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The Incubator - Art at the Library
3) The figurative artist's handbook: a contemporary guide to figure drawing, painting, and composition
Author
Publisher
Monacelli Studio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Mastering the figure is an essential tool for any serious visual artist. At a time when renewed interest in figurative art is surging throughout the art world, author Robert Zeller presents The Figurative Artist's Handbook, the first comprehensive guide to figure drawing and painting to appear in decades. Illustrated with Zeller's own exquisite drawings and paintings as well as works by nearly 100 historical and contemporary figurative art masters,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A color-illustrated introduction to the basic principles of visual language that every content creator and consumer needs to know, The right images capture attention, pique curiosity, and inspire viewers to stick around long enough to read any accompanying text. Nearly everyone today needs to use or understand images in communications of all kinds, from the most formal professional publication to the most casual social media post, and knowing the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This is an examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), Michael Fried offers a transformative account of the artist's revolutionary achievement. Based on the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of...
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