Matts Old Masters

Author : Matthew Collings
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780297646716
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matt's Old Masters written by Matthew Collings and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to an alarming book. In it Matthew Collings, known for his TV programmes and books about new art, tells you how to look at the old masters. Of course you can look at them however you like. But this book gives you some art historical facts as the context for what you're looking at - Collings gives you the resources you need, in order to make sense of what you're seeing. And he gets you to think for yourself. In art culture today all you hear about are literal meanings, about subject matter and ideas. Matt Collings objects to the droning repetition of that stuff. He looks to the past for a different model of art, one where the surface, the form, the look of something, is part of the idea, maybe even the main thing. We can't have the past back as a complete package, of course. That would be mad. But we can find critical principles in it that we can use to make something better out of our own time. The key figures he has chosen are Titian, Rubens, Velasquez and Hogarth. The first three stand for the highest that painting can go - rich, free, flowing, grand. In art historical terms, this is the 'painterly' stream of art. The last one didn't punch quite so high, but in him Collings sees a principle of adapting your understanding and admiration for what seems higher and greater than yourself - the achievements of the past - to your own sense of what is alive and real.Matthew Collings' new book gives a unique approach to the paintings of the past.

Author : David W. Galenson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400837391
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Masters and Young Geniuses written by David W. Galenson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation, or do they achieve it confidently and decisively, through meticulous planning that yields masterpieces early in their lives? By examining the careers not only of great painters but also of important sculptors, poets, novelists, and movie directors, Old Masters and Young Geniuses offers a profound new understanding of artistic creativity. Using a wide range of evidence, David Galenson demonstrates that there are two fundamentally different approaches to innovation, and that each is associated with a distinct pattern of discovery over a lifetime. Experimental innovators work by trial and error, and arrive at their major contributions gradually, late in life. In contrast, conceptual innovators make sudden breakthroughs by formulating new ideas, usually at an early age. Galenson shows why such artists as Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Jackson Pollock, Virginia Woolf, Robert Frost, and Alfred Hitchcock were experimental old masters, and why Vermeer, van Gogh, Picasso, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Sylvia Plath, and Orson Welles were conceptual young geniuses. He also explains how this changes our understanding of art and its past. Experimental innovators seek, and conceptual innovators find. By illuminating the differences between them, this pioneering book provides vivid new insights into the mysterious processes of human creativity.

Author : Matt Rota
Publisher : Rockport Pub
ISBN 13 : 163159057X
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Ballpoint written by Matt Rota and published by Rockport Pub. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the work, methods, and themes of leading contemporary artists

Author : Matt Rota
Publisher : Quarry Books
ISBN 13 : 1631591274
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ballpoint Art Pack written by Matt Rota and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Ballpoint art pack includes a wide variety of creative, ballpoint technique exercises and prompts to get you started. Learn pen art now!

Author : Matt Bhanks
Publisher : MB Realms Entertainment
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Master Defenders written by Matt Bhanks and published by MB Realms Entertainment. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a catastrophic event known as the Star-Pix Crisis, thousands of creatures from up above now roam the planet in search for safety, or revenge. Their arrival has caused humans to develop various uncanny abilities. Ever since, the police became the AIA: Alien Investigative Agency. This nationwide alliance has discovered a new threat. It's called Pixaliemain: a space rock with the capabilities of producing wavelengths that alter alien minds. The result would be unleashing a wretched abomination—a plaguing curse that many of the creatures feared on their world. Eight years has passed and with five pieces of Pixaliemain on the planet, a legion of rogues wishes to find them and free the beast. Commander Cyfreid of the east sector knows only one way to stop them. With the help of his stunning companion, they recruit fifteen extraordinary fighters. In the epic fight for Pixaliemain, Master Defenders is a story that reminds us that, “As individuals we are nothing, but together we are powerful.” Copyright © 2013 MB Realms Entertainment All Rights Reserved.

Author : Matt Stahl
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822353431
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unfree Masters written by Matt Stahl and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVIn Unfree Masters, Matt Stahl examines recording artists' labor in the music industry as a form of creative work. He argues that the widespread perception of singers and musicians as free individuals doing enjoyable and fulfilling work obscures the realities of their occupation./div

Author : David Hockney
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Knowledge (New and Expanded Edition) written by David Hockney and published by Avery. This book was released on 2006-10-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Secret Knowledge created an international sensation when it was first published. David Hockney's theory of how the great works of Western art were created with mirrors and lenses attracted major media attention around the world and generated intense debate in the fields of science and art history. Now, in this expanded edition, Hockney takes his thesis even further, revealing for the first time new findings." "In Secret Knowledge, Hockney explains how he uncovered piece after piece of scientific and visual evidence, each one yielding further revelations about the past. With the benefit of his painter's eye, he examines the major works of art history and reveals the truth of how artists such as Caravaggio, Velazquez, van Eyck, Holbein, da Vinci, and Ingres used mirrors and lenses to help them create their famous masterpieces. For this new edition, Hockney delves still deeper into art history, disclosing the evidence that Renaissance artists also used these methods to develop perspective and chiaroscuro - radically challenging our view of how these two foundations of Western art were established." "Hundreds of paintings and drawings are reproduced and accompanied by Hockney's descriptions. His own photographs and drawings illustrate the various methods used by past artists to capture accurate likenesses and present the results they would have achieved. In addition, extracts from the many historical and modern documents he uncovered offer further intriguing evidence, while correspondence between him and an array of international experts provides an account of the remarkable story as it happened." "Secret Knowledge is not just about the lost techniques of the Old Masters. It is also about now and the future. It is about how we see, treat, and make images today, in an age of computer manipulation."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Matt Mendez
Publisher : Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
ISBN 13 : 1534404465
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barely Missing Everything written by Matt Mendez and published by Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There are moments when a story shakes you...Barely Missing Everything is one of those stories, and Mendez, a gifted storyteller with a distinct voice, is sure to bring a quake to the literary landscape.” —Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Long Way Down In the tradition of Jason Reynolds and Matt de la Peña, this heartbreaking, no-holds-barred debut novel told from three points of view explores how difficult it is to make it in life when you—your life, brown lives—don’t matter. Juan has plans. He’s going to get out of El Paso, Texas, on a basketball scholarship and make something of himself—or at least find something better than his mom Fabi’s cruddy apartment, her string of loser boyfriends, and a dead dad. Basketball is going to be his ticket out, his ticket up. He just needs to make it happen. His best friend JD has plans, too. He’s going to be a filmmaker one day, like Quentin Tarantino or Guillermo del Toro (NOT Steven Spielberg). He’s got a camera and he’s got passion—what else could he need? Fabi doesn’t have a plan anymore. When you get pregnant at sixteen and have been stuck bartending to make ends meet for the past seventeen years, you realize plans don’t always pan out, and that there are some things you just can’t plan for… Like Juan’s run-in with the police, like a sprained ankle, and a tanking math grade that will likely ruin his chance at a scholarship. Like JD causing the implosion of his family. Like letters from a man named Mando on death row. Like finding out this man could be the father your mother said was dead. Soon Juan and JD are embarking on a Thelma and Louise­—like road trip to visit Mando. Juan will finally meet his dad, JD has a perfect subject for his documentary, and Fabi is desperate to stop them. But, as we already know, there are some things you just can’t plan for…

Author : Thomas Baird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Masters written by Thomas Baird and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebecca Zamolo
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063025159
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game Master: Mansion Mystery written by Rebecca Zamolo and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling authors and creators of the mega-popular YouTube series Game Master Network Matt and Rebecca Zamolo return with a brand-new adventure about everyone’s favorite mystery-solving team. Rebecca Zamolo has managed to foil the Game Master’s plans before, but this time the Game Master has snake-napped Nacho, her good friend Miguel’s pet. No way is Becca going to let the Game Master get away with this dastardly plan. But when the clues lead Becca and her new friends in the direction of the one house in their entire neighborhood that none of them ever want to go near, they know they have no choice but to screw up their courage and dare to investigate, if they want to rescue Nacho. But the problem is that getting into the superspooky house is way easier than getting out. The Game Master is up to their old tricks, and Becca, Matt, Kylie, Frankie, and Miguel are going to have to face their fears and use all their smarts and strengths to solve the puzzles and games and save the day. Mansion Mystery is another action-packed adventure from New York Times bestselling authors and super-sleuthing team Rebecca and Matt Zamolo, stars of the hugely popular Game Master Network. Read the book and unlock special clues that will open exclusive content online!