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Explore the landscapes and places that inspired great art: find
peace in Monet's lily-filled garden oasis, climb Mount Fuji on a
printmaker's pilgrimage, sail with Gauguin to the South Pacific to
stretch your imagination, or contemplate light and the changing
seasons on Chelsea Embankment. Artistic Places is a stunningly
hand-illustrated, visionary guide for seekers of beauty, rare tales
and cultural riches. Find yourself instantly transported to the
places where great artists have sought refuge, found their
inspiration and changed the course of art history forever. Susie
Hodge, bestselling author and art historian, presents 25 famous and
forgotten artistic destinations around the world, and connects
these to the artists they inspired. In keeping with the Inspired
Traveller's Guide series design, each entry is accompanied by
specially commissioned illustrations from Amy Grimes which
perfectly evoke the wonders that first attracted the masters, while
Hodge delves into each location's curious history with insightful
stories both in and beyond the canon. So take a leaf out of your
favourite artist's sketchbook and discover the places they loved
best. Artists and locations include: J.A.M Whistler in London,
England John Constable in Suffolk, England Barbara Hepworth in St
Ives, England Paula Rego in Cascais and Estoril, Portugal Pablo
Picasso and Guernica, Spain Salvador Dali in Catalonia, Spain
Claude Monet in Giverny, France Vincent van Gogh in Arles, France
Rene Magritte in Brussels, Belgium Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland
Michelangelo in Florence, Italy Canaletto in Venice, Italy Johannes
Vermeer in Delft, Netherlands Anni Albers in Dessau, Germany Caspar
David Friedrich in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Germany Gustav
Klimt and Lake Attersee, Austria Edvard Munch in Oslo, Norway Hilma
af Klint and Lake Malaren, Sweden Henri Matisse in Tangier, Morocco
Hokusai on Mount Fuji, Japan Paul Gauguin in Papeete and Papeari,
Tahiti Jean-Michel Basquiat in New York, USA Grant Wood in Iowa,
USA Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico, USA Frida Kahlo in Coyoacan,
Mexico Each book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers
readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide
to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series,
explore intriguing: Spiritual Places, Literary Places, Hidden
Places and Mystical Places.
How do you sum up the amazing world of art in just 100 words? This
striking book takes on the challenge! From pottery to Pointillism,
each of the carefully chosen 100 words has its own 100-word long
description and quirky illustration, providing a fascinating
introduction to art. Basically, everything you need to know in a
nutshell. Along with some classic methods, such as painting and
sketching, you'll also discover less predictable aspects of art
that will give you a fresh perspective. Featuring materials,
elements, methods, art movements, styles and places this book
covers a wide range of topics and themes, as well as some key
artists of the past and present. With a clean, contemporary design,
each word occupies a page of its own. A large striking illustration
neatly encapsulates the accompanying 100 words of text. Other
titles in the 100 Things to Know About series include: Ancient
World, World Politics, Inventions.
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Artists at Home
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Take a look inside the homes of some of your favourite artists and
explore how each one reflected their spirit and creativity. From
William Morris and Pablo Picasso to Georgia
O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo, Artists at Home
showcases the quiet
retreats, creative hubs, lifelong homes and
holiday escapes of key artistic figures. Author Susie Hodge
introduces readers to each artist's life and work,
placing the significance of the home at the heart of their
practice before exploring how each location both reflected and
inspired their creative output. By delving into their homes – the
architecture, interiors, the lives lived there, and the work
created there – we can see these artists’ private spaces as
reflections of their artistic output. For these inspiring people,
homes are places where the boundaries between work, creativity and
daily life are indistinct – they are as much as reflection of
their artistic intention as the great artworks that made their
name.Â
Klee's art appeals to our primary instincts and makes us look
beyond the ordinary. A natural draughtsman, master of colour and
hugely influential artist, Klee eludes classification, having been
variously linked with Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism
and Abstraction. Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books,
Paul Klee Masterpieces of Art brims with the subtle warmth and
humour of a unique artist. With a fresh and thoughtful introduction
to Klee's life and art, the book goes on to showcase his key works
in all their glory.
Great paintings cannot be fully understood in a single encounter;
there is always more to be derived from them. Art lovers may
revisit and reconsider the masterpieces throughout their lives, but
a deeper understanding can only be gained by analysing the painting
in detail, be it the placement of the subject, the lighting, the
style of brushstrokes or the themes. Art in Detail examines 100
iconic paintings from the Western canon and spotlights the finer
points a quick glance will almost certainly fail to reveal. These
include subtle internal details, such as hidden symbols and
artistic tricks employed by the painter to achieve particular
effects. In addition, Susie Hodge writes intelligently about
external influences on the artist – everything from the
socioeconomic context in which he or she flourished, to smaller
local difficulties, such as the level of air pollution at the time
the painting was created. And she treats each of her subjects not
only, to quote Matthew Arnold, ‘as in itself it really is’, but
also as part of a tradition that links the oldest painting to the
most recent, as artists pass a metaphorical baton down through the
ages. With 700 illustrations
Gustav Klimt, well known for his sensual, arresting depictions of
women (The Kiss, Fulfillment, The Tree of Life), was a founder of
the Viennese Secession movement at the turn of the 20th
century, Vienna's own Art Nouveau. His extravagant
work, was an obsessive manifestation of the dazzling intellectual
society of his time and he painted very large canvases combining
oils with gold foil. This beautiful new book brings together a wide
selection of Klimt’s magnificent work.
Brimming with upbeat guidance, this accessible handbook shows how
anyone can use art to enlighten, uplift, calm and ease stress and
anxieties. Visual art is enlightening, challenging, informative and
arresting; but it can also be therapeutic, reducing anxiety and
stress levels, and offering perspective on the challenges that we
all face in our lives. This guide introduces readers to new ways of
looking at a wide range of art. Through careful examination and
explanation, it investigates how engaging with art and drawing upon
its ideas can help everyone feel connected and inspired. From Frida
Kahlo confronting her anxieties to Henri Matisse embracing
happiness, from Louise Bourgeois conquering fear to Auguste Rodin
finding hope, it shows how you too can use art to work through
difficult emotions and improve your mental wellbeing. Even art that
unsettles can help us to think and feel differently. Artists have
been conveying aspirations, emotions, ideas and stories for
thousands of years; this book will help everyone to 'read' these
messages, and thereby to enrich their own emotional life through
art.
A group of primarily Scottish artists (mainly William York
Macgregor, Joseph Crawhall, George Henry, Edward Atkinson Hornel,
Sir John Lavery and Arthur Melville), the Glasgow Boys were active
around the turn of the 20th Century. Though they painted in a
number of different styles, they are connected by their rejection
of classic Victorian painting. Inspired by the luminous techniques
of James McNeil Whistler, they harnessed Impressionistic brushwork
and livid realism in their work, trying new methods and everyday
settings to create stunning works of art. With over 100 images, and
broad introduction, this is a fine addition to Flame Tree's
ever-increasing series on painting and illustration, Masterpieces
of Art.
Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That is Susie Hodge's
passionate and persuasive argument against the most common
disparaging remark levelled at modern art. In this enjoyable and
thought-provoking book, she examines 100 works of modern art that
have attracted critical and public hostility - from Cy Twombly's
scribbled Olympia (1957), Jean-Michel Basquiat's crude but
spontaneous 'LNAPRK' (1982), to the apparently careless mess of
Tracey Emin's My Bed (1998) - and explains how, far from being
negligible novelties, they are inspired and logical extensions of
the ideas of their time. She explains how such notorious works as
Carl Andre's Equivalent VIII (1966) - the infamous bricks - occupy
unique niches in the history of ideas, both showing influences of
past artists and themselves influencing subsequent artists. With
illustrations of works from Hans Arp to Adolf Woelfli, Hodge places
each work in its cultural context to present an unforgettable
vision of modern art. This book will give you an understanding of
the ways in which modern art differs from the realistic works of
earlier centuries, transforming as well as informing your gallery
visits for years to come.
Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put
careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take
tradition and rip it up. ArtQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal
works that shook the world, telling the fascinating stories behind
their creation, reception and legacy. The books begin with the
rebels who struck out against Victorian conformism, daring painters
and sculptors like Manet and Rodin, Van Gogh and Courbet, who
experimented with expressionist and realist art styles as well as
controversial subjects. Moving into the fin de siecle and the 20th
century, we study the truly iconic works and turbulent lives of
artists like Munch and Klimt, Picasso and Egon Schiele, whose work
into abstraction, surrealism and cubism shocked and scandalized,
but ultimately changed the course of western art forever. Moving
into the second half of the 20th Century, we see spectacular works
of conceptual rebellion, absurdity and political protest, from Andy
Warhol and the Pop Art movement to Marina Abramovic, whose often
visceral and violent works of performance art laid bare the
savagery of the patriarchy and the human condition. In the 21st
century, we see how iconoclastic creators have pushed the
boundaries of art even further, from Banksy to Louise Bourgeoise,
from self-destructing paintings to experimental works of
computerized art. Complete with beautiful reproductions of their
iconic works, as well as a glossary of terms and movements at the
back, meet the huge egos, uncompromising feminists, gifted
recluses, spiritualists, anti-consumerists, activists and satirists
who have irrevocably carved their names into the history of art
around the world. In telling the history of modern and contemporary
art through the works that were truly disruptive, and explaining
the context in which each was created, ArtQuake demonstrates the
heart of modern art, which is to constantly question and challenge
expectation. This book is from the Culture Quake series, which
looks into iconic moments of culture which truly created paradigm
shifts in their respective fields. Also available is FilmQuake,
which tells the stories of 50 key films that consciously questioned
the boundaries, challenged the status quo and made shockwaves we
are still feeling today.
Drawing Masterclass explores the act of vision of the world's great
artists, describing how their work was created to allow you to
weave some of their magic into your own paintings. With detailed
analyses and instructive creative tips sections, you can learn how
to convey movement like Degas, apply acrylic like Twombly, and
command colour like Matisse. The book is organized into seven
chapters covering important genres: nudes, figures, landscapes,
still life, heads, fantasy and abstraction. Each chapter selects a
cross section of artists and examines their practice in detail,
using key paintings. Each artist is described through one of 100
selected masterpieces, plus a biographical profile and a practical
look at the way the painting was made: the materials and technique,
an examination of the ideas and inspiration behind its making and
how the artist's life might reflect their concerns. Light and
shade, rhythm, form, space, contour and composition are all covered
in detail. The book covers a broad historical and geographic sweep,
and includes many of the most celebrated male and female artists.
Discover 100 wonderful and majestic creatures to draw! Whether you
have your favourites already, or are looking for inspiration from a
range of diverse habitats including rainforests, mountains, polar
regions or the African savannah, you're bound to discover an animal
in this book that you will find irresistible - and you will just
want to pick up your pencil and start drawing! Each animal is
broken down into three or four simple stages that lead you
effortlessly through to the finished drawing. There are no written
instructions to follow - just basic shapes and pencil strokes. Even
if you've never drawn anything before, you will be amazed at how
quickly you will achieve incredibly impressive drawings. Every
project also shows two finished examples of the animal - one shaded
with pencil and the other with colour. This is the perfect book for
budding artists yearning to draw their favourite animals. The
material in this book is taken from the following books in Search
Press's successful How to Draw series: Mountain Animals, Polar
Animals, Rainforest Animals, African Animals.
Learn how to draw all kinds of woodland animals using this fun and
easy step-by-step method. Starting with simple shapes, Susie Hodge
shows you how easy it is to develop circles, rectangles, squares
and ovals into an exciting selection of animals and birds including
rabbits, badgers, woodpeckers, wolves, squirrels and chipmunks. If
you have never drawn before this is definitely the book for you,
and there is a lot here to inspire more experienced artists too.
Imagine having 5,000 years of human history's most amazing artworks
at your fingertips! Go on a trip through the famous Metropolitan
Museum of Art without ever leaving your home! Prepare to explore
the treasures of the world's civilisations-from ancient Egyptian
amulets, Mayan jewellery, and prehistoric tools-to Medieval
tapestries, Renaissance suits of armour, and modern-day baseball
cards. Each page brings you closer to the past as you learn about
the people of different ages through the objects they left behind.
Discover hand-picked highlights of the museum's huge collection as
you travel through history, one incredible object at a time. This
book combines exclusive Met photography with colourful and quirky
illustrations in a resource that parents can trust, with a design
that kids will love. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Celebrated for his use of expressive brush marks, which filled his
paintings with dynamism, light and colour in a way not seen before
in Renaissance art, Tiziano Veccellio became the greatest painter
16th-century Venice had ever known. In the first half of her
beautiful new book, Susie Hodge explores Titian's fascinating life
through his family, friends, patrons and commissions. Starting out
as a young apprentice in the great city of Venice, Titian grew up
surrounded with spectacular works of art, architecture and
sculpture. His early influences and remarkable achievements are
explained clearly with informative and attractive illustrations
throughout. The second half of the book contains a comprehensive
gallery of over 300 of Titian's major works. of art, each of which
is accompanied by a thorough analysis of the artwork and its
significance within the context of Titian's life, his rapidly
changing technique and his body of work as a whole.
A comprehensive reference book on the life and works of Diego
Valazquez, the most important painter in the Spanish Habsburg court
of King Phillip IV. Featuring a wonderful gallery of his paintings,
accompanied by an expert analysis of each work, and a description
of his style and technique. This beautifully illustrated book is
essential reading for anyone who would like to learn more about
this master of painting, who influenced so many later artists.
Choose your new best friend from this cuddly collection of 28
playful puppies. Best-selling artist Susie Hodge teaches you to
transform simple shapes into 28 cute and characterful puppies in a
range of much-loved breeds, including beagles, goldendoodles,
Frenchies, huskies and labradors. There are 28 different doggies to
draw, in a variety of playful poses. Each project starts with a few
basic outlines and progresses into a finished tonal drawing, and a
final coloured version shows you how to develop your drawing even
further. Perfect for beginners, as well as budding artists, you'll
be amazed how easily you too can bring these playful pooches to
life with this inspiring guide.
Draw 30 amazing animals in just 8 easy stages! Learn how to draw a
marvelous menagerie of 30 animals, from dogs, cats and horses to
those on the wilder side, including majestic elephants, beautiful
birds, lions, tigers and bears – to name but a few! Choose your
favorite fauna, and build up their shapes from top to tail in seven
simple sketches that culminate in a full-color drawing. With its
easy-to-follow landscape format, you can see the creatures come to
life across the page, then recreate them yourself on paper or in
your sketchbook. This book contains material previously published
in the How to Draw series, including Birds (2008), Cats (2008),
Dogs (2009), Horses (2009) and Wild Animals (2010).
Ever wanted to make a maraca? This step by step guide will show you
how, with clear, engaging photos that show just how easy it is to
make and personalise your very own maraca. Lilac/Band 0 books are
wordless books that tell a story through pictures and are designed
to develop understanding about how stories work. Text type: A
wordless instruction book. Children can recap the stages on
pp.14-15 Curriculum links: Art and Design: Containers
This is an illustrated account of the artist, his life and context,
with a gallery of 300 paintings and drawings. This beautifully
illustrated book is essential reading for anyone who would like to
learn about the life, work and influence of one of Spain's great
masters. It is an enthralling biography that traces Goya's life and
career, as religious painter, printmaker, portraitist, contemporary
chronicler and respected member of the royal court. It features an
extensive gallery of all Goya's most important drawings, engravings
and paintings, accompanied by an expert analysis of each work.
Francisco de Goya was the last Old Master of Spanish art and the
first of the great moderns. From royal portraits to bizarre,
grotesque illustrations, his legacy demonstrates a tortured genius,
generating some of the most compelling art ever produced. This book
details how Goya rose to become Court Painter to several kings of
Spain, becoming exceptionally wealthy, influential and highly
valued. It also contains a gallery of 500 of his paintings, prints
and drawings.Goya applied his innovative, distinctive to all his
images - brutally honest portraits of royalty and the nobility,
street life and demons - and through them, he changed art forever.
Why did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, or Rembrandt obsess
over painting his own image? What's the secret behind the
Terracotta Army, or Andy Warhol's soup cans? Art: Explained offers
straightforward and satisfying answers to 100 of these fascinating
questions. If you've ever looked at an art masterpiece in awe, but
wondered just what it means, here is your guide.
This fascinating new book looks in detail at Renoir's influences,
life and works. The first part begins examines his style; it covers
Renoir's techniques and training: painting copies at the Louvre;
his time at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; meeting his muse, Lise
Trehot; working with fellow impressionist artists and his struggles
for recognition. The volume then investigates Renoir's move away
from Impressionism, his stay in Guernsey and also the changes to
his personal life and the way in which these informed his work. It
also documents his eventual success in the art world and considers
the devastating series of illnesses and losses that blighted the
end of Renoir's long painting career. The second part of the book
is a gallery of Renoir's work in 300 glorious pictures, each
accompanied by an in-depth analysis of its context within his life,
his technique and his body of work as a whole.
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