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One of Britain’s most important and influential painters, Sir
Joshua Reynolds (1723 size=1 color=black>–1792) is justly
celebrated for his dynamic portraiture, his poignant ‘fancy
pictures’, his ambitious history paintings and his role as the
first President of Britain’s Royal Academy. Published to
accompany a major exhibition at the Wallace Collection, London (12
March size=1 color=black>–7 June 2015), and the result of the
four-year research project, this catalogue focuses on Reynolds's
innovative, often highly experimental approaches to the practice
and materials of painting. It investigates his radical manipulation
of pigments, oils, glazes and varnishes, and traces his experiments
with colour, tone and handling. It reveals his continual temptation
to rework and revise his pictures, illuminates his highly creative
responses to the new exhibition culture of his day and explores his
continual adaptations of the art of the Old Masters. In doing so,
it encourages us to look at the work of this famous
eighteenth-century British artist in a new and often surprising
light. Technical analysis of some of Reynolds's most important
paintings will be revelatory, and close-up photography and detailed
examination of a range of pictures size=1 color=black>– at the
centre of which are the Wallace Collection’s own outstanding
collection of works by the artist size=1 color=black>– will
shed light on the fascinating and ongoing process of
experimentation that spanned Reynolds’s entire career. The book
situates Reynolds’s practice of experimentation, of both
technique and of subject, in relation to that conducted at leading
societies of science and learning at the time, and specifically to
Josiah Wedgwood, one of Enlightenment Britain’s greatest
experimentalists in the arts. Finally, it demonstrates how
Reynolds’s innovations as a painter were often the product of
collaboration size=1 color=black>– in part, with his
assistants and his students, but, more importantly, with his
patrons and subjects, with whom he continually explored the
possibilities of gesture, expression, performance and role-play.
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Jazorina (Hardcover, UK ed.)
Freya Najade; Text written by Lucy Davies
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R1,002
R701
Discovery Miles 7 010
Save R301 (30%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Transform your literacy outcomes and engage your whole school in
reading. Inspire and delight your children with contemporary,
diverse and engaging texts that will spark a lifelong love of
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books with our bestselling Read & Respond series - the perfect
way to explore favourite stories in your classroom. This resource
book brings you a wealth of inspiring activities, discussion ideas
and guided reading notes based on We're Going on a Bear Hunt by
Michael Rosen. Stimulating content mapped to curriculum objectives
Phonics section Shared reading and whole-class guided reading
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Rubens: The Two Great Landscapes is a handsomely illustrated
monograph that examines in depth Rubens's two greatest landscape
paintings: A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning and The Rainbow
Landscape. Painted as pendants, the pair have been in London since
1803, when they were separated, the former eventually entering the
collection of the National Gallery and the latter that of the
Wallace Collection. The book puts the creation of these two
landscapes into the full context of Rubens's later life and his
semi-retirement. It demonstrates how they are the zenith of his
achievements as a landscape painter and explores how he drew
skilfully on Flemish influences, including Bruegel, in creating two
highly original compositions. Written to engage and appeal to the
non-specialist reader and academic alike, the book makes an
important contribution to scholarship in the field, including
original technical research and new photography that show how these
complex compositions evolved iteratively as the panels onto which
they were painted were expanded. It also presents an updated and
almost complete history of the provenance of the two paintings
describing their passage through eminent collections from the time
of Rubens's death until they reached their respective collections
in London, separated by less than a mile.
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