Portraits and self-portraiture in art

Full of character and endlessly varied, human subjects are a pleasure to draw.

Jake Spicer wants you to learn how to draw.

Award-winning artist Hashim Akib's striking portraits are at the heart of this inspirational book.

Rob Wareing has built a formidable international reputation as a portrait artist.

Hands and feet are considered the hardest parts of the body to draw, due to the variety of shapes involved and their dynamism; and as a result they are often neglected by artists.

Using a simple four-stage process, the world-renowned artist shows how to build a portrait, from the basic shape right to finished faces.

Photographing interiors is not as easy as you might think, and it takes a lot of practice to produce consistently strong, high-impact compositions for your clients.

Caitlin Domanico and Jade Beall have a tremendous talent for creating captivating and meaning-rich images that highlight the various stages of motherhood.

I dont want to achieve immortality through my work .

In The Urban Sketching Handbook: Drawing Expressive People, urban sketcher and workshop instructor Roisn Cureshows how to make your figures more than just anonymous bystanders by sharing the basics of drawing people on the go as well as how to successfully render poses, faces, and expressions.

Pensacola is a city of firsts, from the first documented European settlement in North America to the first Naval Aviation training station.

Blackbeard, Jose Gaspar, Jean Lafittethe names conjure up a romantic, swashbuckling figure with a black patch over one eye, a cutlass in his teeth, and a brace of pistols tucked into his waistband.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZECHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATORTHE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'A dazzling tour de force' THE TIMES 'Does justice to Freud's pitiless genius as an artist' DAILY MAIL 'You can hear Freud's voice on the page' OBSERVER 'Mesmerising the ideal companion to Freud's work' GUARDIANWilliam Feaver, Lucian Freud's collaborator, curator and close friend, knew the unknowable artist better than most.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZECHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATORTHE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'A dazzling tour de force' THE TIMES 'Does justice to Freud's pitiless genius as an artist' DAILY MAIL 'You can hear Freud's voice on the page' OBSERVER 'Mesmerising the ideal companion to Freud's work' GUARDIANWilliam Feaver, Lucian Freud's collaborator, curator and close friend, knew the unknowable artist better than most.

The visual images of Queen Elizabeth I displayed in contemporary portraits and perpetuated and developed in more recent media, such as film and television, make her one of the most familiar and popular of all British monarchs.

Welcome to the wonderful world of life modeling.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Faces are more than a montage of organs that see, breathe, speak, hear, eat, sing, smell, and yell.

One of the most prolific and influential artists of the 20th century, Jean Dubuffet has featured in a multitude of exhibitions and catalogues.

One of the most prolific and influential artists of the 20th century, Jean Dubuffet has featured in a multitude of exhibitions and catalogues.

Moving with the Magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalen in the late medieval Alps.

Moving with the Magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalen in the late medieval Alps.

I am a hunter.

Talbot Coxs easy-to-read guide is more than just another portrait book.

Portraits seem the opposite of fiction, fixed in time and space, not running with the curve of a story or a life.

There's no great secret to drawing.

'Exhilarating and fascinating' KATY HESSEL | 'Rich and detailed' CHLO ASHBY | 'Enlightening' TABISH KHAN | 'Sheds light on an uncharted area of art history' JENNY PERY | 'An essential read' EDWARD BROOKE-HITCHINGMeet the unexpected, overlooked and forgotten models of art history.

The ducal court of Cosimo I de' Medici in sixteenth-century Florence was one of absolutist, rule-bound order.

Das Selbstporträt gehört zu den klassischen Motiven der Malerei, führt darüber hinaus aber auch zu der für die Moderne zentralen Frage nach den Wechselwirkungen zwischen Künstler*in und Werk.

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SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATORSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019'This exceptional book is far from standard biography A compendium of high-grade gossip about everyone from Princess Margaret to the Krays, a tour of the immediate post-war art world, a snapshot of grimy London and a narrative of Freud's career and rackety life and loves Leaves the reader itchy for volume two' SUNDAY TIMES, ART BOOK OF THE YEAR'Brilliant Freud would have approved' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Sparkling' SUNDAY TIMES 'Superlative packed with stories' GUARDIAN'Brilliant and compendious .

These instructional drawing books have a highly visual and practicalapproach.

The portrait has historically been understood as an artistic representation of a human subject.

The portrait has historically been understood as an artistic representation of a human subject.

An original study of the relationship between comic acting and the visual arts in late-Georgian and Regency England.

An original study of the relationship between comic acting and the visual arts in late-Georgian and Regency England.

An extraordinary illustrated chronicle of 2020 that captures this indelible year in America in all its tragic, surreal, epic, and (sometimes) comedic intensityArtist Elise Engler set herself a task five years ago: to illustrate the first headline she heard on her bedside radio every morning.

The first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the late sixteenth century to abolition in 1888.

The first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the late sixteenth century to abolition in 1888.

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.

Challenging prevailing theories regarding the birth of the subject, Catherine M.

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.

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.

A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass mediaThis fascinating book presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, and media.

A richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama From the moment of their unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2018, the portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have become two of the most beloved artworks of our time.

In Drawing and PaintingExpressive Little Faces, artist and popular Skillshare instructor Amarilys Henderson shares her practical and creative techniques for drawing and painting faces with style and personality.

An incredible treasure trove of more than 150 illustrations detailing a small nation of African Americans prepared to make their mark on America

Following the success of A Dog a Day, Sally Muir returns with a collection of new, but crucially old, faces.