Vivienne Cawson's luminous painting style and considered use of flat or patterned backgrounds gives her work a contemporary, beautiful feel all of its own.
Billy Showell is a well-respected botanical watercolour artist, and her exceptional eye for detail and ability to re-create the form, texture, colour and patterning of a wide range of plants have earned her a formidable reputation worldwide.
The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Light is an informative guide to heightening the impact of your artwork by capturing the look and subtleties of light in any scene.
Spanning more than 2,500 years in the history of art, Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting demonstrates how the rise and diffusion of the science of optics in ancient Greece and the Mediterranean world correlated to pictorial illusion in the development of Western painting from Hellenistic Greece to the present.
Le caractère unique de la peinture de paysage hollandaise, avec ses cours d’eau et son abondance de couleurs, ne se retrouve pas seulement dans les représentations de la nature mais aussi dans de fameux portraits et représentations de scènes de la société de cette époque.
Conservation of Easel Paintings is the first comprehensive text on the history, philosophy, and methods of treatment of easel paintings that combines both theory with practice.
This book is the first study of the mentality of anti-Communist underground fighters and presents, especially, their thinking, ideals, stereotypes and customs.
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.
Die Persönlichkeiten Hokusai und Siebold haben wesentlichen Anteil daran, Japan, das Jahrhunderte lang von der Außenwelt abgeschlossen war, in eine neue Zeit zu führen.
James Wilson Morrice (1865-1924) was a Canadian painter of extraordinary passion and simplicity whose canvases and oil sketches are valued throughout the world and cherished in Canada as our first real examples of modern art.
Éste curso práctico es fundamental para el aficionado que pretende iniciarse en el dibujo y la pintura y necesaria para el artista experimentado que desea tener un libro de consulta donde se recogen un gran número de técnicas y recursos creativos tratados de una forma efectiva y actual.
Nikolaus Dietrich legt ein neues Modell zum Verständnis der Räumlichkeit griechischer Bilder vor, das er anhand der Analyse von Landschaftselementen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6.
Just Add Watercolouris an innovative and accessible guide to this most dynamic of artforms, packed with bite-sized creative painting tips and advice, offering aspiring artists the freedom to dip in and out for practical information or flick through for fresh inspiration and ideas.
Poet, draughtsman, engraver and painter, William Blake's work is made up of several elements - Gothic art, Germanic reverie, the Bible, Milton and Shakespeare - to which were added Dante and a certain taste for linear designs, resembling geometric diagrams, and relates him to the great classical movement inspired by Winckelmann and propagated by David.
The first book on the central importance of literary sources in the paintings of Cy TwomblyMany of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases-naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarme, Rilke, and Cavafy.
When John Constable fell in love with Maria Bicknell, granddaughter of a Suffolk country neighbour, he little knew how long it would take to make her his wife.
Italian Painting in the Age of Unification reconstructs the artistic motivations and messaging of three artists-Tommaso Minardi, Francesco Hayez, and Gioacchino Toma-from three distinct regions in Italy prior to, during, and directly following political unification in 1861.
As a child she was "e;contrary,"e;as a young woman she defied convention to choose art over marriage, and as a middle-aged woman she was considered a full-blown eccentric.
