Paintings In Wood

Author : Valerie Dorge
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892365013
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Painted Wood written by Valerie Dorge and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1998-08-27 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The function of the painted wooden object ranges from the practical to the profound. These objects may perform utilitarian tasks, convey artistic whimsy, connote noble aspirations, and embody the highest spiritual expressions. This volume, illustrated in color throughout, presents the proceedings of a conference organized by the Wooden Artifacts Group of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and held in November 1994 at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia. The book includes 40 articles that explore the history and conservation of a wide range of painted wooden objects, from polychrome sculpture and altarpieces to carousel horses, tobacconist figures, Native American totems, Victorian garden furniture, French cabinets, architectural elements, and horse-drawn carriages. Contributors include Ian C. Bristow, an architect and historic-building consultant in London; Myriam Serck-Dewaide, head of the Sculpture Workshop, Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, Brussels; and Frances Gruber Safford, associate curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A broad range of professionals—including art historians, curators, scientists, and conservators—will be interested in this volume and in the multidisciplinary nature of its articles.

Author : Yannick Chastang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paintings in Wood written by Yannick Chastang and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential general survey for enthusiasts and specialist alike. Superb colour illustrations. Will provide many insights to the neglected area of art history

Author : Barbara Haskell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300232845
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grant Wood written by Barbara Haskell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social and political climate in which Wood's art flourished bears certain striking similarities to America today, as national identity and the tension between urban and rural areas reemerge as polarizing issues in a country facing the consequences of globalization and the technological revolution. Wood portrayed the tension and alienation of contemporary experience. By fusing meticulously observed reality with fables of childhood, he crafted unsettling images of estrangement and apprehension that pictorially manifest the anxiety of modern life.

Author : R. Tripp Evans
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307594335
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grant Wood written by R. Tripp Evans and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He claimed to be “the plainest kind of fellow you can find. There isn’t a single thing I’ve done, or experienced,” said Grant Wood, “that’s been even the least bit exciting.” Wood was one of America’s most famous regionalist painters; to love his work was the equivalent of loving America itself. In his time, he was an “almost mythical figure,” recognized most supremely for his hard-boiled farm scene, American Gothic, a painting that has come to reflect the essence of America’s traditional values—a simple, decent, homespun tribute to our lost agrarian age. In this major new biography of America’s most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple . . . R. Tripp Evans reveals the true complexity of the man and the image Wood so carefully constructed of himself. Grant Wood called himself a farmer-painter but farming held little interest for him. He appeared to be a self-taught painter with his scenes of farmlands, farm workers, and folklore but he was classically trained, a sophisticated artist who had studied the Old Masters and Flemish art as well as impressionism. He lived a bohemian life and painted in Paris and Munich in the 1920s, fleeing what H. L. Mencken referred to as “the booboisie” of small-town America. We see Wood as an artist haunted and inspired by the images of childhood; by the complex relationship with his father (stern, pious, the “manliest of men”); with his sister and his beloved mother (Wood shared his studio and sleeping quarters with his mother until her death at seventy-seven; he was forty-four). We see Wood’s homosexuality and how his studied masculinity was a ruse that shaped his work. Here is Wood’s life and work explored more deeply and insightfully than ever before. Drawing on letters, the artist’s unfinished autobiography, his sister’s writings, and many never-before-seen documents, Evans’s book is a dimensional portrait of a deeply complicated artist who became a “National Symbol.” It is as well a portrait of the American art scene at a time when America’s Calvinistic spirit and provincialism saw Europe as decadent and artists were divided between red-blooded patriotic men and “hothouse aesthetes.” Thomas Hart Benton said of Grant Wood: “When this new America looks back for landmarks to help gauge its forward footsteps, it will find a monument standing up in the midst of the wreckage . . . This monument will be made out of Grant Wood’s works.”

Author : Faile
Publisher : Die Gestalten Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783899555479
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faile written by Faile and published by Die Gestalten Verlag. This book was released on 2014 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new publication about the artistic collaboration Faile documents its work with the medium of wood.

Author : Carroll Dunham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783775712156
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carroll Dunham. written by Carroll Dunham and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Betty Padden
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607659328
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beginner's Guide to Painting on Wood written by Betty Padden and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide on how to use various types of paint to complete your woodcarving projects! Featuring detailed step-by-step painting instructions for using acrylics, oil paints, latex paints, and thinned acrylics for four seasonal plaques, also included is coordinating photography, complete tools and materials lists, wood carving patterns, and expert tips throughout.

Author : Christopher Wood
Publisher : London : Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571107803
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Panorama written by Christopher Wood and published by London : Faber. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David M. Kessler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781364421847
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bigger, Faster, Fresher, Looser Abstract Painting Workbook written by David M. Kessler and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered how to Loosen-Up your painting style? Paint Fresher paintings? Be more Spontaneous? Be more Expressive? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then this book is for you! Here is what is included:Inspiration Motivation, InformationLearn to Loosen-Up and Let GoPaint from the HeartHow to Design a Better Composition using Shape, Value, Color, Edges and Center of InterestProfessional Practice TopicsResources for the Artist

Author : Emiliano Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781678004842
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PYROGRAPHY & PAINTINGS ON WOOD written by Emiliano Martin and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: