Drawing and Painting the Nude

Author: Philip Tyler
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1785000489
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 473

Book Description
Artists have always been fascinated with portraying the nude: the beauty and nuances of the human figure are endlessly absorbing. This practical and inspirational book celebrates and continues that enduring and beautiful tradition by encouraging you to discover your own talent and style. Philip Tyler looks in detail at the key skills and themes, such as perception, proportion, composition, colour and facture, that the artist needs. He then investigates ideas and styles, and encourages you to interpret the nude so your paintings have those elusive qualities of vitality and relevance, which can turn a painting into a masterpiece. He explores the practical, technical and philosophical problems of drawing and painting the nude, with exercises to support each lesson and over 300 images illustrate the text. Aimed at both novices and art graduates, this practical and inspirational guide is illustrated throughout with 320 colour images and there are exercises to support the fifty lessons.

Painting the Nude

Author: Francesc Serra
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Figure painting
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

The Human Form

Author: Giovanni Civardi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844486014
Category : Anatomy, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Offers instruction in drawing and painting the nude and partially-clothed human figure in both wet and dry media.

How to Draw and Paint the Nude

Author: Vincent Milne
Publisher: Southwater Publishing
ISBN: 9781844767977
Category : Figure drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Learn how to draw the human figure through example, with over 400 photographs and 15 practical exercises, each designed to help you develop your skills.

The Renaissance Nude

Author: Thomas Kren
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 160606584X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael, and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume—essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks—permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth, and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human.

Drawing the Female Nude

Author: Giovanni Civardi
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
ISBN: 9780289800904
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
“To paint, draw, or sculpt the human figure is one of the most demanding of artistic problems.... Explores the artistic possibilities and particular problems of female bodies.”—Library Journal.

Undressed Art

Author: Peter Steinhart
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400076056
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
To draw is to understand what we see. In The Undressed Art, writer-naturalist Peter Steinhart investigates the rituals, struggles, and joys of drawing. Reflecting on what is known about the brain’s role in the drawing process, Steinhart explores the visual learning curve: how children begin to draw, how most of them stop, and what brings adults back to this deeply human art form later in life. He considers why the face and figure are such commanding subjects and describes the delicate collaboration of the artist and model. Here is a powerful reminder that no revolution in art or technology can undermine our vital need to draw.

Why is Art Full of Naked People?

Author: Susie Hodge
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500650802
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A thoughtful introduction to art and its interpretation for children, with a sense of humor Why is Art Full of Naked People? is an irreverent and informative primer that asks tricky questions about what makes art art. What is with all the fruit? Why is art so weird nowadays? There are questions about how art views the world, from cave paintings through to Cubism, from the Renaissance to contemporary art, questions about different genres, including still-life painting, landscapes and portraits, and questions about the role and value of art in the past and today. Artists ask questions when they make art and viewers ask questions when they look at art; this book provides an engaging way for young people to explore asking and answering questions for themselves. The book is structured around twenty-two questions, each one tackled over two spreads. Through this provocative approach it offers an introduction to art history and a toolkit to enable young people to feel confident asking questions, searching for answers, and “reading” art for themselves.

Drawing and Painting the Landscape

Author: Philip Tyler
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785003259
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 504

Book Description
Capturing the landscape on paper requires the artist to look - to look deep into the distance and deep into the soul. This practical book celebrates the genre of landscape painting - the wonder of discovering the extraordinary in the everyday scene. Philip Tyler looks in detail at the materials, techniques and approaches needed to paint the landscape, and offers advice on how to portray space, light, atmosphere and different weather conditions. Supported by the words and images of other notable artists, he explains how to transfer one's emotional response to the landscape onto paper or canvas. There are exercises to support the 50 lessons in the book and over 300 colour images illustrate the text.

Painting the Nude

Author: Jan De Ruth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
Demonstrates modern methods of painting the nude, derived from techniques of the great masters. De Ruth describes the painting materials and tools that are specifically suitable to painting the nude. He explains the basic elements of drawing the nude figure, analyzing the movement of the figure, problems of balance, and how to light various anatomical forms. --From publisher description.