Individual Artists

By Bonnard, Pierre

By Gerry Souter

Annotation In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of guy faced with the yank lifestyle because it built within the Nineteen Twenties. encouraged by means of the films and especially by means of some of the digicam angles and attitudes of characters, his work divulge th

By William Blake

35 plates in complete colour. Facsimile version in response to infrequent, helpful originals engraved and hand-colored via Blake himself.

By Giorgione, Pietro Zampetti, Cecil Gould

The cast, indisputable evidence relating Giorgione may be contained with no congestion on a postcard, and his surviving output is restricted to an insignificant handful of images, so much of them rather small. Why, then, all of the fuss? What bills for the celebrity and the legend? The prime quality of Giorgione s paintings, mixed with the actual fact of his early loss of life - without reference to the precise conditions within which it could have happened - must have sufficed to begin the legend...

Perfect for artists, illustrators, paintings and artwork historical past scholars and paintings fanatics! 104 pages, over-sized, profusely illustrated. A needs to for each Giorgione, Venetian, Italian, Classical, sixteenth Century ecu portray fan and all aspiring painters!

Introduction5
An define of the artists serious history9
Note at the Giorgionesque13
The work in colour15
List of plates16
The works81
Bibliography82
Outline biography83
Catalogue of works85
Other works attributed to Giorgione97
Other works pointed out in historic documents101
Other works presumed to be copies103
Other drawings attributed to Giorgione103
Titles and subjects103
Topographical104

By Lee Johnson

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – thirteen August 1863) used to be a French Romantic artist looked from the outset of his occupation because the chief of the French Romantic university. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his examine of the optical results of color profoundly formed the paintings of the Impressionists, whereas his ardour for the unique encouraged the artists of the Symbolist flow. an exceptional lithographer, Delacroix illustrated quite a few works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish author Walter Scott and the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

By Robert Wallace

Global of Leonardo

By Maxfield Parrish

Maxfield Parrish loved large recognition during the early many years of the 20 th century. Bruce Watson, writing in Smithsonian journal, deemed Parrish the comman man's Rembrandt. it really is stated that in the melancholy, a Parrish representation was once displayed at the partitions of 1 out of each 4 American houses. The artist's romantic, richly coloured photographs of winsome maidens and far off locations proceed to attract sleek audiences. chosen from hundreds of thousands of the artist's photographs for books, magazines, and calendars, this unique assortment spotlights Parrish's paintings from 1897 throughout the Nineteen Twenties. Illustrations comprise paintings from guides corresponding to Century journal, Collier's, and Scribner's. various ads contain the famed Edison-Mazda Lamp sequence, in addition to advertisements for Jell-O, Ferry's Seeds, and Swift's top rate Ham. a big variety of publication illustrations includes scenes from The Arabian Nights, Eugene Field's Poems of adolescence, Louise Saunders' The Knave of Hearts, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tanglewood stories, and different valuable works Read more...

By Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn; Scallen, Catherine B.; Rembrandt, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

By Bradford D. Kelleher

Michelangelo Merisi (or Amerighi) da Caravaggio (29 September 1571? – 18 July? 1610) was once an Italian artist energetic in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily among 1592 (1595?) and 1610. His work, which mix a pragmatic commentary of the human nation, either actual and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting fixtures, had a formative impact on Baro

By Martin Gayford

“Sumptuously illustrated, this radiant quantity encapsulates what it really ability to be a visible artist.” ―Booklist

David Hockney’s exuberant paintings is extremely praised and broadly celebrated―he may be the world’s preferred dwelling painter. yet he's additionally anything else: an incisive and unique philosopher on art.

This new version features a revised creation and 5 new chapters which disguise Hockney’s creation on the grounds that 2011, together with arrangements for the larger photo exhibition held on the Royal Academy in 2012 and the making of Hockney’s iPad drawings and plans for the exhibit. a tough interval the exhibition’s large luck, marked first by means of a stroke, which left Hockney not able to talk for a protracted interval, by means of the vandalism of the artist’s Totem tree-trunk, and the tragic suicide of his assistant presently thereafter. Escaping the gloom, in spring 2013 Hockney moved again to L.A. a number of months later, Martin Gayford visited Hockney within the L.A. studio, the place the fully-recovered artist used to be difficult at paintings on his Comédie humaine, a sequence of full-length pix painted within the studio.

The conversations among Hockney and Gayford are punctuated by way of brilliant and revealing observations on different artists―Van Gogh, Vermeer, and Picasso between them―and enlivened via smart insights into the contrasting social and actual landscapes of Yorkshire, Hockney’s birthplace, and California. 181 illustrations, 154 in colour