Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Subjects & Themes - Landscapes & Seascapes

This beautifully illustrated book will take you through an incredible journey into the mind of Norfolk watercolour artist Alan R. Massen as he describes the inspiration, background and emotional meaning behind a large selection of his paintings, created over a period of twenty years. Over two hundred pictures are included, revealing the artist's enriched life journey from a lively teenager in the emerging pop and rock music scene of the 1960's, through a variety of changing jobs, marriage, family and finally retirement, and how these experiences have influenced his focus and creativity....

Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain critically analyses the role that visual culture played in the early development of Mass-Observation, the innovative British anthropological research group founded in 1937. The group s production and use of painting, collage, photography, and other media illustrates not only the broad scope of Mass-Observation s efforts to document everyday life, but also, more specifically, the centrality of visual elements to its efforts at understanding national identity in the 1930s.

Although much interest has...

• Iris
• Hibiscus
• Tiger lilly
• Orchid
• Cherry blossoms
• Tulips
• Hydrangea
• Bird of paradise flower
• Rose
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This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it tells the story of how an element of the garden the pergola became a pictorial topos in portico decoration, and evolved, hand in hand with its real cousin in the garden, into an object for cultural emulation among the educated patrons of early modern Rome. The liminality of both the portico and the pergola...

Book description: Three Hundred and Sixty Five,

Daily Paintings of Stowe by Deborah Last

Painting the landscape every day, Deborah Last has investigated light and seasons. These works predominantly feature the beautiful Stowe Landscape Garden, affording views of Stowe School and the many temples and follies within the grounds. The series also includes locations visited such as Dublin, Connemara, Copenhagen and Mallorca.

Many people have painted and been inspired by the beautiful mansion and grounds at Stowe. These 17th Century buildings,...

Emil Nolde: Memory Games takes 32 of German Expressionist painter Emil Nolde's most beautiful flower watercolors and turns them into a set of cards for a memory game.

Find the match to every card you turn over; this card game will sharpen your attention to detail, enhance spatial memory and encourage you to look closely at Nolde's beautiful paintings.

The memory game comes complete with a foldout booklet introducing the artist and the works included in the game.

Nolde began to paint scenes of flowers in watercolors around 1918. "The color of the...

Es ist die erste gemeinsame Ausstellung des KUnstlerehepaars Barbara und Alfred Grimm, die in dem niederrheinischen Dorf HUnxe beheimatet sind und dort auch ihre Ateliers haben.
Die Grimms studierten an der Kunstakademie in DUsseldorf. Beide waren SchUler von Joseph Beuys. Barbara Grimm machte bei Beuys auch ihr Examen. Alfred Grimm hatte in den -Roaring Sixties- mit dem anwachsenden politischen Geschehen in der Beuys-Klasse seine Schwierigkeiten und beendete sein Studium bei Gerd Weber.
WAhrend Alfred Grimm sich im Bereich von Zeichnung, Malerei und Objektkunst ausbreitete,...

While walking the Arizona Trail from Mexico to Utah, Heidi Elizabeth Blankenship took photographs of scenic vistas and scribbled words on scraps of paper. Her photographs evolved into imaginative paper cuttings and her words into impassioned poems. Together these images and poems express heartfelt gratitude and love for everything that surrounds us. Perfect for the hiker, camper, adventurer, and nature enthusiast; ideal for anyone who relishes in a vision of the world as gift and celebration.