Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Subjects & Themes - Human Figure

Properly rendering human heads, features, and faces numbers among the most challenging aspects of figure drawing and painting. This concise and useful book-written by a world-renowned art instructor-is entirely devoted to the artistic study of the human head and its deep capacity for detail and expression. With more than half a century's worth of experience as an artist and lecturer at the Art Students League of New York, George B. Bridgman is a uniquely qualified instructor. His clearly articulated lessons are accompanied by nearly 200 examples and diagrams that demonstrate how best to...

Spuren halten die Zeit als Form fest und machen Vergangenes gegenwartig sichtbar. Als solche sind sie auch in der Moderne ein fundamentales Mittel der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisgewinnung geblieben. Doch wahrend die Kunst des Spurenlesens eine jahrtausendealte Praxis darstellt, werden Spurbildungen im fotografischen Archiv oder im naturwissenschaftlichen Labor gezielt hervorgebracht. Dabei ersetzen die materiellen Spurformen nicht selten jene Gegenstande und Ursachen, denen sie ihre Existenz verdanken und die sie im Moment ihrer Vergegenwartigung unsichtbar machen. Indem die Beitrage des...

Properly rendering human heads, features, and faces numbers among the most challenging aspects of figure drawing and painting. This concise and useful book-written by a world-renowned art instructor-is entirely devoted to the artistic study of the human head and its deep capacity for detail and expression. With more than half a century's worth of experience as an artist and lecturer at the Art Students League of New York, George B. Bridgman is a uniquely qualified instructor. His clearly articulated lessons are accompanied by nearly 200 examples and diagrams that demonstrate how best to...

This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks. It centers on the following question: How and to what end was the human body discussed, portrayed, and utilized as an aesthetic metaphor in turn-of-the-century Vienna? By scrutinizing theatrically "hysterical" performances, avant-garde puppet plays, and images created by Oskar Kokoschka, Koloman Moser, Egon Schiele and others, Nathan...

Seit Jahrtausenden werden bewegliche Menschenfiguren gefertigt. Die Varianten der Gattung Gliederpuppe" reichen von einfachen Statuetten uber standardisierte Modelle bis hin zu hochkomplexen Preziosen. Die Monographie leistet erstmals eine grundlegende Erforschung beweglicher Skulpturen in Menschengestalt. Sie beschreibt die kulturelle Verankerung der Gliederpuppe im christlichen und profanen Kult seit der Antike, aber auch innerhalb der modernen Kultur und Wissenschaft. Sie verfolgt ihren Einsatz als Modell und Inspirationsquelle in der Kunstlerwerkstatt der Neuzeit und analysiert ihren...

Bring your artwork to life with the power of the FORCE Watch, listen, and follow along as Mike Mattesi demonstrates the fundamental FORCE line and explains dynamic figure drawing techniques through 30 videos that are launched through the book's companion App. Packed with superb, powerfully drawn examples, the updated third edition of FORCE features an all-new section on the "FORCE blob," and dozens of fresh illustrations. Mike Mattesi's 10^th anniversary edition of FORCE will teach readers how to put thought and imagination to paper. Whether you are an illustrator,...

Bring your artwork to life with the power of the FORCE Watch, listen, and follow along as Mike Mattesi demonstrates the fundamental FORCE line and explains dynamic figure drawing techniques. Packed with superb, powerfully drawn examples, the updated third edition of FORCE features an all-new section on the "FORCE blob," and dozens of fresh illustrations. Mike Mattesi s 10^th anniversary edition of FORCE will teach readers how to put thought and imagination to paper. Whether you are an illustrator, animator, comic book artist, or student, you'll learn to use rhythm, shape,...

In this volume, Heather McPherson examines the connections among portraiture, theater, the visual arts, and fame to shed light on the emergence of modern celebrity culture in eighteenth-century England.

Popular actors in Georgian London, such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, and John Philip Kemble, gave larger-than-life performances at Drury Lane and Covent Garden; their offstage personalities garnered as much attention through portraits painted by leading artists, sensational stories in the press, and often-vicious caricatures. Likewise, artists such as Joshua Reynolds and Thomas...