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Book Paintings in Oil and Pastel by James A  McNeill Whistler

Download or read book Paintings in Oil and Pastel by James A McNeill Whistler written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Whistler s Venice

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  • Author : Alastair Ian Grieve
  • Publisher : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780300084498
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Whistler s Venice written by Alastair Ian Grieve and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning a brief stay in Venice to create twelve commissioned etchings, Whistler became enchanted with the beauty of the city in 1879 and remained there for more than a year. He worked in all areas of the city, producing about fifty etchings, a few oils, and, most remarkably, one hundred pastels. This beautifully illustrated book is the first to follow Whistler's progress through Venice as he made his powerful and evocative portraits of the city. Alongside each of Whistler's etchings, pastels, and oils are photographs of the actual sites where he made them. Alastair Grieve's detailed comparisons of Whistler's works and their corresponding sites reveal much about the artist's methods and techniques, about the changing fabric of the city, and about Whistler's genius as a topographical artist. Grieve also compares Whistler's approach with that of other artists and photographers working in Venice at the same time. Whistler arrived in Venice bankrupt in the wake of a sensational libel trial against John Ruskin in London. Venice proved both restorative and transforming for Whistler -- it released a flood of creativity that enabled him to reestablish his finances, his reputation, and to a degree his personal life. His representations of well-known landmarks, including the church of Santa Maria della Salute and the Rialto Bridge, as well as many minor courts, alleys, and back canals, established a new and original iconography of the city. Upon his return to London, Whistler exhibited his Venice works and gradually reassumed a leading place in the Victorian art avant-garde.

Book Paintings in Oil and Pastel by James A  McNeill Whistler

Download or read book Paintings in Oil and Pastel by James A McNeill Whistler written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Like Breath on Glass

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  • Author : Marc Simpson
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Like Breath on Glass written by Marc Simpson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an innovative manner of handling paint, a group of American artists around 1900 created deceptively simple canvases that convey images of shimmering transcience, visions suggested rather than delineated. Focusing on this singular aesthetic characteristic - softness - this book explores this painterly phenomenon.

Book Whistler  Women  and Fashion

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  • Author : Margaret F. MacDonald
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780300099065
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Whistler Women and Fashion written by Margaret F. MacDonald and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated book and the associated exhibition at the Frick Collection examine Whistler's depiction of women and in particular the aspect of dress and fashion as important elements in his pictures. Several authors apply their talents as historians of art and costume to explore the place of dress in Whistler's oeuvre. Themes treated include Whistler the dandy, Victorian modes of dress, Oriental and Aesthetic Movement influences, female portraiture and the artist/model relationship.

Book Sargent  Whistler  and Venetian Glass

Download or read book Sargent Whistler and Venetian Glass written by Sheldon Barr and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murano Glass and its Collectors in Aesthetic America / Melody Barnett Deusner -- Venetian Mosaics and Glass in the United States, 1860-1917 / Sheldon Barr -- "Where Have Titian's Beauties Gone?" : Sargent and Whistler on the Streets of Venice / Stephanie Mayer Heydt -- Interweaving Worlds : Antique and Revival Lace in Italy and in the United States, 1872-1927 / Diana Jocelyn Greenwold -- Sparks of Genius : American Art and the Appeal of Modern Venetian Glass / Crawford Alexander Mann III -- Biographies / Brittany Emens Strupp, Crawford Alexander Mann III.

Book Pastel Painting Atelier

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  • Author : Ellen Eagle
  • Publisher : Watson-Guptill
  • Release : 2013-04-23
  • ISBN : 0823008428
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Pastel Painting Atelier written by Ellen Eagle and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revel in the luminous and vibrant qualities of pastel with Ellen Eagle’s essential course in the history, techniques, and practices of the medium. In this comprehensive yet intimate guide, Eagle explores pastel’s rich but relatively unexamined past, reveals her own personal influences and approaches, and guides you toward the discovery and mastery of your own vision. In Pastel Painting Atelier, you will find: • Advice on basic materials: guidance on building, storing, and organizing a collection of pastels; choosing the right paper; and the importance of experimentation • Studio practice suggestions: ideas for creating your ideal working environment and recipes for making your own pastels and supports • Study of the working process: lessons on proportion, gesture, composition, color, application, identifying and correcting problems, and recognizing when a work is finished • Meditation on subject: cues for extrapolating the subtle details, presence, and temporal features of whatever you choose to paint • Step-by-step demonstrations: Eagle’s acute insights into her own works as they progress A magnificent selection of works by masters such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Rosalba Carriera, Mary Cassatt, and Eugene Delacroix augment this guide, as do works by contemporary artists including Harvey Dinnerstein, Elizabeth Mowry, and Daniel Massad. Aimed at serious artists, this guide enlightens, instructs, and inspires readers to create brilliant and sensitive works in the historic medium of pastel.

Book Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler

Download or read book Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler written by James McNeill Whistler and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Paintings in Oil and Pastel by James A  McNeill Whistler

Download or read book Catalogue of Paintings in Oil and Pastel by James A McNeill Whistler written by Florence Nightingale Levy and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hammock  A Novel Based on the True Story of French Painter James Tissot

Download or read book The Hammock A Novel Based on the True Story of French Painter James Tissot written by Lucy Paquette and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE HAMMOCK: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot portrays ten remarkable years in the life of James Tissot (1836-1902), who rebuilt - and then lost - his reputation in London. THE HAMMOCK is a psychological portrait, exploring the forces that unwound the career of this complex man. Based on contemporary sources, the novel brings Tissot's world alive in a story of war, art, Society glamour, love, scandal, and tragedy.

Book James McNeill Whistler

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  • Author : Lisa A. Peters
  • Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780765199614
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book James McNeill Whistler written by Lisa A. Peters and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated study of American painter James Whistler.

Book The Life of James McNeill Whistler

Download or read book The Life of James McNeill Whistler written by Elizabeth Robins Pennell and published by London : W. Heinemann ; Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company. This book was released on 1908 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Turner  Whistler  Monet

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  • Author : Luce Abélès
  • Publisher : Tate Publishing(UK)
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Turner Whistler Monet written by Luce Abélès and published by Tate Publishing(UK). This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 12 June - 12 September 2004, the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 12 October 2004 - 17 January 2005, and Tate Britain, London, 10 February - 15 May 2005.

Book Degas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Theodore Reff
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN : 0870991469
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Degas written by Theodore Reff and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1976 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than any other artist in the Impressionist group, Degas was fascinated by ideas and consciously based his work on them. "What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters," he once confessed, "of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament I know nothing." Yet his work has been understood very inadequately from that point of view. Publications on him, once dominated by memoirs inspired by his remarkable personality, are now concerned with cataloguing and studying limited aspects of his complex art. Its intellectual power and originality, which were evident to contemporary writers like Duranty and Valery, have not been studied sufficiently by more recent critics. It is this side of Degas's art--as seen in his ingenious pictorial strategies and technical innovations, his use of motifs like the window, the mirror, and the picture within the picture, his invention of striking, psychologically compelling compositions, and his creation of a sculptural idiom at once formal and vernacular--that is the subject of these essays. Inevitably, given the range of his intellectual interests, the essays are also concerned with his contacts with leading novelists and poets of his time and his efforts to illustrate or draw inspiration from their works. Throughout, the author makes use of an important, largely unpublished source, the material in Degas's notebooks, on which he has recently published a complete catalogue"--Publisher's description.

Book William Merritt Chase

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  • Author : Elsa Smithgall
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2016-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300206267
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book William Merritt Chase written by Elsa Smithgall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark retrospective that examines William Merritt Chase and his lasting contribution to the history of modern art The history of modern art owes a great debt to William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), one of America's influential artists and educators. Chase was a leading member of the international artistic avant-garde and was best known for his mastery of a wide range of subjects in oil and pastel, including figures, landscapes, urban park scenes, interiors, and portraits. As a teacher and founder of the Shinnecock Summer School of Art and the New York School of Art, Chase mentored a new generation of modernists, including Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Joseph Stella. A century after his death, the breadth and richness of Chase's career are celebrated in this beautifully illustrated publication. Five essays by prominent scholars of American art offer new insights into Chase's multi-faceted artistic practice and his position in the international cultural climate at the turn of the 20th century.

Book Paintings in Oil and Pastel

Download or read book Paintings in Oil and Pastel written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Whistler and Nature

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  • Author : Patricia De Montfort
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-10-20
  • ISBN : 9781911300496
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Whistler and Nature written by Patricia De Montfort and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and compelling study reconsiders Whistler?s work from the context of his military service and his relationship with ?nature at the margins?. Whistler came from a family of soldiers and engineers; his father, Major George Washington Whistler, was originally a US military engineer. Drawing and mapmaking were important components of the military training that Whistler acquired as an officer cadet at West Point Academy in 1851-4 and subsequently in the Drawing Department at the US Coast and Geodetic Survey, where he attempted to realise his father?s hopes that he would make engineering or architecture his profession. These influences in turn shaped Whistler?s attitude towards nature, as expressed in works ranging from his celebrated London ?Nocturnes? to his French coastal scenes ? all of which were created after Whistler moved permanently to Europe in 1855.00Exhibition: Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, UK (20.10.-16.12.2018) / The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK (08.01.-17.03.2019) / Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (30.03.-16.06.2019).