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Chardin
(Hardcover)
Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin
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In Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Experience Ingrid Falque
analyses the meditative functions of early Netherlandish paintings
including devotional portraits, that is portraits of people
kneeling in prayer. Such paintings have been mainly studied in the
context of commemorative and social practices, but as Ingrid Falque
shows, they also served as devotional instruments. By drawing
parallels between the visual strategies of these paintings and
texts of the major spiritual writers of the medieval Low Countries,
she demonstrates that paintings with devotional portraits
functioned as a visualisation of the spiritual process of the
sitters. The book is accompanied by the first exhaustive catalogue
of paintings with devotional portraits produced in the Low
Countries between c. 1400 and 1550. This catalogue is available at
no costs in e-format (HERE) and can also be purchased as a printed
hardcover book (HERE).
"Fascinating and lucid . . . a stunningly illustrated and
illuminating life of a singular painter." - Sue Roe, Wall Street
Journal "Not just another art history book, no title in recent
memory recalls with such exactitude the style of an era that, in
retrospect, has become increasingly golden. . . . The book and its
prose shimmer." - New York Times "Never before have Sargent's
talents been so gloriously displayed as they are here. Quite
simply, this Abbeville edition is a stunner, a book as satisfyingly
extravagant as a Sargent portrait." - Christian Science Monitor
"The spontaneity, elegance, and grace that characterize Sargent's
work are everywhere evident on these large, luminous pages. . . . A
visual delight, well written." - Art and Antiques The classic
monograph on a much-loved artist-reissued in a spectacular oversize
format In the early work of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Henry
James saw "the slightly 'uncanny' spectacle of a talent which on
the threshold of its career has nothing more to learn." Sargent's
talent, nay, genius was indeed uncanny, sustained with equal
intensity through his famed society portraits, like the scandalous
Madame X; his full-size showpieces, like The Daughters of Edward
Darley Boit; his thousands of watercolours executed en plein air
from Venice to Corfu to Maine to Montana; and his ambitious mural
decorations for the public monuments of Boston. In Carter Ratcliff,
Sargent has found a biographer and critic nearly his match in style
and subtlety. Ratcliff expertly evokes the expatriate American
milieu into which the artist was born, and offers penetrating
insights into every phase of his career, every aspect of his work.
Now, for the first time, this landmark monograph is offered in a
special oversize format, with all of its 310 illustrations
reproduced in stunning full colour, many at full-page size,
allowing the reader to appreciate the master's every brushstroke.
This new edition of John Singer Sargent will be a treasured
reference for artists and an unalloyed delight for art lovers.
Transforming Saints explores the transformation and function of the
images of holy females within wider religious, social, and
political contexts of Old Spain and New Spain from the Spanish
conquest to Mexican independence. The chapters here examine the
rise of the cults of the lactating Madonna, St. Anne, St. Librada,
St. Mary Magdalene, and the Suffering Virgin. Concerned with holy
figures presented as feminine archetypes, images that came under
Inquisition scrutiny, as well as cults suspected of concealing
indigenous influences, Charlene VillaseNor Black argues that these
images would come to reflect the empowerment and agency of women in
viceregal Mexico. Her close analysis of the imagery additionally
demonstrates artists' innovative responses to Inquisition
censorship and the new artistic demands occasioned by conversion.
The concerns that motivated the twenty-first century protests
against Chicana artists Yolanda LOpez in 2001 and Alma LOpez in
2003 have a long history in the Hispanic world-anxieties about the
humanization of sacred female bodies and fears of indigenous
influences infiltrating Catholicism. In this context Black also
examines a number of important artists in depth, including El
Greco, Murillo, Jusepe de Ribera, and Pedro de Mena in Spain and
Naples and Baltasar de Echave IbIa, Juan Correa, CristObal de
Villalpando, and Miguel Cabrera.
The Landscape Painter's Workbook is the definitive hands-on guide
to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape
painting. Written by celebrated landscape artist, instructor, and
author Mitchell Albala, this richly informative and beautifully
illustrated volume leads you step by step through his approach to
the genre, from establishing a composition using basic shapes to
applying time-tested color strategies, with all-new lessons,
practical exercises, and special topics, including: The Complete
Color Strategy. What are the three aspects of color contrast that
guide a painting's strategy? Notan. Explore this special type of
compositional study, which identifies the underlying shapes and
patterns of a composition. Picture Formats. How does the picture
format-horizontal, vertical, or square-affect the composition? What
are the pros and cons of each? Color Grouping. A full chapter
details this special practice, which helps maintain harmony by
organizing colors into a limited number of groups. Composition. An
in-depth review of variation, movement, and active negative space,
with illustrations that diagram the action in each example.
Workshop Exercises. Instead of demonstrations that show how the
author paints, The Landscape Painter's Workbook includes 10
skill-building workshop exercises to help you work through
essential lessons on your own. With examples of work by 45
contemporary landscape painters-more than 80 paintings in all- in
oil, acrylic, pastel, and watercolor, the lessons are suitable for
all mediums. Each painting is thoroughly analyzed in terms of
shape, composition, or color, with supporting diagrams, thumbnails,
and photographs. The Landscape Painter's Workbook inspires and
informs all artists, from aspiring to accomplished, on how to
successfully portray the majesty and subtlety of the natural world.
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.
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.
A draughtsman of remarkable ability, matching even his mentor
Augustus John, Henry Lamb (1883-1960) was a founder-member of the
Camden Town Group, exhibiting at their inaugural exhibition in
1911. He was a powerful and original War artist, and an engaging
and sensitive portrait painter, whose group portraits in particular
are as successful as those by any British painter of the age. To
date unfairly eclipsed by the glamorous and culturally infl uential
circle around him, Lamb is now probably best known through these fi
gures and his many compelling portraits of them, amongst them Lady
Ottoline Morrell, Evelyn Waugh and Lytton Strachey, whose
monumental full-length portrait by Lamb in Tate Britain is probably
the artist's best-known work. Lamb abandoned a promising medical
career in Manchester to pursue his training as an artist at the
London art school run by William Orpen and Augustus John. He found
inspiration in the rural simplicity of Brittany, and a later visit
to Ireland inspired his great genre painting Fisherfolk, Gola
Island of 1913 - not seen in public since the last major
retrospective in 1984. Following active service during the First
World War as an army medical offi cer (for which he was awarded a
Military Cross), he contributed two of the greatest artworks to the
proposed National Hall of Remembrance a year after armistice in
1919. Following a productive period in Poole after the War, where
he produced some evocative townscapes of its streets and skylines,
he eventually settled in Coombs Bissett near Salisbury. Here he
established a reputation as a sought-after portrait painter,
executing a constant stream of landscapes, still lives, genre
pictures and fi ne domestic subjects. Accompanying an exhibition at
Salisbury Museum in 2018 and Poole Museum in 2019, Henry Lamb: Out
of the Shadows will focus on over 50 works by the artist from
across his career. As well as loans from major national
collections, the group will include signifi cant works from private
collections, including a substantial archive from the artist's
family and a number of re-discovered masterpieces. The catalogue
will also feature an introductory essay by Lamb's cousin, the
writer Thomas Pakenham who knew the artist well.
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 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.
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 Edvard Munch. Munch's most famous painting exemplifies
Norwegian Expressionism. The angst-ridden human condition has never
been so superbly and unassailably conveyed as by the figure
emitting a cry from the heart. Life, love and death are the themes
which Munch endlessly explored in his paintings.
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 Gustav Klimt. The Kiss is a prime example of Klimt's
'Golden Phase', in which he began to feature especially sumptuous
ornamentation on a regular basis in his paintings. The couple in
this artwork represent the mystical union of spiritual and erotic
love, and the connection of life and the universe.
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