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This important re-evaluation of the Dutch- born painter Lawrence
Alma-Tadema traces his personal and artistic journey towards
international fame and success in London and investigates how this
exceptionally creative artist used his own houses and studios as
laboratories to produce vivid paintings of life in ancient Greece,
Rome, and Egypt. Lawrence Alma-Tadema s paintings were immensely
popular among his contemporaries, and have since enchanted a wide
audience through the medium of cinema. Anyone who has ever enjoyed
the great epic films of antiquity from Italian silent classics and
Cecil B. DeMille to Ridley Scott s Gladiator will instantly
recognize their origins in sets and costumes Alma- Tadema invented.
Accompanied by glowing reproductions of the artist s rich and
detailed works, this book boldly re-assesses Alma-Tadema s art
through the idea of home: from his admiration for the interiors
depicted in early Dutch paintings through his fascination with
Pompeian ruins, to his creation of large studio houses that were
artworks in their own right. Building upon Alma-Tadema s renown as
the archaeologist of artists, the new scholarship in this
impressive volume shows how the spaces he created and inhabited
with his talented artist-wife Laura and their two daughters
reflected an aesthetic vision that has thrilled viewers and other
artists for more than a century. Appealing to general and scholarly
audiences alike, this book underscores Alma-Tadema s reputation as
one of his era s greatest creative talents."
An Authoritative, Comprehensive Guide for Contemporary Figurative
Artists At a time when renewed interest in figurative art is
surging throughout the art world, author Robert Zeller presents The
Figurative Artist's Handbook - the first comprehensive guide to
figure drawing and painting to appear in decades. Illustrated with
Zeller's own exquisite drawings and paintings as well as works by
nearly 100 historical and contemporary figurative art masters, the
handbook is also a treasure trove of the finest figurative art of
the past and the present day. Included are Michelangelo, Pieter
Brueghel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Ingres, Gustav Klimt, Edward Hopper, Andrew Loomis, Andrew Wyeth,
Lucian Freud, Odd Nerdrum, Eric Fischl, Bo Bartlett, Steven Assael,
John Currin, and many others. Original and thoroughly modern in his
approach, Zeller brings together three figure-drawing methods long
thought to be at odds, synthesizing these seemingly incompatible
techniques to achieve a cohesive and complete understanding of the
human figure. Although all three methods underlie contemporary
fine-arts practice and education, no artist's handbook has ever
combined them before. - The Study of Gesture (Disegno): Rooted in
the Italian Mannerist style of the 16th and 17th centuries, the
gestural method emphasizes life, rhythm, and movement in the human
body. - The Structural Approach: A mainstay of 20th- and
21st-century art instruction, this method applies an architectural
perspective to the body, using a block conception for anatomically
sound, solid figures. - The Atelier Method: Based on the training
provided by 18th- and 19th-century art academies, the atelier
approach creates sensual, smooth renderings based on meticulous
study of the figure's surface morphology in light and shadow.
Covering all the basics as well as many advanced techniques, The
Figurative Artist's Handbook is aimed at both students and
experienced artists. A practical, how-to guide, it provides
in-depth step-by-step instruction and - rare among figure-drawing
books - features sections on composition, portraiture, and
painting. Chapters on creativity and on using a sketchbook help
readers hone their artistic vision and evolve ideas from the
initial inspiration to the fully developed work. Also included is
an extensive section highlighting the great movements in figurative
art throughout history - from ancient Egypt and Greece to the
present.
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