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Art Journey Animals is the first-ever compendium of the most
soulful and inspiring animal and wildlife artworks, culled from the
winners of North Light's popular competition-books series. More
than 100 hand-selected drawings and paintings by a wide variety of
top contemporary artists have been carefully curated to capture the
wonder of nature, from the family room to the farm and the sea to
the savanna. The best of the best masterworks from AcrylicWorks,
Splash, Strokes of Genius and INCITE have been compiled into this
gorgeous, oversized full-color book, which includes observations
into the texture, innovation, style and significance of each piece.
Accompanying in-depth interviews with the artists offer meaningful
insights into nature, the creative process and the human condition.
"I hope to bring the viewer into a more intimate view and greater
connection with the animal, and through that animal, with
themselves." --Heather A. Mitchell, Shepherd Pause
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), best known and admired for his
striking and seductive portraits of women, was one of the founding
members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of artists whose
work is inspired by the art of the early Italian Renaissance.
Rossetti's powerful and unconventional portraits, with their
sumptuous, jewel-like colours, are explored in this beautiful gift
book. Examples have been drawn from the full range of Rossetti's
work - including paintings, drawings, print illustrations,
decorative designs and staged photographs - and chart the artist's
lively engagement with mythology, history, literature, biblical
subjects and modern life. Rossetti defined his experiences through
his passion for his subjects and this book traces his deliberate
intertwining of art and life. His models such as Jane Morris,
Elizabeth Siddal and his sister Christina, were his inspiration
and, in his rejection of conventional beauty, he redefined
difference as desirable. Through his view of women - in which
admiration veered towards fixation, praise towards possession -
Rossetti confronted the staid 19th-century public with a new and
powerful image of women, and the allure of that power is still felt
today. With 126 illustrations in colour
Explore the rich history and influence of Christian art from
Antiquity to the present day. Michelle Brown traces the rich
history of Christian art, crossing boundaries to explore how art
has reflected and stimulated a response to the teachings of Christ,
and to Christian thought and experience across the ages. Embracing
much of the history of art in the West and parts of the Middle
East, Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australasia, Michelle
considers art of the earliest Christians to the modern day.
Featuring articles by invited contributors on subjects including
Icons; Renaissance Florence; Rubens and the Counter-Reformation;
Religious Folk Art; Jewish Artists; Christian Themes; Making the St
John's Bible, and Christianity and Contemporary Art in North
America, Christian Art is an ideal survey of the subject for all
those interested in the world's artistic heritage. * Comprehensive
and authoritative text from the Early Christian period to the
modern day * Wide international coverage * Feature articles on
special subjects by a team of experts from around the world
Brimming with over 300 botanical motifs, this wonderful resource
will provide inspiration and instructions for embroidery artists
and flower ladies everywhere. This collection features designs
including flowers, ferns, succulents, leaves, bees and garden
scenes. The books includes basic embroidery instruction for
stitches and transferring designs onto fabric. Original designs and
clear instructions make this book a must have for any embroidery
enthusiast's library.
Petra Thoelken's practical and inspiring book examines what it
means to make an abstract work of art. She encourages the reader to
consider the subjects of composition, planes, and subject and
expression, while also examining the more practical topics of
colour theory and colour mixing, how to work with pigment, canvas
and priming, spatula techniques and working with unconventional
backgrounds. All these elements build up into a vocabulary of
visual pointers from which the reader can begin to explore their
own adventurousness and creativity. Through the 20 beautiful
projects that Petra demonstrates, step by step, readers will learn
how to create texture, work with unusual tools and create soft
transitions or high contrast. Her clarity of thought and
inspirational advice will open your eyes to a whole new way of
seeing your paintings and achieving the self-expression that leads
to visually exciting and technically innovative work. For some of
the projects, there are links to Petra's popular YouTube videos,
demonstrating how she created the individual paintings.
"Her stunning images push boundaries and feature portraits of a
wonderfully diverse selection of strong, bold people of all ages,
races, and body types." - Loeidela Photographie "Inspirational,
feminine and colourful..." - Flair Mode Magazin "...[pays] homage
to all these forms of beauty that our society struggles to
recognize".-Costanza Spina, Lense Alexandra Sophie is a French
artist and renowned fashion and fine art photographer. Her work is
described as sensual, fresh, and feminine, often entwining humans
with nature. Alexandra Sophie's powerful and award-winning
photographic work narrates stories on being human, the human being
in environmental contexts - interwoven through floral themes - and
explores identity through subjects such as sexuality, feminism, and
interrogations on what constitutes the "normal" frontier.
Alexandra's award-winning photography has gained international
recognition, featuring collaborations and covers with high-fashion
clientele, such as Swarovski, Cacharel, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Elle,
and Harper's Bazaar UK, among many others; in 2018 Forbes named her
as one to watch in its 30Under30 Europe profile. This highly
illustrated book, which will include a preface written by Nathalie
Colin (former Creative Director at Swarovski), comprises a lavish
and rich portfolio of Alexandra's photographic portraits that is
inspirational, beautiful, contemporary, and colourful. Her stunning
images push boundaries and feature portraits of a wonderfully
diverse selection of strong, bold people of all ages, races, and
body types.
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Hirst-isms
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Damien Hirst; Edited by Larry Warsh
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A revealing collection of quotations from world-renowned artist
Damien Hirst Hirst-isms is a collection of quotations-bold,
surprising, often humorous, and always insightful-from celebrated
artist Damien Hirst, whose controversial work explores the
connections between art, religion, science, life, and death.
Emerging in the 1990s as a leading member of the Young British
Artists (YBAs), Hirst first became famous and gained a reputation
as a provocateur with a series of artworks featuring dead and
sometimes dissected animals (including a shark, sheep, and cow)
preserved in glass tanks filled with formaldehyde. Gathered from
interviews and other primary sources and organized by subject,
these quotations explore Hirst's early years, family life, and the
beginnings of his fascination with art; the major themes of his
work; his influences and heroes; his motivation; his process and
the boundary-pushing production of his work; and his thoughts on
the art world, fame, and money. The result is a comprehensive and
nuanced book that sheds new light on a fascinating and important
contemporary artist. Select quotations from the book: "The less I
feel like an artist, the better I feel." "I like it when people
love my art. I like it when people hate my art. I just don't want
them to ignore my art." "Painting's like the most fabulous
illusion, because there's nothing at stake. Except yourself." "I'm
interested in the confusion between art and life, I like it when
the world gets in the way." "Sometimes you have to step over the
edge to know where it is."
Mary Crovatt Hambidge (1885-1973) was an aspiring actress and a
professional whistler on Broadway when she met Canadian-born Jay
Hambidge (1867-1924), an artist, illustrator, and scholar. Their
relationship would prove to be both a romantic and an artistic
partnership. Jay Hambidge formulated his own artistic concept,
known as Dynamic Symmetry, which stipulated that the compositional
rules found in nature's symmetry should be applied to the creation
of art. Mary Hambidge pioneered new techniques of weaving and
dyeing fabric that merged Greek methods with Appalachian weaving
and spinning traditions. The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and
Sciences, formed during the mid-1930s, provides an artists'
community situated on six hundred rural acres in the north Georgia
mountains where hundreds of visual artists, writers, potters,
composers, dancers, and other artists have pursued their crafts.
Dynamic Design details Jay Hambidge and Mary Crovatt Hambidge's
cross-cultural and cross-historical explorations and examines their
lasting contributions to twentieth-century art and cultural
history. Virginia Gardner Troy illustrates how Jay and Mary were
important independently and collectively, providing a wider
understanding of their lives within the larger context of late
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art and design. They were
from two different worlds, nearly a generation apart in age, and
only together for ten years, but their lives intertwined at a
pivotal moment in their development. They shared parallel goals to
establish a place where they could integrate the arts and crafts
around the principles of Dynamic Symmetry. Troy explores how this
dynamic duo's ideas and artistic expressions have resonated with
admirers throughout the decades and reflect the trends and
complexities of American culture through various waves of
cosmopolitanism, utopianism, nationalism, and isolationism. The
Hambidges' prolific partnership and forward-thinking vision
continue to aid and inspire generations of aspiring artists and
artisans.
Creating Professional Characters: Develop Spectacular Designs from
Basic Concepts is an inspiring and informative exploration of how
popular professional character designers take the basic concept of
a character in a production brief and develop these ideas into an
original, high-quality design. Suitable for student and
professional character designers alike, this book focuses on how to
approach your character designs in ways that ensure the target
audience and production needs are met while still creating fun,
imaginative characters. This visually appealing book includes
twenty thorough tutorials guiding you through the design and
decision making processes used to create awesome characters.
Replicating the processes used in professional practice today, this
book demonstrates the types of brief a professional designer might
receive, the iterative design process used to explore the brief,
the influence of production feedback on the final design, and how
final designs are presented to clients. This detailed, enlightening
book is an excellent guide to creating incredible imaginative
characters suitable for your future professional projects.
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Pathé'o
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Sereina Rothenberger, Catherine Morand, Flurina Rothenberger, David Schatz; Text written by Chayet Chiénin, …
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The Kitty McCall Toucan Paint By Number Kit from Galison includes
line-drawing floral art on canvas from Nigerian-born, UK-based
artist, Kitty McCall. This paint by numbers piece is designed for
anyone to replicate McCall's stunning artwork. Influenced by the
natural world around her, along with the vibrant landscape of her
early childhood in Nigeria, Kitty McCall has developed a signature
style of bold colors, overlaid patterns, and shapes to create
geometric designs and floral landscapes for interiors, and
accessories. * Box Size: 8.25 x 10.25 x 1.75", 210 x 260 x 45 mm *
One Canvas: 8 x 10", 203 x 254 mm * Color guide / Instruction Sheet
* One Wooden Easel, Two Paint Brushes * 6 Acrylic Paints
I started visiting New Orleans barbershops on Friday afternoons.
Many of the subjects in my monograph "Ya Heard Me" were Gangsta'
Rap artists. I began documenting their day-to-day lifestyles in the
neighborhoods they were from. In the two years leading up to
Hurricane Katrina, I shot thousands of photographs of these young
people. I realized the moniker "soldiers" by which they refer to
themselves was not an affectation. The average life expectancy in
this demographic is 25 years. They speak, live and interact with an
urgency that I would imagine exists on battlefields. I have
personally witnessed over 50 shootings. One day, one of my subjects
was shot through the chest. The bullet passed through his body,
missing both his heart and spine by fractions of an inch.
Apparently, the slug was so hot that it cauterized the wound on the
way through and it didn't bleed. He went home to lie down for a few
hours and was back on the street the next day.
Over 360 spectacular art pieces are accompanied by personal
statements from 74 artists in this curated selection of
contemporary works. The artists, who come from across the United
States, and from places such as New Zealand, Australia, and the
United Kingdom, all convey their respect, enthusiasm, and personal
connections to wildlife. A wide range of styles and media is
covered including photography, glass, relief woodcarving, mosaics,
pastels, oil, watercolor and acrylic painting, bronzes, stoneware,
terracotta and porcelains, ink, graphite and colored pencil,
digital illustration, felted sculpture and fabric collage, and
more. Examples of wildlife presented are bears, birds, elephants,
monkeys, pandas, tigers, foxes, wolves, owls, seals, and even
insects. This book is a great gift for wildlife and nature
enthusiasts, interior designers, museums, art collectors, art
educators, and artists.
Bridget Riley, one of the leading abstract painters of her
generation, holds a unique position in contemporary art. She has
developed and extended the range of her interests ever since her
first success in the 1960s, creating a body of work which is both
consistent and highly varied. This volume, now fully revised and
updated, reveals the mind behind this remarkable aachievement,
drawing together the most important texts and interviews of the
last fifty years. Riley's writings show a passionate engagement
with her subjects and a great insight paired with a freshness of
approach and an exceptional clarity of expression. Quite apart from
providing a key to understanding her own work, this book is a
fascinating document reflecting the issues and problems facing an
artist in the 21st century.
What were Montmartre and Montparnasse really like in their hey-day,
roughly between 1904, when the youthful Picasso had just arrived on
the Hill of Martyrs, and 1920, when Amedeo Modigliani, justly
called `the prince of Bohemians', died of consumption and
dissipation in Montparnasse? This book, written by an Englishman
who lived in Montmartre for 30 years and knew its famous habitue
intimately, gives a vivid description. It reveals the truth behind
the many legends, is packed with authentic stories about writers
and painters whose name are now household words, and contains much
hitherto unpublished information about the life and career of
Modigliani obtained from his family and friends. Much of the text
was written in Montmartre amid the scenes described, and after
personal consultation with survivors of the great days when Frede
presided over the Lapin Agile and Libion, patron of the Cafe de la
Rotonde, was beginning to rival him in Montparnasse. It is the most
complete account which has yet been written in English of the birth
of Cubism and other contemporary movements in modern painting, and
of the lives and loves who started them.
"Architecture shapes the monuments, the memories, and the
expressions of societies and groups, creating a common language
with which they debate and communicate their experiences and
cultures." - Hashim Sarkis For the Biennale Architettura 2021, in
addition to the Exhibition Catalogue and the Short Guide, the
curatorial team has put together two distinct volumes, entitled
Expansions and Cohabitats, in order to further elaborate on the
theme of 'How will we live together?.' These books will appeal to a
wide range of readers both from architecture and art communities
and beyond, to include anyone who is interested in the role that
creative practice can play in collectively answering the complex
challenges posed by today's unstable world. Conceived as a record
that delves deeper into a special section of the exhibition,
Cohabitats comprises essays and visual material that look to the
theme of the Biennale Architettura 2021 from the lens of a specific
geographic location. While the main exhibition is primarily
organised in five parts that contemplate a new spatial contract at
five scales - as diverse beings, as new households, as emerging
communities, across borders, and as one planet - this volume as
well as the section of the show it is associated with, present
analytical examples that speak to all five of them at once. The
essays examine past and current practices of coming together in and
around Venice, as well as in Addis Ababa, Beirut, India, Rio de
Janeiro, Hong Kong, New York, Prishtina, and more. Also available:
Expansions ISBN 9788836648610
Take a twisted trip through the mind's eye of pop culture legend
Dirty Donny Gillies as he brings us the best of his black-and-white
ink drawings for artists to color and customize. Deemed one of
today's most influential artists, Donny has been spreading his art
across all mediums for decades, including work for Metallica,
Snap-on Tools, Vans skate shoes, Creature Skateboards, and Stern
Pinball, to name a few.
Oxford has a special place in the history of Pre-Raphaelitism.
Thomas Combe (superintendent of the Clarendon Press) encouraged
John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt at a crucial early
stage of their careers, and his collection became the nucleus of
the Ashmolean collection of works by the Brotherhood and their
associates. Two young undergraduates, William Morris and Edward
Burne-Jones, saw the Combe collection and became enthusiastic
converts to the movement. With Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in 1857 they
undertook the decoration of the debating chamber (now the Old
Library) of the Oxford Union. The group's champion John Ruskin also
studied in Oxford, where he oversaw the design of the University
Museum of Natural History and established the Ruskin School of
Drawing. Jane Burden, future wife of Morris and muse (probably also
lover) of Rossetti, was a local girl, first spotted at the theatre
in Oxford. Oxford's key role in the movement has made it a magnet
for important bequests and acquisitions, most recently of
Burne-Jones's illustrated letters and paintbrushes. The collection
of watercolours and drawings includes a wide variety of appealing
works, from Hunt's first drawing on the back of a tiny envelope for
The Light of the World (Keble College), to large, elaborate chalk
drawings of Jane Morris by Rossetti. It is especially rich in
portraits, which throw an intimate light on the friendships and
love affairs of the artists, and in landscapes which reflect
Ruskin's advice to 'go to nature'. More than just an exhibition
catalogue, this book is a showcase of the Ashmolean's incredible
collection, and demonstrates the enormous range of Pre-Raphaelite
drawing techniques and media, including pencil, pen and ink, chalk,
watercolour, bodycolour and metallic paints. It will include
designs for stained glass and furniture, as well as preparatory
drawings for some of the well-known paintings in the collection.
From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of
every age-whether the Egyptian, Greek, or Roman artists of
Antiquity, or more recent famous names such as Rembrandt, Courbet,
Degas, or Picasso-have succumbed to their fantasies, obsessions,
and libido and produced erotic works that the censors have taken
good care to keep from the public. For Erotica Universalis, we
surface from the subterranean realms of the museums to enter those
of our national and private libraries. Here we discover that not
only most of our famous writers, such as Ovid, Aretino, Voltaire,
Verlaine, or Maupassant, wrote erotic texts that bordered on
indecency, but also that great artists like Boucher, Fragonard,
Dali, or Matisse were inspired to provide suitable illustrations
for these naughty books. For this new hardcover edition of the
classic 1995 best seller, we have culled highlights from our
Erotica Universalis collection. About the series Bibliotheca
Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic
TASCHEN universe!
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