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Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist
Author: James Gurney
ISBN-10: 0740785508
ISBN-13: 9780740785504
Published: 2009-10-20
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Book Description:
An award-winning fantasy artist and the creator of Dinotopia, James Gurney instructs and inspires in Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist. Renowned for his uncanny ability to incorporate amazing detail and imagination into stunningly realistic fantasy settings, James Gurney teaches budding artists and fans of fantasy art step-by-step the techniques that won him worldwide critical acclaim. This groundbreaking work examines the practical methods for creating believable pictures of imaginary subjects, such as dinosaurs, ancient Romans, alien creatures, and distant worlds.Beginning with a survey of imaginative paintings from the Renaissance to the golden Age of American illustration, the book then goes on to explain not just techniques like sketching and composition, but also the fundamentals of believable world building including archaeology, architecture, anatomy for creatures and aliens, and fantastic engineering. It concludes with details and valuable advice on careers in fantasy illustration, including video game and film concept art and toy design.More than an instruction book, this is the ultimate reference for fans of science fiction and fantasy illustration."Gurney's Imaginative Realism is a gold mine for artists who want to create images that sing with authority and delight the viewer with rich otherworldly visuals." --Erik Tiemens, concept artist, Star Wars: Episodes II and III"Imaginative Realism is an indispensable, flawless reference for vision makers in any discipline to create their own imaginative realms." --Frank M. Costantino, ASAI, SI, FSAI, JARA, cofounder, American Society of Architectural Illustrators
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Reality Through the Arts (5th Edition)
Author: Dennis J. Sporre
ISBN-10: 0131831143
ISBN-13: 9780131831148
Published: 2003-07-06
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Book Description:
This introductory exploration of basic artistic concepts and terms applies them to a skeletal multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural history of artistic styles. It treats all the arts—painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, music, theatre, dance, film, architecture, literature—uniformly, and uses a common outline to reinforce the relationship of terms and concepts to the perceptual process. The book also ties both artistic media and history to the theme of art as a reflection of human reality This examination focuses on the media of the arts, pictures, sculpture, music, theatre, cinema, dance, architecture, literature, the styles of the arts, ancient approaches, artistic reflections in the pre-modern world, as well as artistic styles in the emerging modern world and, the beginnings of modernism, pluralism in a post-modern age. For art enthusiasts and others interested exploring how artists express themselves.
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Drawing from Observation
Author: Brian Curtis
ISBN-10: 0072410248
ISBN-13: 9780072410242
Published: 2001-11-19
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Perceptual drawing, in which one renders the physical world as it appears to an observer, is the focus of this new text for the introductory drawing course. Drawing from Observation offers a balanced mix of hands-on technique and perceptual theory while making a compelling argument for the long-term value of studying perception-based drawing.
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American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors- From the Glenn C. Janss Collection
Author: Alvin Martin
ISBN-10: 0810918390
ISBN-13: 9780810918399
Published: 1986-03
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
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Realistic Oil Painting Techniques
Author: Kurt Anderson
ISBN-10: 0891345760
ISBN-13: 9780891345763
Published: 1995-03
Publisher: North Light Books
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Here are step by step demonstrations that give you a foundation for painting radiant still lifes, portraits, florals&landscapes using a classical approach. You will find: ? Step by step illustrated lessons ? Color photos ? Chapters on classic drawing techniques ? Using oil paint, the author shows you how to see natural colors&recreate them on your palette ? An array of helpful information Contents: (main headings only) ? Building a foundation ? The mechanics of drawing ? Drawing what you see ? The basics of oil painting ? Learning to see color ? Painting the human form ? The painterly touch ? Mastering the human figure ? Conclusion ? Index
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Adolph Menzel, 1815-1905: Between Romanticism and Impressionism
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ISBN-10: 0300069545
ISBN-13: 9780300069549
Published: 1996-09-25
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Providing a retrospective of Adolph Menzel, one of the most influential German painters of the 19th century, this work includes photographs of the artist and contemporary Berlin, reproductions of hundreds of his paintings, and chapters on his life and art, including his critical reception.
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Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective
Author: Steven A. Nash
ISBN-10: 0500092923
ISBN-13: 9780500092927
Published: 2000-06
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
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Wayne Thiebaud, the California-based painter, has produced works of complexity and distinction that appear deceptively simple in terms of subject matter and in their presentation yet draw on many historical sources.In fact, Thiebaud is part of the grand tradition of representational art from Chardin and Manet to the American Realist masters such as Eakins and Hopper. Best-known for his deadpan still-life paintings of cakes, pies, delicatessen counters, and other consumer goods, Thiebaud has also explored such themes as figure studies, the topography of Northern California, and cityscapes exaggerating the vertiginous roadways and geometric high-rises of San Francisco. Continuous throughout his career is his combination of the perceptual and the conceptual, of sensuous color, light, and painterly texture with rigorously formal composition, resulting in a highly personalized Americana. Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective is published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same title, the first major survey in fifteen years of work by this famous American figurative artist. Steven A. Nash, Associate Director and Chief Curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, has organized the exhibition and provides a biographical essay on Thiebaud. An extended essay by Adam Gopnik, the Paris Journal writer for The New Yorker, links Thiebaud to American writing as a painter in the tradition of Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and John Updike.
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Realism in 20th Century Painting (World of Art)
Author: Brendan Prendeville
ISBN-10: 0500203369
ISBN-13: 9780500203361
Published: 2000-10-30
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
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This comprehensive survey the history of realist painting and argues that realism has had a continuous yet restlessly changing place in American and European painting throughout the 20th century. Artists discussed include Eakins, Bellows and Homer, Vuillard, Bonnard, Schiele, Morandi, Hopper and Giacometti, through to Balthus, Lucian Freud, and David Hockney. The author provides the historical, artistic and critical contexts in which painting has taken a realist turn, from the Ashcan School to Soviet Social realism, from painting of the Existentialist era to the time of Photorealism, to recent developments. He argues that the western tradition of pictorial realism has in fact been renewed and modified through the diverse influences of modernism, political conflict and new visual technologies.
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An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters (National Gallery London)
Author: David Peters Corbett
ISBN-10: 1857095278
ISBN-13: 9781857095272
Published: 2011-03-29
Publisher: National Gallery London
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In the first decades of the 20th century, George Bellows and other painters of the Ashcan School, a loosely connected group of gritty, urban realists, created images of the city from street level. Following older artist Robert Henri's insistence that artists should make "pictures from life," the Ashcanners renounced the polished academic style taught in art schools of the time. Instead they practiced a more urgent manner working with bold, highly saturated color, seeking to catch the ebb and flow of life in urban America. Some of them, particularly Bellows, also produced vivid landscapes and portraits.This book introduces the artists of the Ashcan School and the key characteristics and themes of their work. Detailed commentaries are provided for twelve significant paintings by George Bellows, William Glackens, Robert Henri, George Luks, and John Sloan, ranging from depictions of the metropolitan throng to Bellows's vivid seascapes. In their visual contemplation of early-20th-century America, these artists offer deep insights into the nature of ordinary life not only in their time but also in our own.
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An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art: N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth
Author: James H. Duff
ISBN-10: 0821216562
ISBN-13: 9780821216569
Published: 1987-07-30
Publisher: Bulfinch
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From a major international exhibition, this stunning book captures three generations of art by the Wyeth family. This comprehensive collection is now in a paperback identical to the original clothbound edition. 130 color, 54 black-and-white illustrations.
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