Paintings Of Portland

Author : Carl Little
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1608939812
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paintings of Portland written by Carl Little and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Portland and its surroundings, including the islands of Casco Bay, have inspired a wide range of art over the past 200 years. The “city by the sea,” as Longfellow famously called it, has been a visual talisman for a host of artists, from early masters like Harrison Bird Brown and John Bradley Hudson to a remarkable roster of contemporary painters. Subjects include many of the city’s signature buildings, including the Custom House and Portland Head Light, as well as street scenes, the waterfront, harbor, back bay, and surrounding landscapes—even the Million Dollar Bridge. Paintings of Portland will feature a wide range of motifs, in all seasons and represented by an array of styles. About a quarter of the book will be devoted to historical pieces, the rest to paintings by contemporary artists.

Author : Inara Verzemnieks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870715785
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oaks Park Pentimento written by Inara Verzemnieks and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over two days in 1982, Jim Lommasson photographed the strange and beautiful paintings that decorated the center column of the historic carousel at Oaks Amusement Park in Portland, Oregon. The original carousel images - painted by German and Italian immigrants around 1912 - were an exotic assortment of Edwardian pastoral scenes featuring western explorers, Native Americans, an Arab riding a camel, and idealized women. When these paintings began to show signs of wear in the 1940s, two itinerant artists brothers from Vashon Island, Washington - were hired to paint over the eighteen panels with depictions of such local landmarks as the Columbia River Highway, Mount Hood, Multnornah Falls, and scenes from the Oregon coast. Eventually, the surfaces of these new paintings also began to flake and fade, revealing parts of the original images in unusual and unexpected ways. The resulting double exposures or "pentimentos" included a ghostly sailboat gliding through a forest, an Indian chief looming over the Columbia River Gorge, and a parasoled woman with the road to Crown Point emerging from her loins. Each new image created a completely accidental, even surreal, story about the juxtaposition of two generations of paintings. Just three years after Jim Lommasson captured these images on film, the original paintings were restored and the mysterious double exposures disappeared under yet another layer of paint. Oaks Park Pentimento preserves these haunting photographs and also includes an appreciation by art historian Prudence Roberts and a look at Oaks Park, past and present, by journalist Inara Verzemnieks.

Author : Ginny Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870710537
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oregon Painters written by Ginny Allen and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is an expanded, pictorial review of the history of painting in Oregon from 1859-1959. The first edition was published as an encyclopedia and index of Oregon painters with historical data about the evolution of painting styles, educational institutions, and exhibition venues in the Northwest; this book expands the focus on the history of painting in Oregon, adding essays on Impressionism and Modernism while using more and better visual examples to illustrate the strength of the state's early painters. In addition, the original indexed content has been edited and condensed. Oregon Painters fills an important niche, as little has been written about the early history of Northwest art and this volume serves as a valuable resource for discovering artists who remain largely unknown but whose works continue to gain in reputation and value.

Author : Stephanie Storey
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1628726393
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oil and Marble written by Stephanie Storey and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. The two despise each other."--Front jacket flap.

Author : Mary Weaver Chapin
Publisher : Cleveland Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 9780300257595
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private Lives written by Mary Weaver Chapin and published by Cleveland Museum of Art. This book was released on 2021 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four "prophets" of art whose luminous work unfolds the mysteries of domestic life

Author : Jessica May
Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
ISBN 13 : 9783777438191
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clifford Ross written by Jessica May and published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving and sophisticated investigation into the nature of vision. American artist Clifford Ross's photographic and video practices over the past thirty years reveal one of the most incisive and technically sophisticated investigations into the nature of vision in the medium's history. Clifford Ross: Sightlines showcases the range and depth of Ross's art by presenting the inexhaustible variety of visual experience he has created with just two primary subjects: mountain and sea. In our era of unprecedented environmental peril, his inventive exploration of these iconic subjects conveys a powerful creative engagement with landscapes that are both majestic and fragile.

Author : Sherry M. Joiner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781490315133
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sherry Goes Sane written by Sherry M. Joiner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gripping and candidly honest, Sherry Goes Sane is a nonfiction memoir detailing the author's struggles and triumphs as a woman with mental illness. The story follows Sherry Joiner as she faces schizoaffective disorder while trying to overcome childhood abuse, her mother's suicide, and death of her brother from AIDS. While featuring honest insight into the thoughts and stressors faced by those with psychologial disorders, the story also takes a grim look into a childhood plagued by abuse, illness, and loss"--Page 4 of cover.

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452129460
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Made from Books written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists around the world have lately been turning to their bookshelves for more than just a good read, opting to cut, paint, carve, stitch or otherwise transform the printed page into whole new beautiful, thought-provoking works of art. Art Made from Books is the definitive guide to this compelling art form, showcasing groundbreaking work by today's most showstopping practitioners. From Su Blackwell's whimsical pop-up landscapes to the stacked-book sculptures of Kylie Stillman, each portfolio celebrates the incredible creative diversity of the medium. A preface by pioneering artist Brian Dettmer and an introduction by design critic Alyson Kuhn round out the collection.

Author : Walker Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870702686
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walker Evans written by Walker Evans and published by . This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of the visual arts to show us our own moral and economic situation has today fallen almost completely into the hands of the photographer. It is for him to fix and to reveal the whole aspect of our society: to record for use in the future our disasters and our claims to divinity. Walker Evans, photographing in New England or Louisiana, watching a Cuban political funeral or a Mississippi flood, working cautiously so as to disturb nothing in the normal atmosphere of the average place, can be considered a kind of disembodied, burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His photographs are the records of contemporary civilization in eastern American.~In the reproductions presented here, two large divisions have been made. The photographs are arranged to be seen in their given sequence. In the first part, which might be labeled "People by Photography," we have an aspect of America for which it would be difficult to claim too much. The physiognomy of a nation is laid on your table. In the second part are pictures which refer to the continuous fact of an indigenous American expression, whatever its source, whatever form it has taken, whether in sculpture, paint, or architecture: that native accent we find again in Kentucky mountain and cowboy ballads and in contemporary swing-music. --from the jacket of the 1938 edition~More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the image of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact. His work, presented in stark and prototypical form in American Photographs, has made its impact not only on photography but also on modern literature, film, and the traditional visual arts. First published in 1938 by The Museum of Modern Art, American Photographs has often been out of print. This edition uses duotone plates made for the 1988 edition from original prints, and makes Evans' landmark book available again. The design and typography have been recreated as precisely as possible.

Author : Linda Tesner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732321274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sherrie Wolf written by Linda Tesner and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: