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From earliest days, artists have sought to record the beauty, form, movement, and infinite variety of the human body. Among the most successful were the great masters of the various European traditions and schools of art. The extraordinary skill, inspiration, and technique they brought to figure drawing resulted in many masterpieces. This anthology, carefully reproduced from rare portfolios, presents over forty of those works, by artists ranging from...
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Understanding anatomy is the foundation of great art, and this new collection of workshops from the world's best professional artists enables artists of all levels to bring their work to life. How to Draw and Paint Anatomy, 2nd Edition is the complete artist's guide on how to draw the structures and forms of humans and animals in easy-to-follow steps. In this superb collection of human and animal anatomy workshops, the finest artists in the world...
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Éloge de la fesse célèbre la sensualité du corps de la femme. Le spécialiste Hans-Jürgen Döpp nous présente la fesse comme une représentation parfaite à la fois de l'érotisme et de la féminité, qui séduit des artistes reconnus de tous milieux. Les illustrations sensuelles de ce livre ne manqueront pas d'attirer un public large et varié.
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Mega Square In Praise of the Backside celebrates the most sensual part of the female body. The insightful text by Hans-Jürgen Döpp discusses the backside as a feature that stands for both powerful eroticism and supple femininity, seducing famous artists from every genre. This title is sure to entice and delight a wide audience with its lively, provocative images.
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Of all the artifacts from the history of medicine, the Anatomical Venus--with its heady mixture of beauty, eroticism and death--is the most seductive. These life-sized dissectible wax women reclining on moth-eaten velvet cushions--with glass eyes, strings of pearls, and golden tiaras crowning their real human hair--were created in eighteenth-century Florence as the centerpiece of the first truly public science museum. Conceived as a means to teach...
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Mega Square In Praise of the Backside celebrates the most sensual part of the female body. The insightful text by Hans-Jürgen Döpp discusses the backside as a feature that stands for both powerful eroticism and supple femininity, seducing famous artists from every genre. This title is sure to entice and delight a wide audience with its lively, provocative images.
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La collection populaire de parkstone sur les « cinq plus beaux/belles…» offre aux jeunes lecteurs un cours miniature d'histoire de l'art, associant des puzzles interactifs représentant les chefs-d'œuvre de l'art à des textes simples mais didactiques. ces livres fournissent aux parents et aux professeurs un moyen de développer l'imagination artistique des enfants, posant les fondations d'une vie future d'amateurs d'art. Que ce...
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La collection populaire de parkstone sur les « cinq plus beaux/belles…» offre aux jeunes lecteurs un cours miniature d'histoire de l'art, associant des puzzles interactifs représentant les chefs-d'œuvre de l'art à des textes simples mais didactiques. ces livres fournissent aux parents et aux professeurs un moyen de développer l'imagination artistique des enfants, posant les fondations d'une vie future d'amateurs d'art. Que ce...
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La collection populaire de parkstone sur les « cinq plus beaux/belles…» offre aux jeunes lecteurs un cours miniature d'histoire de l'art, associant des puzzles interactifs représentant les chefs-d'œuvre de l'art à des textes simples mais didactiques. ces livres fournissent aux parents et aux professeurs un moyen de développer l'imagination artistique des enfants, posant les fondations d'une vie future d'amateurs d'art. Que ce...
11) Petit Garçons
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La collection populaire de parkstone sur les « cinq plus beaux/belles…» offre aux jeunes lecteurs un cours miniature d'histoire de l'art, associant des puzzles interactifs représentant les chefs-d'œuvre de l'art à des textes simples mais didactiques. ces livres fournissent aux parents et aux professeurs un moyen de développer l'imagination artistique des enfants, posant les fondations d'une vie future d'amateurs d'art. Que ce...
12) Little Boys
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Ever since the ancient greeks sculpted the first kouros, children have been a source of inspiration for some of the world's greatest artists. Whether portraits of their own children, friends, and family members, or a nostalgic psychological portrayal of the artist's own youth, depictions of children in art remain arresting examples of an intersection between the picturesque innocence of childhood and the methodical work of adult artistry. In this...
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The How To Draw series takes a highly visual and practical approach to drawing, featuring step-by-step instructions for each art project. This comprehensive drawing handbook covers all aspects of drawing human hands and feet including essential concepts such as light, tone and composition. Duotone lines highlight each step.
15) Landscapes
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Although considered a minor genre for a long time, the art of landscape has risen above its forebears - religious and historic painting - to become a genre of its own. Giorgione in Italy, the Brueghels of the Flemish School, Claude Lorrain and Poussain of the French School, the Dutch landscape painters and Turner and Constable of England are just a few of the great landscapists who have left their indelible mark on the history of landscape and the...
16) L'Art du paysage
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Longtemps considéré comme la simple toile de fond d'une oeuvre, le paysage a dépassé la peinture religieuse et la peinture d'histoire pour devenir un genre à part entière. Si, pour les artistes, la nature a longtemps servi d'exercice et de décors aux sujets, elle a finalement été étudiée et intégrée dans leurs oeuvres comme un témoignage de l'étude éclairée et scientifique du monde.
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In this book, artist William F. Powell invites you into his artistic world as he shows you how to re-create an intriguing array of people in pencil. He explores basic drawing techniques as well as art concepts that apply to drawing peopleùincluding proportion, perspective, and composition. He also explains how to render facial features, heads from various angles, and the figure in action, step by step. With this helpful guide, youÆll even discover...
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