Paintings and painting

Artist Mary Whyte's Down Bohicket Road includes two decades worth of watercolors-depicting a select group of Gullah women of Johns Island, South Carolina, and their stories.

An der Wende zum 18.

In Canada, it can be easy to consider landscape painting as cliche, an art form whose time has passed.

Getting messy is the best part of creating!

Este libro forma parte de una trilogía, junto con "El lugar del espectador" y "El realismo de Courbet", que analiza cierta problemática en la evolución de la pintura francesa entre los comienzos de la reacción al Rococó, en la década de 1750, y el advenimiento del Impresionismo en 1870-80.

Widely regarded as the best British painter since Turner, very little is known about Francis Bacon's life.

Bring the magic of the natural world to the page through dazzling works of art.

Having been mistakenly perceived as a follower of Salvador Dali, Catalan surrealist painter and writer Angel Planells (1901-1989) has passed through the history of art practically unnoticed.

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

Paint the classic subjects that inspired ancient Chinese masters.

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.

Taking a practical approach to colour, Colour: A workshop for artists and designers is an invaluable resource for art students and professionals alike.

Bestselling international author and artist Jean Haines' new book takes readers on an exciting journey through painting.

This book investigates Jimmie Durham's community-building process of making and display in four of his projects in Europe: Something .

Der Einfluss der Werke französischer Maler zieht sich durch alle Stilrichtungen und viele von ihnen sind zu Klassikern von Weltruhm geworden.

In Watercolour Landscapes for the Absolute Beginner, artist and teacher Matthew Palmer guides beginners through their first steps in watercolour and shows what incredible landscapes can be achieved in this exciting medium.

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

First published in 1935, this book was intended to provide westerners with a more definite and comprehensive understanding of Chinese Art and its achievements.

In Ernst-Wilhelm Händlers »Der absolute Feind« erhält ein Schriftsteller einen ungewöhnlichen Auftrag: Er soll über den erfolgsgewöhnten Berliner Galeristen Georg Voigtländer schreiben und herausfinden, warum dieser nach fünfjährigem Aufenthalt in einer kalifornischen Psychiatrie Galerist geworden ist.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Tinten und entdecken Sie ein Handwerk, das seit Jahrtausenden die Menschheitsgeschichte begleitet.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

The British artist and TV personality shows you how to have fun with watercolours by scribbling away, using big brushes, and slapping on paint.

Capture the Splendor of the Outdoors with 12 Beginner-Friendly Oil Painting ProjectsYour artistic ability to bring wondrous backdrops to life is just a brushstroke away with Sarah Mckendry's Oil Painting Landscapes.

Die informellen Bilder von Hans Winkler sind ihrem Aussagegehalt nach nur zu verstehen, wenn sie in Beziehung gesetzt werden zu den historischen Erfahrungen, die der Maler als Jugendlicher im Nationalsozialismus, als Infanterist im 2.

The advice and exercises in If You Can Doodle, You Can Painthelps you dig into your creative life to find a style that is authentically yours.

Britannia's Palette looks at the lives of British artists who witnessed the naval war against the French Republic and Empire between 1793 and 1815.

Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell's abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead's highly original process metaphysics.

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.

A vibrant and original perspective on the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic.

Learn to paint 50 vibrant watercolour flowers in seven simple stages, with award-winning artist Penny Brown.

This ground-breaking book is the first to address the feminine and feminist politics of Intimiste art - a modernist mode of art making developed in the 1890s by douard Vuillard while associated with the Nabi 'brotherhood'.

This book offers an in-depth investigation of the religious motivations behind Michelangelo''s sculpture and graphic works in his late period.

Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld.

"e;I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly women.

Bring your inner artist to life through art journaling and intuitive mixed media.

In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti''s seminal text.

Artists who love the sea and dream of capturing every aspect of its beauty will treasure this lavishly illustrated guide to painting boats, skies, and picturesque harbors.

This book examines the portrayal of themes of boundary crossing, itinerancy, relocation, and displacement in US genre paintings during the second half of the long nineteenth century (c.

Anna Mason's vibrant, detailed and uplifting watercolours have earned her worldwide recognition.