Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen and precision of a laboratory scientist. He recorded not only the blotches, bruises, and swellings of the living body, but also, beneath the flaws and folds of flesh, the microscopic details of what lies within: the sensation, the emotion, the intelligence, the bloom, and the inevitable, unstoppable decay. Despite rejecting parallels between him and his renowned grandfather, the correlation between Lucian Freud's ... |
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Life is short. No-one knows that better than seventeen-year-old Lenni. But as she is about to learn, it's not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it with. Dodging doctor's orders, she joins an art class where she bumps into fellow patient Margot, a rebel-hearted eighty-three-year-old from the next ward. Their bond is instant as they realize that together they have lived an astonishing one hundred years. To celebrate their shared century, they decide to paint their life stories: of growing old and staying young, of giving joy, of receiving kindness, of losing love, of finding the person ... |
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With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, and Gino Severini. With affiliate painters, sculptors, designers, architects, and writers, the group sought to subsume the dusty establishment into a new age of sleek, strong, purified modernity. Futurism's place in art history is as ambivalent as it is important. The movement pioneered revolutionary methods to convey movement, light, and speed, but sparks controversy in its glorification of war and fascist politics. Their frenzied, ... |
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The art and science of communicating numbers. Making Numbers Count is a lively, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to turning cold, clinical data into a memorable story. How many hours' worth of songs are on your Spotify Wrapped this year? How much is your commute time really worth? How do you work out how likely you are to get Covid based on the official statistics? How do your viewing hours track against the most popular shows on Netflix? Whether you're interested in global problems like climate change, and understanding that the Australian wildfires destroyed an area twice the size of Portugal, or just ... |
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While anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) paved the way for modern sculpture. From a very early stage, he was interested in movement, the expression of the body, chance effects, and the incomplete fragment. It was these elements that gave shape, and the impression of life, to such famous works as The Kiss and The Thinker. Produced in collaboration with the Musée Rodin, this "Taschen" Basic Art introduction examines the formative years of Rodin's training as well as the key stages of his subsequent career. It retraces the genesis of his ... |
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Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) in fact defied easy categorization and instead developed a unique style, strongly influenced by Old Masters, the body in motion, and everyday urban life. The elder scion of a wealthy family, Degas cofounded a series of exhibitions of "Impressionist" art, but soon disassociated himself from the group in pursuit of a more realist approach. His subjects centered on the teeming, noisy streets of Paris, as well as its leisure entertainments, such as horse racing, cabarets, and, most particularly, ... |
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The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, aging, and death. The son of a goldsmith, Klimt created surfaces of ornate and jewel-like luminosity which show influence of both Egyptian and Japanese art. Through paintings, murals, and friezes, his work is defined by radiant color, fluid lines, floral elements, and mosaic-like patterning. With a number of subjects dealing with sensuality and desire as well as anxiety and despair, all this iridescence is also suffused ... |
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Editor: Phoebe Gloeckner. Series editor: Bill Kartalopoulos. ... "I love comics. Comics is (Comics are?) a perfect language, robustly evolving and expanding like any other living language," writes Phoebe Gloeckner in her Introduction to "The Best American Comics 2018". This year's collection includes work selected from the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics language today. "The Best American Comics 2018" includes: Gabrielle Bell; Tara Booth; Geof Darrow; Guy Delisle; Emil Ferris; Julia ... |
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30 истории за неочаквания път към дома."В ръцете си държите 30 от най-вдъхновяващите истории и идеи за пътешествия от предаването Да хванеш гората. Ще откриете 30 невероятни места, които героите на поредицата превърнаха в свои дом и ново начало. Всичко започна през 2017 година като телевизионна поредица за българи и чужденци, избрали да напуснат матрицата на големия град и да рестартират живота си в българската провинция. За няколко години обиколих стотици села и открих неподозирани кътчета и житейски истории. Срещнах се със забележителни личности, които имат смелостта да излязат извън общото разбиране за щастие и ... |
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Как да печелиш повече като художник. 101 начина как да правиш пари от изкуството си. Тази книга е предназначена за начинаещи и напреднали, традиционни и дигитални художници, които искат да развият успешен бизнес със своето изкуство. В тази книга Деян Минчев разкрива своя опит и тайни, като същевременно се позовава на проучвания върху доказани практики при бизнеса с изкуство в световен мащаб. Прави го с една основна цел - да помогне на колкото се може повече художници да развият успешна и доходоносна кариера, като така стимулират развитието на изкуството като индустрия. В нея са включени практически съвети, тайни ... |
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For desperate learners and inspired teachers. ... This book is unique, because it is: know how for learning and teaching English language; a practical guide; it has clear and simple explanations; easy to use; full of how to learn tips; full of how to teach tips; a you can do it book; can be used by anyone teaching or learning English; a proved methodology for teaching English as a second language. Помагалото "Recipe for teaching" е предназначено да се ползва заедно с приложението "Методиката на Зорница Драгостинова". ... |
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Второ преработено и допълнено издание. ... Книга с мисия - за още едно българско дете. Прочитът на книгата Разкази от корена е като пътуване в магичната гора. Разказите са парченца от топло, родопско одеяло, което авторката е изплела, за да ни напомни колко е важна почитта към корена и завръщането към едни отминали ценности - като дълг, чест, прошка, дружба, които ни държат изправени и с ясен поглед. В книгата са вплетени умело темите за осиновяването, трудното зачатие, греха, самотата, саможертвата и дадените обети. Кристина Палазова отправя посланията си както чрез личната си история, магично, описана в разказа Дар от ... |
