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      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        January 2018

        Useless Beauty

        by LIN Xi

        In Useless Beauty, Lin Xi analyzes the essential of art aesthetic education and shares the fun of Chinese calligraphy, the method of being focused, the cultivation of mental power and the way of learning art. From the perspective of a Chinese literatus, Lin Xi introduces the aesthetic taste in a contemporary world, explains what is “Useless beauty”, how to “be independent” in this fast-changing world, and seeks to discover ways to integrate traditional aesthetics into our modern life. 林曦以手艺人之道,解析艺术美育的本质内涵,分享写字的乐趣、专注的法门、心力的修炼及艺术的学习途径等;从中式文人的视角,观照当代生活的审美情趣,阐释何为“无用之美”、如何“独善其身”,探索让传统美学回归现代生活的践行方式等。

      • Trusted Partner
        Art forms
        2022

        T. Shevchenko. Life in art

        by Dmytro Stus, Tetyana Chuiko, Anastasia Morozova, Yulia Shilenko

        Of course, the fate of the artist was formed in a certain way because he realized his vocation - to be a poet. On the other hand, he lived his life as a professional artist. After graduating from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, T. Shevchenko worked as an artist in the Temporary Commission for the consideration of ancient acts (Kyiv Archaeographic Commission), applied for the position of drawing teacher at the University of St. Volodymyr in Kyiv. And when his plans were broken by arrest, then in exile, despite the strict imperial ban on writing and drawing, the artist was able to work in his specialty, although not officially. Shevchenko devoted the last years of his life to the development of etching, having received the title of academician in engraving. The publication consists of two parts. The first is devoted to the works of the artist, made in graphic techniques, as well as sepia and watercolor. Given the fact that there are few oil paintings in the artist's works, we singled them out in the second part, trying to break stereotypes about their perception. Each section of the first part is devoted to a separate genre, which was addressed by T. Shevchenko. The largest of the sections are divided into thematic headings, which allows you to see the works of the artist from a new, perhaps unexpected, angle. In turn, the commentary to each work contains a brief history of creation (places, circumstances, relationships, etc.) and artistic characteristics that reveal the performing skills of the author. In addition, an important addition is the part of the commentary "Interesting" and quotes from the novels, Diary, correspondence of the artist, memoirs of his contemporaries. You can start your acquaintance with the publication from any section or even heading. Traveling through Shevchenko's paintings on separate routes you will have a complete rich journey through the original world of the artist.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        January 2023

        Ukrainian mal’opys: the (un) told story

        by Ruslana Koropetska, Vira Kordoba

        No one knows for sure at what point in history one should start talking about comics. It depends on the narrator and the point on the map where he is. Even though we are going to talk about Ukrainian mal’opys* here, we should stop at the start and by leaps and bounds to see from a bird's eye view that we are not alone in the multiple births, nativities, and discoveries of the ninth art form.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        2021

        Icons on the Ammunition Boxes

        by Sonia Atlantova, Oleksandr Klymenko

        This publication is dedicated to the artistic project "Icons on the Ammunition Boxes" by Sonya Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko. The icons painted on fragments of weapons boxes brought from the front lines are silent witnesses of the war in Eastern Ukraine and at the same time evidence of the victory of life over death (not only symbolic, but also real). Since the spring of 2015, the project had a charitable purpose of supporting the Mykola Pyrogov First Voluntary Mobile Hospital that provided medical assistance to the Ukrainian army and to the civilians in combat zone of Donbas.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        March 2017

        Images of the army

        The military in British art, 1815-1914

        by J. W. M. Hichberger

        In an age when engraving and photography were making artistic images available to a much wider public, artists were able to influence public attitudes more powerfully than ever before. This book examines works of art on military themes in relation to ruling-class ideologies about the army, war and the empire. The first part of the book is devoted to a chronological survey of battle painting, integrated with a study of contemporary military and political history. The chapters link the debate over the status and importance of battle painting to contemporary debates over the role of the army and its function at home and abroad. The second part discusses the intersection of ideologies about the army and military art, but is concerned with an examination of genre representations of soldiers. Another important theme which runs through the book is the relation of English to French military art. During the first eighty years of the period under review France was the cynosure of military artists, the school against which British critics measured their own, and the place from which innovations were imported and modified. In every generation after Waterloo battle painters visited France and often trained there. The book shows that military art, or the 'absence' of it, was one of the ways in which nationalist commentators articulated Britain's moral superiority. The final theme which underlies much of the book is the shifts which took place in the perception of heroes and hero-worship.

      • History
        December 2015

        Rembrandt

        The Painter Thinking

        by Ernst van de Wetering

        Even during the artist’s lifetime, contemporary art lovers considered Rembrandt van Rijn to be an exceptional artist. In this revelatory sequel to the acclaimed Rembrandt: The Painter at Work, renowned Rembrandt authority Ernst van de Wetering investigates precisely why the artist, from a very early age, was praised by prominent connoisseurs. He argues that Rembrandt, from his very first endeavors in painting, embarked on a journey past all the foundations of the art of painting that, according to (up till now misinterpretated) contemporary written sources, were considered essential in the seventeenth century. Rembrandt never stopped searching for solutions to the pictorial problems that confronted him; this led over time to radical changes in course that can’t simply be attributed to stylistic evolution or natural development. In a quest as rigorous and novel as the artist’s, Van de Wetering reveals how Rembrandt became the best painter the world had ever seen. Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this groundbreaking exploration reconstructs Rembrandt’s closely guarded theories and methods, shedding new light both on the artist’s exceptional accomplishments and on the practice of painting in the Dutch Golden Age.

      • The Arts

        About Painting

        Basics, Materials, Techniques

        by Thomas Hoppe

      • The Arts

        Acrylic Painting

        The artistic techniques

        by Thomas Hoppe

      • The Arts

        Wax Painting

        Encaustic - Basics and Techniques

        by Thomas Hoppe

      • Photography & photographs
        July 2013

        GERALDO DE BARROS: THAT’S IT

        by Fabiana de Barros (author)

        Geraldo de Barros (1923-1998) was one of the most important representatives of Brazilian’s Modernism. He learned the principles of the Ulm Superior School of Design (Germany), brought them to South America and encouraged many of his colleagues to join the movement of concrete art. He cultivated contacts with the European artistic avant-garde and, in Brazil, was a pioneer in developing and experiencing new trends such as pop art and happening. This book presents an overview of his life and work, chrono-logically arranged and covering all aspects of his production with an emphasis in photography.

      • The Arts
        April 2020

        Il Giappone in controluce. Acquerelli, haiku e tanka: tre anime, un unico spirito

        by Floriana Porta

        Questo prezioso libro dedicato al Giappone raccoglie acquerelli, haiku (brevi componimenti di diciassette sillabe) e tanka (componimenti di trentuno sillabe): istantanee poetiche di grande fascino e suggestione, dove scritto e dipinto si fondono con originalità e ricercatezza. Le poesie sono caratterizzate da un linguaggio snudato ed essenziale, molto intenso ed evocativo, e concentrano l'attenzione sulla descrizione della natura e degli eventi umani direttamente collegati a essa. L'Autrice mette in dialogo antichissime forme poetiche giapponesi con la contemporaneità; ne consegue che tempi e luoghi molto distanti fra loro percorrano gli stessi ignoti sentieri, con un ritmo compositivo di grande equilibrio. Haiku e tanka - rigorosamente senza punteggiatura - sono accompagnati da dipinti realizzati dall'Autrice ad acquerello. Versi e pennellate si fondono armonicamente: la parola poetica permette di cogliere - in un solo sguardo - il rapporto immediato con le bellezze e le magie del Giappone, mentre la pittura concentra in sé tutti i poteri dell'incanto e del mondo che ci circonda.

      • Art forms
        September 2014

        Inferno - The Art Collection

        by Dino Di Durante

        SPECTACULAR AND MIND BLOWING IMAGES OF HELL USED IN TWO ACCLAIMED FILMS! Do You Love Horror Books? "Inferno" Images will Scare You Death. "Inferno - The Art Collection" by Dino Di Durante is a full color book of a 72-piece art collection based on Dante's Inferno story, the first part of the literary masterpiece - The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the second greatest Christian story after The Gospel. This is a completely new, deep and fascinating vision of Inferno by Dino Di Durante, who has studied this masterpiece in its original Italian for over 30 years. This book is the best choice as a companion and a visual reference to any Inferno book every written. The canvases versions of the art published in this book sell between $5,000 and $30,000, so this book is a bargain no matter how you look at it. Most of the art pieces were featured in a film titled Dante's Hell Animated (DVD available on Amazon.com) featuring Eric Roberts' voice as Dante. The Italian version, titled Inferno Dantesco Animato, featuring Vittorio Gassman's voice as Dante. Both versions premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

      • The Arts
        April 2021

        Altered Views. Voluspa Jarpa

        by Voluspa Jarpa, Agustín Pérez Rubio, Sabine Breitwieser, Charles Esche, Andrea Giunta, Alberto Mayol, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Adriana Valdés

        Altered Views. Voluspa Jarpa is the publication of the Chilean Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale of Art, presented by Voluspa Jarpa and curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio. The project originates in a question the artist seeks to answer: how is the modernist, Eurocentric and colonial gaze configured? The gaze that later expands from Europe to the U.S. and constructs a symbolic contempt that is imposed as political, cultural and economic subjugation in non-hegemonic regions?Altered Views is an unprecedented research project that works as a cross-reference between various instances of European history from the 17th to the 20th Century, full of social manifestations, ethnographic searches and dominant powers, attempting to restore the conquered awe of the coloniser. The work seeks to rescue concepts coined from a Eurocentric perspective that shed light on the violence with which the world is reduced to an expansionist, developmentalist and hegemonic model. Altered Views is an invitation to reflect on issues that prevail and are still visible in our contemporary society. The volume contains a general text from the Chilean pavilion´s curator and editor of this book, Agustín Pérez Rubio explaining each part of the project; along with six different texts by Charles Esche, Sabine Breitwieser, Andrea Giunta, Adriana Valdés, Alberto Mayol and Cuauhtémoc Medina. These texts talk about the historical and contemporary repercussions of the hegemonic model.

      • The Arts
        October 2014

        100 Stories of Exhibits of the National Museum of China/中国国家博物馆展品中的100个故事

        by Lv Zhangshen/吕章申

        This book tells stories about 100 most representative cultural relics, collected in National Museum of China, throughout the history of China. Accurate, lively and well illustrated, it is a primer for helping visitors and readers appreciate Chinese art and understand Chinese history.

      • The Arts
        December 2014

        Inferno: Die Kunstsammlung

        by Dino Di Durante

        SPEKTAKULAR UND BILD DER HELL BEEINDRUCKEN DURCH ZWEI GEFEIERTEN FILMEN VERWENDER! Sie die Geschichten HORRORS? "HELL" führt Sie zu Tode zu erschrecken! "Inferno - Die Kunstsammlung" von Dino Di Durante ist ein Vollfarb-Buch von einem 72-Werke umfassenden Kunstsammlung basierend auf Dantes Inferno Geschichte, der erste Teil der literarischen Meisterwerk - der Göttlichen Komödie von Dante Alighieri, der zweitgrößte christliche Geschichte nach Das Evangelium. Dies ist eine völlig neue, tiefe und faszinierende Vision der Hölle von Dino Di Durante, die dieses Meisterwerk in seiner ursprünglichen italienischen seit über 30 Jahren untersucht hat. Dieses Buch ist die beste Wahl als Begleiter und Sichtkontakt zu einem Inferno Buch jeden geschrieben. Die meisten der Kunstwerke wurden in einem Film mit dem Titel "Dante's Hell Animated" (DVD auf Amazon.com verfügbar) mit Eric Roberts 'Stimme als Dante vorgestellt. Die italienische Version mit dem Titel "Inferno Dantesco Animato", mit Vittorio Gassman Stimme wie Dante, neben vielen bekannten Persönlichkeiten. Beide Versionen Premiere auf dem Filmfestival in Cannes. Die gesamte Kollektion wird in den kommenden Film "Inferno von Dante" mit mehr als 30 Künstler und Wissenschaftler aus den Vereinigten Staaten und Italien vorgestellt, die neben einer Monsignore vom Vatikan entfernt. Dieser Film wird im Jahr 2015 veröffentlicht werden. Dieses Buch ist die beste visuelle Referenz für jedes Buch, das jemals geschrieben Inferno. Die canvase Versionen der in diesem Buch veröffentlicht Kunst verkaufen zwischen $ 5.000 und $ 30.000, so ist dieses Buch ein Schnäppchen, egal wie man es betrachtet. Dino Di Durante ist die neueste in einer langen Liste von berühmten Künstlern, die Dantes dargestellt. Dino Di Durante hat sein Berufsleben und Kunst gewidmet, um ein breiteres Publikum und auch die jüngsten Zuschauer bringen Dantes Commedia erhältlich.

      • The Arts
        November 2014

        Inferno: Collezione d'Arte

        by Dino Di Durante

        "Inferno - Collezione D'Arte" di Dino Di Durante, una collezione d'arte di 72 tavole basate sulla storia dell'Inferno di Dante, la prima parte del suo grande capolavoro letterario, La Divina Commedia. La maggior parte di questa collezione di dipinti è stata utilizzata in un film intitolato "Dante's Hell Animated" (DVD disponibile qua su Amazon), con Eric Roberts, nella parte di Dante, e nella sua versione in Volgare Italiano intitolata "Inferno Dantesco Animato" con Vittorio Gassman nella parte di Dante, una tra le molte celebrita' italiane di popolarita mondiale assieme a Franco Nero. Entrambe le versioni sono state proiettate al Festival di Cannes. L'intera collezione di dipinti sara presentata nel prossimo film "Inferno di Dante", alla presentazione assisteranno oltre 30 artisti e insegnanti provenienti dagli Stati Uniti e dall'Italia, oltre a un monsignore del Vaticano.

      • Painting & paintings
        2019

        Bartolomé Esteban Murillo y la copia pictórica

        by JAPÓN, Rafael

        Entre los pintores españoles que mayor repercusión y prestigio han tenido en la Historia del Arte se encuentra el sevillano Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682). El presente volumen pretende analizar por vez primera los procesos de copia en relación a su obra desde una doble aproximación: por una parte, se abordará la importancia que el copiado de otros maestros tuvo en la génesis de su producción, revelándose más transcendental de lo que hasta ahora solía admitir la historiografía sobre el pintor; por otra, se analizará el conocido fenómeno del copiado al que las que las creaciones de Murillo fueron sometidas ya en su propia vida, el cual llega hasta la época contemporánea, contribuyendo al mejor conocimiento de la difusión internacional de su fama en países como Portugal, Brasil, Italia, Francia, Rusia e incluso Australia

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