Jetzt kaufen The Moleskine Art Plus Large Japanese Album offers a unique notebook design influenced by the traditional Japanese horizontal emakimono scrolls. Perfect for drawings, collages, and sequences, this book contains one sheet of heavy-weight sketch paper that is folded into 48 accordion pages. Specifications: – Layout: Plain Paper– Dimensions: 5″ x 8-1/4″– Hard Cover …
Monthly Archives: July 2017
You Can’t Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum
Jetzt kaufen New York City and its famed Metropolitan Museum of Art provide the setting for a crazy collision of art and city life in this inventively illustrated picture book. It all starts with a little girl?s trip to view the museum?s treasures and the parallel journey of her runaway yellow balloon. Floating down Fifth …
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Why the Psychology of Color Is Useful When Choosing From Various Abstract Wallpapers
Abstract wallpapers are always excellent choices for contemporary art lovers and people who like dreaming away. Digital art has the power to create unexpected graphics that please the eye, and offer viewers a psychedelic visual experience. Computer generated fractals or just photographs taken from unusual perspectives can help people evade from their environments into a …
Art of Hokusai: Explore His Life and Legacy and Learn to Paint in His Unique Style
Jetzt kaufen Beautifully illustrated throughout, Art of Hokusai takes you through his life, his work, his inspirations, and his legacy. Katsushika Hokusai (1760-May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. In his time he was Japan’s leading expert on Chinese painting. Then, create your own masterpieces using Hokusai’s …
His Most Famous Illustration (The Peacock Skirt) – Aubrey Beardsley
English illustrator, caricaturist, and author Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872- 1898) was born in Brighton, Menton, France on August 21, 1872. The frontrunner of ‘Aestheticism’ and ‘Art Nouveau,’ Aubrey’s accentuation for erotic components is displayed in many of his drawings. The most daring and audacious representation could be seen in his famous illustrations Lysistrata, and Salome, …
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Daily Painting: Paint Small and Often To Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Artist
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Modern Art
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How to Create a Reverse Painting on Glass
Introduction: Glass is a non-absorbent painting support which does not allow paint to easily adhere to it – apart from through the paint’s own drying process. For this reason the outlines of a subject painted on glass need to be simplified when applied to an extremely smooth glass surface. Simplifying a subject does not necessarily …
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Materiality (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
Jetzt kaufen Materiality has reappeared as a highly contested topic in recent art. Modernist criticism tended to privilege form over matter — considering material as the essentialized basis of medium specificity — and technically based approaches in art history reinforced connoisseurship through the science of artistic materials. But in order to engage critically with the …
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Forbidden Images of Homosexual and Lesbian Sex in Shunga
Shunga, literally “Images of Spring”, is the generic term used to describe erotic prints, books, scrolls and paintings of Japan. Prudery Only recently (1990s) the study of shunga images depicting homosexual (male-male sex) and lesbian (female-female sex) acts of love have been commenced. This belated research of this “hidden domain” was caused by the official …
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