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Author : Rockwell Kent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494105896
This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
Author : Sarah Courtauld
Publisher : Usborne Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0794529232
A set of cards providing facts and figures about famous paintings.
Author : Rosie Dickins
Publisher : Educational Development Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Painting
ISBN : 0794525423
Originally published: London: Usborne, 2009.
Author : Charissa Bremer-David,Catherine Hess,Jeffrey W. Weaver,Gillian Wilson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892364558
This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from Gobelins and Beauvais, bronze firedogs from Fontainebleau, and a lathe-turned ivory goblet of astonishing complexity from Saxony are among the other highlights of this handsome volume.
Author : John Nici
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781442249554
In a world filled with great museums and great paintings, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the reigning queen. Her portrait rules over a carefully designed salon, one that was made especially for her in a museum that may seem intended for no other purpose than to showcase her virtues. What has made this portrait so renowned, commanding such adoration? And what of other works of art that continue to enthrall spectators: What makes the Great Sphinx so great? Why do iterations of The Scream and American Gothic permeate nearly all aspects of popular culture? Is it because of the mastery of the artists who created them? Or can something else account for their popularity? In Famous Works of Art—And How They Got That Way, John B. Nici looks at twenty well-known paintings, sculptures, and photographs that have left lasting impressions on the general public. As Nici notes, there are many reasons why works of art become famous; few have anything to do with quality. The author explains why the reputations of some creations have grown over the years, some disproportionate to their artistic value. Written in a style that is both entertaining and informative, this book explains how fame is achieved, and ultimately how a work either retains that fame, or passes from the public consciousness. From ancient artifacts to a can of soup, this book raises the question: Did the talent to promote and publicize a work exceed the skills employed to create that object of worship? Or are some masterpieces truly worth the admiration they receive? The creations covered in this book include the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, Raphael’s Sistine Madonna, El Greco’s The Burial of Count Orgaz, Rodin’s The Thinker, Van Gogh’s Starry Night, and Picasso’s Guernica. Featuring more than sixty images, including color reproductions, Famous Works of Art—And How They Got That Way will appeal to anyone who has ever wondered if a great painting, sculpture, or photograph, really deserves to be called “great.”
Author : Megan Cullis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1409550079
An introduction to the world's famous paintings in 100 stickers. It contains information about artists and their lives. It is suitable for all ages to learn about and engage with art.
Author : Linda Nochlin
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500776629
The fiftieth anniversary edition of the essay that is now recognized as the first major work of feminist art theory—published together with author Linda Nochlin’s reflections three decades later. Many scholars have called Linda Nochlin’s seminal essay on women artists the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. In her revolutionary essay, Nochlin refused to answer the question of why there had been no “great women artists” on its own corrupted terms, and instead, she dismantled the very concept of greatness, unraveling the basic assumptions that created the male-centric genius in art. With unparalleled insight and wit, Nochlin questioned the acceptance of a white male viewpoint in art history. And future freedom, as she saw it, requires women to leap into the unknown and risk demolishing the art world’s institutions in order to rebuild them anew. In this stand-alone anniversary edition, Nochlin’s essay is published alongside its reappraisal, “Thirty Years After.” Written in an era of thriving feminist theory, as well as queer theory, race, and postcolonial studies, “Thirty Years After” is a striking reflection on the emergence of a whole new canon. With reference to Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, and many more, Nochlin diagnoses the state of women and art with unmatched precision and verve. “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” has become a slogan and rallying cry that resonates across culture and society. In the 2020s, Nochlin’s message could not be more urgent: as she put it in 2015, “There is still a long way to go.”
Author : Kelly Grovier
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500295564
An exciting new critical voice explores what it is that makes great art great through an illuminating analysis of the world’s artistic masterpieces. From a carved mammoth tusk (ca. 40,000 BCE) to Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (1505–1510) to Duchamp’s Fountain (1917), a remarkable lexicon of astonishing imagery has imprinted itself onto the cultural consciousness of the past 40,000 years. Author Kelly Grovier devotes himself to illuminating these and more than fifty other seminal works in this radical new history of art. Stepping away from biography, style, and the chronology of “isms” that preoccupies most of art history, A New Way of Seeing invites a new interaction with art, one in which we learn from the artworks and not just about them. Grovier identifies that part of the artwork that bridges the divide between art and life and elevates its value beyond the visual to the vital. This book challenges the sensibility that conceives of artists as brands and the works they create as nothing more than material commodities to hoard, hide, and flip for profit. Lavishly illustrated with many of the most breathtaking and enduring artworks ever created, Kelly Grovier casts fresh light on these famous works by daring to isolate a single, and often overlooked, detail responsible for its greatness and power to move.
Author : DK
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781465474391
From works by Botticelli and Raphael to Salvador Dali and Frida Kahlo, discover the paintings that have shaken the art world through the centuries and across continents. Great Paintings presents over 60 amazing paintings - both familiar and new. It not only lists some of the greatest works of art but brings them to life with the help of more than 700 photographs and descriptive text. Understand the key features, composition, and techniques that have made these paintings stand out. The book also includes brief biographies of the artists, which provides the background to each artwork and helps readers paint their own picture of the historical and social context behind each masterpiece. Whether you are young or old, an art student or a fan, simply turn the pages of Great Paintings to go on your personal gallery tour of some of the world's best-loved paintings.
Author : Rosie Dickins
Publisher : Magic Painting Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474986242
Create your own masterpieces as you discover famous works of art Fun, educational and easy, this latest addition to the best-selling series features 16 fabulous paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and more. Just brush water over the black-and-white outlines to make each picture burst magically into colour. Published with London's world-famous National Gallery.
Author : Marty Noble
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486433811
Colorists of all ages are invited to create their own versions of 60 great paintings. From masterpieces by Michelangelo and Raphael to striking creations by Paul Gauguin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, this ready-to-color collection includes excellent renderings of Grant Wood's American Gothic, Winslow Homer's Snap the Whip, and Edward Hopper's Hotel Room, as well as compositions by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Edward Burne-Jones, Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent, Vincent van Gogh, and 45 other great artists. Printed on one side only, the illustrations can be colored with a variety of media, including watercolors. All paintings are shown in original colors on the inside covers and notes provide information on each artist.
Author : Kathryn Calley Galitz
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847846597
This monumental new book is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings from the encyclopedic collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world. This impressive volume's broad sweep of material, all from a single museum, makes it at once a universal history of painting and the ideal introduction to the iconic masterworks of this world-renowned institution. More than 1,000 lavish color illustrations and details of 500 masterpiece paintings, created over 5,000 years in cultures across the globe, are presented chronologically from the dawn of civilization to the present. These works represent a grand tour of painting from ancient Egypt and classical antiquity and prized Byzantine and medieval altarpieces, to paintings from Asia, India, Africa and the Americas, and and the greatest European and North American masters. The Metropolitan Museum of Art includes and introduction and illuminating texts about each artwork written specially for this volume by Kathryn Calley Galitz, whose experience as both curator and educator at the Met makes her uniquely qualified. European and American artists include Duccio, El Greco, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Bronzino, Caravaggio, Turner, Velázquez, Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Brueghel, Vermeer, David, Renior, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Degas, Sargent, Homer, Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Warhol. The artworks are arranged in rough chronological order, without regard to geography or culture, offering a visual timeline of the history of painting, from the earliest examples on pottery jars made over five thousand years ago to canvases on which the paint has barely dried. Freed from the constraints imposed by the physical layout of the Museum, the paintings resonate anew; and this chronological framework reveals unexpected visual affinities among the works. For those wishing to experience the unparalleled breadth and depth of the Met's collection, or study masterpieces of painting from throughout history, this important volume is sure to become a classic cherished by art lovers around the world.
Author : Lucy Micklethwait
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0751355011
This book introduces children to many of the world's most famous paintings. On the left-hand side of each spread, children will find a cut-out of a famous painting with questions to guide their own investigations and on the right-hand side of the spread is featured the full painting with answers to the questions as well as other facts. An introductory text and an information box about the author set the scene and allow children to recognise other paintings by the same artist or from the same period in time.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Painting
ISBN : OCLC:404105505
Author : Thomas Leman Hare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Painters
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032109139