Art

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Art is the defínitive visual guide to over 2,500 paintings and sculptures from around the world, from prehistory to the 21st century. Accessible, engaging, and thoroughly comprehensive, Art shows you how to look at - and understand - works, before guiding you chronologically through the milestones of art history. LOOKING AT ART The book opens with a short section detailing how artists use colour, composition, light and shade, perspective, and different média to bring their ideas to fruition. Graphic features explain the simple steps required to analyse and inform your enjoyment of any work of art. ART MOVEMENTS AND SCHOOLS Each artistic movement - from the Italian Renaissance to Impressionism and Graffiti Art - is clearly explained, alongside its origins and influences, styles and techniques, and typical subject matter. A visual timeline of key works gives an overview of the scope of each major movement. ARTIST PROFILES More than 700 artists from all periods and cultures - Western... Tovább

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Art is the defínitive visual guide to over 2,500 paintings and sculptures from around the world, from prehistory to the 21st century. Accessible, engaging, and thoroughly comprehensive, Art shows you how to look at - and understand - works, before guiding you chronologically through the milestones of art history. LOOKING AT ART The book opens with a short section detailing how artists use colour, composition, light and shade, perspective, and different média to bring their ideas to fruition. Graphic features explain the simple steps required to analyse and inform your enjoyment of any work of art. ART MOVEMENTS AND SCHOOLS Each artistic movement - from the Italian Renaissance to Impressionism and Graffiti Art - is clearly explained, alongside its origins and influences, styles and techniques, and typical subject matter. A visual timeline of key works gives an overview of the scope of each major movement. ARTIST PROFILES More than 700 artists from all periods and cultures - Western and non-Western, right up to the present day - are profiled alongside key examples of their work. Picture-rich pages help you to identify the characteristics of each artist's work, and follow how it changed through his or her lifetime. Contextual information deepens your understanding of the work, life, and times of each artist. CLOSER LOOKS From Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper to Francis Bacon's Screaming Popé, 22 key works are presented at full-page size and analysed in terms of composition, story, and techniques. What the artist did to create each work - and how - is revealed with the help of graphics, overlays, and detailed close-ups. Never before has it been so easy to understand artistic aims and methods. THEMES Interspersed through the book, double-page features show how different artists have approached the same popular themes. Covering subjects as diverse as love, war, work, and children, these beautiful galleries show how attitudes, styles, and techniques change from one era and culture to another. COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE Produced in collaboration with Bridgeman Art Library, the world's most comprehensive source of cultural and historical art images, this unrivalled chronological catalogue brings the world's best images into your home. Vissza