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Dana's watercolor series is one of our strongest selling titles and this next installment provides all new, no-sketch templates to help novice artists practice watercolor technique with a playful jungle theme.

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This popular book provides all the information you need to get started in watercolour painting. Full of clear, simple advice and more than 70 step-by-step demonstrations, Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner will teach even the least confident of beginners the skills and techniques needed to start painting.

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Ann Blockley is a very successful artist, known for the innovative way in which she uses texture as a key element in her work. This book, in Collins Artists Studio series, looks at how she achieves her stunning effects and provides essential guidelines for the intermediate painter wishing to develop this aspect of their own painting.

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The notorious bad boy of Italian painting is now considered one of the greatest masters in art history. This neat catalogue raisonn reproduces all of Caravaggio's paintings as well as a number of details of his boundary-breaking realism. Five chapters assess his artistic achievements while a detailed chronology traces his dramatic personal life.

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Through apples, pears, and experimental new perspectives, explore the defining oeuvre of Paul Czanne, the artist identified by both Matisse and Picasso as "father of us all." From still life compositions to scenes of his beloved Montagne Sainte-Victoire, this book traces the artist's bold new approaches to form light, space, and form.

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Presents the last major work of Gilles Deleuze, translated into English.

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Frida Kahlo is a legendary figure in modern art: images of and by Kahlo,both photographs and self-portraits, are recognized world-wide. This bookexplores the life and art of Frida Kahlo, cutting through 'Fridamania' tolook closely at the myths, contradictions and ambiguities that riddle herstory.

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Interweaves biographical information about 5 renowned French artists - Nicolas Poussin, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. This book presents over 260 illustrations, and explores drawing as a site of reflection, the space between the idea of a painted image and its realization on canvas.

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Brimming with some of the brightest stars in the contemporary art world, this is a far-reaching exploration of the very best landscape painting now.

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In the Viewer's Eye - the Unknown comprises Lukas Salzmann's oeuvre from 1995 to 2018 and includes an accompanying essay by scholar Rudolf Velhagen, which locates the painter's work in its art historical context.

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August Macke is today considered a lead figure in Weimar-era art and a pioneer of Expressionist painting. With his color-led interpretations of beauty, Macke combined facets of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Fauvism into a style at once kaleidoscopic and uniquely his own. From cheerful scenes of parks to his final major work Farewell, discover the life of "Mister Color."

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Examining the public response to Matisse's work, this book views that his early-twentieth-century audience found in his painting a deeply disturbing challenge to concepts of the self, of the nation, and of the West. It refutes the popular view of Matisse as the painter of relaxed pleasures, the master of decorative line, and sensuous color.

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Explore the lyrical seven-decade career of Catalan-born Joan Mir, a towering figure of 20th-century art, whose highly individual style reflected Surrealist, Dadaist, and abstract elements in dazzling colors and unique symbolic narratives. From automated drawing to sculptures made of gas, this modernist legend abandoned categorization and approval in favor of his own dreamlike worlds.

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A picture's title is often our first guide to understanding the image. Yet paintings didn't always have titles, and many canvases acquired their names from curators, dealers, and printmakers--not the artists. Taking an original, historical look at how Western paintings were named, Picture Titles shows how the practice developed in response to the c

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A guide to the techniques and equipment used in perspective drawing, the draw of transport, plants, rocks, water, and more.

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