Artists and Amateurs

Artists and Amateurs
Author: Perrin Stein
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2013-10-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300197004

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1, 2013-January 5, 2014.

Artists and Amateurs

Artists and Amateurs
Author: Perrin Stein
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2013
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588394980

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1, 2013-January 5, 2014.

A Noble Art

A Noble Art
Author: Kim Sloan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The words 'amateur artist' conjure up a picture of Victorian ladies and gentlemen sketching in watercolours out of doors. This text challenges such an image, describing and illustrating over 200 works from the British Museum's collections.

A Beautiful Anarchy

A Beautiful Anarchy
Author: David Duchemin
Publisher: Rocky Nook, Inc.
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2016-12-02
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1681982366

How to be an Artist

How to be an Artist
Author: S. Natalie Abadzis
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780744051162

"A fun-filled art activity book that will encourage kids to express themselves while teaching them about key artistic styles and a selection of pioneering artists from history"--

Fredrik Værslev

Fredrik Værslev
Author: Ina Blom
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Sun
ISBN: 9783956792298

Contemporary Norwegian painter Fredrik Vrslev (b. 1979) presents his new series in this deconstructed exhibition catalog/artists book, All Around Amateur. Inspired by sunsets taken with his iPhone, Vrslev re-creates the images on canvas by using a mechanical trolley used for marking lines on roads or sports fields. The rows of applied color are rubbed into the canvas resulting in resonant toned paintings mimicking the glow of the sun. The paintings are installed to create a massive line of shimmering tones recalling the color field paintings of Rothko. The artist book, accompanying the solo exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall, is available as two different versions, each made up of 320 one-to-one digital images scanned from eight of the new sunset paintings and reproduced in the book sequentially, left to right, top to bottom. Full-bleed scans in each volume together reproduce an entire wall of paintings. Following the images are newly commissioned texts by Ina Blom, Martin Clark, and Steinar Sekkingstad plus an interview with artist Anne Pontgnie.

Inside the Painter's Studio

Inside the Painter's Studio
Author: Joe Fig
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-06-19
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1616891173

Inside an art gallery, it is easy to forget that the paintings there are the end products of a process involving not only creative inspiration, but also plenty of physical and logistical details. It is these "cruder," more mundane aspects of a painter's daily routine that motivated Brooklyn artist Joe Fig to embark almost ten years ago on a highly unorthodox, multilayered exploration of the working life of the professional artist. Determined to ground his research in the physical world, Fig began constructing a series of diorama-like miniature reproductions of the studios of modern art's most legendary painters, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. A desire for firsthand references led Fig to approach contemporary artists for access to their studios. Armed with a camera and a self-made "Artist's Questionnaire," Fig began a journey through the workspaces of some of today's most exciting contemporary artists.