr Williams
R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Abstract painting and abstraction can be a daunting and frustrating genre of art. How should you approach a surface? How can you use colour effectively? How can you make better, more expressive paintings? This inspiring book answers these questions and many more. Through a thorough analysis of his own work, Emyr Williams covers practical, theoretical and historical issues of abstract art and explains a wide range of working methods to help develop more demanding personal approaches to the making of abstract painting. He emphasizes the relationship of colour to surface and the importance of seeking a profound connection with your art. Further topics cover: the difference between abstract and abstraction; how an artist has developed expressive art in many different ways; maximize your studio effectiveness and manage your time better; discover how colour can be approached more effectively; learn about other possibilities for making abstract art - such as the role of technology and finally, be more demanding of your painting and make better abstract paintings.

Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting (Hardcover): Herbert R Hartel Jr Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting (Hardcover)
Herbert R Hartel Jr
R4,787 Discovery Miles 47 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth-century who demonstrate the richness and diversity of an under-appreciated period in the history of American art. Visualizing the spiritual was one of the fundamental goals of early abstract painting in the years before and during World War I. Artists turned to alternative spirituality, the occult, and mysticism, believing that the pure use of line, shape, color, light and texture could convey spiritual insight. Jonson was steadfastly dedicated to this goal for most of his career and he always believed that modernist and abstract styles were the most effective and compelling means of achieving it.

Arthur Osver - Urban Landscape, Abstraction, and the Mystique of Place (Hardcover): Angela Miller Arthur Osver - Urban Landscape, Abstraction, and the Mystique of Place (Hardcover)
Angela Miller
R1,134 R1,004 Discovery Miles 10 040 Save R130 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first monograph on the work of the American painter Arthur Osver (1912-2006), this publication explores Osver's entire oeuvre, from early urban realism to decades of engagement with abstraction. His long and productive career took him from Chicago to New York to Europe and back, interweaving with the art of his time, and his paintings have been collected and exhibited all over the world. Nevertheless, he remained firmly rooted in the American Midwest, settling in St. Louis to teach and paint from 1960 until his death in 2006. Beautifully designed and printed, this book includes 80 full-color plates of Osver's work throughout his life as well as an illustrated biography and selections from an interview with the artist from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

Jackson Pollock - Phaidon Focus (Hardcover): Helen Harrison Jackson Pollock - Phaidon Focus (Hardcover)
Helen Harrison
R477 R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Save R36 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The essential introduction to the life and work of Jackson Pollock, the pioneering Abstract Expressionist painter.

Abstract Art (Paperback, 2nd Edition): Anna Moszynska Abstract Art (Paperback, 2nd Edition)
Anna Moszynska
R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since the early years of the 20th century, Western abstract art has fascinated, outraged and bewildered audiences. Its path to acceptance within the artistic mainstream was slow. Anna Moszynska traces the origins and evolution of abstract art, placing it in broad cultural context. She examines the pioneering work of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian alongside the Russian Constructivists, the De Stijl group and the Bauhaus artists, contrasting European geometric abstraction in the 1930s and 40s with the emphasis on personal expression after the Second World War. Op, Kinetic and Minimal art of the postwar period is discussed and illustrated in detail, and new chapters bring the account up to date, exploring the crisis in abstraction of the 1980s and its revival - in paint, fabric, sculpture and installation - in recent decades. The first edition of this book, published in 1990, was acclaimed by reviewers; now in full colour and comprehensively revised, it will serve as the best introduction to abstract art for a new generation.

Luigi Pericle. Ad Astra (English, German, Italian, Hardcover): Carole Haensler Luigi Pericle. Ad Astra (English, German, Italian, Hardcover)
Carole Haensler; Preface by Tobia Bezzola; Contributions by Andrea Biasca-Caroni, Greta Biasca-Caroni, Carole Haensle, …
R891 Discovery Miles 8 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Luigi Pericle (1916-2001) was a rare talent-a self-taught illustrator and painter, a man of letters, mystic, theosophist, and intellectual whose work and legacy eludes any categorization. Under his proper name Pericle Luigi Giovanetti he had great success as an illustrator and cartoonist in the 1950s. His cartoons were published worldwide in daily newspapers, such as the Washington Post or Herald Tribune, as well as in satirical magazines like Punch. His comic strip Max the Marmot, published in newspapers and books, was hugely popular across Europe, the United States, and Japan. In 1958, he turned to explore abstract expression through painting and ink drawing. He quickly gained international recognition as an artist and his paintings were exhibited in gallery and museum shows in Britain and Switzerland during the 1960s. Yet recognition was not what he was looking for, and he disappeared voluntarily from the art world to lead an increasingly secluded life dedicated entirely to his art and writing. His home Casa San Tomaso on the legendary Monte Verita in Ascona, in southern Switzerland, offered ideal surroundings for an artist so strongly drawn to spirituality. Luigi Pericle. Ad Astra, published to coincide with a major exhibition at the MASI Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, offers a fresh look at how the spiritual environment and tradition of Monte Verita influenced Pericle as an artist and how Asian calligraphy and Zen Buddhism were influential to his drawing practice. Moreover, the book investigates Pericle's understanding of abstraction in art and his own syncretism of modern mysticism. Text in English, German and Italian.

Rothko (Hardcover): Jacob Baal-Teshuva Rothko (Hardcover)
Jacob Baal-Teshuva 1
R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Resisting interpretation or classification, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was a prominent advocate for the artist's consummate freedom of expression. Although identified as a key protagonist of the Abstract Expressionist movement, first formed in New York City, Rothko rejected the label and insisted instead on "a consummated experience between picture and onlooker." Following a repertoire of figurative works, Rothko developed his now iconic canvases of bold color blocks in red, yellow, ochre, maroon, black, or green. With these shimmering, pulsating color masses, Rothko stressed that he had not removed the human figure but rather put symbols or shapes in its place. These intense color forms contained all the tragedy of the human condition. At the same time, Rothko explicitly empowered the viewer in the expressive potential of his work. He believed "A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer." From his early development through to his most famous color fields, this book introduces the intellect and influence of Rothko's dramatic, intimate, and revolutionary work. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

Jana Schroeder - The Early Years (English, German, Paperback): Kopfermann-Fuhrmann-Stiftung Jana Schroeder - The Early Years (English, German, Paperback)
Kopfermann-Fuhrmann-Stiftung
R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With the artist Jana Schroeder, the Kopfermann-Fuhrmann Foundation is opening an exhibition series curated by Benjamin-Novalis Hofmann, which will feature presentations with women painters of the younger generation. The individual artistic positions are each based on an outstanding idea of abstract painting in the 21st century. With regard to her works, Schroeder herself speaks of an "aesthetics of doodling". Her works are characterised by lines that sometimes seem to dissolve, then again condense into tight and finely rhythmic webs. The series of works, always conceived as a series, have a palpable physical reference to space and time, are expressions of individual gestures and movements. The catalogue shows works from the past 10 years and includes an extensive interview with the artist. Text in English and German.

Jasper Johns - Catalogue Raisonne of Painting and Sculpture (Hardcover): Robert A. Bernstein Jasper Johns - Catalogue Raisonne of Painting and Sculpture (Hardcover)
Robert A. Bernstein; Contributions by Heidi Colsman-Freyberger, Caitlin Sweeney; Edited by Betsy Stepina Zinn
R35,698 R17,308 Discovery Miles 173 080 Save R18,390 (52%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The essential five-volume resource on the painting and sculpture of one of the world's foremost contemporary artists For more than 60 years, Jasper Johns (b. 1930) has remained a singular figure in contemporary art. His most widely influential work-depictions of everyday objects and signs such as flags, targets, flashlights, and lightbulbs-helped change the face of the art world in the 1950s by introducing subject matter that stood in contrast to the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism. In subsequent decades, Johns's art has increasingly engaged issues of memory and mortality, often incorporating references to admired artistic predecessors. This definitive 5-volume catalogue raisonne documents the entire body of painting and sculpture made by Johns from 1954 through 2014, encompassing 355 paintings and 86 sculptures. Each work is illustrated with a full-page reproduction, nearly all of which were commissioned expressly for this publication. A decade of research underpins the project, with thorough documentation of each object and an overarching monograph that represents the most comprehensive study of the artist's work to date. All facets of the catalogue reflect the input of the artist, who worked closely with the author at all stages.

Dragging Away - Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art (Hardcover): Lex Morgan Lancaster Dragging Away - Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
Lex Morgan Lancaster
R2,115 Discovery Miles 21 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Dragging Away Lex Morgan Lancaster traces the formal and material innovations of contemporary queer and feminist artists, showing how they use abstraction as a queering tactic for social and political ends. Through a process Lancaster theorizes as a drag-dragging past aesthetics into the present and reworking them while pulling their work away from direct representation-these artists reimagine midcentury forms of abstraction and expose the violence of the tendency to reduce abstract form to a bodily sign or biographical symbolism. Lancaster outlines how the geometric enamel objects, grid paintings, vibrant color, and expansive installations of artists ranging from Ulrike Muller, Nancy Brooks Brody, and Lorna Simpson to Linda Besemer, Sheila Pepe, and Shinique Smith offer direct challenges to representational and categorical legibility. In so doing, Lancaster demonstrates that abstraction is not apolitical, neutral, or universal; it is a form of social praxis that actively contributes to queer, feminist, critical race, trans, and crip politics.

Abstraction and Calligraphy - Towards a Universal Language (Hardcover): Didier Ottinger, Marie Sarre Abstraction and Calligraphy - Towards a Universal Language (Hardcover)
Didier Ottinger, Marie Sarre
R1,357 R1,224 Discovery Miles 12 240 Save R133 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Louvre Abu Dhabi's exciting exhibition programme explores the enduring dialogue between Eastern and Western artistic expression. Abstraction and Calligraphy brings together a rich array of works, from 10th-century ceramics from Samarkand to paintings and drawings by Kandinsky, Matisse, Miro, Twombly and other modern masters. The ways in which these artists respond to Eastern calligraphic traditions enriches our understanding of the dynamic between modern art in the West and long-established forms from Asia and the Near East.

Expressive Abstracts in Acrylic - 55 Innovative Projects, Inspiration and Mixed-Media Techniques (Paperback): Anita Hoerskens Expressive Abstracts in Acrylic - 55 Innovative Projects, Inspiration and Mixed-Media Techniques (Paperback)
Anita Hoerskens
R400 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R31 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Discover the joys of painting abstracts in acrylics with experienced artist and tutor Anita Hoerskens. In this visually exciting, inspirational book, Anita teaches you about the method of abstraction, and the paints, paper and other materials you need to create stunning paintings. Chapters cover the areas of texture, collage, composition, colour, line, shape and pattern, with 55 clear and accessible projects to put your skills and ideas into practice. There are techniques to try such as impasto, using glazes, bronze gilding, linear overlays and monochrome painting. This highly practical book will build confidence in your painting and allow you to express yourself through the visual language and style of abstract painting.

Tate British Artists: Terry Frost (Hardcover): Chris Stephens Tate British Artists: Terry Frost (Hardcover)
Chris Stephens
R473 R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Save R117 (25%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Terry Frost was one of Britain's great abstract painters. His career spanned seven decades, starting with his introduction to art in a prisoner of war camp, and stretching into the twenty-first century. He drew inspiration from a wide range of sources, but most especially from poetry and from the landscapes of Cornwall, Yorkshire, the Greek islands and America. Resolutely abstract, his paintings collages and sculptures are known for their exuberance and strong colour. Joyful and celebratory, his work is also a sensitive and contemplative articulation of the way in which the artist experience the world. In this book Chris Stephens presents Frost's art within a historical context and in relation to the work of his international contemporaries.

Rothko - The Color Field Paintings (Hardcover): Rothko - The Color Field Paintings (Hardcover)
R1,070 R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Save R322 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Mark Rothko's iconic paintings are some of the most profound works of twentieth-century Abstract Expressionism. This collection presents fifty large-scale artworks from the American master's colour field period (1949-1970) alongside essays by seminal modern art critic and Rothko biographer Dore Ashton and SFMOMA curator of painting and sculpture Janet Bishop. Featuring illuminating details about Rothko's life, influences, and legacy, and brimming with the emotional power and expressive colour of his groundbreaking canvases, this essential volume brings the renowned artist's luminous work to light for both longtime Rothko fans and those discovering his work for the very first time.

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