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Pepin Press Art Portfolios contain 8 high-quality art reproductions
printed on 200 gsm watercolour paper or satin coated art paper.
These papers are non-ageing, manufactured from chlorine-free pulp
by FSC and PEFC certified mills. The prints are enclosed in
hardback portfolio covers made of premium paperboard with inner end
papers along with flaps for further protection. The portfolios have
a high-quality cloth spine (made of rayon, a plant-based fiber) and
a cotton ribbon closure. All images reproduced come from our own
archives, except for the van Gogh and Monet volumes. In our
selections we have sought to combine complimentary images, striking
a balance between the familiar and those lesser known. Alongside
traditionally famous images many uncommon but delightful drawings
and prints can also be found.
Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern brings together more than eighty
works, from six decades, which reveal how the ancient world shaped
this inspirational artist s vision for the future. Monolithic
basalt sculptures and floating Akari ceiling lights are juxaposed
with works that use stone, water, and light to call to mind
elemental structures in civilization across time. Noguchi saw
himself as equal parts artist and engineer and this volume devotes
special attention to his patented designs, such as Radio Nursethe
first baby monitor, and also includes his designs for stage sets,
playgrounds, and utilitarian articles, many of which are still
being produced today. "
Explore all the shades of the lush world of the bestselling fantasy
series The Wheel of Time, now a show on Amazon Prime, with this
beautiful coloring book. Enter the world of The Wheel of Time with
this brand-new coloring book. Featuring 45 scenes inspired by the
hit Amazon series based on the bestselling high fantasy novels,
this coloring book takes you into the high stakes battle to defend
the world against the Dark One. With scenes of battle, adventure,
and magic, you will bring to life the world of the Trollocs, the
Aes Sedai, the One Power, and the Reborn Dragon in full color.
Henri Rousseau was the first naive artist in the history of Western
art to be recognized for his true worth. His paintings have now
entered popular consciousness to such an extent that it is
difficult to imagine how strongly they were resisted at the time.
Much of the credit for his transformation is due to the author of
these Recollections, dealer and art historian Wilhelm Uhde. It was
Uhde who mounted the first exhibition of Rousseau's work, and the
catalog he wrote for the occasion is the basis of the
Recollections. In it, he painted a picture of a man of naivete,
humor, and total commitment to an art of whose importance he was
utterly convinced.
How to Draw with a Ballpoint Pen is a beginner's guide for new and
aspiring artists! Learn to create art with only a ballpoint pen and
your imagination. Draw your day, design something fabulous, create
a clever sketchbook, practice cartooning - the options are endless.
This beginner's guide helps artists and aspiring artists of all
levels learn art techinques using only a ballpoint pen and their
imaginations. You'll soon be mastering shading, perspective,
patchwork, spirals, ornaments, animals, portraits, logos,
pictograms, fantasy, abstraction, and much more. Step-by-step
pictures, instructions, and inspiration will show you all that you
can accomplish with this versatile drawing tool. You can even draw
on various materials and objects, but the book includes 16 blank
pages to instantly get you started.
An accessible introduction to the life and work of this
trailblazing pioneer of early modernism, published to coincide with
a major exhibition at the Royal Academy, London. Paula
Modersohn-Becker is today hailed as one of the great pioneers of
modernism. When she died in 1907 at the age of just 31, she had
completed more than 700 paintings and 1,000 drawings and prints.
Despite selling only a few paintings during her lifetime, her
distinct style, daring subject matter and perseverance in
overcoming barriers to women left a significant artistic mark on
the brief epoch between the old and the new, and paved the way for
the German avant-garde. Uwe M. Schneede, one of the foremost
experts on Modersohn-Becker's work, shows how the artist translated
her life's experiences into her own, very distinctive, pictorial
language. He focuses in particular on her time in Paris, where she
absorbed the luminous palette and expressive brushwork of the
French avantgarde, and which so strongly impacted her ambitions and
artistic trajectory. Schneede's lively narrative is supported by
some 120 illustrations, and peppered throughout with quotations
from Modersohn's letters and diaries.
This title was first published in 2000: In their stunning
simplicity, George Romney's portraits of eighteenth-century gentry
and their children are among the most widely recognised creations
of his age. A rival to Reynolds and Gainsborough, Romney was born
in 1734 on the edge of the Lake District, the landscape of which
never ceased to influence his eye for composition and colour. He
moved in 1762 to London where there was an insatiable market for
portraits of the landed gentry to fill the elegant picture
galleries of their country houses. Romney's sitters included
William Beckford and Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton. An influential
figure, one of the founding fathers of neo-classicism and a
harbinger of romanticism, Romney yearned to develop his talents as
a history painter. Countless drawings bear witness to ambitious
projects on elemental themes which were rarely executed on canvas.
Richly illustrated, this is the first biography of Romney to
explore the full diversity of his oeuvre. David A. Cross portays a
complex personality, prone to melancholy, who held himself aloof
from London's Establishment and from the Royal Academy, of which
Sir Joshua Reynolds was President, and chose instead to find his
friends among that city's radical intelligentsia.
Celebrate the colours, details and unique sculptural beauty of
flowers with Petal, the 1000-Piece jigsaw puzzle from botanical
illustrator Adriana Picker. Puzzling is the ideal mindful and
relaxing hobby. This unique and challenging jigsaw, featuring
Adriana Picker's colourful floral art, is perfect for flower fans,
gardeners and puzzlers alike - and it's beautiful enough to frame
for your wall once completed! Suitable for both adults and children
(recommended for ages 10 and up), the Petal: 1000-Piece Puzzle is a
perfect screen-free family activity and takes 3 to 10 hours to
complete. The completed puzzle measures 685 x 490 mm.
A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the
art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck As a courtier, figure of
fashion, and object of erotic fascination, Anthony van Dyck
(1599-1641) transformed the professional identities available to
English artists. By making his portrait sittings into a form of
courtly spectacle, Van Dyck inspired poets and playwrights at the
same time that he offended guardians of traditional hierarchies. A
self-consciously Van Dyckian lineage of artists, many of them
women, extends from his lifetime to the end of the eighteenth
century and beyond. Recovering the often surprising responses of
both writers and painters to Van Dyck's portraits, this book
provides an alternative perspective on English art's historical
self-consciousness. Built around a series of close readings of
artworks and texts ranging from poems and plays to early
biographies and studio gossip, it traces the reception of Van
Dyck's art on the part of artists like Mary Beale, William Hogarth,
and Richard and Maria Cosway to bestow a historical specificity on
the frequent claim that Van Dyck founded an English school of
portraiture. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
British Art
Each year between 1819 and 1825, John Constable (1776-1837)
submitted a monumental canvas to the Royal Academy of Arts in
London for display in the annual Exhibition. These so-called
six-footers vividly captured the life of the River Stour in
Suffolk, where Constable grew up and where he returned to paint
each year. The Leaping Horse, the last of these, now a major work
in the Academy's collection, is the subject of this fascinating new
book. Humphreys explores Constable's often avant-garde working
methods, as well as his struggle to gain full acceptance within the
art establishment of the early nineteenth century. With
reproductions of his full-scale preliminary sketches as well as
brand new photography of the painting itself, this book is the
ideal companion for art lovers who seek a deeper appreciation of
Constable's iconic depictions of the English countryside.
Paris, known affectionately throughout the world as the City of
Lights, is captured in precise detail in more than 40 extraordinary
drawings by Desmond Freeman. The city's much-loved ornate
buildings, majestic monuments, and grand boulevards from across its
20 arrondissements are the source of inspiration for this new
artistic endeavour by noted artist Desmond Freeman. Working with
ink he captures more than the intricate detail of Paris to reveal a
city that is again open to being discovered. Lavish full-colour and
black-and-white spreads show everyday Parisian life taking place in
among the city's famous landmarks. With sweeping views of the River
Seine, Notre Dame, the Paris Opera, the Eiffel Tower, Sacre-Coeur,
Montmartre's artist markets and the Trocadero, to the shopping
districts, which are a beacon to the style aficionados who travel
from across the world to glimpse the latest in style and fashion,
you will fall in love with Paris again. Freeman's first book,
Venice: Impressions in Ink ISBN 9780994558404 won the Gold Medal in
the Fine Art Books section at the 2017 Independent Publisher Book
Awards in New York from 5,000 entries from around the world. This
new book on Paris makes a perfect collector's item - it illuminates
this artist's methodology and renders the city in a unique format
with an original set of superb illustrations.
This stunning and powerfully relevant book tells the history of
Antarctica through 100 varied and fascinating objects drawn from
collections around the world. Retracing the history of Antarctica
through 100 varied and fascinating objects drawn from collections
across the world, this beautiful and absorbing book is published to
coincide with the 250th anniversary of the first crossing into the
Antarctic Circle by James Cook aboard Resolution, on 17th January
1773. It presents a gloriously visual history of Antarctica, from
Terra Incognita to the legendary expeditions of Shackleton and
Scott, to the frontline of climate change. One of the wildest and
most beautiful places on the planet, Antarctica has no indigenous
population or proprietor. Its awe-inspiring landscapes - unknown
until just two centuries ago - have been the backdrop to feats of
human endurance and tragedy, scientific discovery, and
environmental research. Sourced from polar institutions and
collections around the world, the objects that tell the story of
this remarkable continent range from the iconic to the exotic, from
the refreshingly mundane to the indispensable: - snow goggles
adopted from Inuit technology by Amundsen - the lifeboat used by
Shackleton and his crew - a bust of Lenin installed by the 3rd
Soviet Antarctic Expedition - the Polar Star aircraft used in the
first trans-Antarctic flight - a sealing club made from the penis
bone of an elephant seal - the frozen beard as a symbol of
Antarctic heroism and masculinity - ice cores containing up to
800,000 years of climate history This stunning book is both
endlessly fascinating and a powerful demonstration of the extent to
which Antarctic history is human history, and human future too.
The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out
of their search for God
In the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to
believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious
faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds
could admire. "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" is their story-a
vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over
us.
Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the
founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a
"Christ-haunted" literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor
in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A
friend came up with a name for them-the School of the Holy
Ghost-and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read
one another's books, and grappled with what one of them called a
"predicament shared in common."
A pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in "The
Life You Save May Be Your Own" Paul Elie tells these writers' story
as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and
Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life.
It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things,
took on forms the faithful could not have anticipated. And it is a
story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us
make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to
change-to save-our lives.
Published in 1981: This is two-hundred catalogues of the Major
Exhibitions reproduced in facsimile in forty-seven volumes.
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Adriana Varejao s rich and diverse artistic oeuvre including her
distinctive tile paintings, large-scale sculpture, photography and
video installation embodies the mythic pluralism of Brazilian
identity. Drawing upon the aesthetic traditions and visual legacy
of colonialism and transnational exchange, she fuses mediums,
surfaces, and historical lineages together in unprecedented ways.
The resulting artwork is a metaphor for the modern world. In her
first major monograph, the entirety of her rich body of work is
fully explored from her earliest paintings from the 1990s to her
most recent multimedia installations. The volume includes several
contributions including, an extensive interview between Varejao and
Jochen Volz, director of Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo; essays by Luisa
Duarte, art historian and independent curator based in Sao Paulo,
and Paul Preciado, influential cultural critic; an introduction by
Gagosian director Louise Neri; and a chronology by art historian
Angela Brown, and more.
In Dynamic Still Life for Artists, noted artist and instructor
Sarah Sedwick presents detailed, step-by-step instruction and
insights on the many creative possibilities that drawing and
painting still lifes can offer. Develop observational skills by
setting up and assessing various arrangements, groupings, and
formats. Evaluate an arrangement's abstract shapes by creating
black-and-white value studies. Learn the process of alla prima
painting, from underpainting to color mixing to applying color.
Featuring inspiring examples by other distinguished artists working
in a variety of mediums, DynamicStill Life for Artists will
encourage all artists, from aspiring to accomplished, to explore
this timeless genre through new arrangements, styles, and visual
studies, empowering them to develop and expand their creative and
technical skills. The For Artists series expertly guides and
instructs artists at all skill levels who want to develop their
classical drawing and painting skills and create realistic and
representational art.
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