Painting

Modern art, filled with complex themes and subtle characteristics, is a wonder to view, but can be intimidating and baffling to the casual observer. In this accessible, practical guide, Jon Thompson analyses more than 200 works of modern art, describing...

This richly illustrated survey of the history of Irish painting encompasses the entire span from the middle ages to the mid-twentieth century. The book includes both well-known and virtually unknown artists, Irish artists who worked abroad as well as in...

This title offers solid and in-depth instruction from a watermedia expert and top author. It includes tips and techniques for developing a personal style. Quiller is a well established name is the art world. He has sold over 100, 000 books worldwide.Join...

Best-selling author, instructor and PBS TV show host, Jerry Yarnell delivers his latest offering with dozens of all new lessons and 8 full step-by-step landscape painting projects. Features detailed materials lists and advice on how to set up a palette...

Fill your home with original, professional art - and learn to paint at the same time. This innovative new series is a poster book, an art pad and a step-by-step painting book all rolled into one! Each of the five posters is ready to pull out, frame...

A complete course on acrylic painting, covering classic approaches and new innovations for a medium that's widely embraced by both beginners and experienced artists for its versatility, quick-drying properties and non- toxicity. Noted artist and School...

To the neighbours who helped raise her, Madeline was a handful: opinionated, disruptive, verbose. They blamed it all on her lack of a mother. But Madeline was happy: her father was parent enough. Till he wasn't there for her any more, and Madeline had to...

Take your watercolor painting beyond the studio-learn how to effectively use color and light to capture mood, create atmosphere, and convey emotion on location. Geared for beginning artists, En Plein Air: Light & Color introduces a variety of techniques...

For much of the nineteenth century, women artists laboured under the same restrictions and taboos they had endured for centuries, and it was assumed that marriage and child-bearing were their goals in life. However, by the 1870s female art students of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688151584Author Annette KowalskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

"That is the archaeology I am unearthing: the specter of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and brown people all over the world." -Kehinde Wiley Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence features a new body of paintings...

Conservation of Easel Paintings, Second Edition provides a much-anticipated update to the previous edition, which has come to be known internationally as an invaluable and comprehensive text on the history, philosophy and methods of the treatment of...

Sweet & Bizarre is a way of describing works of art from the Lowbrow movement, otherwise known as Pop Surrealism. The Lowbrow movement arose in 1979, led by artist Robert Williams after various art analysts struggled with categorizing his works. Many...

More than most artists, Henri Matisse conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works, continually questioning himself and his methods in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting". In a fresh approach to this giant of...

With comprehensive instruction and artist tips and tricks, Beginning Acrylic is the perfect resource for aspiring painters just getting started in this colorful medium.Beginning Acrylic teaches aspiring artists everything they need to know to get started...

A dazzling array of invention, insight and observation from perhaps the greatest genius of Western civilisation. Towering across time as the painter of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and an inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest...

Late works from the abstract painter devoted to pictorial disruption and vivacious color work DC-based painter Sam Gilliam (1933-2022) paved a distinct course through abstraction by way of tireless formal, material and tonal experimentation. During...

Nabil Anani is one of the most prominent Palestinian artists working today. A painter, ceramicist and sculptor, he has built an impressive catalogue of outstanding, innovative and unique art over the past five decades, pioneering the use of local media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142005125Author David HockneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

A figurative realist in the heyday of abstract expres- sionism, Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) painted himself, his family, and friends in New York City, in Southampton, Long Island, and on an island off the Maine coast, all depicting a relaxed and...

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been characterised as the 'age of speed' but they also witnessed a reanimation of still life across different art forms. This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947830908Author Sean ScullyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Lisson GalleryPublisher Lisson GalleryWeight(grams) 550g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903685573Author Terry ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Richard DennisPublisher Richard DennisWeight(grams) 971gDimensions(mm) 315mm * 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Governor General's Literary Awards - Fiction 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780375759222Author Alberto ManguelFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788195446407Author Shirish DeshpandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Shirish DPublisher Shirish DWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 12mm

Learn everything you need to know to create beautiful floral works of art in oil and acrylic!This comprehensive book opens with a guide to essential information on the necessary tools and materials for both sketching and painting, including pencils,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578925653Author Elizabeth J St HilaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Elizabeth St. Hilaire ArtPublisher Elizabeth St. Hilaire ArtWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650550Author Jae-Cheol ParkFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440322556Author Liz Haywood-SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint North Light BooksPublisher F&W Publications Inc

For artists interested in using color in a new way, this two-part book offers a fresh, comprehensive approach to understanding color in painting. Part one starts with the basics and teaches, rung by rung, many concepts including color, value, and the use...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486271323Author ,Salvador DaliPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Fully revised and updated, here is a concise and authoritative guide to the technical terms most commonly used in painting. What is tempera? What is foreshortening? What is fresco? These are just some 100+ terms that are explained and illustrated in this...

An illuminating look at a fundamental yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance paintingThe Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its depiction of the human figure, from the dramatic foreshortening of the body to create depth to the subtle...

Working en plein-air is a French term that means literally 'in the open air' and, although artists have been doing just that for centuries, the concept is experiencing a resurgence today. Sketchers and painters alike are leaving their studios and...

'Human Figure Drawing' offers a refreshing perspective on this time timeless topic, with clear and helpful explanations and around 500 illustrations in b&w and colour. This book shows us how to learn to draw the human figure and regain our ability to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872501840Author Otto PachtFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1465g

For more than six centuries, European painters have been ambitious to depict objects as if they possessed volume, placing them in a space that seems equivalent to the real space of our world. This "fiction" was central to the artist's purpose...

With a vast selection of works from the last two decades and Polaroids of the artist's studio, this mid-career catalog provides unique perspective on Schutz's oeuvre and methods Dana Schutz is one of the great figurative painters of our time-an...

Based on an exhibition at the Nunnery Gallery held in autumn 2024, In the Footsteps of the East London Group brings together 30 original paintings by members of the East London Group, paired with 20 new interpretations and responses from contemporary...

The years between the Revolution of 1848 and the end of World War II were characterised by profound social, intellectual and political change in France. The art world, centred in Paris, also witnessed remarkable transformations as artists experimented...