Meditative, peaceful and calming, watercolour painting offers a sense of control and self-worth to everyone, with no judgement or goal beyond the joy of painting itself.
In der Vormoderne wurden, um Krankheiten zu heilen, die Seelen-, die Temperamenten-, die Elementen- und die Lebensalterlehre genutzt, die in der Humoralpathologie zusammenliefen.
This volume presents the proceedings of the second Athenian Potters and Painters conference, which was held at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens 2007.
Winner of the 1999 International Gallery of Superb Printing Gold Award for Superb Craftsmanship in Production Franz Johnston is the missing man of Canadian painting.
This revelatory study of Georges Seurat (1859–1891) explores the artist’s profound interest in theories of visual perception and analyzes how they influenced his celebrated seascape, urban, and suburban scenes.
An eminent literary biographer and critic shows how poetry enriched the art of two representative English Romantic paintersIn Visionary and Dreamer, David Cecil evokes the century of the poet-painter, when painting drew much of its inspiration from imaginative literature.
A rare examination of the political, social, and economic contexts in which painters in Tudor and Early Stuart England lived and workedWhile famous artists such as Holbein, Rubens, or Van Dyck are all known for their creative periods in England or their employment at the English court, they still had to make ends meet, as did the less well-known practitioners of their craft.
Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and architecture produced after 1563 across the conventional geographic borders.
Although considered a minor genre for a long time, the art of landscape has risen above its forebears - religious and historic painting - to become a genre of its own.
Whilst Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and opened it to new, unknown horizons.
This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south.
Originally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British women's lives in the period 1914-45.
Kunstwerke haben immer wieder die Aufgabe übernommen, Ereignisse der Weltgeschichte bildnerisch zu reflektieren und ins Bewusstsein der Mit- und Nachwelt zu heben.
Largely neglected for the four centuries after his death, the fifteenth century Italian artist Piero della Francesca is now seen to embody the fullest expression of the Renaissance perspective painter, raising him to an artistic stature comparable with that of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Este libro se dirige a los artistas aficionados o con conocimientos previos que tienen inquietud por descubrir las posibilidades creativas de la acuarela.
Create Stunning Watercolor Projects in Just a Few Simple StepsMako, the artist behind the beloved blog and YouTube channel makoccino, brings you the most comprehensive beginner's guide to watercolor.
Este libro se dirige a los artistas aficionados o con conocimientos previos de pintura que tienen inquietud por descubrir las posibilidades creativas de las diferentes técnicas pictóricas.
This unique study explores how Quebec's landscapes have been represented in both literature and visual art throughout the centuries, from the writing of early explorers such as Cartier and Champlain to work by prominent contemporary authors and artists from the province.
Published to accompany the first major Patrick Heron retrospective in two decades, this book will feature the best of Heron's paintings, from the 1940s to his late career, alongside thought-provoking text.
Winner of the AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) Book Prize 2024The Art Gallery on Stage is the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the contemporary British stage and to discuss how playwrights have begun to regard it as inspiration, location, focus or theme in an ever-more intense game of cross-fertilization.
This devotional featuring inspirational oil paintings by artist Jenny Highsmith invites readers to look up, breathe deep, and feel the peace and presence of God.
