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Pretty Ugly
Illustrators have a tough job catching the attention of distracted viewers today. The firehose of images we encounter in today’s visual landscape bombards us non-stop. This book features the work of creators that are making work unique enough to break through. Brace yourself as you dive into PRETTY UGLY — a provocative collection that pushes the boundaries of illustration into the realm of the grotesque and the bizarre, featuring pages packed with deranged characters, surreal landscapes, and grotesque imagery that will make you look twice and then some. Whether you’re a connoisseur of the absurd or simply curious about the depths of creative weirdness, PRETTY UGLY promises an offbeat journey through the uncharted territories of artistic expression.
Významy krajiny
John Sallis vo svojej knihe Významy krajiny, ktorá sa venuje stvárneniu krajiny v maliarstve, vychádza z tvrdenia, že zem je základným elementom, ktorý poskytuje ľuďom i ostatným živým bytostiam útočisko a čitateľom predkladá pôsobivé syntetické dielo. Významy krajiny ponúkajú tri druhy analýz, ktoré sú síce odlišné, ale priebežne sa neustále prelínajú. Prvá pozostáva z rozsiahlych analýz charakteristických krajín štyroch exemplárnych maliarov, Paula Cézanna, Caspara Davida Friedricha, Paula Kleeho a Guo Xiho. Sallis sa následne obracia k vlastným spisom týchto umelcov – traktátom, esejam a listom – o umení vo všeobecnosti a krajinomaľbe zvlášť, a zasadzuje ich do filozofického kontextu. Tretí druh analýz čerpá ako z teoretických textov samotného autora, tak aj z kanonických textov filozofie umenia (Kant, Schelling, Hegel a Heidegger). Ide o analýzy, ktoré čitateľovi ponúkajú prehĺbenie porozumenia pre krajinu ako pozemský príbytok človeka i pre krajinomaľbu, ktorá v súčasnom umení zažíva istú renesanciu. Súčasťou knihy je aj 32 diskutovaných farebných reprodukcií.
Preložil Ladislav Tkáčik.
Autumn in Japan
This luxurious boxed set with exquisite accordion-fold pages and a booklet offers a captivating journey into the heart of autumn through the eyes of Japan’s master printmakers.
For centuries, autumn has held a central place in Japanese culture and folklore, celebrated for its vivid beauty and profound spiritual resonance. Featuring over seventy exquisite accordion-fold reproductions and an accompanying booklet with insightful texts, this edition beautifully captures the spirit and symbolism of autumn in Japan.
It showcases works of iconic artists such as Hokusai, Hiroshige, Harunobu, and Hasui, whose prints reflect the country’s intimate connection to nature and their attention to seasonal cycles. From luminous forests and vibrant maple trees to serene lakes and majestic mountains, each work is both a tribute to nature’s fleeting splendor and an expression of the ephemeral poetry that defines the season. The unique accordion-fold design allows readers to experience these masterpieces in an immersive format.
The accompanying booklet provides an engaging introduction to the works’ historical and cultural significance. Perfect for seasoned collectors and those discovering Japanese art for the first time, this beautifully crafted edition highlights the profound connection between art and nature.
Whether as a decorative object, a thoughtful gift, or a source of inspiration, this boxed set offers a stunning exploration of autumn’s beauty and its lasting influence on one of the world’s most revered art forms.
Klimt: The Bigger Picture
Gustav Klimt’s visionary talent comes alive in this sumptuous book that features 90 impeccably reproduced works including 6 stunningly detailed fold-out spreads.
This stunning volume offers readers an unparalleled opportunity to explore Klimt’s artistry through iconic works such as The Kiss, The Three Ages of Woman, Judith I, and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.
These large-scale fold-outs reveal intricate details, transforming the book into an immersive journey through Klimt’s extraordinary use of color, pattern, and ornamentation. Philippe Thiébaut’s insightful text incorporates the latest research on Klimt and the historical context of his work, adding depth and perspective.
Elegantly designed with a canvas cover, colored edges, and exceptional production quality, the book showcases Klimt’s groundbreaking vision with remarkable clarity. From the golden brilliance of Hope II to the ethereal beauty of Water Serpents I, each page invites readers to explore the textures and emotional resonance that define his style.
With its thoughtful design and captivating imagery, this volume brings Klimt’s artistic world to life, illustrating how he transformed portraiture and landscapes into striking symbolic masterpieces. Perfect for both devoted fans and those discovering Klimt for the first time, it offers an essential and unforgettable look at one of Modernism’s most celebrated figures.
Painting Luminous Portraits for Artists
The complete guide to painting the portrait in oils.
From Steve Forster, award-winning portrait artist and co-director of the Long Island Academy of Fine Art, Painting Luminous Portraits for Artists presents essential lessons on how to paint a radiant likeness in oils in ten comprehensive chapters, each with skill-building exercises and QR codes to instructional videos:
Discover fundamental materials, techniques, and basic anatomy and feature development for creating an underdrawing.
Explore color theory and color palette structures.
Learn painting techniques, including different shape and lighting approaches.
Consider creative strategies for portraits.
See how digital painting techniques can be used to support and enhance traditional painting techniques.
Perfect for artists at all skill levels who want to explore capturing form and light through realistic painting techniques, Painting Luminous Portraits for Artists shows you how to capture the human portrait from a diverse range of perspectives, flesh tones, and light effects.
The For Artists series expertly guides and instructs artists at all skill levels who want to develop their classical drawing and painting skills and create realistic and representational art.
Also available from the series: Drawing the Head for Artists, Essential Human Anatomy for Artists, Figure Drawing for Artists, Life Drawing for Artists, Drawing and Painting Botanicals for Artists, Dynamic Still Life for Artists, Facial Expressions for Artists, Landscape Painter's Workbook, Plein Air Techniques for Artists, and Sketching Techniques for Artists.
Anna-Eva Bergman a Hans Hartung: A nic nás nerozdělí
Tato publikace doprovází první velkou retrospektivní výstavu věnovanou umělecké dvojici Anně-Evě Bergman a Hansi Hartungovi. Bergman (1909–1987), která měla švédsko-norské kořeny, byla průkopnicí abstraktního umění nacházející hlubokou inspiraci v krajině a přírodních tvarech. Hartung (1904–1989), pocházející z Německa, sehrál zásadní roli při formování gestické malby a informelu.
Publikace sleduje jejich životní cestu od jejich prvního setkání ve dvacátých letech 20. století přes více než desetileté odloučení až po opětovné shledání v roce 1952 a jejich úmrtí v osmdesátých letech. Kniha prezentuje jejich kresby, mistrovské malby, vzájemné dárky, archivní dokumenty a fotografie, z nichž mnohé nebyly dosud publikovány. Poprvé jsou jejich společné tematické zájmy – příroda, kosmos, hudba a další – představeny v tandemové podobě, aby vykreslily jejich sdílený umělecký život.
Katalog obsahuje rozsáhlou esej od kurátora Pierra Wata a ředitele Fondation Hartung-Bergman, Thomase Schlessera, zkoumající témata výstavy, dále text od kurátora Thea Carnegyho-Tana detailně mapující vztah obou umělců k hudbě, rozhovor se zakladatelkou platformy pro ženy v umění AWARE Camille Morineau a spisovatelkou a kritičkou Catherine Millet a literární esej od historičky umění Pauline Mari.
Seurat
Georges Seurat (1859-1891) was only 31 when he died, but during his short life he created hundreds of drawings, oil sketches, and paintings on canvas that introduced a fresh perspective in European painting.As a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he carefullly observed the work of Delacroix and became fascinated with the interplay between light and color. In doing so, he developed Divisionism, using small dabs of paint from the point of the brush to create pointilist images that shimmered with luminescence and hinted at movement.In this accessible introduction to Seurat, meet an artist driven by a need to capture nature and the simple pleasures of life through a new language of painting.
Hokusai. Beyond the Great Wave
An important publication on Hokusai's remarkable late work, originally published to accompany the acclaimed retrospective at the British Museum and now available in a compact edition.
Hokusai (1760-1849) created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of almost ninety. This book presents fresh scholarship on the paintings and prints created by the artist during his final three decades, bringing together the finest examples to be found in Japan and around the world.
Hokusai's personal beliefs are studied here through major brush paintings, drawings, woodblock prints and illustrated books. This publication gives due attention to the contribution of Hokusai's daughter Eijo (Oi), an accomplished artist in her own right. Hokusai continually explored the mutability and minutiae of natural phenomena in his art. His late subjects and styles were based on a mastery of eclectic Japanese, Chinese and European techniques and an encyclopedic knowledge of nature, myth and history. The collection of Hokusai's works draws on the finest to be found in Japan and around the world, making this a uniquely valuable overview of the artist's late career.
Akademický maliar a sochár Štefan Zamarovský Galvánek
Publikácia je venovaná biografii kanadského akademického maliara a výtvarníka so slovenskými koreňmi. Obsahuje časovú os od umelcovho narodenia v roku 1949, emigráciu v roku 1968, kanadskú tvrbu v rokoch 1970 - 2019 až po aktálne pôsobenie na Slovensku. Plní funkciu katalógu celoživotného diela a má aj biografickú, umenovednú a dokemntačnohistoricú hodnotu.
Stíny horkého léta Traudi Schönfeld
Portréty copaté dívky a otlučených věcí ze starého domu nakreslené černým pískem. Zobrazení prostá, vykořeněná ze sudetského kdysi, tak intimní, že vyvolávají ostych. Víc vzpomínka než skutečnost. Pak klíště, lesní mravenci, netopýr, pavouci, lišaj a další pohledům skrytí obyvatelé místa. Zachycení na přírodním papíře z himálajských rostlin, jehož struktura připomíná lidskou kůži. Formáty přes dva metry, jako by zdůrazňovaly, že záležitosti člověka pomíjejí, ale příroda je věčná. Mezi nimi na ramínku uniforma BDM, říšského Svazu německých dívek. Jako nová.
Erika Bornová ve svém nejnovějším cyklu kreslí a maluje, jaké to je sdílet osobní prostor se stínem z minulosti. A všude kolem temná krása rozkladu. Jedno jestli z pozůstatků věcí a těl nebo rozvrácených dějin. Tehdy, stejně jako dnes.
Jan Pištěk - Skryté příběhy / Hidden Stories
Publikace Jan Pištěk Skryté příběhy, je rekonstrukcí formativních dějů, konceptuálních a stylových proměn, jimiž Pištěkova tvorba prošla. Zároveň je výběrem z jeho klíčových děl – figurují v něm některé z realizací z velkých státních i soukromých sbírek, ale také nová tvorba z posledních let, v níž se Pištěk živě navrací k některým tématům.
V knize se tak odvíjí příběh malířovy tvorby počínaje rokem 1988 až po současnost.
Hokusai. Shunga
Beneath the Kimono
The master’s complete erotica, gathered in one arresting volume
If you think you know Hokusai (1760–1849), think again. Long before The Great Wave, the great master turned his hand (and eye) to something altogether more intimate. From maidservants and wives to courtesans, lovers, and curious onlookers – and, yes, an infamous pair of frisky octopuses – Hokusai’s shunga (literally “spring pictures”) are bold, joyful, and often laugh-out-loud funny.
This comprehensive portfolio brings together eight complete books and print sets from 1786–1823, with many of their accompanying narratives penned by the artist himself. Blending the visual with the verbal, the pages brim with exaggerated anatomy, impish voyeurism, tender exchanges, and a surprisingly egalitarian attitude to enjoyment for both sexes.
In contrast to the prudery of 18th-century Europe, Edo-period (1603–1868) Japan accepted sexuality as a natural part of life. With shunga officially banned but tolerated in practice, many reputable artists navigated government censorship to embrace the genre with gusto, albeit under pseudonyms. These works were made to entertain, to arouse, and even used for good luck – samurai carried them as talismans when going into battle. Technical innovations in printing during Hokusai’s lifetime allowed for rich colours and exquisitely rendered textiles, but the content remained delightfully human: full of risky rendezvous, stolen moments, and scenes of marital (or extra-marital) bliss.
Realized with new photography of these rare works, and complemented by an in-depth introduction and explanatory essays, this retrospective offers gorgeous glimpses into a lesser-known but wildly imaginative thread in Hokusai’s over 70-year career: proof, perhaps, that great masters have their guilty pleasures too.
Edvard Munch: A to Z
Following key terms from A–Z, these books illuminate little-known aspects and shed new light on familiar motifs and themes. This time about the artist Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch is one of the most famous painters of the early 20th century and a role model for many artists to this day. His legendary painting Scream even inspired a popular emoji, something that no other artist has ever achieved. Munch had a unique way of placing himself as an individual in the foreground of his art, making his psychological state the subject of his work. In doing so, he created a personal and at the same time universal “diary of the soul” that still captivates us today, as international exhibitions of the Norwegian artist show. In twenty-six short chapters, from A for anxiety to G for ghosts, R for revolvers and Z for zoo, familiar but also surprising aspects of his art and life are presented in a compelling way.
Closer to Vermeer
The successor to the international bestseller Vermeer, featuring groundbreaking research on the Dutch master.
Even 350 years after his death, Johannes Vermeer remains an inexhaustible source of fascination for art lovers and researchers alike. Closer to Vermeer provides a captivating analysis of research conducted during and after the Rijksmuseum's blockbuster 2023 Vermeer exhibition.
The book reveals new insights into Vermeer's creative process, materials and painting techniques, exploring the meaning of his works and his evolving fame. It also addresses intriguing questions about the maps in his interiors, the role of the camera obscura, his choice of materials and newly discovered documents about his patrons.
Richly illustrated, this book offers both art historians and passionate art lovers a unique glimpse into Vermeer's life and work and serves as an essential reference for future research on Vermeer.
Egon Schiele: Last Years 1914-1918
The body of work by the eccentric artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918), created over a period of just ten years, is known above all through his major paintings and those drawings from between 1910 and around 1913/14 in which he processed his own emotional states and expressed the inner turmoil of an entire generation in his depictions of the human figure. His later works after 1914, which differ markedly from his earlier ones, and are less well known. His lines became more measured, flowing, and organic, and his figures filled out and were more realistic. In retrospect, the personal and historical changes and events from 1914 - the outbreak of war, his marriage to Edith Harms (1893-1918), and the tedium of army life - clearly had a profound effect on his artistic output.
Among other things, Edith Schiele's almost unknown diary (1915-1918), in which she recorded her experiences, thoughts, and feelings in these difficult times, is published in full.
Damien Hirst - Drawings
A tiger shark in formaldehyde. A diamond-encrusted skull. Damien Hirst is one of the most important contemporary artists and a legend in the Young British Artist movement of the 1990s. He planned his iconic paintings, sculptures and installations through drawings and sketchbooks, and these can now be seen in a museum exhibition for the first time.
The publication provides an opportunity to glance over the shoulder of a great contemporary artist engrossed in his creative process: since the early 1980s, Damien Hirst has used drawings and sketches to plan his celebrated works. He has also created drawings to accompany his paintings and sculptures, to help visualise their core ideas. Among his designs are a drawing machine and the graphic work of fictitious old masters. In this superbly produced new volume, which retains the character of a sketchbook, a star artist reveals a new aspect to his oeuvre.
Animal Watercolour in 10 Minutes
Discover a clever new way to approach watercolour painting. Begin by building up the muscle memory of the stroke pattern, then put brush to paper, and create a little animal watercolour with ease and confidence.
Once you've mastered the stroke patterns, each animal project takes just 10 minutes to create, and you can create the artworks again and again with confidence.
Animals include: giraffe, panda, flamingo, robin, whale, boar, otter, penguin, tortoise, elephant, hippo, lizard, leopard, chicken, goldfish.
The Prado Masterpieces
A chronological journey through the Museo del Prado collection comprising masterpieces by some of the greatest figures in art history.
The Museo Nacional del Prado, Spain’s national art museum, features one of the world’s finest collections of European art, and is unquestionably the best single collection of Spanish art.
This volume is the definitive reference to the Museo del Prado and the first work of its kind to be published by the museum itself. It presents the globally renowned collection in chronological order, from Roman statues through to the nineteenth century, using the tastes of the Spanish royal family to tell the story of the evolution of Western art.
The Prado’s most seminal works are showcased here, including Velázquez’s Las Meninas, El Greco’s The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest and Goya’s The Third of May 1808, along with some of the museum’s most recent acquisitions. This updated edition includes twenty-five new images. The book creates a fascinating dialogue between the greatest artists and their works, showing how painters have always reflected the influences of their predecessors and peers.
An indispensable resource for anyone who loves art history, this is a richly illustrated record of one of the world’s greatest collections of European art.
Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 45th Ed.
City lights and cherry trees
The woodblock prints of Tokyo that captured Europe's imagination
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning “pictures of the floating world,” ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to characterize the Western world’s visual idea of Japan. In many ways images of hedonism, ukiyo-e scenes often represented the bright lights and attractions of Edo (modern-day Tokyo): beautiful women, actors and wrestlers, city life, and spectacular landscapes.
Though he captured a variety of subjects, Hiroshige was most famous for landscapes, with a final masterpiece series known as “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” (1856–1858), which depicted various scenes of the city through the seasons, from bustling shopping streets to splendid cherry orchards.
This reprint is made from one of the finest complete original sets of woodblock prints belonging to the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Tokyo. It pairs each of the 120 illustrations with a description, allowing readers to immerse themselves in these beautiful, vibrant vistas that became paradigms of Japonisme and inspired Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Art Nouveau artists alike, from Vincent van Gogh to James McNeill Whistler.
