Paintings and painting

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.

Learn how to master the popular art style of ink and watercolor sketching with this practical how-to book from seasoned watercolor teacher Anastasia Kozlova.

This title was originally published in 1952.

Die englische Schule wurde erst am Anfang des 18.

Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "e;dot"e; paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors.

Portraits are timeless and enthralling, and a discipline to which many artists aspire.

The first full-length critical analysis of the paintings of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, this book focuses on Smith's role as a modernist in addition to her status as a wellknown Native American artist.

Universally celebrated for his rosy and concupiscent nudes, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was an artist whose first concern was sensuality in all its forms.

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

Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art--The Last Supper.

In this new and extended edition of her best-selling book in the 'How to Paint' series: 'Colour and Light in Watercolour' (first published 2010), Jean Haines has produced a book even more inspirational than the first.

This book examines Theodore Gericault's images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery's trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa.

Rain Later, Good is the award winning story of Peter Collyer's extraordinary journey around the Shipping Forecast areas and has been a bestseller since first publication.

Conservation of Easel Paintings, Second Edition provides a much-anticipated update to the previous edition, which has come to be known internationally as an invaluable and comprehensive text on the history, philosophy and methods of the treatment of easel paintings.

Based on hitherto overlooked archival material, this book reveals Nell Walden's significant impact on the Sturm organisation through a feminist reading of supportive labour that highlights the centrality of collaborative work within the modern art world.

This book analyses faith-based development action in the Philippines by studying Catholic social movements and development studies in Southeast Asia.

Award-winning artist Harriet de Winton shows you how to create contemporary watercolour artworks to treasure and share.

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

This beautiful and inspirational book written by a doyenne of British textile design explores the art of painting and making patterns on cloth.

Get nose to bloom with one of the most beloved subjects of painters for generations of artists withExpressive Flower Paintingand master pedals, stems, colors, and more.

'This is an extraordinary book.

Frog in the Well is a vivid and revealing account of Watanabe Kazan, one of the most important intellectuals of the late Tokugawa period.

This book will teach beginners and beyond the confidence and skills to create convincing, stunning skyscapes, from rich, glowing sunsets to bright clouds on a fresh, blustery day.

This work examines the fascinating life and art of the African American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988).

Learn to paint 50 vibrant watercolour animals in seven simple stages, with award-winning artist Marina Bakasova.

Breathtaking Watercolor Seascapes for the Beginner PainterFrom ocean sunsets and enchanting woodland lakes to snow-speckled rivers and quiet villages reflected in a serene sea, this outstanding collection of paintings from Kolbie Blume teaches painters of all skill levels to master a range of brilliant waterscapes.

Marc Chagall was born into a strict Jewish family for whom the ban on representations of the human figure had the weight of dogma.

Clothing appears in all forms of figurative painting, often taking up two thirds of a frame; yet it can often go unnoticed.

Terry Harrison's painting style and easy-going humour makes painting fun and enjoyable.

Block Printing & Book Illustration in Japan (1924) was one of the first guides to Japanese illustration, and remains indispensable to this day.

This book reevaluates the art of Gerhard Richter (b.

An award-winning artist and teacher shows how to recapture the beauty and majesty of the sea in this simply written yet authoritative book.

Add vibrancy and texture to your acrylic paintings!

Shows how illustrated editions and paintings of the plays were originally produced and read as critical, social and political statements.

The best art has the uncanny ability not only to give pleasure to those who view it but also to led to a desire to respond.

Mit der Suche nach dem im elterlichen Garten vergrabenen Gorilla beginnt Valérie Favres Reise in die Welt der Imagination, der Fantasien, Alpträume, Erinnerungen und Werke der Kunstgeschichte.

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.

Originally published in 1950, this book shows that the religious and ethical values that St.

This book enables scholars and students to rediscover Giotto''s Arena Chapel and to see it with new eyes.

This ground-breaking book presents a critical study of pictorial narrative in nineteenth-century European painting.

The strange saga of the famous kitsch artists, the Keanes, soon to be seen in the forthcoming movie Big Eyes.

Charles Evans' encouraging instruction will let you paint boats and harbours in no time!

From 1802, when the young artist William Edward West began painting portraits on a downriver trip to New Orleans, to 1918, when John Alberts, the last of Frank Duveneck's students, worked in Louisville, a wide variety of portrait artists were active in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley.

Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and perspectives excluded from the privileged and uncontested narrative of "e;isms.

Desde el Renacimiento temprano, pasando por el Barroco y el Romanticismo hasta el Cubismo, Surrealismo y Pop Art, estas pinturas canónicas del arte occidental abarcan ocho siglos y una multitud de temas.

Ragamala sind Bilder, die klassische Musikstücke und Dichtung illustrieren.

A Dog A Day began life with a Facebook post in 2013:'My name is Sally Muir and this is a new gallery where I will add a dog drawing/painting every day, adding up to a massive 365 day dogfest.