Download or read book The Conversation Piece written by Desmond Shawe-Taylor and published by Royal Collection Trust. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 'Conversation Piece' is an intriguing contradiction - the high-life group, but caught informally, off-guard. Popular in seventeenth-century Dutch painting, it developed to include sporting events and 'Grand Tourists', and reached its apogee in the eighteenth century in the masterpieces created by Johan Zoffany for his English patrons, including George III." "This new publication accompanies the first exhibition on this subject for over thirty years, presenting early Dutch and Flemish genre paintings against their successors in the informal portraiture of Stubbs and Hogarth, as well as iconic works by Zoffany himself. It also provides a unique opportunity to connect the study of the 'conversation' in eighteenth-century English art to its seventeenth-century European predecessors." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Conversation Pieces written by Mario Praz and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Praz traces the history of the conversation piece which is am intimate group portrait usually of small dimensions and is a genre which arose in the Low countries, flourished in 18th-century England, and declined with the invention of photography.
Download or read book The Conversation Piece written by Kate Retford and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2018 Apollo Book of the Year award Pioneered by William Hogarth (1697-1764) and his peers in the early 18th century, and then revitalized by Johan Zoffany (1733-1810), the conversation piece was an innovative mode of portraiture, depicting groups posed in landscape or domestic settings. These artists grappled with creating complex multi-figured compositions and intricate narratives, filling their paintings with representations of socially, nationally, and temporally precise customs. Paying particular attention to the vibrant (and at times fabricated) interior and exterior settings in these works, Kate Retford discusses the various ways that the conversation piece engaged with the rich material culture of Georgian Britain. The book also explores how these portraits served a wide array of interests and concerns among familial networks and larger social groups. From codifying performances of politeness to engaging in cross-cultural exchanges, the conversation piece was a complex and nuanced expression of a multifaceted society. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Download or read book Conversation Pieces written by Sacheverell Sitwell and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book David Hockney written by David Hockney and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the most significant artists exploring and pushing the boundaries of figurative art today. Hockney has been engaged with portraiture since his teenage years, when he painted Portrait of My Father (1955), and his self-portraits and depictions of family, lovers, and friends represent an intimate visual diary of the artist’s life. This beautifully illustrated book examines Hockney’s portraits in all media—painting, drawing, photography, and prints—and has been produced in close collaboration with the artist. Featured subjects include members of Hockney’s family and private circle, as well as portraits of such artists and cultural figures as Lucian Freud, Francesco Clemente, R. B. Kitaj, Helmet Newton, Lawrence Weschler, and W. H. Auden. The authors reveal how Hockney’s creative development and concerns about representation can be traced through his portrait work: from his battle with naturalism to his experimentation with and later rejection of photography, and from his recent camera lucida drawings to his return to painting from life. Featuring more than 250 works from the past fifty years, David Hockney Portraits illustrates not only the fascinating range of Hockney’s creative practice but also the unique and cyclical nature of his artistic concerns.
Download or read book Art in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hand Painted Homes written by Leisa Collins and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Man with a Blue Scarf On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud written by Martin Gayford and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary record of a great artist in his studio, it also describes what it feels like to be transformed into a work of art.” —ARTnews Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. The daily narrative of their encounters takes the reader into that most private place, the artist’s studio, and to the heart of the working methods of this modern master—both technical and subtly psychological. From this emerges an understanding of what a portrait is, but something else is also created: a portrait, in words, of Freud himself. This is not a biography, but a series of close-ups: the artist at work and in conversation at restaurants, in taxis, and in his studio. It takes one into the company of the painter for whom Picasso, Giacometti, and Francis Bacon were friends and contemporaries, as were writers such as George Orwell and W. H. Auden. The book is illustrated with many of Lucian Freud’s other works, telling photographs taken by David Dawson of Freud in his studio, and images by such great artists of the past as van Gogh and Titian who are discussed by Freud and Gayford. Full of wry observations, the book reveals the inside story of how it feels to pose for a remarkable artist and become a work of art.
Download or read book The Conversation Piece written by Ellen D'Oench and published by . This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Anatomy of the Horse written by George Stubbs and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterpiece of animal anatomy contains 36 plates that reproduce Stubbs' etchings. Based on the artist's own dissections and outline views, the illustrations feature extensive explanatory text. Full reproduction of 1766 edition.
Download or read book Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790 written by Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field covered by this volume includes the work and influence of foreign-born painters such as Holbein and Van Dyck as well as native masters from Gower and Milliard to Gainsborough, Stubbs, and Sandby. We can follow step by step the development and flowering of British painting, and can compare, for example, the work of the English Sir Joshua Reynolds with the Scottish Allan Ramsay. Portrait and landscape, history piece, miniature, watercolour, there is a record of them all. The text is both scholarly and readable and the illustrations include well known examples of British painting and others seldom or never before reproduced between the covers of a book. This is the fifth edition of this work, newly enhanced with colour illustrations.
Download or read book Delphi Complete Paintings of William Hogarth Illustrated written by William Hogarth and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Father of English painting, William Hogarth aspired to an art that would engage and delight ordinary citizens, rather than educated connoisseurs and critics, whom he despised. He achieved this ambition by creating a new type of painting, a comic strip-like series of pictures called ‘modern moral subjects’. Famous examples such as ‘A Harlot's Progress’, ‘A Rake's Progress’ and ‘Marriage A-la-Mode’ were reproduced en masse as popular engravings and were accessible to all. His work also provided a visual influence to the satirical works of England’s great men of letters. More importantly, Hogarth’s extraordinary achievement of securing a Copyright Act would benefit countless artists in all media to the present day. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Hogarth’s complete paintings in beautiful detail, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * The complete paintings of William Hogarth – hundreds of images, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order * Includes reproductions of rare works * Features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information * Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore Hogarth’s celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books * Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smartphones or as a valuable reference tool on eReaders * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the paintings * Easily locate the artworks you wish to view * Includes a wide selection of Hogarth’s prints – explore the artist’s varied works * Hogarth’s treatise of art: ‘The Analysis of Beauty’ * A special criticism section, with eight seminal essays exploring Hogarth’s contribution to the development of British art * Features four bonus biographies – immerse yourself in Hogarth’s world CONTENTS: The Highlights Masquerades and Operas (1724) Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme (1724) Conversation Piece (c. 1731) A Harlot’s Progress (1731) A Rake’s Progress (1734) Self Portrait (1735) Jesus at the Pool of Bethesda (1737) Four Times of the Day (1738) Portrait of Thomas Coram (1740) Marriage à-la-mode (1745) The Painter and his Pug (1745) David Garrick as Richard III (1745) The Shrimp Girl (c. 1745) The Gate of Calais or O, the Roast Beef of Old England (1748) Beer Street and Gin Lane (1751) Sigismunda Mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo (1759) Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism (1762) The Paintings The Complete Paintings Alphabetical List of Paintings The Prints List of Prints The Book The Analysis of Beauty (1753) The Criticism Preface to ‘Joseph Andrews’ (1742) by Henry Fielding Letter to George Montagu, Esq. (1761) by Horace Walpole Characters of Hogarth (1765) by Horace Walpole On the Genius and Character of Hogarth (1811) by Charles Lamb Hogarth, Smollett, and Fielding (1853) by William Makepeace Thackeray Hogarth’s Works: First Series (1874) by John Ireland and John Nichols Hogarth and His Time (1877) by James Parton Hogarth’s Sigismunda (1892) by Austin Dobson The Biographies Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth (1785) by John Nichols William Hogarth (1900) by Austin Dobson Hogarth (1912) by Arthur St. John Adcock Hogarth by (1913) C. Lewis Hind Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to buy the whole Art series as a Super Set
Download or read book Conversation Piece written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Realism Through Informality written by Leger Galleries and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Conversation Pictures from the Middle Ages to about 1730 written by Ralph Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Paint is to Love Again written by Henry Miller and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and expanded edition of the title, first published in 1960.
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