Painting category: 1000 books
by Sharon Finmark
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Learn to Paint People is a new ebook title in HarperCollins’ successful Learn to Paint series. Including people in paintings literally brings them to life. In Learn to Paint People Sharon Finmark looks at all the essential aspects of painting people in their environment, using watercolour, acrylics,...
Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports
A practical guide to drawing and painting surfaces -- from canvas and paper to textiles and woods
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports explores a wide range of drawing and painting surfaces and the unique effects they have on a variety of media.
The surface you draw or paint on impacts everything in your artwork, from its texture and brightness to color and durability. Artist Toolbox:...
Inside Acrylics
Studio Secrets From Today's Top Artists
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
An artist-to-artist guide to acrylics today!
Acrylics are an astoundingly versatile medium, as evidenced by the diversity of work emerging from studios around the country. This book takes you inside the studios and creative minds of 9 of today's top acrylic artists as they share favorite techniques,...
A History of Art for Beginners and Students
Painting—Sculpture —Architecture with Complete “Quoted Indexes” and “Numerous Illustrations”
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
ARCHITECTURE seems to me to be the most wonderful of all the arts. We may not love it as much as others, when we are young perhaps we cannot do so, because it is so great and so grand; but at any time of life one can see that in Architecture some of the most marvellous achievements of men are displayed....
My Three Lives
In Argentina, Usa and France
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This book did not start as a book. It started as a sketchbook from THE SKETCHBOOK PROJECT 2011, for the Brooklyn Art Library in New York. To participate in the project, I had to complete and mail the sketchbook by January 15, 2011. It was November 2010. My topic was: Outside-Inside, and I could do...
Jackson Pollock. Meister des Action Paintings
Meister des Action Paintings
Language: German
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Kunst - Malerei, Note: 1,0, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Fachbereich Sozialwesen), Veranstaltung: Action Painting, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Ausarbeitung ist als Einführung für das Wochenendseminar 'Action Painting' zu verstehen....
Frank Stella´s shaped canvases
Eine Neuerung in und für die abstrakte Kunst
Language: German
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Kunst - Malerei, Note: 2,3, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Kunsthistorisches Seminar und Kustodie), Veranstaltung: Jenseits des Modernismus. Die Kunst seit den 1960er Jahren., Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: ... Frank Stella hat sich, abgesehen von...
by Felix Witting, M.L. Patrizi
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
After staying in Milan for his apprenticeship, Michelangelo da Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592. There he started to paint with both realism and psychological analysis of the sitters. Caravaggio was as temperamental in his painting as in his wild life. As he also responded to prestigious Church...
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
The influence of works by French artists extends itself across all artistic styles, and many French works have gained world fame as classics. This book gives an overview of the French milestones in still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, and includes artists like Poussin, Clouet, Moreau, Millet, Courbet,...
by Narim Bender
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Giovanni Boldini enjoyed a long and successful artistic career. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting. His paintings showed his subject in soft-focus, elongated, in movement, alive, and sophisticated. The brush work...
by Narim Bender
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Frans Hals the Elder is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals was also instrumental in the evolution of 17th century group portraiture. He was a master of a technique that utilized something previously seen as a flaw in painting,...
by George Blacklock
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Colour and Abstraction looks at how colour was liberated from its subservient role to drawing in developing pictorial space, and how - with traditional roles broken - abstraction was born, allowing a more vibrant use of colour. As a practical book, it explores how paint can determine the colour and...
by Cennino Cennini
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
This is D. V. Thompson's definitive English translation of Il Libro dell'Arte, an intriguing guide to methods of painting, written in fifteenth-century Florence. Embodying the secrets and techniques of the great masters, it served as an art student's introduction to the ways of his craft.Anyone who...
A Genius for Failure
The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
* Haydon's first attempt at suicide ended when the low calibre bullet fired from his pistol fractured his skull but failed to penetrate his brain.
* His second attempt also failed: a deep slash across his throat left a large pool of blood at the entrance to his studio, but he was still able...