Freska, tempera, olejomaľba, glazúrovanie, enkaustika, gvaš, akvarel to sú techniky typické pre maliarstvo. Okrem maliarstva tvorí výtvarné umenie samozrejme aj sochárstvo a grafika, ktorá bola vo svojich počiatkoch veľmi závislá na maliarstve. Viac informácii o histórii, základných znakoch a druhoch maliarstva či grafiky vám dodajú knihy z bohatej ponuky kníhkupectiev. A ak vás ešte k tomu fascinujú dokonca aj životné osudy a diela slávnych maliarov, určite si pri čítaní týchto kníh prídete na svoje.
In the era of celebrity culture, we are more fascinated than ever by the lives of our leading artists. Creative personalities are always intriguing, and to learn something new about the greatest artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries – whether they be eccentric or sober, outspoken or reclusive ...
In recent years, abstract painting has developed a rich complexity that, more than ever, rewards intensive viewing. Bob Nickas introduces the reader to the key issues in contemporary abstraction while profiling eighty artists who, in the last five years, have made it one of the most exciting areas in ...
Blossom Buddies are the endearing creations of illustrator Elsa Mora. She carefully reconfigures plants to create a universe of unique characters. Inspired by time spent with her young autistic son, Mora’s one-of-a-kind characters combine vivid imagination with a careful appreciation of nature’s forms. ...
If you\''ve ever used a public restroom, chances are you\''ve read some bathroom graffiti, or at least noticed it. Often bawdy, funny and smart, sometimes illegible, it is a ubiquitous means of expression found across the world. Do the private, intimate moments in the bathroom provide people the opportunity ...
To draw the human body is one of the most interesting yet most difficult tasks for budding artists. This book is a marvellous guide on how to sketch and draw the bare human body from the very basics to doing a complete work. It offers hundreds of illustrations and useful instructions by Hungarian master ...
Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov (b. 1957) understands fear. While living for three decades under a dictatorship he was no stranger to the secret police. In his art, however, he has maintained a level of humour and sincerity that''''s as remarkable as it is touching.First exhibited last summer at Documenta ...
Jeff Koons is one of the most successful artists of the present day. Fundamental to his art is his presentation of himself in the image and through images. Koons works with the garish, loud, and colorful, as well as with the playful and kitschy. At the same time, he clearly positions himself within art ...
A searchable database of 9,000 logos by keyword is available by subscription on the popular website, www.logolounge.com, launched in 2002 by author Bill Gardner. If you don’t have a subscription but would still like to see the best logos on the site created by top designers who often maintain low profiles, ...
Pictures and Words collects together the most outstanding contemporary examples of pictorial storytelling. Celebrating illustration that stands on its own to tell a story rather than simply accompanying or adorning another medium, the book includes extracts from graphic novels, comic strips and books, ...
Praised by critics and teachers alike for more than forty years, Burne Hogarth''s Dynamic Anatomy is recognised worldwide as the classic, indispensable text on artistic anatomy. Now revised, expanded and completely redesigned with more than 75 never before published drawings from the Hogarth archives ...
Here is a report from the trenches on the most exciting and original graffiti scene to emerge in the past decade. From extraordinary creative extremes generated amidst urban deprivation to crafted murals at their most elaborate, Graffiti Brasil offers both stunning photography and in-depth history and ...
Much of today’s most exuberant, most creative and most telling imagery is all around us: in the street. Nowhere is this visual cornucopia more striking than in India, whose streets are a continuous gallery of images indicative of the country’s rich cultural diversity. From Arabian Sea to Indian Ocean, ...
Národní galerie v Praze; ISBN: 9788070353998; Křestní, výuční a zachovací listy z fondu Pražská malířská bratrstva.
This latest addition to Prestel''s successful Living Art series offers a critical portrait of Francis Bacon, one of the world''s most renowned contemporary artists, to reveal a conflicted man of prodigious talent. This accessible look at Bacon’s life and art displays the many facets that make his career ...
Průvodce evropským světem umění – krátký ale precizní. Art Guide je stručný, aktuální a nabitý prezentacemi muzeí, galerií, uměleckých veletrhů, bienálí a uměním ve veřejném prostoru. Autoři vám představí nejzajímavější muzea, nejprogresivnější kurátory, nejživější galerie atd. The guide trough the European ...
The Younger than Jesus: Artist Directory is a guidebook to the future of art. Working with a research team made up of more than 150 curators, teachers, critics, bloggers and artists scattered across the globe, New Museum curators Massimiliano Gioni, Lauren Cornell and Laura Hoptman have selected over ...
On 15 April, 2003 Charles Saatchi will open the new Saatchi Gallery in a spectacular renovated County Hall across the river from Westminster. The enterprise will be the focus for Saatchi\''s vision of radical, ground-breaking British art in a venue that is accessible to the widest public. "100" is the ...
This comprehensive reference provides hands-on techniques for created posed figures for fashion illustration. The first section illustrates various examples of nude and semi-nude poses (male and female). Later chapters illustrate the same poses wearing sportswear, sleepwear, dresses, suits, trousers, ...
Kniha Najstaršie dejiny Slovenska v reči obrazov z edície PICTORIA otvára slovenskú históriu svetu prostredníctvom obrazov. Výtvarné fotografie. sprevádzané krátkymi textami v cudzích jazykoch. s ľahkosťou prevedú čitateľa tisícročiami.Knihy v edícii PICTORIA budú vychádzať v rozličných jazykových mutáciách ...
