Black is the favourite colour for a wide range of people, from priests to penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists, and has stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority, humility, sin, holiness, rebellion, conformity, wealth a ..

At the age of 19, on a visit to the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, a young Luc Tuymans saw the work of El Greco for the first time–an event that would lead him to become one of today's most influential artists. Almost 40 years later, that life-changi

Learn how to create vibrant character designs with the step-by-step guidance of professional artists from the illustration and animation industries.

‚Great art has dreadful manners…‘ Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe ..

Blue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now cite it as their favorite color. In this fascinating history, the renowned medievalist Michel P ..

The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many cultures, red was not just one color of many but rather t ..

From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the presentIn this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau–a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrate

By the time Goethe's Theory of Colours appeared in 1810, the wavelength theory of light and color had been firmly established. To Goethe, the theory was the result of mistaking an incidental result for an elemental principle. Far from pretending to a ..

Kniha History of Art History autora Christopher S. Wood vydaná v nakladatelství Princeton University Press v roce 2021, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 472, ISBN-13: 9780691204765, zařazení do kategorie: Teorie umění.

The Art of Eliza Ivanova is an evocative, edgy, and beautiful book filled with the work of this exciting artist. A graduate of the California Institute of Arts, Bulgarian-born Eliza now lives in San Francisco where she created much of the art on these page

Turn the pages of this lavishly-produced book to discover a collection of monsters, creatures, and characters created by self-taught concept artist Francisco Garc s, AKA Dibujante Nocturno. The artist and illustrator shares his journey, revealing how his s

A comprehensive human anatomy guide for today's 3D artist, offering fundamental, theoretical and practical skills in anatomy and proportion.