Meet the Artist: JMW Turner

Meet the Artist: JMW Turner
Author: Lizzy Stewart
Publisher: Tate
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781849765183

Meet the Artist: J. M. W. Turner is packed with inspiring activities for budding young artists. Create colorful Turneresque landscapes and seascapes, experiment with watercolors, and paint portraits of your friends and family. Starting with a brief introduction to the life of J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), an English painter known for his evocative land- and seascapes, the book offers a series of drawing-based activities that explore prominent themes and ideas in the artist's work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of actual artworks and illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator, this book, like all titles in the Meet the Artist series, encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences.

How to Paint Like Turner

How to Paint Like Turner
Author: Nicola Moorby
Publisher: Tate Enterprises Ltd
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1849763941

JMW Turner is one of the greatest artists Britain has ever produced. His watercolours, with their extraordinary effects of shifting light and dramatic skyscapes, are especially highly regarded. For the first time, the secrets of Turner's technique are revealed, allowing present-day watercolourists to learn from his achievements.This book combines unrivalled knowledge of Turner's working methods from Tate curators and conservators with practical advice from some of the world's most respected watercolour experts. Twenty-two thematic exercises are illustrated with Turner's works. Expert contemporary watercolourists explain, step-by-step, how to paint a similar composition, learning from Turner's techniques. Packed with invaluable information, from the materials Turner used to achieve the masterpieces we know and love today, to the modern materials the twenty-first-century watercolour artist will need.Backed by the authority of Tate, the world centre for Turner scholarship, with a glossary of technical terms, this is an invaluable resource both for lovers of Turner's art and of watercolour painting.

The Center of the World

The Center of the World
Author: Thomas Van Essen
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590515501

Alternating between nineteenth-century England and present-day New York, this is the story of renowned British painter J. M. W. Turner and his circle of patrons and lovers. It is also the story of Henry Leiden, a middle-aged family man with a troubled marriage and a dead-end job, who finds his life transformed by his discovery of Turner’s The Center of the World, a mesmerizing and unsettling painting of Helen of Troy that was thought to have been lost forever. This painting has such devastating erotic power that it was kept hidden for almost two centuries, and was even said to have been destroyed...until Henry stumbles upon it in a secret compartment at his summer home in the Adirondacks. Though he knows it is an object of immense value, the thought of parting with it is unbearable: Henry is transfixed by its revelation of a whole other world, one of transcendent light, joy, and possibility. Back in the nineteenth century, Turner struggles to create The Center of the World, his greatest painting, but a painting unlike anything he (or anyone else) has ever attempted. We meet his patron, Lord Egremont, an aristocrat in whose palatial home Turner talks freely about his art and his beliefs. We also meet Elizabeth Spencer, Egremont’s mistress and Turner’s muse, the model for his Helen. Meanwhile, in the present, Henry is relentlessly trailed by an unscrupulous art dealer determined to get his hands on the painting at any cost. Filled with sex, beauty, and love (of all kinds), this richly textured novel explores the intersection between art and eroticism.

Meet the Artist: Georgia O'Keefe

Meet the Artist: Georgia O'Keefe
Author: Marina Munn
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781849767736

Beautifully designed activity book introducing young artists to the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe Come and meet Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the twentieth century's most significant American artists. She transformed the way we look at things through her largescale paintings of flowers, cityscapes, desert scenes, bone compositions, and abstract arrangements. Explore O'Keeffe's unique perspective as you draw, paint, and play your way through activities based on her artwork, and discover how to use art to express your own view of the world. Part of Tate's newly revised and expanded Meet the Artist series of activity books, Meet Georgia O'Keeffe is bursting with inspiring activities based on some of the artist's key pieces, which are reproduced in full color.

Meet the Artist: The Pre-Raphaelites

Meet the Artist: The Pre-Raphaelites
Author:
Publisher: Tate
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781849765916

Meet the Artist: The Pre-Raphaelites is packed with inspiring activities for budding young artists. Paint portraits inspired by medieval legends, design your own wallpaper using potato printing, and create photocollages influenced by the beauty of nature. The Pre-Raphaelites were a secret society of artists founded in London in 1848, during the Victorian age. Rebelling against the accepted art produced at the time, they sought out a new way to make art, and a new way to perceive the world around them. Journey through this beautiful book to create your own inspiring art, guided by the Pre-Raphaelites.

Meet the Artist: David Hockney

Meet the Artist: David Hockney
Author: Rose Blake
Publisher: Tate
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-10-31
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781849764469

Meet the Artist ... become an artist. Welcome to the wonderful world of David Hockney! This book is jam-packed with inspiring activities and ideas for budding young artists. Create bright and colourful landscapes, phtocollages and draw portraits of your friends and family.

Meet the Artist: Andy Warhol

Meet the Artist: Andy Warhol
Author:
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781849766876

Meet the Artist: Andy Warhol is packed with make-and-dos and inspiring activities for budding young artists Experiment with printing and blotted line drawings, design your own disco outfit, be famous for 15 minutes, make your very own time capsule, and even become the director of your own movie! Bursting with inspiring activities, the revised and expanded Meet the Artist series of activity books introduces children to internationally renowned artists in a fun and engaging way. Every book includes a brief introduction to the artist's life followed by a series of activities that explore prominent themes and ideas in the artist's body of work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of key artworks, and illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator, every book in the Meet the Artist series encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences through art-making.

Meet the Artist: Alberto Giacometti

Meet the Artist: Alberto Giacometti
Author:
Publisher: Tate
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781849765084

Meet the Artist: Alberto Giacometti is packed with inspiring art-based activities for budding young artists, who can create interesting portraits, sculptures, and collage landscapes. Starting with a brief introduction to the life of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), an important Italian sculptor best known for his distinctive elongated figures, the book then offers a series of creative activities that explore prominent themes and ideas in the artist's work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of actual artworks, and illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator, this book, like all titles in the Meet the Artist series, encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences.

Meet the Artist: Peter Blake

Meet the Artist: Peter Blake
Author:
Publisher: Meet The Artist
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781849766258

Meet the Artist: Peter Blake is packed with inspiring activities for budding artists. Children can create their own bold pop art imagery using collage and different paintbrush techniques inspired by Peter Blake--an English pop artist best known for co-creating the album-cover design for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The book includes a brief introduction to the artist's life, followed by a series of activities that explore prominent themes and ideas in Blake's work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of key artwork and illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator--the artist's daughter, Rose Blake--this book, like all titles in the Meet the Artist series, encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences.

Meet the Artist: Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Meet the Artist: Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Author: Zoé Whitley
Publisher: Meet the Artist
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781849766937

A creative introduction to the works of Sophie Tauber-Arp, one of the founders of the Dada art movement Born in 1889, Sophie Taeuber-Arp was an artist, dancer, designer, puppet maker, architect, and editor. Enter into the radical and radiant world of Taeuber-Arp and create your own abstract modern art along the way! Bursting with inspiring activities, the revised and expanded Meet the Artist series of activity books introduces children to internationally renowned artists in a fun and engaging way. This activity book includes a brief introduction to the artist's life, including her role as one of the founders of the Dada art movement, followed by a series of activities, such as weaving and puppet making, that explore prominent themes and ideas in Taeuber-Arp's body of work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of key artwork, and illustrated by leading contemporary illustrator Lesley Barnes, Meet the Artist: Sophie Taeuber-Arp encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and learning new techniques to express their own experiences through art-making.