Still Life, Pieces of Me

Still Life, Pieces of Me

Author: Ermelinda Ceco

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-02-06

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 0557222672

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The poems in this book are self-reflecting and capture different aspects of my life: friendship, love, race, and maturing as a woman and as a human being. Each one of these poems serves as a still photograph capturing a moment or telling a story that has left its footprints on my memory for the better or for the worse. These are pieces of me.


The Art of Still Life

The Art of Still Life

Author: Todd M. Casey

Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC

Published: 2020-02-18

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1580935486

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A must-have reference book for today's artists and art students. Every artist needs to learn and master the still life. Written by a well-known artist and expert instructor, The Art of Still Life offers a comprehensive, contemporary approach to the subject that instructs artists on the foundation basics and advanced techniques they need for successful drawing and painting. In addition to Casey's stunning paintings, the work of over fifty past and present masters is included, so that the book will do double duty as a hardworking how-to manual and a visual treasure trove of some of the finest still life art throughout history and being created today.


William Nicholson, Painter

William Nicholson, Painter

Author: William Nicholson

Publisher: Giles de La Mare

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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This volume provides a documentary account of William Nicholson's life and work. It uses contemporary records, articles and reminiscences, and the numerous letters William wrote to his family and friends. The text considers what Nicholson painted, why and for whom; what spurred him on to experimention and artistic adventure; how he fared in times of elation and anguish; how he combined the serious playfulness of his vision with a deep affection for nature; and how he collaborated with some of the leading men of his day, among them Rudyard Kipling, J.M. Barrie, William Orpen, Edwin Lutyens, Robert Graves (his son-in-law), and Winston Churchill. The aim is to do justice to the diversity of William Nicholson's work, and provide a detailed portrait of the man and the artist.


Dynamic Symmetry

Dynamic Symmetry

Author: Tavis Leaf Glover

Publisher: Tavis Leaf Glover

Published: 2019-02-25

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 1733761225

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Serious visual artists can now easily understand and apply the secret geometry that masters used to create remarkable art. Superior mathematical skills aren’t required because there are hundreds of excellent step-by-step diagrams to explain everything with simplicity. Learn how the ancient and modern masters used dynamic symmetry to promote unity, movement, rhythm, and strength. These qualities, along with many others, allowed their art to have visual clarity, impact, and stand the test of time. This is an essential book for painters, photographers, sculptors, and cinematographers that hold composition and design with a high priority. For far too long, artists have been stuck with the basic tools of artistic composition, like the rule of thirds and leading lines. Unfortunately, we’re incapable of reaching the master level if all we know are the basics. Powerful tools like dynamic symmetry and other composition techniques have been kept a secret from all of us. It’s time to learn of them, push past any plateau that stands in our way, and finally unlock our true potential!


Manet

Manet

Author: George Mauner

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2001-02-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0810943913

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Presents the still-life paintings of the great Impressionist master Edouard Manet, including a wide variety of oil paintings, watercolors, and prints, as well as an essay on the artist and his work.


Still Life with Oysters and Lemon

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon

Author: Mark Doty

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2002-07-10

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 0807066109

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Mark Doty's prose has been hailed as "tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene" (The New York Times Book Review) and "achingly beautiful" (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with human store, and why.


Elegance and Refinement

Elegance and Refinement

Author: Willem van Aelst

Publisher: Skira

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0847838218

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"The paintings of Willem van Aelst are known for their remarkably fine finish, carefully balanced compositions and elegant subject matter. Each work featured in this monograph represents a phase of the artist's career"--Nielsen Book Data.


Still Life

Still Life

Author: Sarah Winman

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 2024-07-23

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0735249202

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*A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK* *A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK* “[A] winsome, large-hearted novel ... [Still Life] pulses from the page.” —Entertainment Weekly Set between World War II and the 1980s, Still Life is a beautiful, big-hearted story of strangers brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Tin Man and When God Was a Rabbit. In the wine-cellar of a Tuscan villa, as the Allies advance and bombs fall around them, two people meet and share an extraordinary evening: Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier from London's East End; Evelyn Skinner is a worldly older art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to rescue paintings from the ruins and relive her memories of the time she encountered E.M. Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine room with a view. Evelyn's talk of truth and beauty plants a seed in Ulysses's mind that night, one that will shape the trajectory of his life—and the lives of those who love him—for the next four decades. Moving from war-ravaged Tuscany to the boozy confines of The Stoat and Parrot pub in London and the piazzas of post-war Florence, Still Life is both sweeping and intimate, mischievous and deeply felt. It is a novel about beauty, love and fate, about the things that make life worth living, and the things we're prepared to die for.


My Still Life Art

My Still Life Art

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780999619117

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MY STILL LIFE ARTText & Paintings by Richard SchmidIn this book, Richard Schmid invites us to enjoy his life-long affair with still life paintings. Although he has painted a wide range of other subjects, such as landscapes, marine paintings, portraits, figurative works etc., it was still life painting that allowed him the privacy and unlimited time to develop and fine-tune his techniques and color perception. But more to the point of Still Life, Schmid shows us how even the most ordinary things can be transformed into objects of astonishing beauty and sometimes of surprising complexity. He explains that the objects in a Still Life need not be thrilling in and of themselves, but rather it is the way they are painted that makes them so compelling. Also, the many close-up images reveal the different ways he uses his palette knives and brushes. As you turn the pages of this book, you will realize how fortunate you are to have a master of painting share his efforts and achievements in capturing not only the world he sees, but sometimes the world of his imagination as well.


Composition of Outdoor Painting

Composition of Outdoor Painting

Author: Edgar Alwin Payne

Publisher:

Published: 2005-11-01

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9780939370115

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7th Edition, 8th printing of the original 1941 publication, many added color plates and addenda by Evelyn Payne Hatcher, the artist/author's daughter. A must for art collectors, artists, teachers and art dealers.