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Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw
puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of
art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with
the beautiful Bex Parkin: Birds & Flowers. This 1000-piece
jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not
suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished
Jigsaw size 735 x 510mm/29 x 20 ins. Includes an A4 poster for
reference. Bex Parkin is an incredibly talented illustrator. Having
spent many years based in London working in a range of artistic
jobs, she now lives in rural Staffordshire. Her passion for print,
pattern and colour was largely inspired by her work sourcing
vintage and antique textiles for the fashion industry, which can be
seen throughout her artworks.
Die Suider-Afrikaanse subkontinent is besonder ryk aan inheemse
boomspesies (sowat 2100) wat in grootte wissel van struikagtiges
tot oeroue, hooggroeiende reuse. Baie van die boomspesies en die
natuurlike omgewing waarin hulle voorkom, is al deeglik bestudeer
en gedokumenteer in bele algemene beskikbare publikasies. Inligting
oor hulle hour is egter beperk en nie maklik toeganklik vir die
algemene publiek nie. Hierdie boek bevat inligting oor die
hourkenmerke en houteienskappe van 140 Suider-Afrikaanse houtsoorte
(134 inheemse en ses uitheemse spesies).
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Niki de Saint Phalle
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Caroline Ugelstad; Text written by Kimberly Lamm, Bjarne Melgaard, Camille Morineau, Martine Hoff Jensen; Designed by …
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A selection of the most striking images taken from the bestselling "Morphia" series have been gathered together along with a selection of coloured pieces to celebrate the talent of Kerby Rosanes and his fans.
Containing a full-colour section displaying the most accomplished, completed artworks produced by Kerby's fans, along with stylistic comments and opinions from Kerby. The beautiful artworks displayed in the colour section are also included in the black and white section of the book, so you can take inspiration from the colouristas and bring your own images to life.
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Lives of Rubens
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Giovanni Baglione, Joachim Sandrart, Roger Piles; Edited by Jeremy Wood
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The brilliance of Peter Paul Rubens' career changed forever the
perceptions of painting and painters. Here was a man whose
astonishing gifts were allied to a personality so cosmopolitan,
engaging, and virtuous that he could mingle as easily with kings as
with fellow painters. Rubens' character and achievements fascinated
his contemporaries, and these three biographies of the artist show
the impact of his life and art on three very different observers.
Baglione, an Italian painter and art historian, records the
remarkable success of Rubens visits to Rome; Sandrart, a German
painter, writes on the later years of his career; and de Piles, one
of the greatest early art critics, offers an evaluation of Rubens
style that remains one of the most influential ever written.
In 1752 Charles-Joseph Natoire, then a highly successful painter,
assumed the directorship of the prestigious Academie de France in
Rome. Twenty-three years later he was removed from office,
criticised as being singularly inept. What was the basis for this
condemnation that has been perpetuated by historians ever since?
Reed Benhamou's re-evaluation of Natoire's life and work at the
Academie is the first to weigh the prevailing opinion against the
historical record. The accusations made against Charles-Joseph
Natoire were many and varied: that his artistic work was
increasingly unworthy of serious study; that he demeaned his
students; that he was a religious bigot; that he was a fraudulent
book-keeper. Benhamou evaluates these and other charges in the
light of contemporary correspondences, critics' assessment of his
work, legal briefs, royal accounts and the parallel experiences of
his precursors and successors at the Academie. The director's role
is shown to be multifaceted and no director succeeded in every
area. What is arresting is why Natoire was singled out as being
uniquely weak, uniquely bigoted, uniquely incompetent. The
Charles-Joseph Natoire who emerges from this book differs in nearly
every respect from the unflattering portrait promulgated by
historians and popular media. His increasingly iconoclastic
students rebelled against the traditional qualities valued by the
French artistic elite; the Academie went underfunded because of the
effects of war and a profligate king, and he was caught between two
competing institutional regimes. In this book Reed Benhamou not
only unravels the myth and reality surrounding Natoire, but also
also sheds light on the workings of the institution he served for
nearly a quarter of a century.
A glorious essay by Winston Churchill about one of his favourite
pastimes, painting. The prefect antidote to his 'black dog', a
depression that blighted his working life, Churchill took to
painting at the age of 40. It became a passion that was to remain
his constant companion.
What would an animal look like if it were a human? The question is
actually a contradiction in terms, and Tein Lucasson's answer is as
humorous as it is creative. With digital photo technology, he
combines pet portraits with human poses, celebrating each animal's
unique personality, while drawing on his passion for costume and
art history. Open up Animal and discover a raccoon sporting a
sailor's suit, an aristocratic pig enthroned above a roulette
table, and a giraffe grinning in its thick wool sweater. Text in
English, German, and Italian.
Art & Fear is about the way art gets made, the reasons it often
doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so
many artists to give up along the way. Drawing on the authors' own
experiences as two working artists, the book delves into the
internal and external challenges to making art in the real world,
and shows how they can be overcome every day. First published in
1994, Art & Fear quickly became an underground classic, and
word-of-mouth has placed it among the best-selling books on
artmaking and creativity. Written by artists for artists, it offers
generous and wise insight into what it feels like to sit down at
your easel or keyboard, in your studio or performance space, trying
to do the work you need to do. Every artist, whether a beginner or
a prizewinner, a student or a teacher, faces the same fears - and
this book illuminates the way through them.
'A warm and inspiring invitation to put down our phones, pick up a
pencil and start really looking at the beauty all around us.' -
Kathy Clugston, presenter of Gardeners' Question Time Learn to let
go of your worries and lose yourself in nature with this practical
guide to sketching for pleasure, not perfection. Most of us know
that creativity and time outdoors are good for our wellbeing, yet
so many of us struggle to find the time or motivation to step away
from our screens. But there's a solution! Combining quick and easy
exercises with the latest research on nature connection, wellbeing
and creativity, The Green Sketching Handbook will inspire you to
pick up a pencil and get started. Inspired by her own journey from
climate scientist who hadn't tried drawing since childhood to
artist and nature lover, Dr Ali Foxon will show you how to embrace
your wobbly lines, unhook from a fear of criticism and create a
habit that makes you feel good, not inadequate. You will learn more
about yourself and your unique relationship with nature, finding
out what brings you comfort and joy. Best of all, you'll create
vivid and evocative memories of all your outdoor adventures, big
and small, even if you're convinced you can't draw.
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000
years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it
is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are from
about 40,000 years ago. But what a 40,000 years, explored here by
David Hockney and Martin Gayford in a brilliantly original book.
They privilege no medium, or period, or style, but instead, in 16
chapters, discuss how and why pictures have been made, and
insistently link `art' to human skills and human needs. Each
chapter addresses an important question: What happens when we try
to express reality in two dimensions? Why is the `Mona Lisa'
beautiful and why are shadows so rarely found in Chinese, Japanese
and Persian painting? Why are optical projections always going to
be more beautiful than HD television can ever be? How have the
makers of images depicted movement? What makes marks on a flat
surface interesting? Energized by two lifetimes of looking at
pictures, combined with a great artist's 70-year experience of
experimentation as he makes them, this profoundly moving and
enlightening volume will be the art book of the decade.
Arguably the greatest sculptor of all time, Donatello (c.1386-1466)
was at the vanguard of a revolution in sculptural practice in the
early Renaissance. Combining ideas from classical and medieval
sculpture to create innovative sculptural forms, Donatello had an
unparalleled ability to portray emotions in works intended to
inspire spiritual devotion. Pieces such as the penitent St Mary
Magdalene and the bronze of David remain deeply affecting to
audiences today. Working in marble, bronze, wood, terracotta and
stucco, he contributed to major commissions of church and state;
was an intimate of the Medici family and their circle in Florence,
and highly sought after in other Italian cities. This book,
specially commissioned to accompany the 2023 exhibition at the
V&A, explores Donatello's extraordinary creativity within the
vibrant artistic and cultural context of fifteenth-century Italy,
surveying his early connection with goldsmiths' work and the
collaborative nature of his workshop and processes. It also
reflects on Donatello's legacy, reviewing how his sculpture
inspired subsequent generations in the later Renaissance and
beyond.
Peter and Gerard make clothes for ten years. Each season's outfits
are inspired by the fantastic excesses of their muses: Artist
Gertrude Stein's dinners, Tonya Harding's attack on rival skater
Nancy Kerrigan, the request of Christina of Denmark to marry Henry
VIII only when she'll have a head to spare, the freckled eternal
teen face of Sissy Spacek (covered in pig blood in De Palma's
Carrie or murderously innocent in Malick's Badlands), the
delusional Shelley Duval, the Guardian-reader-type righteous
Candice-Marie from Mike Leigh's Nuts in May etc. They are strong,
they make mistake, they dress well. Also contains essays by Emily
King and Susannah Frankel.
Take your art in a bold new direction-go gouache! In Creative
Gouache, artist Ruth Wilshaw shares her step-by-step techniques for
creating brilliantly vibrant effects with this easy-to-master
medium, a perfect companion for transparent watercolor. In this
comprehensive guide to gouache, you'll: Get an overview of
essential materials and surfaces. Learn basic handling and
coloring-mixing techniques, including layering, creating blends,
and adjusting opacity, plus troubleshooting tips for common
challenges, such as dealing with shifts in color and value from wet
to dry. Explore how to paint fun, simple motifs, flowers,
butterflies, landscapes, and lettering. Discover fun gouache
techniques, such as adding texture and painting gradients and
blends. Learn how to incorporate other mediums with gouache,
including paint pens, colored pencil, and watercolor. Use what you
learn to create inspiring projects such as dimensional artwork,
clay decor pieces, and cheerful banners. See what you can create
with gorgeous, wall-to-wall color with Creative Gouache! Perfect
for creative beginners, the books in the Art for Modern Makers
series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working
with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects
and crafts.
The profession of sculpture was transformed during the eighteenth
century as the creation and appreciation of art became increasingly
associated with social interaction. Central to this transformation
was the esteemed yet controversial body, the Academie royale de
peinture et de sculpture. In this richly illustrated book, Tomas
Macsotay focuses on the sculptor's life at the Academie, analysing
the protocols that dictated the production of academic art. Arguing
that these procedures were modelled on the artist's study journey
to Rome, Macsotay discusses the close links between working
practices introduced at the Academie and new notions of academic
community and personal sensibility. He explores the bodily form of
the morceau de reception on which the election of new members
depended, and how this shaped the development of academic ideas and
practices. Macsotay also reconsiders the early revolutionary years,
where outside events exacerbated tensions between personal autonomy
and institutional authority. The Profession of sculpture in the
Paris Academie underscores the moral and aesthetic divide
separating modern interpretations of sculpture based on notions of
the individual artistic persona, and eighteenth-century notions of
sociable production. The result is a book which takes sculpture
outside the national arena, and re-focuses attention on its more
subjective role, a narrative of intimate life in a modern world.
Winner of the Prix Marianne Roland Michel 2009. Contains 90
illustrations.
This volume is an in-depth and exquisitely illustrated guide to the
Second Age of Middle-earth, one of the least-explored periods of
Arda's history. The Illustrated World of Tolkien: The Second Age,
is the follow up companion to the best-selling The Illustrated
World of Tolkien, and gathers together artwork, charts, and
fascinating and scholarly writing from renowned Tolkien expert
David Day. Exploring the languages, poetry and elements of the
heroic ages of Norse, Greek and Roman mythologies that may have
influenced Tolkien's writing, it is a reference guide for any fan
of Tolkien's work, Tolkien's world and the imaginative brilliance
his vision inspired. The Second Age is made up of two great
narrative channels: on the one hand the rise and cataclysmic
downfall of the island-kingdom of NĂºmenor and its aftermath, and
on the other the forging of the Rings of Power and the rise to
power of the new dark lord. Tolkien's sources for his Second Age
are, of course, as rich and varied as ever and this book delves
into some of these influences and shows how the power of Tolkien's
imagination is manifest even in the lesser-known parts of his
legendarium. This work is unofficial and is not authorised by the
Tolkien Estate or HarperCollins Publishers.
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