Download or read book Painted into a Corner written by Faysal Mikdadi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are poems and paintings which reflect the poet's struggle to make order out of chaos. For years, Mikdadi has struggled for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. At different junctures in his life, his despair at the intransigence of both sides and at the sheer cruelty of what Palestinians have had to endure, led him to write poetry and, occasionally, to paint in watercolours. These are some of the poems and paintings that he produced during his life. They speak for themselves. Maeve Binchy felt that Faysal Mikdadi's passion makes his poetry impossible to ignore. There is also a black and white version of this colour book also published by Lulu. It has been printed because this colour version, being printed entirely in colour, was deemed a trifle expensive. The black and white version allows readers to afford a copy. This colour version has also been published as an e-book.
Download or read book Create Perfect Paintings written by Nancy Reyner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Resource and Reference Guide for Artists! Discover an innovative self-critique method that will empower you to answer the artist's most common questions: Now What? and Is it Finished? With hundreds of insights, tips, and illustrated techniques, Create Perfect Paintings shows you how to push your work to the next level regardless of medium or style by strengthening your perception, technical skills, and visual thinking. Exercises and examples illustrate how to critique your own creations and evaluate them step by step for further improvement. You will learn to identify and modify artistic choices--from negative space and color ratio to controlling eye movement, depth and contrast--to see their impact and help you use them to the best effect in your work. What you'll find inside: • Section 1: Essentials--Reviews and defines artistic terms and concepts. • Section 2: Play Phase--Shows you how to tap into your creative right brain. Learn to challenge the process and break habits to free your spirit and inspire variety in your art; also covers materials, tools and surfaces. • Section 3: Critique Phase--Introduces a groundbreaking method of contemporary critique called The Viewing Game: a comprehensive, systematic and fun way to analyze, edit and enhance your paintings. • Sections 4 and 5--Bonus sections explore how to resolve creative blocks, convey artistic messages, boost your personal style, display your work, and turn painting into a career. "May this book increase your productivity, add ease and flow to your creative process, clarify your ideas, add nuance to your personal style, and most importantly, add joy to the miraculous act of painting." --Nancy Reyner
Download or read book The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse written by Eric Carle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant new Eric Carle picture book for the artist in us all Every child has an artist inside them, and this vibrant picture book from Eric Carle will help let it out. The artist in this book paints the world as he sees it, just like a child. There's a red crocodile, an orange elephant, a purple fox and a polka-dotted donkey. More than anything, there's imagination. Filled with some of the most magnificently colorful animals of Eric Carle's career, this tribute to the creative life celebrates the power of art.
Download or read book After The Event written by Chris Henson and published by Mark Binmore. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am waiting for Mark. For the last several months he has been missing, Garbo-like, from public life. But in reality he has been writing a new book. We have agreed to go back over the original manuscripts for this edition, to do some editing, add in some extras, delete a few choice words and phrases. We meet in his London home, where he is dressed in a workday uniform of brown shirt, jeans and trainers, hair clipped up in practical busy-busy fashion, all smiles and loud laughter. We first met over five years ago. Then we tentatively shook hands and the laughter was nervous. All that has changed. But some things have not. He still famously hates interviews. Around us there is evidence of a very regular existence. There are books scattered everywhere, a Sony widescreen with a DVD of Shackleton sitting below it. Atop the fireplace hangs a painting called Fishermen by James Southall, a tableau of weather-beaten sea dogs wrestling with a rowing boat; a gift he bought himself on the anniversary of a publication. Balanced against a wall in the office next door is a replica of the Rosebud sledge burned at the dramatic conclusion of Citizen Kane. As I unpack my scripts, I begin with a question. You once said, 'There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.' There is silence. A stare. You did say it. 'Well supposedly I said that. But in what context did I say it?' Just talking about people building up this image of you. It was one of the first things you ever said to me. 'Yes, but I'm not, am I?' There was also that interview that described you as someone fragile being who's hidden himself away. 'That was fairly amusing. A lot of the time it doesn't bother me. I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.' His voice notches up in volume. Did you ever feel you would finish your first book? 'Oh yeah,' he sighs. 'I mean, there were so many times I thought, I'll have the book finished this year, definitely, I'll get it out this year. Then there were a couple of years where I thought, I'm never gonna do this. I don't know why. Time evaporates.' He walks over and picks up the manuscripts. He reads a bit. He laughs. 'Did I really agree to this?' he asks. Mark knows the answer. 'A couple of people who read the first book Tour De Europa,' he says, 'they either really liked it or they found it very uncomfortable. I liked the idea of it being uncomfortable. I thought that was great. I love the ambiguity. But I also loved looking back on lost conversations and instantly remembering an emotion.' A clock somewhere strikes two and a friend arrives with tea, pizza, avocado with balsamic vinegar and cream cake for afters, only to be playfully admonished by Mark, who protests, 'I can't eat all this shit!' It would appear some things never change.
Download or read book History and Presence written by Robert A. Orsi and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Beginning with metaphysical debates in the sixteenth century over the nature of Christ’s presence in the host, the distinguished historian and scholar of religion Robert Orsi imagines an alternative to the future of religion that early moderns proclaimed was inevitable. “Orsi’s evoking of the full reality of the holy in the world is extremely moving, shot through with wonder and horror.” —Caroline Walker Bynum, Common Knowledge “This is a meticulously researched, humane, and deeply challenging book. The men and women studied in this book do not belong to ‘a world we have lost.’ They belong to a world we have lost sight of.” —Peter Brown, Princeton University “[A] brilliant, theologically sophisticated exploration of the Catholic experience of God’s presence through the material world... On every level—from its sympathetic, honest, and sometimes moving ethnography to its astute analytical observations—this book is a scholarly masterpiece.” —A. W. Klink, Choice “Orsi recaptures God’s breaking into the world ... The book does an excellent job of explaining both the difficulties and values inherent in recognizing God in the world.” —Publishers Weekly “This book is classic Orsi: careful, layered, humane, and subtle...a thought-provoking, expertly arranged tour of precisely those abundant, excessive phenomena which scholars have historically found so difficult to think.” —Sonja Anderson, Reading Religion
Download or read book The Painted Drum written by Louise Erdrich and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see—to the dead alive and busy, to the breath of trees and the souls of wolves—and inspires readers to open their hearts to these mysteries as well.”— Washington Post Book World From the author of the National Book Award Winner The Round House, Louise Erdrich's breathtaking, lyrical novel of a priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those who have come into contact with it over the years. While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined. Compelling and unforgettable, Louise Erdrich's Painted Drum explores the often-fraught relationship between mothers and daughters, the strength of family, and the intricate rhythms of grief with all the grace, wit, and startling beauty that characterizes this acclaimed author's finest work.
Download or read book English Idioms and Phrases Dictionary written by Daniel B. Smith and published by Daniel B. Smith. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idioms are expressions that cannot be understood from their individual words alone, and the English language is full of them—and so is this dictionary: 4,800+ English idioms and phrases with example sentences included for you so as to understand them all. This is the essential idioms dictionary if you want to talk like a native speaker—or just find out more about the colorful phrases you hear and say every day.
Download or read book Painted from Memory written by Dean Michael Zadak and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At times, successful artist Mickey Anderson feels like a mad scientist mixing oil paints into an explosion of color. It is a blissful exercise he happily controls, unlike many other things in his life. Trapped in a relationship with his girlfriend, Jenn, who wants more than he can give, Mickey finds solace in his workuntil the day he notices something different in a painting on his easel. For as long as she can remember, Nancy Krupka has been obsessed with Mickey. Drawn to one of his paintings, Nancy recognizes a powerful energy she is certain will bring them together at last. As she stares at the painting, she is overcome with an intense feelingjust as Mickey awakens on the beach to find himself in an alternate dimension with his childhood sweetheart, Sylvia. As the couple navigates through a confusing, ever-changing time dimensiondiscovering they are married with childrenthey have no idea that a dark force is at work that has no interest in a happy ending for either of them. In this romantic thriller, an artist must search his paintings for answers as he attempts to find his way to the life he wants and the love he so desperately needs before someone else learns how to control timeand his future.
Download or read book Painted in Words written by Samuel S Bak and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-27 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At my first sight of a painting by Samuel Bak, I had the keen sense that he was telling me stories with his brush. Now that at long last he has written this book, I find it no wonder that he has painted with his pen.... Among the tens and hundreds of books I have read about the pre-Shoah and post-Shoah period... Bak’s book is unique. Despite being suffused with a sense of loss, horror, degradation, and death, it is ultimately a sanguine, funny book, full of the love of life, rocking with an almost cathartic joy. At times I found myself bursting out laughing... a marvelous ode, a colorful hymn to the forces of life, love, creation, and the joys of the senses. —From the Foreword by Amos Oz In Painted in Words internationally renowned artist Samuel Bak sets aside his brushes to narrate the stories of his life—as a child in Nazi-occupied Vilna, as a youth in European refugee camps, and as a maturing artist in Israel, France, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. With gentle humor, the child prodigy of the faraway past and the accomplished artist of today engage in a spirited dialogue from which emerges a self-portrait of "The Artist as a Young—and middle-aged and aging—Survivor." The brilliance, vision, and virtuosity that Bak brings to his painting are equally in evidence in his writing. This deeply touching work is an important contribution to Holocaust literature and art history.
Download or read book Ultimate Guide to SSC CGL Combined Graduate Level Tier I Tier II Exam with Previous Year Questions 5 Online Practice Sets 9th Edition Combined Graduate Level Prelims Mains PYQs written by and published by Disha Publication. This book was released on with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thoroughly Revised & Updated 9th Edition of Ultimate Guide to SSC CGL - Combined Graduate Level - Tier I & Tier II (new Pattern) Exam is now more powerful & extra useful for the CGL aspirants. # The book has been updated as per the new pattern of Tier II and thus the Computer Section is added in the Book. # Theory has been enhanced, specially General Awareness which has been updated with all latest content. # The Previous Year Questions of 2015 - 2023 of Tier I & Tier II have been included in respective Chapters. The Salient Features of the Book are: 1. Comprehensive Sections on: Quantitative Aptitude, General Intelligence & Reasoning, English Language and General Awareness; 2. Detailed theory along with solved examples and short-cuts to solve problems. 3. Exhaustive question bank at the end of each chapter in the form of Exercise including PYQs. Solutions to the Exercise have been provided at the end of each chapter. 4. The book also provides 5 Online Tests - 3 for Tier I & 2 for the new pattern of Tier II. 5. The book provides thoroughly updated General Awareness section with Current Affairs till date. 6. A special section on Computer Knowledge has been added as per the requirement in the Tier II Paper.
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Download or read book The History Of Painting In Italy Vol 5 written by Luigi Lanzi and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Painting in Italy Vol-5' by Luigi Lanzi is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of Italian painting during a specific period in art history. Lanzi takes readers on a captivating journey through the art world of Italy, focusing on the significant developments and prominent artists of the era covered in this part. In this volume, Lanzi delves into the stylistic movements, thematic choices, and technical advancements that shaped Italian painting during the period under examination. He provides insightful analyses of notable artworks, discussing their cultural, historical, and artistic contexts. The author's keen observations and scholarly research shed light on the evolution of Italian painting and the contributions of influential painters of the time. With a combination of meticulous research and engaging writing, the story offers a captivating and authoritative account of the rich artistic heritage of Italy during this specific period in art history.
Download or read book Practical Electric Railway Hand Book written by Albert Bledsoe Herrick and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Plain to Painted written by Christine Thornton and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that just about everything you see in your local craft store can be painted? Dishes, tote bags, furniture, glassware, metal canisters, and more can be painted! Chris Thornton-Deason explains how to paint on any surface in this information-packed guide. Full-size patterns included. Just imagine all the hand-painted gifts and decorative accessories you can create. Let's get painting -- absolutely everything! 36 projects: Bathroom Shell Ensemble; Bon Appétit Canvases; Country Pitcher; Rooster Bucket; Dancing on Moonbeams Nursery Decor; Flowered Birdhouse; Geranium Magazine Holder; Geometric Glassware; Mom & Me Denim Totes; Snowball Blossom Decor; Paisley Cropper Tote; Wedding Ensemble; and Flower Tiles.
Download or read book German Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1350 1600 written by Maryan W. Ainsworth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV Paintings by Renaissance masters Cranach, Dürer, and Holbein are among the highlights featured in the first comprehensive study of the largest collection of early German paintings in America. /div
Download or read book American Painters on Technique written by Lance Mayer and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How paintings were made--in the most literal sense--is an important but largely unknown aspect of the story of American art. This book, like the authors' previous volume on American painting techniques from the colonial period to 1860, is based on descriptions of the materials and methods that painters used, as found in artists' notebooks, painting manuals, magazines, suppliers' catalogues, letters, diaries, books, and interviews. In interpreting this evidence, the authors have made use of their experience as conservators who have treated many important American paintings."--Book jacket.
