Art Technique category: 4706 books
LIFE Film Noir
75 Years of the Greatest Crime Films
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
By incorporating and transforming foreign influences, film noir became a uniquely American art form. Though it was overlooked at first, this powerful genre would give Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum career-defining roles, fuel Joan Crawford's middle-age comeback, and set the stage for the work...
by Léon Rosenthal
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Romanticism was a reaction against the Neoclassicism that invaded the 19th century, and marked a veritable intellectual rupture. Found in the writings of Victor Hugo and Lord Byron, amongst others, its ideas are expressed in painting by Eugène Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich and William Blake....
Splash 13
Alternative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but the less expected routes are what more often lead artists from inspiration to great paintings. Splash 13 explores the paths less traveled...real solutions and alternative approaches from 100 of today's masters of the medium.
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Oil Painting with the Masters
Essential Techniques from Today's Top Artists
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Master the art of oil painting with instruction on key topics and techniques such as materials, observation, references, forms, composition, color palettes, mixing colors, underpainting, working in layers, light effects, painting on location, textures and more from ten contributors, including beautiful...
Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen
A Classic Survey of the Medium and Its Masters
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
In this comprehensive study of the art of drawing with a pen, artist and author Joseph Pennell highlights his opinionated "technical suggestions" with more than 400 illustrations by 250 famous artists, including Titian, Dürer, Rembrandt, Rodin, Manet, Renoir, Beardsley, Pyle, Hiroshige,...
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Mega Square Sculpture spans over 23,000 years and over 120 examples of the most beautiful sculptures in the world: from prehistoric art and Egyptian statues to the works of Michelangelo, Henry Moore and Niki de Saint-Phalle. It illuminates the wide variety of materials used and the evolution of styles over centuries, as well as the peculiarities of the most important sculptors.
by Jessica Findley
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter, one of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy. Fragonard has been ranged with Watteau as one of the two great poetic painters of the 18th...
by Arron Adams
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
One of the most brilliant and original artists of the eighteenth century, Antoine Watteau had an impact on the development of Rococo art in France and throughout Europe lasting well beyond his lifetime. Living only thirty-six years, and plagued by frequent illness, Watteau nonetheless rose from an...
by Reiko Chiba
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A Copybook for Japanese Ink Painting is designed for artists who are eager to find a new outlet for his talents.
The paintings are the work of Shutei Ota, an artist who has had a long career of introducing Japanese ink-painting to Westerners. As a teacher, she has found the language barrier...
by Edmond de Goncourt
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Without a doubt, Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous Japanese artist since the middle of the nineteenth century whose art is known to the Western world. Reflecting the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation, the works of Hokusai - one of the first Japanese artists to emerge in Europe -...
Basquiat (Paris - 2010)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
La rétrospective consacrée à Jean-Michel Basquiat au musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (15 octobre 2010-30 janvier 2011), qui faisait suite à celle présentée par la fondation Beyeler à Bâle, avait le mérite de mettre en lumière les différentes phases d'une fulgurante carrière...
Manga Drawing For Beginners
How to Draw Manga Comics Male, Female Characters and Objects, Manga Drawing Art and Sketching, Pencil Drawing Techniques, Lessons and Exercises Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Manga animations could possibly form the greater part of animation heroes and stories given chance. Their sheer imagination and variety of characters is in itself mind-boggling. With so many possibilities, there rarely is a limit to what you can draw and call it a manga character. You could choose...
The Male and Female Figure in Motion
60 Classic Photographic Sequences
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Now artists, illustrators, photographers, and scientists can have Eadweard Muybridge's rare, unparalleled true action photographs in an inexpensive paperbound edition. Sixty classic photographic sequences of the male and female figure in motion, selected from the monumental original collection of...
Creative Pep Talk
Inspiration from 50 Artists
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Every artist needs a little pep talk now and then. An inspiring tool and beautiful art book in one, Creative Pep Talk offers illustrated words of wisdom from 50 of today's leading creative professionals. With full-color, typographic prints and explanatory statements from a host of creative luminaries—including...