This fascinating exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique, and explains the phenomenon of the world's most celebrated artistic genius who, 500 years on, still grips and inspires us.
This fascinating exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique, and explains the phenomenon of the world's most celebrated artistic genius who, 500 years on, still grips and inspires us.
En Para hacer el cuento corto…, Hugo Hanisch Ovalle nos sorprende con entretenidas y aventureras experiencias vividas en sus diversos viajes y trabajos alrededor de todo el mundo, acompañadas por maravillosas acuarelas de su propia y genial mano, que deleitarán al lector a medida que avance por cada una de las inolvidables anécdotas.
This practical and inspirational guide, in a handy sketchbook format, is aimed at the practised beginner and shows how to achieve successful watercolour paintings of people in just 30 minutes - ideal for the busy amateur artist who doesn't have much time to paint.
The medieval wall paintings that remain in English churches are for the most part shadows of their former selves the rare fragments of this beautiful art to have survived not only the Reformation but also successive waves of iconoclastic zeal and unsympathetic restoration.
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.
Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435).
This vintage book contains a detailed introduction to Japanese art, with historical information, directions for using materials, details on influential artists and pieces, and much more.
Walter Pach was an artist, critic, lecturer, art adviser, and art historian who wrote extensively about modern art and championed the cause of modern art.
The medieval wall paintings that remain in English churches are for the most part shadows of their former selves the rare fragments of this beautiful art to have survived not only the Reformation but also successive waves of iconoclastic zeal and unsympathetic restoration.
"e;The Painter's Method and Materials"e; is a comprehensive guide to all things painting, dealing with everything from how to use use pigments in tempera to water-colour, mural painting, the theories of light and colour, and much more.
The Training of the Memory in Art and the Education of the Artist aims to teach the reader how to memorise things like form and colour composition so that they may draw and paint from memory alone.
Para los no iniciados, la acuarela supone la mejor vía de acceso al mundo de la expresión artística: requiere muy poco material y su aplicación es extraordinariamente directa.
Uno podría considerar que, en la sobreexposición de su vida privada, Frida Kahloabdicó de su libertad, cuando en realidad fue lo que le permitió acceder a la libertad de vivir asu antojo, a la libertad de crear, disimulada tras el disfraz de pintora «doméstica», una obraque terminaría eclipsando la de sus contemporáneos, empezando por la de su esposo.
Éste es un libro dirigido tanto a los aficionados que desean iniciarse en la técnica de la pintura al óleo como a quienes ya poseen experiencia en este procedimiento.
