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This sumptuous catalogue provides an overview of French art circa
1500, a dynamic, transitional period when the country, resurgent
after the dislocations of the Hundred Years' War, invaded Italy and
all media flourished. What followed was the emergence of a unique
art: the fusion of the Italian Renaissance with northern European
Gothic styles. Outstanding examples of exquisite and revolutionary
works are featured, including paintings, sculptures, illuminated
manuscripts, stained glass, tapestries, and metalwork. Exciting new
research brings to life court artists Jean Fouquet, Jean
Bourdichon, Michel Colombe, Jean Poyer, and Jean Hey (The Master of
Moulins), all of whose creations were used by kings and queens to
assert power and prestige. Also detailed are the organization of
workshops and the development of the influential art market in
Paris and patronage in the Loire Valley. Distributed for the Art
Institute of Chicago Exhibition Schedule: Grand Palais, Paris
(10/06/10-01/10/11) The Art Institute of Chicago
(02/27/11-05/30/11)
This intimate and elegant hardcover art book features contemporary
oil paintings of explicit, celebratory, whimsical and intense
sexual subject matter by Laura BenAmots. The raw private images are
both tantalizing and surprising. The work is non-exploitative
mature and playful. Clearly these paintings reflect a fearless
celebration of the physical. Eros On Canvas has a clean calm design
that creates a type of purity or visual "white noise" in which to
view the unambiguous representations float. The title sheet is
followed by a table of contents, words (artist's bio and
interview), forward by Noel Black and an introduction. The
paintings are separated into 3 groups: first is a brief
introduction with an eclectic sampling of other artworks by Laura
BenAmots concluding with three paintings titled the muses from the
portrait series of beautiful men that led to Eros On Canvas; next
is a chapter titled Through The Peep Hole comprised of nine
miniature images of up-close-and-personal body parts; finally, the
body of the book is titled Catching Breath and features a full
range of medium and large scale flesh-toned canvases rendering
highly private sexual interludes. The book concludes with 2
facsimiles of hand written and typed erotic poems by the painter.
Throughout his career, Gustav Klimt completed hundreds of paintings
and thousands of drawings of delicate beauty, many of them
featuring the female form. Designed to imitate an artist's
sketchbook, this gorgeous volume reproduces Klimt's most beautiful
erotic sketches and watercolors. The experience of viewing them
will awaken the senses and afford the reader the guilty pleasure of
leafing through an artist's most private visions.
Dioramas are devices on the frontier of different disciplines: art,
anthropology, and the natural sciences, to name a few. Their use
developed during the nineteenth century, following reforms aimed at
reinforcing the educational dimension of museums. While dioramas
with human figures are now the subject of healthy criticism and are
gradually being dismantled, a thorough study of the work of artists
and scientists who made them helps shed light on their genesis.
Among other displays, this book examines anthropological dioramas
of two North American museums in the early twentieth century: the
American Museum of Natural History in New York, and the New York
State Museum. Sites of creation and mediation of knowledge,
combining painting, sculpture, photography, and material culture,
dioramas tell a story that is always political.
We all want to see Snow White with tattoos, right? Well, at least
photographer Robert Alvarado does. In his newest collection of
high-octane pin-up images, Alvarado shows how his own style of
shooting and editing, which has been called cartoonish,
illustrated, and painted marries perfectly with cosplay. In more
than 150 vibrant, color images, see Alvarado's take on this pop
culture phenomenon as he captures models "cosing" as characters
from Buck Rogers, Deadpool, Star Wars, your favorite D.C. and
Marvel franchises, and much more. From fantasy to sci-fi and Disney
to video games, the models embody and costume many beloved
characters while striking traditional and contemporary pin-up
poses. Complete with some behind-the-scenes shots and details on
Alvarado's approach to working with the models, this is the perfect
collection of images for fans and students of pop culture and
pin-up photography.
The world is becoming a busy noisy place and it is good to find a
pastime that creates a different space, another dimension. Our
paintings mean a lot to us because they remind us of lovely places
we have visited and enable us to remember them in detail. It takes
time to study the colours and contours of a scene. It may be that
the drawing is an inadequate representation of the three
dimensional scene spread out before us, how can it be anything
else, but the process of trying to represent it on the two
dimensions of the blank page is intellectually rewarding. The
emerging picture is not just about the scene before you but also
about your response to it at the time.
Drawing and Painting People - A Fresh Approach is about confident
and defiant art. Written by a practising artist and tutor, it
contains inspiring examples, thought-provoking insights and
practical advice about how to become more expressive and
adventurous with your work. It is a book for people who are serious
about painting and want to develop work that is personal and
exceptional in quality. An unpretentious, non-academic approach to
painting and drawing Avoiding 'painting by numbers' Strategies for
independent working, building confidence and taking risks Examples
from notable artists The body as an inspiring muse
A unique visual encyclopedia for artists and illustrators Like its acclaimed predecessor, the Second Edition of this outstanding photographic reference offers illustrators, fine artists, and animators immediate access to the human form in deep perspective, that is, foreshortened. With all-new photographs, the Atlas of Foreshortening features: - Over 530 high-quality photographs
- Both male and female nudes
- Poses with slight, moderate, and marked foreshortening
- Detail shots and full-body photographs
- Many poses shot from multiple angles
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