Contemporary Painters

Author : Danijela Kracun,Charles McFadden
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0764341081

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Contemporary Painters by Danijela Kracun,Charles McFadden Pdf

Over 500 striking color images display the artwork of 100 contemporary painters from around the world. Their works, in oils, acrylics, and watercolors, range from very traditional pieces representing their mother countries to emerging styles that are new on the world scene. Naïve style painters resurge with a new spark, while others ventured into a more futuristic direction, mixing styles and creating completely unique and innovative canvases. No matter in which direction the artists take their work, each painting is truly exceptional and comes straight from the heart. The painters, from child prodigies to experienced veterans, are arranged alphabetically, allowing readers to view all the work of each artist together. Through this book, readers will travel the world and discover amazing contemporary artists and their important works of art. This book is a must for serious art collectors, enthusiasts, gallery owners, and artists.

Author : Christiane Weidemann,Brad Finger
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783791384429

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50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know by Christiane Weidemann,Brad Finger Pdf

This survey of great contemporary artists is the perfect introduction to the exciting world of art today. Artists working after the Second World War faced a confounding array of challenges, as stylistic barriers were broken, technology advanced, and issues of sexuality and race came to the forefront. From painters and photographers to sculptors and performance artists, fifty of the most influential contemporary artists are profiled in this colorful and engaging book that traces the various artistic movements and radical changes of the second half of the twentieth and early twentyfirst centuries. Presented chronologically, each artist is featured in 2 or 4-page spreads that include brilliant reproductions of their most important works, an illuminating biography, key dates in their career, and informative background on major developments in the art world. Throughout the volume a timeline places each artist within the context of contemporary art. As diverse and inspiring as the artists themselves, this book is a voyage of discovery into art's cutting edge.

Author : Giorgio Morandi,Laura Mattioli
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781941701560

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Giorgio Morandi: Late Paintings by Giorgio Morandi,Laura Mattioli Pdf

One of the most beloved painters of the twentieth century, Giorgio Morandi created works that continue to exert their mysterious power on viewers worldwide. This publication focuses on the period from 1948 to 1964, during which Morandi developed and refined his investigations of serial, reductive, and permutational forms and compositions, a body of work that has had a profound influence on twentieth-century art and painting. Included here are five of the ten iconic “yellow cloth” paintings from 1952, a series featured prominently in the historic 1998 exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and numerous late paintings by the Italian master. Lavishly reproduced, these immersive plates draw attention to the idiosyncratic perspectival and color-driven decisions that give the work its abstract power. The catalogue is published on the occasion of the 2015 exhibition of Morandi’s paintings from this period at David Zwirner, New York—which, according to The New York Times, represent “lucid perfection, at once cerebral and impassioned.” It marked the first major presentation of the artist’s late work in America since the acclaimed 2008 retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In addition to an essay by Laura Mattioli and a foreword by David Leiber, who organized the exhibition, this catalogue includes a fantastic array of contributions by contemporary artists: John Baldessari, Lawrence Carroll, Vija Celmins, Mark Greenwold, Liu Ye, Wayne Thiebaud, Alexi Worth, and Zeng Fanzhi. They offer their personal responses to Morandi’s work and to the Zwirner exhibition in particular. Working in different media across many disciplines, this diverse list of contributors is a testament to the reach of Morandi’s paintings and their influence on contemporary art.

Author : Suzanne Hudson
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500776025

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Contemporary Painting (World of Art) by Suzanne Hudson Pdf

This international survey of contemporary painting by a leading author features artwork from over 250 renowned artists whose ideas and aesthetics characterize the painting of our time. The twentieth century brought radical changes in art—including the shift from modernism to postmodernism—which were accompanied by fierce debates regarding the place of painting in contemporary culture. Contemporary Painting argues that the medium has not only persisted in the twenty-first century but expanded and evolved alongside changes in art, technology, politics, and other factors, developing a unique energy and diversity. Renowned critic and art historian Suzanne Hudson offers an intelligent and original survey of the subject, organized into seven thematic chapters, each of which explores an aspect of contemporary painting, from appropriation to the ways in which artists address and engage the body. Hudson’s inclusive and compelling text is sensitive to issues such as queer narratives, race, activism, and climate and demonstrates the continued relevance of painting today. Bringing together more than 250 eminent artists from around the world, such as Cecily Brown, Julie Mehretu, Theaster Gates, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Takashi Murakami, and Zhang Xiaogang, this is an essential volume for art history enthusiasts, students, critics, and practitioners interested in discovering how painting is approached, reimagined, and challenged by today’s artists.

Author : Michael Petry
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500292235

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Nature Morte by Michael Petry Pdf

“Richly rethinks one of art’s everlasting topics.” —Art & Auction Leading artists of the twenty-first century are reviving the still life, a genre that once was more associated with the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Old Masters than with contemporary art. The audacious still lifes celebrated here challenge that historical supremacy and redefine what it means to be a work of nature morte (literally translated from the French: “dead nature”). Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or other media, contemporary artists have drawn on the centuries-old tradition to create works of conceptual vivacity, beauty, and emotional poignancy. Structured according to the classical categories of the still-life tradition—Flora, Food, House and Home, Fauna, and Death, each chapter explores how the timeless symbolic resonance of the memento mori—a reminder of death, change, and the passing of time—has been rediscovered for a new millennium. Among the artists represented are John Currin, Saara Ekström, Elmgreen & Dragset, Renata Hegyi, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Gary Hume, Jeff Koons, McDermott & McGough, Beatriz Milhazes, Gabriel Orozco, Marc Quinn, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Cy Twombly.

Author : Cesar Aira
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781941701867

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On Contemporary Art by Cesar Aira Pdf

Translated into English for the first time, On Contemporary Art, a speech by the renowned novelist César Aira, was delivered at a 2010 colloquium in Madrid dedicated to bridging the gap between writing and the visual arts. On Aira’s dizzying and dazzling path, everything comes under question—from reproducibility of artworks to the value of the written word itself. In the end, Aira leaves us stranded on the bridge between writing and art that he set out to construct in the first place, flailing as we try to make sense of where we stand. Aira’s On Contemporary Art exemplifies what the ekphrasis series is dedicated to doing—exploring the space in which words give meaning to objects, and objects shape our words. Like the great writers Walter Benjamin and Hermann Broch before him, Aira operates in the space between fiction and essay writing, art and analysis. Pursuing questions about reproducibility, art making, and limits of language, Aira’s unique voice adds new insights to the essential conversations that continue to inform our understanding of art.

Author : Amber Creswell Bell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781760762025

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Still Life by Amber Creswell Bell Pdf

A rich survey of the work of more than forty still life artists, which presents the genre in a uniquely contemporary light. Still life painting is a practice that goes back centuries but has recently been reinvigorated by a new generation of contemporary artists. Still Life explores the diverse practices of more than forty contemporary artists and documents their styles, subjects, visions, and philosophies as they reinterpret this art form for our age. While flowers and food are mainstays of the genre, more anomalous objects—such as books and beer cans, birds and balloons—can be found within these pages, adding an energy and intrigue to both the composition and the story of the work. This book captures the inanimate beauty of the everyday in the twenty-first century, and offers a meditation on human experience as well as the brevity of life. Featuring interviews with each of the artists, this accessibly written book is as appealing to established artists as it is for artists who are just starting out. Quoting John Bokor, author Amber Creswell Bell shares that “A collection of objects—no matter how mundane—tells a story. They are like a little world; you can get lost in them.” As a survey of stunning work or as an inspirational volume for the budding artist, this book presents in full color the art of today’s most original artists.

Author : David Pagel
Publisher : Contemporary Painters Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Painting, American
ISBN : 1848223285

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Jim Shaw by David Pagel Pdf

Blending the reflected cultural climate of his adopted home, Los Angeles, with the multi-layered world of American popular culture, Jim Shaw creates rich dreamlike worlds within distinct bodies of work. Addressing, for the first time, how the artist's oeuvre inter-relates, this substantial monograph argues that the artist's seemingly disparate series actually function together to present a lucid and insightful portrait of America today. Emerging out of the long West Coast shadows of California Assemblage by way of LA Pop and Conceptualism, Shaw's narrative-driven art marries art history and contemporary existence, as well as literature and comic books, ancient myths and modern movies, science and its variations in popular psychology--not only blurring the boundaries between art and life, but also cultivating that confusion to consider the relationship between fact and fiction that seems to define so much of the world we inhabit today. Giving contemporary viewers an effective way to think about art, this publication is an invaluable resource for those interested in painting today and its interaction with modern life.

Author : James Thrall Soby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015006779618

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Contemporary Painters by James Thrall Soby Pdf

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : HARVARD:HW1XQJ

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The Works of John Ruskin: Modern painters.-v.5-6. The stones of Venice.-v.7. Seven lamps of architecture. Lectures on architecture and painting. The study of architecture. Poetry of architecture.-v.8. Two paths ... on art. Lectures on art. Political economy of art. Pre-Raphaelitism. Notes on the construction of sheepfolds. King of the golden river.-v.9. Elements of drawing. Elements of perspective. Aratra pentelici.-v.10. Ariadne Florentina. Fors clavigera.-v.11. Sesame and lilies. Ethics of the dust. Crown of wild olive. Queen of the air.-v.12. Time and tide. Unto this last. Munera pulveris. Eagle's nest by John Ruskin Pdf

Author : Charles Le Clair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0823007413

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Color in Contemporary Painting by Charles Le Clair Pdf

Aimed at professionals and students, this book explains how to make use ofolour in various types of painting. Colour theories are outlined, but theain emphasis of the book is the way contemporary artists such as Jasperohns and Milton Avery, actually use colour.

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : NYPL:33433102322892

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Modern Painters by John Ruskin Pdf

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN4E5H

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Modern Painters.-5 vol by John Ruskin Pdf

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027024598

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Modern Painters ... Fifth Edition, Revised by the Author by John Ruskin Pdf

Author : Painters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B900054752

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Modern Painters; Their Superiority in the Art of Landscape Painting to All the Ancient Masters Proved ... from the Works of Modern Artists, Especially from Those of J.M.W. Turner by Painters Pdf