How To Read Portraits

How To Read Portraits Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of How To Read Portraits book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

Lessons in Masterful Portrait Drawing

Mau-Kun Yim,Iris Yim
Lessons in Masterful Portrait Drawing Book PDF

Author : Mau-Kun Yim,Iris Yim
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781440349768

Get Book

Lessons in Masterful Portrait Drawing by Mau-Kun Yim,Iris Yim Pdf

Draw the best portraits with form and spirit. Drawing techniques from a master! Mau-Kun Yim learned to draw as the Old Masters did and believes that to render the essence of life in portrait drawing, one must continue to pursue the old ways. This philosophy and methodology relies on a holistic approach to observation, analysis and critical-thinking honed through time and patience. • Start with a solid foundation - Classical bust drawing is a must. These lessons aid in constructing volume in your drawing and introduce concepts of structure. • Move on to sketching - The best way to train your observation skills. Anatomy, value and state of mind are the focus of these lessons. • 12 step-by-step tutorials put it all together - Form and spirit combine along with more clearly defined details to bring life and dimension to your portraits. • An extensive gallery of beautifully and classically executed portraits, figures, sketches and busts serves as inspiration.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Book PDF

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775417897

Get Book

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Pdf

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is semi-autobiographical, following Joyce's fictional alter-ego through his artistic awakening. The young artist Steven Dedelus begins to rebel against the Irish Catholic dogma of his childhood and discover the great philosophers and artists. He follows his artistic calling to the continent.

Just Like Me

Harriet Rohmer
Just Like Me Book PDF

Author : Harriet Rohmer
Publisher : Children's Book Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892391499

Get Book

Just Like Me by Harriet Rohmer Pdf

Fourteen artists and picture book illustrators present self-portraits and brief descriptions that explore their varied ethnic origins, their work, and their feelings about themselves.

How to Read Portraits

Kathryn Calley Galitz
How to Read Portraits Book PDF

Author : Kathryn Calley Galitz
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397645

Get Book

How to Read Portraits by Kathryn Calley Galitz Pdf

Portraiture goes far beyond capturing a likeness. This intimate genre sheds light on the subjects’ and makers’ politics, relationships, aspirations, and insecurities. Featuring more than fifty works across time and cultures, from the lifelike Faiyum funerary masks of ancient Roman Egypt to Pablo Picasso’s and Marsden Hartley’s abstractions to likenesses imagined by contemporary artists, this publication probes the notion of what constitutes a portrait, beyond mere verisimilitude. Bestselling author Kathryn Calley Galitz illuminates how artists through the ages have exploited the genre to reveal character and convey power and status; how artists as varied as Rembrandt and Cindy Sherman embraced artifice and roleplaying to explore identity; and how the term “portraiture” encompasses a wider variety of works than typically thought. This reexamination of a deceptively familiar genre provides fascinating ideas about what these images can tell us about the sitter, the artist, the culture in which they lived, and ourselves.

How to Read Chinese Paintings

Maxwell K. Hearn
How to Read Chinese Paintings Book PDF

Author : Maxwell K. Hearn
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588392817

Get Book

How to Read Chinese Paintings by Maxwell K. Hearn Pdf

"Together the text and illustrations gradually reveal many of the major themes and characteristics of Chinese painting. To "read" these works is to enter a dialogue with the past. Slowly perusing a scroll or album, one shares an intimate experience that has been repeated over the centuries. And it is through such readings that meaning is gradually revealed."--BOOK JACKET.

Portraits and Persons

Cynthia Freeland
Portraits and Persons Book PDF

Author : Cynthia Freeland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199234981

Get Book

Portraits and Persons by Cynthia Freeland Pdf

`A boundary-breaking book, mobilizing art for philosophical purposes with exciting and enlightening results.' Ivan Gaskell, Harvard University --

A-Z of Flower Portraits

Billy Showell
A Z of Flower Portraits Book PDF

Author : Billy Showell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781844484522

Get Book

A-Z of Flower Portraits by Billy Showell Pdf

Billy Showell is a well-respected contemporary artist whose watercolour flower portraits have earned her the respect of watercolour artists all over the world. Worked to the same degree of accuracy as traditional botanical paintings, Billy's compositions are given a more contemporary twist, combining her unique eye for design with her love of flowers. In this book, 40 flower portraits are presented, arranged in alphabetical order, each one accompanied by small studies, details, step-by-step instructions and the colour mixes used to accomplish the finished work. At the start of the book there are useful sections on the materials and equipment needed and the main techniques used, including wet-into-wet, colour blending, lifting out, layering glazes, dry brushing and colour mixing, and at the end of the book Billy gives her own unique slant on composition and discusses the importance of creating a sketchbook. Whether you love to paint, or simply love flowers, this book will delight and inspire you.

Painting Portraits

Anthony Connolly
Painting Portraits Book PDF

Author : Anthony Connolly
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781847975041

Get Book

Painting Portraits by Anthony Connolly Pdf

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.

Portraits

John Berger
Portraits Book PDF

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781784781781

Get Book

Portraits by John Berger Pdf

John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artists. Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both canonized and obscure, from Rembrandt to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. The result is an illuminating walk through many centuries of visual culture, from one of the contemporary world's most incisive critical voices.

21st Century Portraits

Sandy Nairne,Jo Fredell Higgins
21st Century Portraits Book PDF

Author : Sandy Nairne,Jo Fredell Higgins
Publisher : National Portrait Gallery Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Human beings
ISBN : 1855144166

Get Book

21st Century Portraits by Sandy Nairne,Jo Fredell Higgins Pdf

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.

Portraits

Steve McCurry
Portraits Book PDF

Author : Steve McCurry
Publisher : Phaidon
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-17
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024893138

Get Book

Portraits by Steve McCurry Pdf

A collection of unposed and engaging portraits from around the world.

The Language of Art

Ann Pelo
The Language of Art Book PDF

Author : Ann Pelo
Publisher : Redleaf Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781605544588

Get Book

The Language of Art by Ann Pelo Pdf

Typical art resources for teachers offer discrete art activities, but these don't carry children or teachers into the practice of using the languages of art. This resource offers guidance for teachers to create space, time, and intentional processes for children's exploration and learning to use art for asking questions, offering insights, exploring hypotheses, and examining experiences from unfamiliar perspectives. Inspired by an approach to teaching and learning born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, The Language of Art, Second Edition, includes: A new art exploration for teachers to gain experience before implementing the practice with childrenAdvice on setting up a studio space for art and inquirySuggestions on documenting children's developing fluency with art media and its use in inquiryInspiring photographs and ideas to show you how inquiry-based practices can work in any early childhood setting Ann Pelo is a teacher educator, program consultant, and author whose primary work focuses on reflective pedagogical practice, social justice and ecological teaching and learning and the art of mentoring. Currently, Pelo consults early childhood educators and administrators in North America, Australia, and New Zealand on inquiry-based teaching and learning, pedagogical leadership, and the necessary place of ecological identity in children's—and adults'—lives. She is the author of several books including the first edition of The Language of Art and co-author of Rethinking Early Childhood Education.

Embroidered Portraits

Jan Messent
Embroidered Portraits Book PDF

Author : Jan Messent
Publisher : Search PressLtd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 1844487415

Get Book

Embroidered Portraits by Jan Messent Pdf

"With a different and delightfully practical approach to a traditional and time-honored subject, Jan Messent shows you how to create portraits in stitch. There are simple instructions for shaping and padding different-angled heads, creating faces, adding features and stitching the hair and garments, as well as explorations of the most suitable fabrics, stitches, threads and embellishments to use. Within this book you will discover a host of personalities, including a mysterious white Edwardian lady, the formidable Bess of Hardwicke and a 'book-box' that opens to reveal exquisite renditions of Cinderella and Prince Charming. All of Jan's portraits are filled with character and charm, and have a timeless appeal that will enthral and excite textile artists and embroiderers alike"--Dust jacket cover.

A Little Book of Portraits

Tai-Shan Schierenberg,Kathleen Soriano,Kate Bryan
A Little Book of Portraits Book PDF

Author : Tai-Shan Schierenberg,Kathleen Soriano,Kate Bryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Portrait painting, English
ISBN : 1849495769

Get Book

A Little Book of Portraits by Tai-Shan Schierenberg,Kathleen Soriano,Kate Bryan Pdf

Inspired to paint or enthralled by the world of portraiture A Little Book of Portraits: Beyond the Canvas accompanies the celebrated Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year series and includes sixty-four of the finest portraits painted during the competition with illuminating commentary from the three series judges: Tai Shan Schierenberg, Kathleen Soriano and Kate Bryan. The paintings featured in this book, include portraits of famous sitters, such as Juliet Stevenson and John Humphrys, self-portraits of the artists themselves and commissioned paintings of Hilary Mantel and Sophie Dahl. The judges approach each painting from a different angle and with a unique voice, reflecting their differing specialities within the art world. Between them they uncover the approach, style and effectiveness of each portrait whilst discussing the techniques critical to the success of the painter's brushwork, likeness and perspective. With a wide range of different mediums from oil to charcoal or even soil, the book takes us behind the finished portrait and into the myriad of processes that creates one great work of art. A Little Book of Portraits reveals the skills behind the artist's brush that makes timeless and inventive portraiture.

Harlem Street Portraits

Anonim
Harlem Street Portraits Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0764344870

Get Book

Harlem Street Portraits by Anonim Pdf

Well-known New York photographer Harvey Stein documents the humanity and spirit of the people of Harlem in 166 beautiful black and white photographs taken over 23 years, from 1990 to 2013. The images are mostly close-up portraits that reveal the friendliness and warmth of this city's inhabitants, the vibrant and bustling vitality of the area, and the changing nature of the neighborhood. What may at first appear to be a casual encounter becomes a personal, intimate record, a meaningful collaboration between photographer and subject. With a population of nearly half a million people, Harlem is America's most celebrated African-American neighborhood. Its rich past and historical importance have made a unique contribution to our national popular culture. Stein's photographs capture and celebrate the Harlem spirit.