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Author | : Sandy Nairne |
Publisher | : National Portrait Gallery Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Human beings |
ISBN | : 9781855144163 |
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This striking book explores contemporary portraiture from the past decade. The selection features cutting-edge new work from the international art community and reflects an increasing interest in identity worldwide. Organised thematically, the book examines seven key strands of portraiture: The Body; The Self-Portrait; The Invented Portrait; The Anonymous Portrait; Social Identity; The Celebrity Portrait. With an essay by Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London, that locates contemporary portraiture within a historic tradition, 21st Century Portraits examines current trends, showcasing the wide range of media today's artists are using. This book includes an extensive bibliography and is an essential reference work in the field of twenty-first-century portraiture. It will present many images to academic, curatorial and general audiences, including museum and gallery visitors and general art book buyers in the trade for the first time.
Author | : Frank Harris |
Publisher | : London, Methuen [1915] |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Huberta v. Voss |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2007-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1845452577 |
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Elie Wiesel called the genocide of the Armenians during the First World War ‘the Holocaust before the Holocaust’. Around one and a half million Armenians - men, women and children – were slaughtered at the time of the First World War. This book outlines some of the historical facts and consequences of the massacres but sees it as its main objective to present the Armenians to the foreign reader, their history but also their lives and achievements in the present that finds most Armenians dispersed throughout the world. 3000 years after their appearance in history, 1700 years after adopting Christianity and almost 90 years after the greatest catastrophe in their history, these 50 ‘biographical sketches of intellectuals, artists, journalists, and others...produce a complicated kaleidoscope of a divided but lively people that is trying once again, to rediscover its ethnic coherence. Armenian civilization does not consist solely of stories about a far-off past, but also of traditions and a national conscience suggestive of a future that will transcend the present.’ [from the Preface]
Author | : James Thomas Harris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Suzanne Brooker |
Publisher | : Watson-Guptill |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2011-11-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0823008355 |
Download Portrait Painting Atelier Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The art of portraiture approached its apex during the sixteenth century in Europe with the discovery of oil painting when the old masters developed and refined techniques that remain unsurpassed to this day. The ascendance of nonrepresentational art in the middle of the twentieth century displaced these venerable skills, especially in academic art circles. Fortunately for aspiring artists today who wish to learn the methods that allowed the Old Masters to achieve the luminous color and subtle tonalities so characteristic of their work, this knowledge has been preserved in hundreds of small traditional painting ateliers that persevered in the old ways in this country and throughout the world. Coming out of this dedicated movement, Portrait Painting Atelier is an essential resource for an art community still recovering from a time when solid instruction in art technique was unavailable in our schools. Of particular value here is a demonstration of the Old Masters’ technique of layering paint over a toned-ground surface, a process that builds from the transparent dark areas to the more densely painted lights. This method unifies the entire painting, creating a beautiful glow that illuminates skin tones and softly blends all the color tones. Readers will also find valuable instruction in paint mediums from classic oil-based to alkyd-based, the interactive principles of composition and photograph-based composition, and the anatomy of the human face and the key relationships among its features. Richly illustrated with the work of preeminent masters such as Millet, Géricault, and van Gogh, as well as some of today’s leading portrait artists—and featuring seven detailed step-by-step portrait demonstrations—Portrait Painting Atelier is the first book in many years to so comprehensively cover the concepts and techniques of traditional portraiture.
Author | : Frank Harris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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A volume of intimate "pen-portraits" in which the author tries to describe his subjects "body, mind, and soul," as well as their personal habits, dress, tricks of gesture and speech, theories of art and life, etc. (Adapted from introduction)
Author | : Mignon R. Jacobs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Through her insightful reading of the Genesis narratives, Jacobs opens up new perspectives on the struggle to achieve and maintain equitable relationships between women and men.
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Publisher | : Penn State Press |
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ISBN | : 0271050691 |
Download Modern Ruins: Portraits of Place in the Mid-Atlantic Region Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Anthony Connolly |
Publisher | : Crowood |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2012-12-21 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1847975046 |
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Portrait painting is inherently difficult and requires a unique understanding of and sensitivity to the sitter. This practical book considers the historical context of portrait painting and its contemporary practice. Written by a professional portrait painter, it describes the intricacies of making a portrait not just for the technically minded but also for those who are interested in a painter's perspective on the role and importance of portraiture.Step-by-step demonstrations of portraits and self-portraits.Techniques that use colour to introduce subtleties and presence.Advice on catching a likeness and overcoming difficulties.Discussion about the significance of copying and photography.Insights into the artistic process of the portrait painter.Work of contemporary and distinguished painters.'What fascinates me most, much much more than anything else in painting, is the portrait, the modern portrait.' Vincent van Gogh. A practical guide that considers the historical context of portrait painting and its contemporary practice.Aimed at beginners and more experienced; untutored groups and individual artists of portrait painters.Gives step-by-step demonstrations of portraits and self-portraits.Covers use of colour to introduce subtleties and presence.Superbly illustrated with 180 colour illustrations.Anthony Connolly is a professional portrait painter and won the prestigious Prince of Wales Award for Portrait Drawing in 2004.
Author | : Frank Harris |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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