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Book Painting Today

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony Godfrey
  • Publisher : Phaidon Press
  • Release : 2014-10-22
  • ISBN : 9780714868561
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Painting Today written by Tony Godfrey and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photo‐realism, abstraction, portraiture, installation painting, neo‐expressionism and the Leipzig School are just some of the areas of this thriving medium explored in Painting Today. This comprehensive survey of contemporary painting presents the broad range of styles, materials and methods that comprise the artform, extending the tradition of Phaidon’s trail–blazing Art Today. Since the proclaimed "death of painting" in 1968, artists around the globe have nevertheless continued to expand its imagery, techniques and meanings, and in over 500 illustrations this book presents the work of both famous and emergent painters active around the world. Tony Godfrey presents a lively and authoritative view of the vast range of possibilities that painting today encompasses.

Book The Oil Painting Book

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  • Author : Bill Creevy
  • Publisher : Watson-Guptill
  • Release : 1999-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780823032747
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book The Oil Painting Book written by Bill Creevy and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without equal anywhere in print today, this is the most complete guide to oil painting materials, and how to use them to derive best results from the medium.

Book Art   Today

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  • Author : Eleanor Heartney
  • Publisher : Phaidon Press
  • Release : 2013-09-02
  • ISBN : 9780714866000
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Art Today written by Eleanor Heartney and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art & Today is an innovative and extensive survey of international contemporary art from the 1980s to the present. Over four hundred of the most significant contemporary artists from around the world are represented in this comprehensive overview - some emerging, some mid-career, and others long established. Each of the book's sixteen chapters address recurring and relevant themes as diverse as "Art & Popular Culture," "Art & Its Institutions," and "Art & Globalism," rather than follow a strict chronological, geographical, or stylistic structure. Lively and up-to-date, Art & Today explores an era in which art defies simple categorization. The result is a surprising and original yet clear and reasoned perspective on contemporary art that breaks from prescribed classifications to offer a survey as expansive as the art it describes. For instance, in the chapter "Art & the Body," one might find performance discussed alongside figurative painting, sculpture and photography alongside video, and North American artists alongside Asian artists. The chapter "Art and Globalism" discusses artists whose nationality, generation, and medium are as diverse as those of Alan Sekula, Michal Rovner, Cildo Meireles, Manuel Ocampo, Chen Zhen, and Andreas Gursky. Internationally renowned art critic and scholar Eleanor Heartney is respected for her clear language and pragmatic approach to contemporary art. Her straightforward, engaging descriptions and explanations will appeal to both experts and newcomers alike, and will serve as an invaluable resource for years to come.

Book Oil Painting with the Masters

Download or read book Oil Painting with the Masters written by Cindy Salaski and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers instruction in oil painting, including such topics as mood and atmosphere, light and form, and brushwork.

Book Paint it Today

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hilda Doolittle
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 1992-07
  • ISBN : 9780814734889
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Paint it Today written by Hilda Doolittle and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1992-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel, a never before published Roman a clef by the famous imagist writer, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), that explores H.D.'s love for women, is a lyrical recreation of the love and loss of her friend and first love, Frances Gregg, and of her later meeting with Bryher who was to become H.D.'s lifelong companion. Spanning the years from H.D.'s childhood in Pennsylvania to the birth of her daughter, Perdita, in 1919, this turbulent love story is set against the backdrop of World War I, H.D.'s involvement in early 20th century London literary circles, her brief engagement to American poet, Ezra Pound, and her shattered marriage to British novelist Richard Aldington. Paint it Today is H.D.'s most lesbian novel, a modern, homoerotic tale of passage which focuses almost entirely on the young heroine's search for the sister love which would empower her spiritually, creatively, and sexually. Cassandra Laity's introduction places H.D.'s love for the sexually magnetic, betraying Gregg and for the more nurturing and loyal Bryher in the context of the lesbian romanticism of early modern fiction. her annotations of all Greek references and literary quotations,m as well as, biographical facts represented in the text, provide nuance and detail to this engrossing work.

Book A Brush with the Real

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marc Valli
  • Publisher : Laurence King
  • Release : 2014-04-08
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book A Brush with the Real written by Marc Valli and published by Laurence King. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a survey of key contemporary artists who have each embraced painting and are working within a realist tradition. Through individual interviews, discusses their methods, motives and sources, from art history to the Internet and the language of film.

Book Painting Vintage Style

Download or read book Painting Vintage Style written by Debbie Cotton and published by All American Crafts Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yesterday's classic signs are the inspiration for the vintage-looking paintings by author and decorative painter Debbie Cotton. Through ten projects, the author provides tips and techniques for painting vintage style.

Book Western Painting Today

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  • Author : Royal B. Hassrick
  • Publisher : New York : Watson-Guptill Publications
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Western Painting Today written by Royal B. Hassrick and published by New York : Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 1975 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paint with the Impressionists

Download or read book Paint with the Impressionists written by Jonathan Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative approach to Impressionism and its methods, Jonathan Stephenson's instruction enables amateurs the world over to paint like the Impressionists. Vibrantly illustrated in colour throughout, both with well-known works of art and step-by-step examples, the book shows how the masters achieved their diverse effects and how their ideas and styles can be adapted to today's tastes. Sections on the artists provide fascinating insights into individual techniques: learn how Monet produced his oil colour sketches, or how Sisley created his atmospheric landscapes. With an introduction providing the historical background to Impressionism, and a comprehensive section on artists' materials, this is a highly practical book that will appeal both to beginners and more experienced artists, as well as to the many thousands of of people inspired by the brilliance and beauty of Impressionist painting.

Book What Shall I Draw

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  • Author : Ray Gibson
  • Publisher : Usborne Books
  • Release : 2003-02
  • ISBN : 9780794503758
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book What Shall I Draw written by Ray Gibson and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step-by-step illustrations show simply and clearly how each drawing is done. The end result is sure to boost any child's confidence.

Book Classical Painting Atelier

    Book Details:
  • Author : Juliette Aristides
  • Publisher : Watson-Guptill
  • Release : 2011-11-15
  • ISBN : 0823008363
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Classical Painting Atelier written by Juliette Aristides and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to paint more like Manet and less like Jackson Pollock? Students of art hailed Classical Drawing Atelier, Juliette Aristides’s first book, as a dynamic return to the atelier educational model. Ateliers, popular in the nineteenth century, teach emerging artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years. The educational process begins as students copy masterworks, then gradually progress to painting as their skills develop. The many artists at every level who learned from Classical Drawing Atelier have been clamoring for more of this sophisticated approach to teaching and learning. In Classical Painting Atelier, Aristides, a leader in the atelier movement, takes students step-by-step through the finest works of Old Masters and today’s most respected realist artists to reveal the principles of creating full-color realist still lifes, portraits, and figure paintings. Rich in tradition, yet practical for today’s artists, Classical Painting Atelier is ideal for serious art students seeking a timeless visual education.

Book Painting with Fire

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  • Author : Matthew C. Hunter
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2020-03-23
  • ISBN : 022639039X
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Painting with Fire written by Matthew C. Hunter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painting with Fire shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century—and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the 1670s, experimental philosophers at the Royal Society of London had studied the visual effects of dynamic combustibles. By the 1770s, chemical volatility became central to the ambitious paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, premier portraitist and first president of Britain’s Royal Academy of Arts. Valued by some critics for changing in time (and thus, for prompting intellectual reflection on the nature of time), Reynolds’s unstable chemistry also prompted new techniques of chemical replication among Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and other leading industrialists. In turn, those replicas of chemically decaying academic paintings were rediscovered in the mid-nineteenth century and claimed as origin points in the history of photography. Tracing the long arc of chemically produced and reproduced art from the 1670s through the 1860s, the book reconsiders early photography by situating it in relationship to Reynolds’s replicated paintings and the literal engines of British industry. By following the chemicals, Painting with Fire remaps familiar stories about academic painting and pictorial experiment amid the industrialization of chemical knowledge.

Book Abstract Painting

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  • Author : Petra Tholken
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2021-07-27
  • ISBN : 1782219579
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Abstract Painting written by Petra Tholken and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create 20 beautiful abstract works of art in acrylic and mixed media using exciting new techniques and materials. Petra Thölken's practical and inspiring book includes 20 beautiful abstract works of art explained step by step, including variations and tips for readers' own designs. For some of the projects, there are links to her popular video instructions, showing readers how she created the individual painting. All the basics for the perfect introduction to painting with acrylic and mixed media are here, with colour theory, techniques and materials presented in an understandable and concise manner. Petra uses exciting new techniques and materials and encourages readers to familiarize themselves with getting to know the paints and the mixing of shades. Get your ideas flowing with Petra's inspirational advice and find out how to approach your paintings in different ways.

Book Alla Prima

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Schmid
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780966211702
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Alla Prima written by Richard Schmid and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Kinsey Collection

Download or read book The Kinsey Collection written by Khalil B. Kinsey ($e writer of added commentary) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kehinde Wiley

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  • Author : Connie H. Choi
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2015-02-20
  • ISBN : 3791354302
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Kehinde Wiley written by Connie H. Choi and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley’s bold, colorful, and monumental work, this book encompasses the artist’s various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work—which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and tradition. Celebrated for his classically styled paintings that depict African American men in heroic poses, Kehinde Wiley is among the expanding ranks of prominent black artists—such as Sanford Biggers, Yinka Shonibare, Mickalene Thomas, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye—who are reworking art history and questioning its depictions of people of color. Co-published with the Brooklyn Museum of Art for the major touring retrospective, this volume surveys Wiley’s career from 2001 to the present. It includes early portraits of the men Wiley observed on Harlem’s streets, and which laid the foundation for his acclaimed reworkings of Old Master paintings by Titian, van Dyke, Manet, and others, in which he replaces historical subjects with young African American men in contemporary attire: puffy jackets, sneakers, hoodies, and baseball caps. Also included is a generous selection from Wiley’s ongoing World Stage project; several of his enormous Down paintings; striking male portrait busts in bronze; and examples from the artist’s new series of stained glass windows. Accompanying the illustrations are essays that introduce readers to the arc of Wiley’s career, its critical reception, and ongoing evolution.

Book Jennifer Packer

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
  • Release : 2021-06
  • ISBN : 9783960989035
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Jennifer Packer written by and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Friendship, loss and the everyday populate Packer's canvases, full of disquieting detail." -Adrian Searle, The Guardian Through a uniquely textural style of oil painting that evokes the fluidity of watercolors, Jennifer Packer recasts classical genres in a fresh political and contemporary light while keeping them rooted in a deeply personal context. Combining observation, improvisation and memory, Packer's intimate portraits of friends and family members and flower paintings insist on the particularity of the Black lives she depicts. The title of this volume refers to an ecclesiastical description of the insatiable human quest for divine knowledge; with this in mind, Packer's work urges viewers to understand and appreciate the unique dimensions of Black lives beyond just the physical. Richly illustrated, this volume includes texts by fellow painters Dona Nelson and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, professors Rizvana Bradley and Christina Sharpe, and an interview between the artist and Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist. American painter Jennifer Packer(born 1984) grew up in Philadelphia and received her MFA from Yale University in 2012. She was formerly the Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2012-13) and a Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA (2014-16). She currently works as an assistant professor of painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. Packer is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co in New York City, where the artist lives.