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At the start of the March 2020 lockdown, Ian Beck would walk his
greyhound Gracie through the early morning streets of Isleworth in
west London, revelling in the light and the silence that the
restrictions had brought. The familiar became charged with new
meaning, inspiring Ian to paint the scenes around him for their own
sake, something that he hadn't done since his student days in the
sixties. Suburban streets, trees, fences, shrubs and overgrown
alleyways - all are transformed in the quiet intensity of Ian's
lockdown paintings. He painted interiors too: the moon shining
through a bedroom window, objects on mantelpieces, the eeriness of
back gardens at dusk. As the year progressed, the crisp light of
spring gave way to the haze of summer and the gloom of autumn fogs.
The Light in Suburbia collects sixty of Ian's paintings from this
period: a remarkable record of his year spent trying to capture the
beauty of the unprepossessing everyday.
This is a concise and engaging, yet detailed and informative
monograph that explores Gauguin's most Important works. Paul
Gauguin (1848-1903) was one of the most important artists of the
late 19th century, and one whose work was to have a profound
influence on the development of art in the 20th century. He began
as an Impressionist, but went on to develop a richly-coloured style
in his constant search for pristine originality and unadulterated
nature. This concise monograph collects the most important works by
Gauguin, not only of his best known paintings of Tahiti in which
the artist attempted to reconstruct the perfect life which he had
failed to find in reality, but also of many powerful works that
reflect the artist's contact with other seminal early modern
masters like Van Gogh or Cezanne.
Keep the page in your book with this gorgeous pack of 10 foiled
bookmarks, printed on both sides, with a silky ribbon and featuring
artwork by Vincent van Gogh. In a letter to his sister Wilhemina,
Van Gogh wrote: 'Often it seems to me night is even more richly
coloured than day.' In this night painting, the sky is Prussian
blue, ultramarine and cobalt, with sparkling yellow gaslights and
stars. The spot depicted is in Arles, close to the Yellow House he
famously rented.
Keep the page in your book with this gorgeous pack of 10 foiled
bookmarks, printed on both sides, with a silky ribbon and featuring
artwork by Vincent van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh composed this
painting while he was in the Saint-Remy mental asylum, near Arles.
The bold use of impasto and the beauty of the towering trees have
made this one of his most recognisable works. There are various
other versions of the painting, one of which features a closer view
of the cypresses painted vertically, as well as a replica of this
version that Van Gogh painted for his mother and sister.
Keep the page in your book with this gorgeous pack of 10 foiled
bookmarks, printed on both sides, with a silky ribbon and featuring
artwork by Wilhelm List. Austrian painter Wilhelm List was born in
Vienna in 1864. He studied there as well as in Munich and Paris,
learning from artists such as Christian Griepenkerl (1839-1912)and
William Bouguereau (1825-1903). List co-founded the Vienna
Secession with renowned artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), exhibiting
at the very first Viennese Secession in March 1897. The
Secessionists strove to break free of the constraints of the late
nineteenth century academic art establishment. List's artwork was a
mixture of portraits, landscapes and genre paintings, often with
mythological subjects. Magnolia is among List's most well-known
works. Its intricate depiction of a beautiful tree in bloom, with a
background of still waters has a spiritual quality that evokes a
sense of peace.
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