Download or read book BP Portrait Award 2013 written by Joanna Trollope and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BP Portrait Award, now in its twenty - fourth year, is one of Britain's most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. Last year more than 255,000 people visited the exhibition, which is based on the competition open to all artists aged eighteen and over from around the world. The catalogue features sixty works from an international list of artists, which together display a diverse range of styles and painterly techniques. It also includes a fascinating essay by bestselling novelist, Joanna Trollope, and interviews with the prizewinners by Richard McClure give further insight into the artists behind the portraits.
Download or read book BP Portrait Award 2013 written by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BP Portrait Award 2015 written by Neil Gaiman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BP Portrait Award, now in its thirty-sixth year, is one of Britain's most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. In 2014 more than 280,000 people visited the exhibition based on the competition open to all artists aged eighteen and over from around the world. The catalogue features fifty-five works from an international list of artists, which together display a diverse range of styles and painterly techniques. It also includes an essay, an illustrated interview with the previous year's Travel Award winner and interviews with the prizewinners by Richard McClure, which give further insight into the artists behind the portraits.
Download or read book 500 Portraits written by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) and published by National Portrait Gallery. This book was released on 2011 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of prize-winning portraits from 1990 through 2010.
Download or read book Alice Neel written by Alice Neel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the themes and stylistic developments of the art of Alice Neel, one of the greatest American painters of the twentieth century, with works spanning nearly seven decades, four essays and additional texts addressing themes and specific works, three artists' appreciations, and a chronology and bibliography"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Drawing People written by Roger Malbert and published by Distributed Art Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2015 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How contemporary artists draw the human figure in an affordable, up-to-date and well-illustrated survey, covering an eclectic range of drawing styles and media Drawing Peopleis a thoughtful and beautifully illustrated survey of the most compelling and inventive drawings of the human form being produced today by 70 contemporary artists from around the world. An introduction places the medium of drawing in its historical context, discussing its intersection with photography, painting, collage and illustration, as well as its ability to intimately express thought, personality and emotion, as well as fundamental questions about identity. Five chapters―Body, Self, Personal Lives, Social Realityand Fictions―include short introductions outlining each theme, followed by generously illustrated profiles on individual artists exploring their style, approach to the medium and the ideas, narratives and inspirations that lie behind their mark-making. A selection of finely reproduced images highlights the latest work by each artist. Drawing Peoplefeatures an international roster of artists working with pencil, ink, watercolor, charcoal and crayon, including Francis Alÿs, Charles Avery, Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Adam Dant, Marlene Dumas, Dr. Lakra, Paul McCarthy, Nalini Malani, Wangechi Mutu, Raymond Pettibon, Rosemarie Trockel, Tal R, Marcel Dzama, Barry McGee, Amy Sillman and Kara Walker. Together, their drawings and sketches, illustrations and animations bring to life one of the most creatively rich and emotionally powerful forms of art being made today. An essential book for students and practicing artists.
Download or read book The Obama Portraits written by Taína Caragol and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unveiling the unconventional : Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama / Taína Caragol -- "Radical empathy" : Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama / Dorothy Moss -- The Obama portraits, in art history and beyond / Richard J. Powell -- The Obama portraits and the National Portrait Gallery as a site of secular pilgrimage / Kim Sajet -- The presentation of the Obama portraits : a transcript of the unveiling ceremony.
Download or read book Fly and the Fly Bottle written by Ved Mehta and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fly and the Fly Bottle is perhaps Ved Mehta's masterpiece: a collection of his brilliantly revealing conversations with some of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. Engaging with such heavyweights as Isaiah Berlin, Gilbert Ryle, and Elizabeth Anscombe, Mehta is not only able to shed light on the personalities involved in shaping modern philosophy, as well as on the particularities of that philosophic thought, but also to minutely examine the surrounding atmosphere of mid-century British life.
Download or read book The Many Faces of Jonathan Yeo written by Martin Gayford and published by Art / Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Yeo is one of Britain's best-known portrait painters. Over more than a decade, he has gained an international reputation for painting some of the most famous faces of our age. Models and movie stars, artists and actors, politicians and princes all have been the subject of his iconic, and often ironic, portraits. Coinciding with a retrospective exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery, 'The Many Faces of Jonathan Yeo' is the first major publication on the artist. Featuring his most popular paintings, drawings, collages and prints, the book also presents several new canvases made especially for the show.
Download or read book If this is True I ll Never Have to Leave Home Again written by and published by Ludion. This book was released on 2016 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Dutch portrait photographer Robin de Puy's (born 1986) first monograph documents her 8,000-mile solo journey through the United States on a Harley Davidson and those she encountered along the way.
Download or read book Foundations of Classical Oil Painting written by Lea Wight and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional painting instructor Lea Colie Wight demystifies the formulaic process of oil painting into a simple approach to help you paint confidently and accurately in full color. Develop a core foundational skill set to develop your paintings and discover a signature way of working from life that can be applied to figure painting, portraits, landscapes and still life. Though the focus is on oils, the methods in this book can be applied to all painting mediums including as acrylic, pastel and watercolor. • Informative lessons and simple exercises help to build confidence and lay the foundations for successful oil painting • Learn a straightforward system for painting realistically with a focus on accurate color. • 4 full-length step-by-step demonstrations show how to paint a figure, a portrait, a still life and a landscape
Download or read book Maidan Portraits from the Black Square written by Anastasia Taylor-Lind and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title by Anastasia Taylor-Lind is a series of portraits of anti-government protestors and mourners made in a makeshift photographic studio in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), Kiev.
Download or read book BP Portrait Award 2018 written by Rosie Broadley and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring works from an international list of artists, the BP Portrait Award highlights the vitality of portrait painting today. This book presents the diverse range of styles in contemporary portraiture and the variety of techniques used by artists working in the field today. The BP Portrait Award, now in its thirty-ninth year, is one of Britain_s most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. In 2017 more than 230,000 people visited the exhibition based on the competition open to all artists aged eighteen and over from around the world. The catalogue features around fifty-three works from an international list of artists, which together display a diverse range of styles and painterly techniques. It also includes an essay, an illustrated interview with the previous year_s Travel Award winner and interviews with the prizewinners by Richard McClure, which give further insight into the artists behind the portraits.
Download or read book BP Portrait Award 2014 written by Julia Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BP Portrait Award, now in its thirty-fifth year, is one of Britain's most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. Last year more than 285,514 people visited the exhibition, which is based on the competition open to all artists aged eighteen and over from around the world. The catalogue features fifty-five works from an international list of artists, which together display a diverse range of styles and painterly techniques. It also includes a fascinating essay by award-winning writer Julia Donaldson, and interviews with the prize winners by Richard McClure, which give further insight into the artists behind the portraits.
Download or read book Imagined Lives written by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eight internationally acclaimed authors have invented imaginary biographies and character sketches based on fourteen unidentified portraits... in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery."--Back cover.
Download or read book Jenny Sages written by Sarah Engledow and published by . This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalogue and personal history of how some of the artworks came together with black and white and colour illustrations.
Download or read book People of London written by and published by Tales from the City. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed portrait and documentary photographer Peter Zelewski has spent the past three years capturing the people and faces of the streets of London. His images, which have be seen in the National Portrait gallery and throughout the press, are both intimate and considered and as such are closer to art photography than snapshots. The images are accompanied by arresting quotes that reveal the inner lives of the strangers that make this the world's most colourful city.
