Das Mädchen mit dem Perlenohrgehänge, die Dame mit dem Hermelin, Frauen auf weltberühmten Gemälden von Leonardo da Vinci, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Courbet, Schiele, Munch.
An essential guide to what is regarded as a challenging subject, this book will simplify and inspire artists to approach drawing hands and feet with precision and confidence.
An essential guide to what is regarded as a challenging subject, this book will simplify and inspire artists to approach drawing hands and feet with precision and confidence.
Simon Schama brings Britain to life through its portraits, as seen in the five-part BBC series The Face of Britain and the major National Portrait Gallery exhibitionChurchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough watching his daughters run after a butterfly; a black Othello in the nineteenth century, the poet-artist Rossetti trying to capture on canvas what he couldn't possess in life, a surgeon-artist making studies of wounded faces brought in from the Battle of the Somme; a naked John Lennon five hours before his death.
La dificultad que encierra el dibujo y la pintura de retratos no es mayor que la que plantean los demás géneros artísticos y para superarla es necesario estudiar la cabeza humana con objetividad, como si se tratara de una forma más de la naturaleza.
John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artists.
Im Laufe des Lebens eines Künstlers oder eben eines Menschen, der sich im Laufe der Zeit zu einem solchen entwickelt, entstehen gar viele Versuche, die Kunst zu nennen möglicherweise eine Anmaßung bedeuten, aber dennoch eben auf dem Weg zur Entwicklung der eigenen Kunst eine Bedeutung haben, und sei es auch nur für den Künstler selber.
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.
'My Secret Life' is a dark work of Victorian erotica, and an explicit memoir of unspoken desires in the English class system - encapsulating the joy of hidden sins in an age of moral fervour.
