At first glance, Walton Ford’s large-scale, highly detailed watercolors of animals recall the prints of 19th-century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear. A closer look reveals a complex... Zobraziť viac
A fresh new guide to contemporary palette knife painting for beginner and experienced artists, featuring step-by-step tutorials on colour mixing, mark making, and a variety of painting techniques to create your own unique abstract, landscape, and... Zobraziť viac
That incomparable melancholy in Edward Hopper’s pictures occasionally leads us to look at the details of his life. Where exactly did this master of loneliness live and work? What were his most important influences while he was working on his great ... Zobraziť viac
Pleasantly plump With whimsical irony and a style reminiscent of the old masters, Fernando Botero (b.1932) began painting caricatured animals and corpulent bodies with disproportionate heads at a time when his contemporaries were fervently rejecting ... Zobraziť viac
This publication is also catalogue of Alfons Mucha’s posters. Great collection of Ivan Lendl includes except over 120 posters calendars and 50 reproduction of sketches (posters, photographies)... Zobraziť viac
Expressed in prints, paintings and drawings, Kállay’s metaphors of our fate assume the viewer’s fresh powers of unrestrained imagination. His entire work is inspired especially by the eternal human desire for knowledge and control over the world... Zobraziť viac
Defining Decadence The legacy of Gustav Klimt A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862 1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. In this neat, dependable monograph, ... Zobraziť viac
Julie Birmant and Clément Oubrerie's award-winning graphic biography of Pablo Picasso captures the prolific and eventful life of one of the world's best-loved artists. Pablo takes in Picasso's early life among the bohemians of Monmartre, ... Zobraziť viac
Phaidon Press (Jun 1996): Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is one of the most popular artists of the late 19th- and early... Zobraziť viac
Genius, eccentric, exhibitionist: There is no shortage of adjectives to describe the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí (1904–1989). Yet this iconic artist and controversial thinker remains a figure shrouded in mystery. Plunging into the Spanish... Zobraziť viac
Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Portrait with Bandaged... Zobraziť viac
Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, ... Zobraziť viac
Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions. Emerging into notoriety in the period following... Zobraziť viac
Each entry provides a fascinating insight into the artist and his or her vision of what they were trying to do, while also acknowledging the lasting effect or impression of their work... Zobraziť viac
This is not a book: Everyday enigma from Belgium's leading Surrealist From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe,"Rene Magritte (1898 1967)created an echo-chamber of object and image, ... Zobraziť viac
In full color throughout, this volume presents a series of still life pictures using a variety of techniques: watercolors, oils, acrylics and crayons. Trying your hand at copying... Zobraziť viac
Magnificent illustrations of the queen of flowers... Zobraziť viac
R. B. Kitaj (1932-2007) is recognised universally as a modern master. His powerful, controversial and highly personal paintings, pastels and drawings reflect his unfashionable commitment to the human figure as a subject... Zobraziť viac
What I See, the first book by Brooklyn Beckham, is a series of snapshots of his life. Each chapter tells a different story through pictures by and of Brooklyn, accompanied by.. Zobraziť viac