Paintings and painting

Artistic guidance for painting ships and seascapes in acrylics, featuring two dozen projects to inspire your creativity.

Accomplished artist Jean Haines shares her passion for watercolours in this wonderfully practical book.

'The feel of painting on the tablet screen is surprisingly similar to traditional painting.

Anna Mason's exceptional floral artwork has won awards from the Royal Horticultural Society, International Artist magazine and seen her elected to the prestigious Society of Botanical Artists.

Osprey Men-at-Arms: A Celebration is a very special volume detailing some of the wonderful artwork that has graced Osprey's renowned Men-at-Arms series over the last forty years.

Munch's The Scream.

It is impossible to reflect upon Frederic Remington's art without thinking of the merely human elements.

Urban realism, snow-covered streets of New York, boxing matches, children on the banks of a river, the painters of the Ash Can School preferred realistic images.

He was the son of a citizen in comfortable circumstances, and had been, in Vasari's words, "e;instructed in all such things as children are usually taught before they choose a calling.

Ornans, Courbet's birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape.

Little is known of Memling's life.

In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted with the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s.

After staying in Milan for his apprenticeship, Michelangelo da Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592.

Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (June 1599 - August 6 1660), known as Diego Velasquez, was a painter of the Spanish Golden Age who had considerable influence at the court of King Philip IV.

Secluded within cloister walls, a painter and a monk, and brother of the order of the Dominicans, Angelico devoted his life to religious paintings.

An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland.

From the 18th century to the 20th, this book gives a panorama of Russian painting not equalled anywhere else.

At fifteen, Turner was already exhibiting View of Lambeth.

John Constable was the first English landscape painter to take no lessons from the Dutch.

Hieronymus Bosch was painting frightening, yet vaguely likable monsters long before computer games were ever invented, often including a touch of humour.

Pioneer of geometric abstract art and one of the most important members of the Russian Avant-garde, Malevitch experimented with various modernist styles.

Canaletto began his career as a theatrical scene painter, like his father, in the Baroque tradition.

The English school of painting was officially recognisedat the beginning of the 18th century through the work ofWilliam Hogarth.

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.

Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dali became the most famous of the Surrealists.

Over the course of history, many wars have changed the political and cultural landscape of our world.

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.

They met in 1928, Frida Kahlo was then 21 years old and Diego Rivera was twice her age.

La richesse du réalisme américain est de n’être ni un mouvement, ni une école, mais plutôt de répondre à toute une nuance d’interprétations, sans règle ni loi préétablies.

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.

“I paint what I see and not what it pleases others to see.

In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted to the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s.

Hieronymus Bosch was painting terrifying, yet strangely likeable, monsters, long before computer games were invented, often with a touch of humour.

Among the “young peredvizhniki” who joined the World of Art group, the most brilliant portraitist was Valentin Serov.

Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) was active at the turn of the century.

Degas was closest to Renoir in the impressionist’s circle, for both favoured the animated Parisian life of their day as a motif in their paintings.

Ilya Repin was the most gifted of the group known in Russia as "e;The Itinerants"e;.

Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other.

Egon Schiele’s work is so distinctive that it resists categorisation.

For Claude Monet the designation 'impressionist' always remained a source of pride.

“I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly women…”Beautiful, sensuous and above all erotic, Gustav Klimt’s paintings speak of a world of opulence and leisure, which seems aeons away from the harsh, post-modern environment we live in now.

After staying in Milan for his apprenticeship, Michelangelo da Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592.

Throughout time, artists have maintained a close relationship with the animal world, which has proved to be an inexhaustible source of inspiration.

After staying in Milan for his apprenticeship, Michelangelo da Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592.

Pieter Brueghel was the first important member of a family of artists who were active for four generations.

Le Caravage (Michelangelo Merisi) (Caravaggio, 1571 – Porto Ercole, 1610)Après avoir séjourné à Milan durant son apprentissage, Michelangelo Merisi arriva à Rome en 1592.

Der Amerikanische Realismus ist weder eine Kunstbewegung noch eine Schule, vielmehr ist er ein durch eine außergewöhnliche Vielfalt gekennzeichnetes Phänomen, das nur schwer zu definieren ist.

Van Dyck was accustomed early to Rubens’ sumptuous lifestyle; and, when he visited Italy with letters of introduction from his master, lived in the palaces of his patrons, himself adopting such an elegant ostentation that he was spoken of as ‘the Cavalier Painter’.

Since his death 100 years ago, Cezanne has become the most famous painter of the nineteenth century.

Impressionism has always been one of the public’s favourite styles of art and Impressionist works continue to enchant beholders with their amazing play of colours and forms.