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The incomparable play of light and color in Paul Cezanne's work was
the foundation of his reputation as a forerunner of modernism. From
the start he went his own way, and his paintings initially evoked a
lack of understanding in art critics of the time, as well as
ridicule. Despite his romantic, baroque, impressionist, and finally
classical influences, it is still difficult to ascribe Cezanne to
any particular art movement. Still, which specific places left
lasting impressions on the scion of a provincial banker's family?
What and who were major influences supporting and advancing his
innovative oeuvre? James H. Rubin traces Cezanne's life and work
from A to Z in this brief volume, creating an image of a painter
who wanted to transform painting itself. The author-and established
connoisseur-succeeds in closely approaching the artist while at the
same time maintaining the necessary distance to his inimitable
paintings.
Featuring eye-catching geometric designs by artist Marleigh Culver,
this kit invites you to relax through the meditative process of
painting by number. When completed, you'll have three beautiful
abstract paintings to gift or display. Includes three pre-printed
art boards, six pots of acrylic paint, two paintbrushes, and an
instruction guide. Perfect for anyone looking for creative ways to
unplug and slow down!
A fully updated edition of the most comprehensive illustrated
survey of the life and work of Peter Blake, one of Britain's most
popular artists. Since his emergence in the early 1960s as a key
member of the Pop Art movement, Peter Blake has become one of the
best-known and most popular artists of his generation. Though
primarily a painter, he has worked across many media, from
drawings, watercolours and collages to sculpture and printmaking,
as well as commercial art in the form of graphics and album covers
- most notably his design for The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album in
1967. Exploring his remarkable creative output from the 1950s to
the present, Peter Blake is the most comprehensive illustrated
survey available of the life and work of the artist. Marco
Livingstone grounds Blake's art firmly in his working-class
origins, identifying a yearning for the innocence of childhood in
his bittersweet paintings of the early to mid-1950s that depict
children reading comics or going to the Saturday matinee at the
cinema. From that moment, while studying at the Royal College of
Art in London, Blake concerned himself with popular entertainments
as subject matter, and as the source of formal solutions, for his
paintings. The directness with which Blake gave expression to his
enthusiasms for mass culture during the 1950s brought him to the
forefront of the Pop Art movement before it had even been named,
and independently of the investigations into similar areas by other
British, American and European artists. The radical nature of his
collage paintings of 1959-62, in particular, in which he combined
existing imagery from popular culture with unapologetically bold
and bright colours, made him a singularly influential figure within
British Pop. This fully updated edition includes a new chapter on
what the artist has jokingly styled his 'Late Period', in which
Blake has continued to mine the many strands of his art with
undiminished energy and completed some of his most ambitious
long-standing projects. As well as the sheer scale of Blake's
production, what becomes clear is the kaleidoscopic variety of
subject matter, form and medium to be found in his work, its humour
and friendly appeal, and, above all, its celebration of life and
humanity.
A beautifully designed organiser to keep all your information for
contacts, co-workers, family and friends in one place. This stylish
and elegantly designed address book has plenty of space to record
names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses for
everyone you need to stay in touch with. With colour-coded
alphabetical sections, a silk ribbon marker and beautiful floral
images throughout from the world-famous RHS Lindley Library, this
decorative address book makes the perfect gift!
Counting from one to ten has never been so fun with this
hide-and-seek, animal-packed picture book, written by the sisterly
duo, Leanne and Sara Miller. Come with us on an enchanting journey,
counting all the way to ten and spotting animals along the way!
From dazzling deep blue waters to tropical jungles and snowy
mountain peaks, count the exotic creatures and spot who else is
hiding in their magical world. Join the fun - it's a PARTY PARADE!
Written by Leanne Miller and illustrated by her sister, Sara
Miller, founder of award-winning luxury lifestyle brand Sara Miller
London. Every spread in this beautiful book showcases a new animal
habitat, from oceans and treetops to snowy mountains and tropical
jungles. Bright and bold colours throughout -- a staple in all Sara
Miller's luxury brand products. Sara's the founder of Sara Miller
London, where she designs products from duvets and mugs to pencil
cases and birthday cards. These have won many awards and are sold
all over the world. Two very creative sisters have joined together
to create a beautiful book offering for children (and adults!) Lots
of animals to spot on each page, plus an extra page at the end
prompting little readers to find even more animals!
Frank Auerbach: The Sitters provides a comprehensive overview of
the artist's portraiture. It reveals the special connection between
the artist and his 'sitters' - the small group of dedicated models
who have been Auerbach's chief subject over a career spanning seven
decades. A comprehensive list of his sitters has been compiled here
for the first time, providing new biographical information about
his models from E.O.W. to J.Y.M. and beyond. Frank Auerbach: The
Sitters includes a wide range of contributors. An essay by the art
critic William Feaver describes the experience of sitting for
Auerbach, while a conversation from 2001 between the artist and
Martin Gayford describes Auerbach's intentions and process.
Auerbach's close friendship with the art historian Michael Podro is
also explored, with a short memoir by Natasha Podro and a
re-published, little known essay from 1969 by Podro himself. Forty
paintings and drawings from 1956 to 2020 are illustrated in colour,
with thoroughly researched catalogue entries that shed new light on
the artist's relationships and his work. The publication
accompanies Piano Nobile's exhibition Frank Auerbach: The Sitters,
held in autumn 2022.
This exhibition catalogue for a show at the Neue Sammlung (Design
Museum) in Munich documents the first solo show by Swiss jewellery
artist Therese Hilbert, former student of Max Froehlich in Zurich
and Hermann Ju nger in Munich. It features 250 works, going back 50
years and beginning with her earliest, unknown pieces through to
her newest work created in 2020. One of her life-long passions is
volcanoes: she has climbed many of them and has used them as a
theme in her jewellery design for many years. The sense of heat
below the surface of her minimalist designs underlines her passion
for the subject. Her work is in the collections of the Design
Museum (Munich), the National Gallery of Victoria, the Dallas
Museum of Art, and Museum of Arts and Design (New York). Features
texts by Heike Endter, Otto Kunzli, Ellen Maurer-Zilioli, Pravu
Mazumdar, Angelika Nollert, Warwick Freeman and Petra Hoelscher.
Text in English and German.
Two superstars of anime and manga open their studio doors and spill
their secrets in this private master class. Join Hisashi Kagawa, an
animation director for Sailor Moon, and Yoshihiko Umakoshi, a
character developer for My Hero Academia, as they show you how to
bring your battle heroines boldly to life. Helpful sidebars and
tips appear in dialogue bubbles throughout this book, as the
artists guide aspiring illustrators from initial idea to finished
artworks, pointing out common missteps and pitfalls that can easily
frustrate beginning artists along the way. The essential techniques
and design elements needed to create engaging female-led battle
scenes are first reviewed in detail. Then each author walks the
reader through their entire creative process of developing an
original story from beginning to end. Along the way the authors
give you hundreds of helpful tips on how to create compelling
characters and render realistic expressions and poses, showing you
how practiced professionals work. Starting from a storyboard
sequence of simple sketches you'll progress to a polished finished
drawing. By learning from two artists with different styles at the
same time, readers get twice the advice and emerge doubly prepared
to create scenes, stories and battle heroines of their own.
Jose Cano roams the world in search of the cutest, the hottest, and
the most adorable girls, rendering them in exquisite and loving
detail. Pack your toothbrush and imagination - traveling was never
this much fun (or educational ) This is NOT your uncle's slideshow
All new illustrations.
Graffiti School is the world's first fully illustrated graffiti
coursebook for college use. It opens with an exploration of
graffiti's background and history, from Pompeii to the Hip Hop
revolution to the present day, as well as how to stay on the right
side of the law. It then introduces modern-day graffiti media and
terminology, going on to conduct the reader through the process of
designing graffiti, setting out the possibilities and skills needed
to create a successful work on paper, ready to be transferred to a
wall. The author explains the practical techniques of using a spray
can, and the step-by-step methods and skills required to create
artistic graffiti. The final section is a manual designed
specifically to be of use to teachers. It gives ideas for running
both theoretical and practical graffiti lessons and units, as well
as providing suggestions on the details, such as marking schemes
and ideas for class trips.
London's Natural History Museum holds the oldest and most important
entomology collection in the world - with over 34 million insect
and arachnid specimens. Interesting Insects showcases the weird,
wonderful, and often surprisingly beautiful world of bugs, from
shimmering stag beetles to dazzling dragonflies. For each stunning
specimen there is a close-up photograph and accompanying text
describing its appearance, lifestyle, distribution and size,
together with its key characteristics.
The English Romantic painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (23
April 1775-19 December 1851) was a brilliant landscape artist, a
watercolourist and printmaker. His style, powerful and fierce,
melding the elements with humankind are thought by many to have
prepared the way for Impressionism. In his time he was
controversial, but his focus on land and seascapes widened the
palette of artists and their audience, and his impressionistic
brushwork prepared the way for the fragmentation of the modern era.
This wonderful new book brings to life his greatest achievements,
with such paintings as The Fighting 'Temeraire', Inside Tintern
Abbey and Rain, Steam and Speed (The Great Western Railway).
Explore Kerby Rosanes's intricate and vibrant world in this
striking jigsaw puzzle. Piece together shape-shifting creatures as
they morph into a magnificent tiger in the night, featured in his
bestselling book, Animorphia.
Making connections between drama and drawing, Drawing as
Performance introduces visual artists and designers to rehearsal
techniques, theory, and games as ways of developing image-making
and visual communication skills. Drawing from the fields of theatre
and anthropology, this book is full of practical exercises that
encourage experimentation and play as methods of making expressive,
communicative, and meaningful images. Ideas are adapted from the
rehearsal room to the drawing studio, offering artists a fresh
approach to translating experiences into visual images. Games and
exercises are accompanied by demonstrations and responses from
professional practitioners and visual communication students. This
one-of-a-kind book guides students and professionals alike to
improvisation, self-expression, and reflective visual communication
techniques in order to narrow the gap between the handmade image
and inner experience from which artists draw their inspiration.
Edinburgh: An Architectural Portrait features an inspiring
portfolio of imagery created over a ten-year period by the
photographer and visual artist James Reid. Documenting the City of
Edinburgh using digital, analogue and polaroid formats, the book
captures the city's main conservation areas, with an emphasis on
key architects, listed buildings and distinct aspects of the
cityscape. Presented as a beautiful collection of black-and-white
images, along with a handful of colour works, the book's digital
images are a mixture of full-frame capture and large-scale
composite pieces, along with a selection of 35mm analogue
single-frame photography. These include panoramic views as well as
more intimate perspectives, made possible by Reid's unique access
to the city's various buildings and structures of note. The book
also features essays by five established Edinburgh-based artists -
Aly Gordon (painter), Bruce Hare (artist and architect), Marianne
Magnin (artist and curator), Merlin Ramos (painter) and Henry
Stevens (artist and architect) - each of whom offers a personally
informed response to the city and how its architecture, art and
history inform, influence and impact on them. The resulting
publication is a unique visual mapping of the city's most
architecturally significant areas that will appeal to not only
architects, artists and academics, but also residence of and
visitors to one of the world's most architecturally rich capitals
of culture.
The Metropolitan Museum Journal, issued annually by The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in
the Museum's collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a possible
Cypriot origin for an Assyrian stone mixing bowl in the Cesnola
Collection by Luca Bombardieri; Andrea del Sarto's Borgherini Holy
Family and Charity by Andrea Bayer, Michael Gallagher, Silvia A.
Centeno, and Evan Read; the history, conservation, and science of
the Madina Sitarah by Federico Caro, Karen M. Kern, Yael
Rosenfield, and Nobuko Shibayama; the Roman Maniera by Furio
Rinaldi; Horace Pippin's The Lady of the Lake by Anne Monahan,
Isabelle Duvernois, and Silvia A. Centeno; the architecture of the
ancient Near East by Sebastiano Soldi; and Paolo Veronese's
Portrait of Alessandro Vittoria by Andrea Bayer, Dorothy Mahon, and
Silvia A. Centeno; the Roman Maniera by Furio Rinaldi.
Reproductions of the young Lucian Freud's letters alongside
insightful context and commentary reveal the foundations of the
artist's personality and creative practice. The young Lucian Freud
was described by his friend Stephen Spender as 'totally alive, like
something not entirely human, a leprechaun, a changeling child, or,
if there is a male opposite, a witch.' All that magnetism and
brilliance is displayed in the letters assembled here. Ranging from
schoolboy messages to his parents, through letters and
carefully-chosen, often embellished postcards to friends, lovers
and confidants, to correspondence with patrons and associates. They
are peppered with wit, affection and irreverence. Alongside rarely
seen photographs and Freud's extraordinary works, each chapter
charts Freud's evolving art alongside intimate accounts of his
life. We trace Freud's early friendships with Stephen Spender, John
Craxton, his wild days at art school in East Anglia, and a stint as
a merchant seaman. Among the highlights are Freud's accounts of his
first trip to Paris in 1946 and encounters with Picasso, Alexander
Calder and Giacometti (who, he thought, looked like Harpo Marx).
Equally revealing are letters to and from his first love, Lorna
Wishart and second wife, Caroline Blackwood. Among his friends and
confidantes were Sonia Orwell and Ann Fleming: remarkable, hitherto
unknown letters to both of whom are included. To Ann Fleming he
wrote a richly-comic, six-page description of a high society fancy
dress ball which took place at Biarritz in 1953. He also went to
stay with Ann and her husband Ian in their house in Jamaica,
Goldeneye. From there, he sent a stream of letters, plus a telegram
to his colleagues at the Slade School of Fine Art (where he was
supposed to be teaching): "PLEASE SEND TEN SHEETS GREY GREEN INGRES
PAPER". The volume ends in early 1954 with his inclusion at the age
of 31, as one of the artists representing Britain at the Venice
Biennale - the high point of his early career. Co-authored by David
Dawson and Martin Gayford, this is the first published collection
of Freud's correspondence, many brought to light for the first
time. Reproduced in facsimile alongside reproductions of Freud's
artwork, the letters are linked by a narrative that weaves them
into the story of his life and relationships through his formative
first three decades. Collectively, they provide a powerful insight
into his early life and art.
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