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Book In Memory of My Feelings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank O'Hara
  • Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780870705106
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book In Memory of My Feelings written by Frank O'Hara and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Frank O'Hara. Edited by Bill Berkson. Essay by Kynaston McShine.

Book Michelangelo Drawings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hugo Chapman
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300111477
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Michelangelo Drawings written by Hugo Chapman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a catalog to accompany an exhibition of drawings by Michelangelo.

Book J M W  Turner

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Tate
  • Release : 2017-04-11
  • ISBN : 9781849764902
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book J M W Turner written by and published by Tate. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most popular painters of all time, J.M.W. Turner created a remarkable collection of sketchbooks over the course of his career. The 'Skies' sketchbook takes its name from its many richly coloured sky studies. Most of the sketches in the book were presumably observed in England, but a few many have been seen in Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. The dramatic consequence of the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815m darkening skies and reddening sunsets around the world, surely caught his attention. Turner's more intensely-coloured studies may document these effects which lasted for over a year. This edition of the sketchbook reproduces all these beautiful drawings in near-facsimile.

Book Hopper Drawing

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  • Author : Carter E. Foster
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9780300181494
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Hopper Drawing written by Carter E. Foster and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 23-Oct. 6, 2013; Dallas Museum of Art, Nov. 17, 2013-Feb. 16, 2014; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Mar. 15-June 22, 2014.

Book D  rer and Beyond

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stijn Alsteens
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1588394514
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book D rer and Beyond written by Stijn Alsteens and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This exhibition is the first to offer an extensive overview of the Museum's holdings of early Central European drawings, many of which were acquired in the last two decades. An emphasis on works by later sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artists is balanced by a selection of German drawings from the fifteenth and earlier sixteenth century, of which some of the most exceptional ones--including works by Albrecht Deurer--entered the Museum with The Robert Lehman Collection in 1975."--Publisher's website.

Book City Sketching Reimagined

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  • Author : Jeanette Barnes
  • Publisher : Batsford Books
  • Release : 2022-04-07
  • ISBN : 1849948097
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book City Sketching Reimagined written by Jeanette Barnes and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed Royal Academy artist Jeanette Barnes and Paul Brandford breathe new life into sketching for town and city dwellers everywhere. Mercurial, inspirational, practical and charming, this guide covers everything from architecture to accidental paintings, cocktails to clouds, smudges to skyscrapers. With easily digested bite-size entries, it introduces many types of art materials, their uses and a number of insights and exercises to build confidence in a range of approaches to drawing. For the more experienced sketcher, the artists discuss the processes behind drawing and strategies to inject more creativity and open-mindedness about how to take a drawing forward. With great charm, the book gives a window onto the experiences of Jeanette, who has travelled to many cities worldwide in search of inspiring city subjects and a half-decent cocktail. Full of tips and ideas about working on location and back in the studio, this book is filled with the scribbles, sketches and preparatory drawings that feed into the larger works for which she is known. As a whole, the book is a multipurpose tool which can be used to unlock the potential of drawing both technically and philosophically so that the reader can be the architect of their own drawing experience rather than the recipient of someone else's. After thirty years of drawing, many of them teaching, the authors still feel an excitement when picking up a pencil or some charcoal. This book gives every reader the chance to share that excitement and bring urban living to life.

Book Contemporary Drawing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Davidson
  • Publisher : Watson-Guptill
  • Release : 2014-01-07
  • ISBN : 082302718X
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Contemporary Drawing written by Margaret Davidson and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing is experiencing an unparalleled surge in the art world. Passé notions that once defined drawing as being a preparatory stage for painting or sculpture have long since been cast aside. Drawing is now fully recognized as its own art form—in the biennials, art fairs, museum exhibitions, and beyond. Drawing has come of age. Contemporary artists are increasingly discovering that drawing is something unique and different from painting. It is an intense, sensitive, compelling, personal, and utterly direct art form, one with its own concepts, characteristics, and techniques. In addition, contemporary drawing is not governed by any particular imagery, but rather encompasses a variety of approaches, including realist, abstract, modernist, and post-modernist. Contemporary Drawing delves into the essential and far-reaching concepts of this medium, exploring surface, mark, space, composition, scale, materials, and intentionality in turn. Key techniques, such as using nature to induce marks and working with a checklist to determine a drawing’s problems, are introduced throughout. Plus, an in-depth chapter examines a number of artists, such as William Kentridge and Gego, who are breaking traditional boundaries that separate one artistic discipline from another. Lushly illustrated by a wide range of highly accomplished contemporary artists, Contemporary Drawing offers a broad perspective on this expansive and energized field of art.

Book Late Constable Hb

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-11-15
  • ISBN : 9781912520725
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Late Constable Hb written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On John Constable as a proto-abstractionist of pastoral landscape One of Britain's greatest landscape painters, John Constable was brought up in Dedham Vale, the valley of the River Stour in Suffolk. The eldest son of a wealthy mill owner, he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1800 at the age of 24, and thereafter committed himself to painting nature out of doors. His "six-footers," such as The Hay Wainand The Leaping Horse, were designed to promote landscape as a subject and to stand out in the Academy's Annual Exhibition. Despite this, he sold few paintings in his lifetime and was elected a Royal Academician late in his career. With texts by leading authorities on the artist, this handsome book looks at the freedom of Constable's late works and records his enormous contribution to the English landscape tradition. John Constable(1776-1837) is one of Britain's best-known artists, and is often considered one of the greatest landscape painters of all time. He was born near the River Stour in Suffolk, an area the artist depicted so frequently that it is referred to as "Constable country." Pastoral scenes were unfashionable at the time and Constable struggled to establish himself as a painter. He was finally elected a Royal Academician in 1829, and in 1832, he exhibited The Opening of Waterloo Bridge--an effort 13 years in the making--at the Summer Exhibition.

Book Pen and Parchment

Download or read book Pen and Parchment written by Melanie Holcomb and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the techniques, uses, and aesthetics of medieval drawings; and reproduces work from more than fifty manuscripts produced between the ninth and early fourteenth century.

Book Michelangelo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carmen C. Bambach
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2017-11-05
  • ISBN : 1588396371
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book Michelangelo written by Carmen C. Bambach and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consummate painter, draftsman, sculptor, and architect, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) was celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design, which was considered in the Renaissance to be the foundation of all artistic disciplines. To his contemporary Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo was “the divine draftsman and designer” whose work embodied the unity of the arts. Beautifully illustrated with more than 350 drawings, paintings, sculptures, and architectural views, this book establishes the centrality of disegno to Michelangelo’s work. Carmen C. Bambach presents a comprehensive and engaging narrative of the artist’s long career in Florence and Rome, beginning with his training under the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio and the sculptor Bertoldo and ending with his seventeen-year appointment as chief architect of Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. The chapters relate Michelangelo’s compositional drawings, sketches, life studies, and full-scale cartoons to his major commissions—such as the ceiling frescoes and the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, the church of San Lorenzo and its New Sacristy (Medici Chapel) in Florence, and Saint Peter’s—offering fresh insights into his creative process. Also explored are Michelangelo’s influential role as a master and teacher of disegno, his literary and spiritual interests, and the virtuoso drawings he made as gifts for intimate friends, such as the nobleman Tommaso de’ Cavalieri and Vittoria Colonna, the marchesa of Pescara. Complementing Bambach’s text are thematic essays by leading authorities on the art of Michelangelo. Meticulously researched, compellingly argued, and richly illustrated, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of this timeless artist.

Book My Ideas

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  • Author : Greg Parma Smith
  • Publisher : JRP Ringier
  • Release : 2018-04
  • ISBN : 9783037645246
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book My Ideas written by Greg Parma Smith and published by JRP Ringier. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceived by Greg Parma Smith as an active archive, this artist's book combines a selection of recent paintings, an extensive number of drawings (preparatory sketches, studies, simple patterns and designs, cartoons, notes, and doodles) realized by the artist from his youth years--when drawing was his favourite medium of expression--and three essays by long-time followers of Parma Smith's practice, namely artist and writer John Miller, art critic Kari Rittenbach, and musician and singer Hunter Hunt-Hendrix.In a very generous way, the artist thus allows us to enter his personal universe and to understand his path to painting and artistic creation."The anti-potentiality of drawing is at least one tendency that informs Greg Parma Smith's selection of work in this volume" John Miller states in his essay. "His decision to put together such a book must be read in contrast to paintings that have come to define his artistic position. Regardless of whether they depict butterflies, coloured pencils or figures grafted together from disparate body parts, these paintings are consistently stylized, taut and polished. In them, he seeks a nuanced, outré effect that might be typified as straight edge or perverse straight edge.Spanning a period from 1991 to 2015--nearly a quarter century--this sampling mixes ostensibly mature works with childish musings. As such, it suggests a de-hierarchicalization that refuses to denigrate what might be deemed otherwise embarrassing or crude efforts. The juvenile, here, reasserts itself as a wellspring for ideas as they exist before coalescing into a consistent style.Co-published with MAMCO on occasion of the exhibition, Greg Parma Smith, 22 Feb - 7 May 2017, MAMCO, Geneva.

Book Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art

Download or read book Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art written by Smith College. Museum of Art and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newest volume in Hudson Hills Press's acclaimed series about leading collections of master drawings presents sixty-eight great sheets, all reproduced in full-color, including many versos, from one of the finest college museums in America.

Book Rubens Drawings

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  • Author : Peter Paul Rubens
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2014-03-05
  • ISBN : 0486138259
  • Pages : 49 pages

Download or read book Rubens Drawings written by Peter Paul Rubens and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generous selection of Rubens' best drawings, chiefly portraits and religious and mythical scenes, that fully reveal his supreme artistic gifts. Publisher's note.

Book Fragonard

    Book Details:
  • Author : Perrin Stein
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 1588396010
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Fragonard written by Perrin Stein and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2016 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most forward-looking artists of the eighteenth century, Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) was a virtuoso draftsman whose works on paper count among the great achievements of his time. This book showcases Fragonard's mastery and experimentation in a range of media, from vivid red chalk to luminous brown wash, as well as etching, watercolor, and gouache. With essays that focus on the role of drawing in his creative process and provide a modern reevaluation of his graphic work, the book offers fresh perspectives on this innovative and independent artist, who began his career in the Rococo era but lived through and adapted to changing times in France, and who chose to leave the more defined path of official patronage in order to work for private clients. Unlike many earlier painters who used drawings primarily as preparatory tools, Fragonard explored their potential as works of art in their own right, ones that permitted him to work with great freedom and allowed his genius to shine. The 100 featured works come from New York collections, public and private, balancing a mix of well-loved masterpieces, new discoveries, and works that have long been out of the public eye. Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant illuminates the approach of a ceaselessly inventive artist whose draftsmanship was at the core of his remarkable body of work.

Book Clyfford Still

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Failing
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780985635756
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Clyfford Still written by Patricia Failing and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PDF

Book Dutch Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sheila D. Muller
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-07-04
  • ISBN : 1135495742
  • Pages : 664 pages

Download or read book Dutch Art written by Sheila D. Muller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated feast for the eye and intellect Dutch Art explores developments in art, art history, art criticism, and cultural history of the Netherlands from the artists' workshops for the Utrecht Dom in 1475 to the latest movements of the 1990s. it is lavishly illustrated with 147 black-and-white photographs and 16 pages in full color. More than 100 internationally recognized scholars, museum professionals, artists, and art critics contributed signed essays to this monumental work, including historians, sociologists, and literary historians.

Book Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth Century Art

Download or read book Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth Century Art written by David W. Galenson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galenson combines social scientific methods with qualitative analysis to produce a new interpretation of modern art.