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Watercolour Problems and Solutions: A Trouble-Shooting HandbookThis invaluable handbook for all watercolourists takes a practical problem-and-solution approach to painting a range of popular subjects, showing common mistakes and how to rectify them. Mastering fundamental drawing and watercolour techniques forms the basis of successful watercolour painting - the author starts by...
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Mark BradfordThe first comprehensive study of the work of one of the most significant abstract painters of his generation.This timely entry in the Contemporary Artists series focuses on Mark Bradford, the Los Angeles-based artist best known for his large-scale abstract paintings that examine the class,...
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The Alchemy of Paint: Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle AgesThe Alchemy of Paint is a critique of the modern world, which Spike Bucklow sees as the product of seventeenth-century ideas about science. In modern times, we have divorced color from its origins, using it for commercial advantage. Spike Bucklow shows us how in...
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Chinese PaintingTraditional Chinese painting was fundamentally an abstract art form. Artists did not seek to represent direct copies of the natural world; rather, traditional Chinese paintings sought to portray the harmony between the natural world and human emotion, evoking ancient Chinese philosophy. From ancient scroll...
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Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London PaintersThe development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative. R. B. Kitaj's proposal, made in 1976, that there was a "substantial School of London" was essentially correct but it...
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Hokusai: Beyond the Great WaveAn acknowledged master during his lifetime, Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. Exhibitions since the 1980s have presented his long career as a chronological sequence. This publication, which...
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Vasari on TechniqueSixteenth-century painter reveals technical secrets: gilding, stained glass, casting, painter's materials, much more. Most detailed, valuable sourcebook of Renaissance methods. 29 illustrations.Author: Giorgio VasariPublisher: Dover PublicationsPublished: 03/17/2011Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 8.01h x 5.44w x 0.79dISBN: 9780486207179This title is not returnable
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William Merritt Chase: A Modern MasterA 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...
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Three Thousand Years of Chinese PaintingFrom Neolithic painted petroglyphs, early paintings on silk, and landscapes by twelfth-century literati to the traditional handscrolls being produced today, Chinese painting has always had the power to enthrall. This magnificent book, written by a team of eminent international scholars, is the first to...
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Frank O'Hara: Poet Among PaintersDrawing extensively upon the poet's unpublished manuscripts--poems, journals, essays, and letters--as well as all his published works, Marjorie Perloff presents Frank O'Hara as one of the central poets of the postwar period and an important critic of the visual arts. Perloff traces the poet's...
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Mona Lisa: The People and the PaintingRead this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal--not the silly secrets that the "Leonardo loonies" continue to advance, but previously unknown facts about the lives of...
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How to Draw Your DragonDoes your dragon coil its tail around your shoulders when you sleep? Does it wait for you after school? Does it live in a riverbed like a Japanese ryu--or at the bottom of the ocean like Tiamat of Babylon? Is it small enough to...
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I Spy Colors in ArtI spy with my little eye . . . a yellow circle, an orange orange, two blue eyes staring right back at me The whole family will delight in exploring fine art through these fourteen glorious paintings, ranging from ancient to contemporary, their artists...
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Water-Mixable Oils: A Beginners Guide to Painting in This Vibrant MediumDiscover the numerous merits of working with water-mixable oil paints in this accessible beginner's guide. Water-mixable oils are more environmentally friendly and easy to use for artists of all skill levels. Water-mixable oil paints offer a simple and easy way into the world of...
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Christmas Snowflake Stencils: 24 Paper Stencils for Winter DecorationsChristmas stencils for decorating and fall decor design. 24 Stencils 2 of each design to cut out and create fall inspired crafts. Makes a fun family winter time activity for diy Christmas decorations. Author: PaperblesPublisher: PaperblesPublished: 01/31/2022Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w...
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Antoni TapiesThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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A History of Painting in Italy, Umbria, Florence and Siena, From the Second to the Sixteenth Century; 3This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Painters' & Grainers' Handbook: a Complete Illustrated Guide to Painting, Graining, Distempering, Sign-writing, Gilding, and Glass Embossing ...This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Andrew Lang, a Critical Biography With a Short-title Bibliography of the Works of Andrew LangThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours, and Their Applications to the Arts: Including Painting, Interior Decoration, Tapestries, Carpets, MThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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