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Blues by John Hersey
epub |eng | 2019-06-25 | Author:John Hersey

THE DRUNKEN FISHERMAN by Robert Lowell Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye (Truly Jehovah’s bow suspends No pots of gold to weight its ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks August 3,2019 )
Masters of Art - Katsushika Hokusai by Katsushika Hokusai
epub |eng | 2019-02-03 | Author:Katsushika Hokusai [Hokusai, Katsushika]

HOKUSAI’S LIFE IN the autumn of 1760, when Hogarth had just had his Sigismunda thrown on his hands by Sir Richard Grosvenor, a child was born in a humble suburb ...
( Category: Erotica August 2,2019 )
Faces & Features by Debra Kauffman Yaun
epub |eng | 2011-07-22 | Author:Debra Kauffman Yaun

STEP 2 Switching to a 2B pencil, I begin refining the shape of the eyes, brows, nose, and mouth. I block in the hair with long, sweeping strokes, curving around ...
( Category: Portraits July 23,2019 )
Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures: 1,087 Renderings from Historic Sources by Richard Huber
epub |eng | 1977-06-06 | Author:Richard Huber

Plate 87. CHINA. 1. Dragon, from a bronze mirror case, late Chou Dynasty. 2. Dragons, from a bronze vessel, Shang Dynasty. 3. Demon mask, tile end, Warring States Period. 4. ...
( Category: Mythology June 7,2019 )
Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures: 1,087 Renderings from Historic Sources (Dover Pictorial Archive) by Huber Richard
azw3 |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Huber, Richard [Huber, Richard]

Plate 87. CHINA. 1. Dragon, from a bronze mirror case, late Chou Dynasty. 2. Dragons, from a bronze vessel, Shang Dynasty. 3. Demon mask, tile end, Warring States Period. 4. ...
( Category: Mythology June 6,2019 )
Ancient Mythological Images and their Interpretation: An Introduction to Iconology, Semiotics and Image Studies in Classical Art History by Katharina Lorenz
epub |eng | 2016-08-18 | Author:Katharina Lorenz [Lorenz, Katharina]

31 Cf. Burn 1987: 10–18, 48. 32 RF Squat-lecythus, Cleveland Museum of Art 82.142. CVA Cleveland, Museum of Art 2: 35–7. Another example for such direct referencing of Athens is ...
( Category: Themes May 28,2019 )
Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does by Philip Ball
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-03 | Author:Philip Ball [Ball, Philip]

HEXAGONAL NEST CELLS A wasp (Vespula vulgaris) working on its nest. Why and how does it make the cells hexagonal? Evidently there are no agents shaping these rafts as bees ...
( Category: Plants & Animals May 4,2019 )
Painting Watercolor Flowers That Glow (North Light Classics) by Kunz Jan
epub |eng | 2011-05-22 | Author:Kunz, Jan [Kunz, Jan]

Use line to your advantage when you plan your composition. Spring Bouquet 30” × 22” (76cm × 56cm) The strong directional thrust of the branch directs the eye from blossom ...
( Category: Plants & Animals April 29,2019 )
En Plein Air: Watercolor by Ron Stocke
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-04-29 | Author:Ron Stocke

1) Never 2. Quickly painted using the texture of the paper—this allows the eye to travel over this shape to a more important area of the painting. 2) Acceptable 3. ...
( Category: Landscapes & Seascapes April 29,2019 )
Blue: Cobalt to Cerulean in Art and Culture by
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:

ARTHUR WESLEY DOW Salt Marsh, ca. 1904 ANNA ATKINS Thistle (Carduus acanthoides), 1851–54 EGYPTIAN Shawabti of the Priest of Sekhmet Huy , 1550–1213 BC VINCENT VAN GOGH Postman Joseph Roulin, ...
( Category: Themes April 2,2019 )
Freedom of Speech by Dooley Patricia L.;
epub |eng | | Author:Dooley, Patricia L.;

Rod Gilchrist, director of the Cartoon Art Museum, and curator Jenny Dietzen read a cartoon strip from The Boondocks by artist Aaron McGruder, in San Francisco, February 25, 2003. The ...
( Category: Beatles March 2,2019 )
Down Below by leonora Carrington
epub |eng | 2017-03-09 | Author:leonora Carrington

TUESDAY, 24 AUGUST 1943 I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure up today and which ...
( Category: Women in Art May 21,2017 )
Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces by Parks Carrie Stuart
epub |eng | 2002-12-30 | Author:Parks, Carrie Stuart [Parks, Carrie Stuart]

From the beginning This tool is so named because you ask questions: What is the line/edge doing? In what direction is it going? Does this line go on forever? As ...
( Category: Human Figure May 16,2017 )
101 Great Samurai Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
epub |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:Utagawa Kuniyoshi [Kuniyoshi, Utagawa]

28. Suzuki Shigehide. Samurai Suzuki Shigehide is shown with many of the Japanese warrior’s traditional weapons, but also with a smoking firearm in his right hand. The Portuguese brought the ...
( Category: Portraits April 26,2017 )
Birds Art Life by Kyo Maclear
epub |eng | | Author:Kyo Maclear

• • • In May, one night, while thinking about falling I came across a funny and melancholy dance by Pina Bausch on YouTube. Early into the performance (1980—A Piece ...
( Category: Plants & Animals January 8,2017 )

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