Art Technique category: 4706 books

Ranging from classical to contemporary eras, this art instruction manual presents a historical overview of the depiction of women in drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photography. The highly detailed study is generously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, line drawings, and reproductions...

Explore and indulge your desire for creative expression with this marvelous book featuring one of the World’s most alluring florae. Showcasing the premium artistry of the distinguished Graphic Artist KimZ, the book is full of examples of this stunning flower. In addition to the high quality artwork...

Partez à la découverte de la gravure avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Il est peu d'objets d'art qui soient aussi complexes que la gravure. D'une part, la fabrication mécanique s'ajoute à la création de l'artiste ; d'autre part, la gravure peut être à la fois une œuvre d'art originale...

Peu de temps avant sa mort, Claude Monet écrivait : « Je reste désolé d’avoir été la cause du nom donné à un groupe dont la plupart n’avait rien d’impressionniste. » Manet n’avait-il pas évoqué dans une formule définitive : « Je peins ce que je vois et non ce qu’il plaît aux...

L’époque post-impressionniste fut celle des peintres solitaires : Gauguin, Sisley, Cézanne, van Gogh etc… « Il n’y a plus d’école unique. Il n’existe plus que quelques groupes, et ceux-ci ne cessent de se scinder. Toutes ces tendances me rappellent ces figures géométriques mobiles...

De l’Antiquité jusqu’au xxe siècle, cette collection de sculptures offre une vision véritablement originale de l’art occidental. Sont représentées ici les oeuvres les plus sensuelles, les plus harmonieuses, jusqu’aux plus provocantes et minimalistes. La sculpture modèle le monde ainsi...

What is graffiti? And why have we, as a culture, had the urge to do it since 30,000 BCE? Artist Fiona McDonald explores the ways in which graffiti works to forever compel and simultaneously repel us as a society. When did graffiti turn into graffiti art, and why do we now pay thousands of dollars...

“Form,” writes the author, “is developed by means of light and shade; without these every object would appear flat.” Originally published in the mid-nineteenth century, this classic approach to three-dimensional drawing was the first book to provide art students with instructions for correctly...

The Great Depression was a terrible blow for the Bay Area's thriving art community. A few private art projects kept a small number of sculptors working, but for the majority, prospects of finding new commissions were grim. By the mid-1930s, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program had gathered...

5O No-Sketch Projects That Bring the Ocean to Life Dana Fox, author of Watercolor with Me: In the Forest and founder of Wonder Forest, provides fifty new marine-themed projects in this beginner-friendly watercolor guide. Known for her whimsical art style and straightforward instruction, Dana...

In the new short film from Pixar Animation Studios, Sanjay's Super Team, accomplished artist Sanjay Patel uses his own experience to tell the story of a young, 1st generation Indian boy whose love for western pop culture comes into conflict with his father's traditions. This art-filled peek behind...

This definitive source on the intricate tattoos of Polynesia's Marquesas Islands offers a rare glimpse of a dying art. Because of the colonial authorities' 1884 ban on tattooing, there remained only a single surviving tattoo artist at the time of this 1921 survey—and a dwindling number of living...

From Jeff Friesen, award-winning photographer and author of United States of LEGO®, comes a hilarious new book of diorama photographs that uses LEGO bricks to spoof the famous work of the mysterious anonymous graffiti artist known as Banksy. Friesen gives new meaning to gritty street art using clean,...

Lorna Brown is an artist specialising in watercolour architectural paintings that represent something other than just bricks and mortar. With a keenness for adventure, she likes to hunt for new places to paint; buildings with character and story that represent the people who have occupied these spaces...