Still life Books
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Dynamic Still Life for Artists
Book SynopsisDynamic Still Life for Artists takes a modern approach to a classic genre of drawing and painting, a “gateway” genre that’s accessible to beginners and offers more experienced artists a way to show their skill at depicting a variety of light and surface effects.Trade Review"Dynamic Still Life for Artists makes painting still lifes accessible, covering everything from setups to preliminary studies to the actual painting process. Artwork illustrates the exciting variety of approaches and styles possible with this rich genre." * Artists Magazine *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Welcome to Dynamic Still Life for Artists Why Still Life? My Art Journey Your Art Journey 1 PAINTING SPACES AND STUDIOS Different Artists, Different Spaces Studio Setup for Still Life: The Basics Materials and Tools: The Must-Have and the Good-to-Have Paint Choices and Palette Layout Studio Lighting 2 WHAT TO PAINT? SETTING UP A STILL LIFE THAT “CLICKS” Diving into Still Life Still Life Setup: The Three Vs Lighting Your Still Life Subject Matter: Thinking Outside the Box Borrowing Inspiration Exercise: Experimenting with Still Life Setup and Lighting 3 PLANNING YOUR DYNAMIC STILL LIFE: COMPOSITION AND VALUE STUDIES Preparation Pays Off Composition: What Is It and Why Does It Matter? Using a Viewfinder Contrast: The Key to Creating a Focal Point Thumbnail Sketches Exercise: One Still Life, Three Formats: Creating Thumbnail Sketches Format First, Then Size and Scale Value Studies: A Solid Foundation A Hierarchy of Values: Highlights and Dark Accents Exercise: Creating a Value Study in Black and White Oils 4 PAINTING YOUR DYNAMIC STILL LIFE: ALLA PRIMA IN THREE STEPS Step 1: Underpainting Step 2: Color Mixing Step 3: Applying Color Paint Outside the Box: Alternative Materials Battling Overwhelm: Breaking the Process into “Bites” No “Bad” Painting Days Exercise: The Three-Step Still Life 5 YOUR ART JOURNEY CONTINUES Momentum: The Most Important Thing Jump-Starting Momentum Comparison Is the Thief of Joy Finding Friends and Mentors 6 CONCLUSION: YOUR UNIQUE ARTISTIC FINGERPRINT Resources Acknowledgments About the Author Index
£18.04
Yale University Press James Ensor and Stillife in Belgium 18301930
Book SynopsisA unique journey with James Ensor through the history of still life in Belgium in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesTable of Contents Sabine Taevernier James Ensor and Still Life Bart Verschaffel A Historical Overview of Still Life in Belgium Stefan Huygebaert Notes on 30 Belgian Artists and Their Exhibited Still Lifes.
£40.50
Amsterdam University Press Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy:
Book SynopsisStill-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy centers on the still-life compositions created by Evaristo Baschenis and Bartolomeo Bettera, two 17th-century painters living and working in the Italian city of Bergamo. This highly original study explores how these paintings form a dynamic network in which artworks, musical instruments, books, and scientific apparatuses constitute links to a dazzling range of figures and sources of knowledge. Putting into circulation a wealth of cultural information and ideas and mapping a complex web of social and intellectual relations, these works paint a portrait of both their creators and their patrons, while enacting a lively debate among humanist thinkers, aristocrats, politicians, and artists. The unique contribution of this groundbreaking study is that it identifies for the first time these intellectually rich concepts that arise from these fascinating still-life paintings, a genre considered as "low". Engaging with literary blockbusters and banned books, theatrical artifice and music, and staging a war among the arts, Baschenis and Bettera capture the latest social intrigues, political rivalries, intellectual challenges, and scientific innovations of their time. In doing so, they structure an unstable economy of social, aesthetic, and political values that questions the notion of absolute truth, while probing the distinctions between life and artifice, meaningless marks and meaningful signs.Table of ContentsTable of Figures Chapter I: Introduction Chapter II: Still-Life as Culture 1. The Biographies of Evaristo Baschenis and Bartolomeo Bettera 2. Still-life painting in Seventeenth-Century Lombardy 3. Still-Life (with Musical Instruments) Is Not Just Vanitas 4. Still-Life Painting - The State of Research 5. Baschenis's and Bettera's Still-Life Paintings - The State of Research 6. Bergamo - Portrait of an Ebullient Cultural Hub Chapter III: Keeping Score: Painting Music 1. The Conception of Music in Italy of the Early Modern Period: Sounds, Words, and Colour 2. Music in Bergamo 3. The "Music Paintings" - Variations Composed by Baschenis and Bettera with their Paintbrush Chapter IV: Banned Books and Blockbusters 1. Books and Libraries in seventeenth-Century Bergamo 2. Books in Baschenis` paintings 3. Books in Bettera's Paintings Chapter V: A Double Act: Still-Life and Theatre 1. A Gaze at the Theatre 2. The Background and the Stage 3. Curtains 4. Table Coverings and Carpets 5. Stage Props 6. Seven Modes of Painting-Theatre Chapter VI: Paragone: May the Best Art Win 1. The Paragone 2. Painting and Music 3. Painting and Poetry 4. Painting and Sculpture 5. All of the Arts - Music, Painting, Sculpture, Literature, and Science 6. Music and Science 7. Painting, Music and Literature 8. Painting and Music in the Absence of a Paragone Chapter VII: Conclusion Bibliography
£137.75
