Click for - The Art of Forgery.
Investigating the motivations of the artists and criminals who have
faked great works of art, the author explores the stories, dramas and
human intrigues surrounding the world's most infamous forgeries.
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Electronics for Artists: Adding Light, Motion, and Sound to Your Artwork
"With today's modern technology--LEDs, servomotors, motion sensors,
speakers, and more--artwork can incorporate elements of light, sound,
and motion for dramatic effects. Author and educator Simon Quellen Field
has developed a primer for creative individuals
looking for new ways to express themselves though electronically
enhanced art"--
A-Z of Bird Portraits: An Illustrated Guide to Painting Beautiful Birds In Acrylics
Andrew Forkner's book provides you with all you need to paint a range of
birds in acrylics; taking in birds of prey, songbirds and waterbirds
from all over the world including Europe, the USA, Asia, the UK and
Australia. It contains information on the
materials and preparation you will need to capture the delicacy and
majesty of the subjects.
The Golden Lands: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand & Vietnam
A groundbreaking survey of the Buddhist architecture of Southeast Asia,
abundantly illustrated with new color photography and 3-D renderings. Over the course of its 2,500-year history, Buddhism has found expression
in countless architectural forms, from the great monastic complexes of
ancient India to the fortified dzongs of Bhutan, the rock-carved temple grottoes of China, the wooden shrines
of Japan, and the colorful wats of Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand.
Architecture of the Buddhist World, a projected six-volume series by the
noted architect and scholar Vikram Lall, represents a new
multidisciplinary approach to this fascinating subject,
showing how Buddhist thought and ritual have interacted with local
traditions across the Asian continent to produce masterpieces of
religious architecture.
Painting Successful Watercolours from Photographs
Artists who work from photographic source material need to learn how to
adapt and improve in order to create a successful painting. Geoff Kersey
is a master of this way of working, and here he shows how it is done.
Reference photographs, colour charts
and preparatory sketches are shown alongside all the finished paintings
in this book, with full details of the adaptations and creative
processes involved. There are plenty of clear tips and advice, and an
illustrated glossary of all the painting terms used.
Readers who want much more advice on adapting from reference sources
than is provided in step by step painting books will have all they need
here, and there are dozens of beautiful paintings to inform and inspire
them.
Friday, May 22, 2015
Art in Vienna 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and Their Contemporaries
Click for : Art in Vienna - 1898-1918.
The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the 19th century was
rudely shaken by the artists of the Vienna Secession. Their work shocked
a conservative public, but their successive exhibitions, their magazineVer Sacrum, and their application
to the applied arts and architecture soon brought them an enthusiastic following and wealthy patronage.Art in Vienna, 1898–1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and their Contemporaries,
now published in its 4th edition, brilliantly traces the course of this
development. Klimt, Kokoschka and Schiele were the leading figures in
the fine arts; Wagner, Olbrich, Loos and Hoffmann in architecture and
the applied arts. In other fields, Mahler, Freud and Schnitzler were
influencing the avant‐garde.
The book includes eye‐witness accounts of exhibitions, the
opening of the Secession building and other events, and the result is a
fascinating documentary study of the members of an artistic movement
which is much admired today. Some 150 color images
and 75 black and white archival illustrations make this a sumptuous and
historically engrossing study of a period when Vienna was the centre of
the European art world.
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