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21) Aspiring artist
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by such art masters as Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, and Jackson Pollock, Nancy, who likes to use fancy words, dons her beret to create her own fabulous artwork.
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Pigasso, a talented pig, and Mootisse, an artistic bull, live across the road from one another, but when conflicts arise they build fences that ultimately become modern art masterpieces. Includes biographies of the real-life artists, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting she saw in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen behind her. This woman seemed a welcome secular version of the nuns of Hampl's girlhood, free and untouchable, a poster girl for twentieth-century feminism. In Blue Arabesque, Hampl explores the allure of that woman, immersed in leisure, so at odds with the increasing...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
1030L
Physical Desc
415 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The relationship between Post-Impressionist artist Henri Matisse and his son, art dealer Pierre Matisse (1900-1989), is at the heart of this revealing biography. Pierre Matisse moved from France to New York in his 20s to establish a gallery, where he introduced such major European artists as Miró, Giacometti, Balthus, and Dubuffet to the United States. Art critic John Russell has created a seamless narrative based on exclusive access to Pierre Matisse's...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 390 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Picasso & Matisse. Manet & Degas. Pollack & de Kooning. Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon. This is the story of four pairs of artists-- each linked by friendship and a spirit of competitiveness. Taken together, they form an impressive lineage stretching across more than 150 years. But in each case, these relationships had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end and a new beginning, a break that led onto new creative...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Frances Lincoln edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the story of one of the world's most iconic images. Leading British specialist on Van Gogh, Martin Bailey explains how and why Van Gogh painted a series of sunflower still lifes in Provence. He then explores the subsequent adventures of the seven pictures and their impact on artists including Gustav Klimt and Henri Matisse. Based on original research, the book presents a fresh view of this most legendary artist.
Author
Publisher
National Gallery Company in association with the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Noon and Riopelle explore the artist's influence on modern art in the late-18th and early-20th centuries. An analysis and comparison with works by various artists whom he influenced include Edouard Manet, John Singer Sargent, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Odilon Redon, Paul Gauguin, Eugène Fromentin, Théodore Chassériau, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Frédéric Bazille, Ary Scheffer, Gustave Moreau, Alexandre-Gabriel...
Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
59 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
This book brings together 34 disabled artists, thinkers, athletes and activists from past and present. Find out how these iconic figures have overcome obstacles, owned their differences and paved the way for others by making their bodies and minds work for them. These short biographies tell the stories of people who have faced unique challenges which have not stopped them from becoming trailblazers, innovators, advocates and makers. Each person is...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the full story behind the creation of the Water Lilies, as the horrors of World War I came ever closer to Paris and Giverny, and a new generation of younger artists, led by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, were challenging the achievements of Impressionism. By early 1914, French newspapers were reporting that Monet, by then 73 and one of the world's wealthiest, most celebrated painters, had retired his brushes. He had lost his beloved wife,...
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2015, c2013.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Introduces readers to works of art featuring animals by such esteemed artists as M.C. Escher, Andy Warhol, Georges Braque, and Henri Matisse, and provides instruction for animal-centered art projects.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris--broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiance, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father's...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Leon's back. Having survived the sweatshop methods of Miss Hagmeyer, his needle-wielding fourth grade teacher at the Classical School, Leon braces himself for fifth grade. He arrives armed with a backpack full of pens and pencils, binders and notebooks... plus a rag doll that's the spitting image of Henry Lumpkin, the bully who has Leon in his sights. If the doll works the way it's supposed to, Leon (and his buddies P. W. and Lily-Matisse) won't have...
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Showcases works of art that tell stories, from the Bayeaux Tapestry to Edward Hopper's "Automat" to Henri Matisse's portrait of Icarus, and provides instructions for creating art projects inspired by these pieces.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 502 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Genius: Picasso is the second season of National Geographic's first fully scripted drama series. Diving into the life and loves of the brilliant Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (Antonio Banderas), this season showcases Picasso's significant and wide-ranging contribution to modern art. Exploring the Spanish expatriate's devotion to his craft, the series also reveals Picasso's relationships with other well-known personalities of the time, including Coco...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
157 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A century and a half of masterpieces is covered in this chronologically arranged volume that captures the development of art in a new age. Starting with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and ending with Matthew Barney, nearly every prominent figure in Modern art is represented in double-page spreads that show how these artists continued to redefine norms and challenge tradition. Biographical and anecdotal information about each artist is provided alongside...
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
96 pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm + 5 reproducible masterpiece painting sheets
Language
English
Description
Explores the world of art and artists, including Michelangelo, Mary Cassatt, and Vincent Van Gogh, and features do-it-yourself art projects.
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