Author: Thomas Dormandy
Publisher: Hambledon & London
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"Donatello, Titian, Hals, Turner, Renoir and Munch, and a surprisingly large number of other major artists, lived to be over seventy-five. Some of their finest and most distinctive works, including Michelangelo's last Pieta, Goya's Black Paintings and Monet's Water Lilies, were done in old age. Whether experimenting with new approaches, adopting new techniques, responding to changed circumstances and debilities, or reacting to the approach of death, the intensity of the late work of many of the greatest artists is striking. Childhood genius has often been studied but, astonishingly, this is the first book to draw attention to a considerably more important artistic phenomenon. Old Masters establishes beyond doubt the frequency with which elderly painters and sculptors reached new heights in their seventies and eighties and suggest why and how they did so."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Old Masters
Author: Thomas Dormandy
Publisher: Hambledon & London
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"Donatello, Titian, Hals, Turner, Renoir and Munch, and a surprisingly large number of other major artists, lived to be over seventy-five. Some of their finest and most distinctive works, including Michelangelo's last Pieta, Goya's Black Paintings and Monet's Water Lilies, were done in old age. Whether experimenting with new approaches, adopting new techniques, responding to changed circumstances and debilities, or reacting to the approach of death, the intensity of the late work of many of the greatest artists is striking. Childhood genius has often been studied but, astonishingly, this is the first book to draw attention to a considerably more important artistic phenomenon. Old Masters establishes beyond doubt the frequency with which elderly painters and sculptors reached new heights in their seventies and eighties and suggest why and how they did so."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Hambledon & London
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"Donatello, Titian, Hals, Turner, Renoir and Munch, and a surprisingly large number of other major artists, lived to be over seventy-five. Some of their finest and most distinctive works, including Michelangelo's last Pieta, Goya's Black Paintings and Monet's Water Lilies, were done in old age. Whether experimenting with new approaches, adopting new techniques, responding to changed circumstances and debilities, or reacting to the approach of death, the intensity of the late work of many of the greatest artists is striking. Childhood genius has often been studied but, astonishingly, this is the first book to draw attention to a considerably more important artistic phenomenon. Old Masters establishes beyond doubt the frequency with which elderly painters and sculptors reached new heights in their seventies and eighties and suggest why and how they did so."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Old Master Paintings in Soviet Museums
Author: Irina Vladimirovna Linnik
Publisher:
ISBN: 9785730004405
Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9785730004405
Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Portrait Painting Atelier
Author: Suzanne Brooker
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823008355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823008355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
Old Masters, New World
Author: Cynthia Saltzman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670018314
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
SALTZMAN/OLD MASTERS; NEW WORLD
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670018314
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
SALTZMAN/OLD MASTERS; NEW WORLD
Studying Old Master Paintings
Author: National Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904982630
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An overview of current research on technology and practice of Old Master Paintings.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904982630
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An overview of current research on technology and practice of Old Master Paintings.
Collection for a King
Author: Dulwich Picture Gallery
Publisher: Trustees of Dulwich Picture Gallery
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher: Trustees of Dulwich Picture Gallery
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Author: Giorgio Vasari
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Favorite Old Master Paintings from the Louvre Museum, Paris
Author: Musée du Louvre
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
One hundred of the Louvre's greatest masterpieces are reproduced with accompanying commentaries by the museum's chief curator of painting. -- adapted from jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
One hundred of the Louvre's greatest masterpieces are reproduced with accompanying commentaries by the museum's chief curator of painting. -- adapted from jacket.
Painting Techniques of the Masters
Author: Hereward Lester Cooke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A revised and enlarged edition of Painting lessons from the great masters.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A revised and enlarged edition of Painting lessons from the great masters.
Remake
Author: Jeff Hamada
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9781452123349
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Imagine stepping inside Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring or Hopper's Nighthawks. That's the effect achieved by modern-day photographers, artists, students, and creatives within the pages of this one-of-a-kind book. Started as an online collaborative project by founder of art blog Booooooom Jeff Hamada, Remake gathers fantastic reinterpretations of 50 fine art masterpieces. Side-by-side presentations of canonical artworks and their contemporary re-dos highlight the striking similarities between the works as well as the entertaining creative choices that make each version unique. A crowdsourced send-up of the art history canon, this quirky collection of before-and-after pairings is filled with surprises of wit and whimsy.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9781452123349
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Imagine stepping inside Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring or Hopper's Nighthawks. That's the effect achieved by modern-day photographers, artists, students, and creatives within the pages of this one-of-a-kind book. Started as an online collaborative project by founder of art blog Booooooom Jeff Hamada, Remake gathers fantastic reinterpretations of 50 fine art masterpieces. Side-by-side presentations of canonical artworks and their contemporary re-dos highlight the striking similarities between the works as well as the entertaining creative choices that make each version unique. A crowdsourced send-up of the art history canon, this quirky collection of before-and-after pairings is filled with surprises of wit and whimsy.