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The great voyages of discovery of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought European artists face-toface with new and exotic plants and animals, and created an intense interest in the way nature was investigated and recorded. In this book, the author explores the history of natural history.

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More than 70 impressionist and realist paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of American art are featured in catalogue, together with 30 paintings from Australian collections. It presents works by some of America's foremost artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Whistler, Sargent, and Mary Cassatt.

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A collection of watercolour drawings of plants. It presents the paintings of a selection of the native and cultivated flora of Ireland. It describes the history of plant collecting and horticulture by the Irish since earliest times. It offers notes on the individual plants.

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Over 60 watercolour challenges to work through in your own time to help build confidence and have fun.

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Terry Harrison presents a refreshingly simple guide that is packed with excellent, easy-to-follow demonstrations illustrating how to create stunning paintings. Acrylics are easy to master and extremely versatile. Paint can be applied thick like oils, or in washes like watercolour.

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In addition to instructions on color mixing, paper selection, and proper brush handling, this handbook and teacher's guide features full-color plates of practice brushstrokes and designs incorporating Art Nouveau, Etruscan, and Hispano-Moresque ornaments.

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Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, Caravaggio is now considered one of the greatest influences in all art history. This neat catalogue raisonn reproduces all of Caravaggio's paintings as well as a number of dramatic details of his boundary-breaking realism. Five accompanying chapters trace Caravaggio's artistic daring and his equally...

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More than 500 color combinations for skin, eyes, lips, and hair.

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Colorways: Watercolor Animals shows artists of any skill level how to use color to create innovative and inspired animal artwork in watercolor.

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Taking a practical approach to colour, Colour: A workshop for artists and designers is an invaluable resource for art students and professionals alike

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Over 200 tips, techniques and expert advice make this a comprehensive guide to watercolour painting.

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A stunning visual celebration of the art of painting, bring together contemporary works from all over the world

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In this account, Jean-Louis Gaillemin focuses on the intimate details of Salvador Dali's life, especially his intense and often fractious relationship with his long-time lover, muse and inspiration Gala, and explores the way in which his psychological views and state of mind influenced his work.

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Be inspired by watercolour master David Bellamy and learn how to paint glorious landscapes, capturing the natural countryside in all its moods.

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Accomplished art instructor Julie Gilbert Pollard offers expert advice on oil painting through the lens of the common landscape.

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Documents Edward Bawden's artistic portrayal of World War II.

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The Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings of Ed Ruscha is a six-volume series of books co-published by Steidl and Gagosian Gallery. This is the second volume, which contains entries on 178 paintings completed between 1971 and 1982.

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Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during its last years as capital of the declining Habsburg Empire. Rejected by his family and hounded by society for his interest in young girls, he expressed through his art a deep and bewildering loneliness and an obsession with sexuality, death and decay.

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Bridget Riley's Op art paintings are icons of the 1960s, and fascinate art lovers as much now as they did then. Their central position in the art history of the period has not been generally explored, however - until now.

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Italian artist Lucio Fontana literally tore the art establishment apart. Trained as a sculptor, he combined form and color in radical spatial gestures, most famously his slashed canvases of the 1950s and '60s. Regarded as the father of midcentury Spatialism, his provocative practice channeled postwar innovation in a pioneering synthesis of art, technology, and science.

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Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was arguably one of the greatest artists of the twentieth-century. The violent intensity with which his paintings give expression to the existential angst of his fellow human beings is virtually without parallel in the history of art. This title displays the unique work of Bacon.

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This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book on the work of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century s greatest painters, takes an in-depth look at his trademark motif of figures imprisoned within ghostly frames. "