70 Results for : canvases
-
The Italian Teacher , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 577min
Shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award 2018Rome, 1955.The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome's historic villas, a party glitters with socialites and patrons. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast, masculine, meaty canvases, is their god. He is at the centre of the picture. His wife, Natalie, edges out of the shot. From the side of the room watches little Pinch - their son. At five years old he loves Bear almost as much as he fears him. After Bear abandons their family, Pinch will still worship him, while Natalie faces her own wars with the art world. Trying to live up to his father's name - one of the 20th-century's fiercest and most controversial painters - Pinch never quite succeeds. Yet by the end of a career of twists and compromises, he enacts an unexpected rebellion that will leave forever his mark upon the Bear Bavinsky legacy. What makes an artist? In The Italian Teacher, Tom Rachman displays a nuanced understanding of art and its demons. Moreover, in Pinch he achieves a portrait of vulnerability and frustrated talent that - with his signature humour and humanity - challenges the very idea of greatness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Alexander. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000904/bk_qpuk_000904_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Nicolas Party
The first and highly-anticipated monograph on one of the most successful, collected, and exciting painters todaySwiss-born Nicolas Party, one of the most successful and critically acclaimed artists working today, is known for his color-saturated paintings of everyday objects, with distinctly personal yet very accessible and recognizable imagery bright, graphic patterns applied to canvases, ceramics, furniture, floors, ceilings, doorways, and walls. He captures the essence of his subjects in surprising ways, heightening their physical and emotional resonance. Fascinated by the power of paint to alter our perception of the built environment and, within a gallery context, how we experience art, Party regularly paints murals, either as stand-alone works or as carefully orchestrated settings for his work. This is the first book dedicated to his practice and the first to examine his career to date it will be a must-read for collectors and followers of the contemporary art scene.- Shop: buecher
- Price: 32.99 EUR excl. shipping
-
Painting Saints (eBook, ePUB)
Those we love the most may not be all that we think they are. 17-year-old Katie Jane Alonzo is no longer picking up her watercolor brushes. She stored away her canvases. Her mother had died senselessly in a car accident. Katie Jane knows her mom is terrified of being in cars - so why wasn't she wearing her seatbelt? And who was the man driving the car? Caleb is 18 years old and homeless. Actually, he has a home but will never go back there. Instead, he'll earn his money by playing his trumpet on NYC streets. When he stumbles (literally) into an art gallery and meets a lonely aspiring painter, his world will never be the same. Until the things he's running from and running towards come colliding all at once. Two decades ago, in the late nineties, teenage Filipino immigrant Michael Alonzo meets the stunning Natalie Rose. But there's more to her that he can handle.- Shop: buecher
- Price: 4.49 EUR excl. shipping
-
The Divine Artist: Art for God's Sake , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 289min
God the divine artist became the art - he, Jesus, hung on the wooden frame of the cross. He would provide the inspiration for the future artists in these end-times and to emblazon buildings and canvases with a chiaroscuro spectrum of Renaissance thought along the way of centuries. Art and artisans can change the world; that possibility is seen all around us through film, art, music, fashion, architecture, social media, digital platforms, an endless list. Yet creativity is not just for the artist; creativity is at the very heart and center of Christianity. In God’s eyes, everything is art; he is an artist in every sense of the word, and all things he created are for his purposes. The heavens and the world are a canvas oiled and stretched for us to walk on and in which to create. Art as an awakening is normal daily fare in our digital world; God’s final purposes for art are at hand in this 21st century. He has many artistic visions to give his artisans on earth. In this audiobook, you will get to know God’s character as the divine artist, and you can let your art be inspired for his sake. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Bennett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130448/bk_acx0_130448_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Drawing the Doctor: Heroes of Port Dale, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 340min
Theo: I follow my passions, and if I happen to enjoy alcohol and sex, well, I’m an artist, right? No family or friends, so I can do what I want, when I want. That is, until an incident lands me in hospital, and I find myself spellbound by the hot-as-hell doctor.One date turns into two, then three, and more. I don’t know what I want anymore, I’m falling, I’m drowning...it scares the hell out of me. Can he heal me?Grant: My life has stagnated. I worked hard to become a doctor, and I love what I do. The routine leaves no room for dating, but that’s life, right?That is, until an artist who’s decorated himself as much as his canvases falls into my life. He’s wild, chaotic, a handful, and broken. He drives me crazy, but I’m starting to hope. Can I keep him forever? Can I heal him?After an embarrassing first encounter in the ER, Theo and Grant are drawn to each other, their feelings deep right from the start. They have nothing in common, opposites in every way. But somehow, it works...until it doesn’t. Their feelings are suddenly keeping them apart, and it’s hard to find a way back. Can they heal each other? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keith Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/225939/bk_acx0_225939_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Pretty Boy Detective Club, Volume 3: The Pretty Boy in the Attic
From the renowed author NISIOISIN, the creator of BAKEMONOGATARI, Zaregoto Series and KATANAGATARI.Comes a new, innovative mystery series, Pretty Boy Detective Club!Mayumi Dojima is finally a full-fledged member of the Pretty Boy Detective Club, known to her compatriots as Mayumi the Seer, she of the beautiful eyes. Summoned suddenly to the disused art room that serves as the club s headquarters, Mayumi is pressed into service to assist with an ambitious redecorating project. But when they discover a secret room containing thirty-three mysterious canvases, the Pretty Boys are faced with their most perplexing puzzle yet. Who is responsible for these strange paintings, and are they connected to an impossible kidnapping that took place at Yubiwa Academy seven years ago? The third installment of the Pretty Boy series offers a beautiful mystery with an even more beautiful solution!Best-selling author NISIOISIN (Monogatari series, Decapitation, Katanagatari) brings his trademark blend of wit, wordplay, adventure, and cracked philosophy to a new mystery series for fans of all ages.- Shop: buecher
- Price: 10.99 EUR excl. shipping
-
Anish Kapoor: Between Painting and Sculpture: Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 232, Hörbuch, Digital, 16min
A recorded visit to an exhibition by Anish Kapoor at the Lisson Gallery, London continued to 22nd June, 2019. Includes descriptions of works and bio-dara of the artist. In the rear ground floor space of the gallery a suite of new paintings, completed at the end of 2018. Each canvas is 274 cms tall by 213 cms wide. The colour range is restricted and highly pitched, a distinctly abstract expressionist handling with sweeping brush and hand work. An aggressive and confrontational approach infuses a violently striated surface. A basic pink shape, in some like sagging flesh or an upturned vessel is worked with smeared white strokes, then corrupted by slashed veins of blood red and pitch black, scarring the lower part of the canvases. The hand work introduces an element of unleashed energy on the white ground, in a scheme of unleashed emotion. It is violently expressive, chaotic and turbulent. The painting ‘Teeth’ 2018 resembles a tip tilted jug spewing corrupted matter. These recent paintings progress of the artist’s constant preoccupation with the life force of the body. Previously viewed in the giant ‘Leviathan’; a maroon inflatable of spectacular dimension installed in Monumenta 2011 at the Grand Palais Paris. Here visitors walked inside the heart shaped cavern, encountering receding passages of valves and vents. Kapoor has never resisted dynamic scale for maximum resonance of effect. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Selbie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/155581/bk_acx0_155581_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Andy Warhol at Tate Modern : CV/Visual Arts Research, Book 294 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 30min
An essay by Edward Lucie-Smith considers the Andy Warhol exhibition re-opening at Tate Modern on July 27. He puts forward a provocative view of the relevance of the art in an time of turbulent disruption. When the Warhol show returns to Tate Modern on July 27, almost the first thing you’ll meet if you go to see it will be a large painting, on two paired canvases, entitled Marilyn Diptych. It features repeated images the film star Marilyn Monroe. In the left-hand side of the work they are in color. In the right half, in black and white, gradually fading away to nothing. The painting was produced in 1962, very shortly after Monroe’s death from an overdose of barbiturates. Like other paintings in the same series, more than 20 in all, the image is based on a publicity photograph, not taken by Warhol, which was made to publicize the film Niagara, which Monroe starred in in 1953, nearly 10 years earlier. As the catalog for the exhibition tells you: “Warhol found in Monroe a fusion of two of his consistent themes: death and the cult of celebrity. By repeating the image, her evokes her ubiquitous presence in the media. The contrast of vivid color with black and white, and the effect of color in the right panel are suggestive of the star’s mortality.” ELS ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Rice-Oxley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/214524/bk_acx0_214524_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Balthus (eBook, ePUB)
The first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time -- the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola -- whose brilliantly rendered, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most memorable images in contemporary art. The story of Balthus's life has been shrouded by contradiction and hearsay, most of it his own invention; over the years he created for himself a persona of mystery, aristocracy, and glamour. Now, in Nicholas Fox Weber's superb biography, Balthus, the man and the artist, stands revealed as never before. He was born in Paris in 1908 to Polish parents. At age twelve he first stepped into the spotlight with the publication of forty of his drawings illustrating a story about a cat by Rainer Maria Rilke, who was then Balthus's mother's lover and a crucial influence on the young boy. From that moment, Balthus has never been out of the public eye. In 1934 his first exhibition, in Paris, stunned the art world. The seven canvases drew attention to his extraordinary technique -- a mix of tradition and imagination informed by the work of Piero della Francesca, Courbet, and Joseph Reinhardt, but unique to the twenty-six-year-old artist -- and to their provocative content; one of the paintings, The Guitar Lesson, was so powerful in its sadomasochistic imagery that it was deemed necessary to remove it from public display. Continuously since then, Balthus's work has provoked both great opprobrium and profound admiration -- as has the artist himself, whether collaborating with Antonin Artaud on his Theater of Cruelty, transforming the Villa Medici into the social center of Fellini's Rome in the 1950s, or competing for the artistic limelight with his friends Picasso and André Derain. The artist's complexities are clarified and his genius understood in a book that derives its particular immediacy from Weber's long and intense conversations with Balthus -- who never previously consented to discuss his life and work with a biographer -- as well as his interviews with the painter's closest friends, members of his family, and many of the subjects of his controversial canvases. Weber's critical and human grasp (he acutely analyzes the paintings in terms of both their aesthetic achievement and what they reveal of their maker's psyche), combined with his rich knowledge of Balthus's life and his insight into the ideas and forces that have helped to shape Balthus's work over the past seven decades, gives us a striking, illuminating portrait of one of the most admired and outrageous artists of our time.- Shop: buecher
- Price: 11.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Safe Harbor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 704min
After every storm there is a place to return to - if you have the courage to follow your heart…. New York Times best-selling author Luanne Rice has touched the hearts and lives of listeners everywhere with powerful tales of love and loss...and love regained. In an unforgettable novel set on her beloved Connecticut seaside, she weaves a timeless story….Safe Harbor. Artist Dana Underhill has always been a free spirit, traveling the world, filling her canvases with the mysterious colors of the seas she and her sister have sailed since childhood. Then on a calm, moonlit night an inexplicable “accident” occurs and Dana is called home to Hubbard’s Point to become a mother to her two young nieces, a challenge unlike any she’s ever known. As Dana and the girls struggle to begin a new life - and to find the truth about what happened to Dana’s sister and brother-in-law - help comes in the person of an old childhood friend. Sam Trevor is now a tall, striking marine biologist, and he’s been in love with Dana for years. Although she can’t begin to contemplate opening her heart again, together Dana and Sam will discover that Hubbard’s Point is the center of endless mysteries - and endless possibilities. And as Dana rediscovers her passion as an artist and a woman, she will find more than a lifetime’s share of answers, magic, and love in the only safe harbor there is.… ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tanya Eby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/005925/bk_brll_005925_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping