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Book Watercolor Techniques

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Reardon
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2016-02-29
  • ISBN : 1440340862
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Watercolor Techniques written by Michael Reardon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No other medium is as magical and enjoyable as watercolor." So says artist and author Michael Reardon. In Watercolor Techniques: Painting Light and Color in Landscapes and Cityscapes, Reardon covers it all, from answers to beginners' most vexing problems (What is the proper ratio of pigment and water? How do I lay down an even wash? Why do my paintings look so washed out?) to understanding the trifecta of perspective, value, and color. He shows how to paint whites that sparkle and shadows that glow and how to conjure the atmosphere of a particular place and time. Painters of all skill levels will see--and feel--the difference in their work. • Packed with expert advice for infusing scenes with light and color • Includes special tips and techniques for painting architectural subjects • Illustrated with inspiring paintings of scenes from around the world • 8 start-to-finish demonstrations show key concepts in action "Light, as it glances off a facade, glimmers off the water or gleams off polished marble, is always inspiring. Color, with its infinite array of hues, is always irresistible. Searching for ways to make them harmonize and tell a story can last a lifetime."

Book Diamond Mountains

    Book Details:
  • Author : Soyoung Lee
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2018-02-05
  • ISBN : 1588396533
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Diamond Mountains written by Soyoung Lee and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mount Geumgang, also known as the Diamond Mountains, is perhaps the most famous and emotionally resonant site on the Korean Peninsula, a magnificent range of rocky peaks, waterfalls, and lagoons, dotted with pavilions and temples. Since ancient times, it has inspired cultural pride, spurred spiritual and artistic pilgrimages, and engendered an outpouring of creative expression. Yet since the partition of Korea in 1945 situated it in the North, Mount Geumgang has remained largely inaccessible to visitors, shrouded in legend, loss, and longing. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} Diamond Mountains: Travel and Nostalgia in Korean Art is the first book in English to explore the pictorial representations of this grand and varied landscape. The special exhibition it accompanies, organized by Soyoung Lee, Curator in the Department of Asian Art, examines the evolution of Diamond Mountains imagery from the golden age of Korean true-view painting in the eighteenth century to the present day. Even today, when a profusion of Instagram photos can make the world’s most obscure sites and geographical oddities seem familiar, the Diamond Mountains portrayed here in album leaves, scrolls, and screens will be a revelation to many.

Book Framing Famous Mountains

    Book Details:
  • Author : Li-tsui Flora Fu
  • Publisher : Chinese University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9789629963293
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Framing Famous Mountains written by Li-tsui Flora Fu and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Treating landscape painting as yet another framing systems, in both the symbolic and material sense, this book examines sixteenth-century paintings of famous mountains by three major artists in the light of a diachronic account of the evolution of famous mountains over time and a synchronic account of the vogue for the grand tour in late Ming society." --Book Jacket.

Book Zen in the Art of Climbing Mountains

Download or read book Zen in the Art of Climbing Mountains written by Neville Shulman and published by PeriplusEdition. This book was released on 1992 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thomas Moran

Download or read book Thomas Moran written by Thurman Wilkins and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensively revised edition of Thurman Wilkins’s masterful and engaging biography - well illustrated in color and black-and-white - draws on new information and recent scholarship to place Thomas Moran more securely in the milieu of the Gilded Age. It also portrays more fully the controversies that surrounded the art of Moran’s time, as he became "the Dean of American Painters." The American West was the subject of Thomas Moran’s greatest artistic triumphs - Yosemite, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Zion Canyon, the Virgin River, Colorado’s Mountain of the Holy Cross, and the Grand Tetons - but his travels with Ferdinand V. Hayden’s geological surveys of the Upper Yellowstone were matched by trips to his native Britain and to Venice, Florida, the Spanish Southwest, and Old Mexico. These scenes inspired memorable landscapes and seascapes, as did the sojourns of the Moran family in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and East Hampton, Long Island, when they retreated from the demands of the New York art scene. In the 1880s Moran and his artist wife, Mary Nimmo Moran, also threw themselves into the etching craze of the period, creating some of the finest prints produced in the United States. Moran was an artist happy in his work. He wrote, "I have always held that the grandest, most beautiful, or wonderful in nature, would, in capable hands, make the grandest, most beautiful, or wonderful pictures." The New York Times said of the first edition of this unique account of his life, "Moran’s mastery comes through clearly and awesomely and often, pleasurably." Readers will find the new edition equally enjoyable.

Book The Mountains in Art History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Mark
  • Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
  • Release : 2017-03-07
  • ISBN : 0819577308
  • Pages : 155 pages

Download or read book The Mountains in Art History written by Peter Mark and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mountains in Art History is the first English-language work to focus on mountains as subject matter and source of aesthetic and spiritual inspiration for painters. This collection of original essays is written entirely by Wesleyan University students of art history. The essays examine how artistic representation of mountains has varied through the lens of specific depictions in English and American literature, and consider how images of mountains functioned in conjunction with religion, the sublime, and Romanticism. These essays by student authors adeptly ruminate on works by individuals such as William Wordsworth, John Frederick Kensett, Alexander van Humboldt, Emil Nolde, and Arnold Fanck. Includes an introduction by professor Peter Mark and a helpful appendix of the course syllabus and narrative description.

Book The Organic Artist

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nick Neddo
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-01-15
  • ISBN : 1592539262
  • Pages : 163 pages

Download or read book The Organic Artist written by Nick Neddo and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an art book which highlights the possibility of using natural, organic materials as art supplies and inspiration.

Book The Joy of Mountains

Download or read book The Joy of Mountains written by Donna Jo Massie and published by Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This bestselling guide to watercolour painting highlights the basic skills and materials required to venture out into the mountains and create a unique watercolour sketch...even if you've never painted before! Donna Jo Massie's classic and highly sought-after instructional book has been newly formatted and packaged as a durable hardcover for the modern traveller interested in capturing the stunning beauty of mountain landscapes in one of the world's most visited tourist destinations: the Canadian Rocky Mountains. This user-friendly guide takes the aspiring artist through all aspects of developing a love and appreciation for travelling and painting in mountain environments. With information on how to begin a sketchbook and what materials to pack, lessons on surrounding trees, flowers, rocks, water and shadows, a glossary and a list of suggested reference books, this new edition of A Rocky Mountain Sketchbook is certain to entice a whole new generation of watercolour enthusiasts to venture into the natural w.

Book At the Mountains of Madness Illustrated

Download or read book At the Mountains of Madness Illustrated written by H P Lovecraft and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length.

Book Summer Mountains

Download or read book Summer Mountains written by Wen Fong and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1975 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape has been the dominant subject in Chinese painting ever since it emerged as the pre-eminent art form of the Northern Sung period (960-1127). The recent acquisition by the Metropolitan Museum, as a gift of the Dillon Fund, of a superb large Northern Sung handscroll, Summer Mountains, provides the opportunity to consider in some detail the landscape art of this period, together with its antecedents and later permutations. Developing during the war-filled years of the tenth century, Northern Sung landscape painting produced timeless images that were followed and imitated for centuries. This art reached its apogee in the third quarter of the eleventh century. After the fall of the Northern Sung, it continued to be popular in the north, both under the Chin tartar and then the Mongol rule during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Meantime the painters of the Southern Sung (1127-1276), south of the Yangtze River, developed a simplified style that described the softer landscapes of the south.

Book Sacred Mountains in Chinese Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kiyohiko Munakata
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780252061882
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Sacred Mountains in Chinese Art written by Kiyohiko Munakata and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhibition organized by the Krannert Art Museum and curated by Kiyohiko Munakata. Krannert Art Museum November 9-December 16, 1990. The Metropolitan Muswum of Art January 25-March 31, 1991.

Book O  Appalachia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ramona Lampell
  • Publisher : Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book O Appalachia written by Ramona Lampell and published by Stewart, Tabori, & Chang. This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oversized (91/4x121/4") book with over 150 exquisite photographs displaying the works and techniques of 17 self-taught artists from the mountains between Virginia and Alabama. The sparse but well written text traces each artist's background and inspiration. Includes sculptors, painters, carvers, and basket weavers using materials from their environment. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English Speaking World

Download or read book Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English Speaking World written by Françoise Besson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book, written by poets, novelists, mountain-climbers and academics from all over the world, evoke the representation of mountains in the English-speaking world as artists, writers, philosophers or mountain-climbers have represented them from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the Alps to the Pyrenees, from Mount Fuji to Mount Shasta, from the Himalayas to the Scottish Highlands, from Ikere in Nigeria to Devil's Tower in the United States, from Uluru in Australia to the most northern mountain of the Arctic, the shapes of the world speak the same language and tell the world its own story. This interdisciplinary book, weaving together mountaineering, literature, philosophy, painting, cinema, ecology, history, palaeontology, geography, geopolitics, toponymy, law, religion and myth, invites people to an innovative reading of mountains: it reveals the close relationship existing between the shapes of the world and all forms of writing and, at the same time, it shows how the representations of the imagination may be instrumental in protecting the natural world. The story told by the landscape inscribes a broken line in the shapes of the world, tearing the landscape like a fragile page whenever historical and political events (wars, mining or deforestation) leave scars in the landscape; but writers' and artists' representations of mountains constitute a path to awareness as they are not only a painting of beauty, but an image of our link to nature and a warning as well. For centuries the image of the mountain has conveyed a symbolism telling the story of human thought, and this book shows to what extent literature and art play an essential part in our awareness of nature.

Book Art in the Mountains  the Story of the Passion Play     With Numerous Illustrations

Download or read book Art in the Mountains the Story of the Passion Play With Numerous Illustrations written by Henry George BLACKBURN and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hills and Mountains in Watercolour

Download or read book Hills and Mountains in Watercolour written by Peter Woolley and published by Search Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The What to Paint series is perfect for readers with some painting skills and experience, who are looking for inspiring painting subjects. Each book has 24 beautiful full-page size paintings, a colour palette for each one and informative captions pulling out details, tips and techniques used in various parts of the painting. At the back of the book there is a free outline for each painting for readers to transfer or scan on to paper. There are also instructions on transferring the images, and on selecting parts of the outlines to create new compositions. Watercolour artist, Peter Woolley, provides a stunning range of paintings encompassing a variety of scenes from gentle slopes and rolling hills to dramatic peaks of far off mountain ranges. Every painting is accompanied by outline transfers, which are ideal for beginners who want to get started painting landscapes without requiring the necessary drawing skills.

Book Art in the Mountains

Download or read book Art in the Mountains written by Henry Blackburn and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art in the Mountains

Download or read book Art in the Mountains written by Nemacolin Woodlands Resort (Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: