Author: Maria Peitcheva
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781522896777
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This Art Book with Foreword by Maria Peitcheva contains 240 selected color plates of drawings and paintings from Alphonse Mucha.Alphonse Maria Mucha was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many drawings, paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs. The Mucha Style but became known as Art Nouveau ("new art"). Mucha's works frequently featured beautiful young women in flowing, vaguely Neoclassical-looking robes, and often surrounded by lush flowers which sometimes formed halos behind their heads. In contrast with contemporary poster makers he used pale pastel colors. Mucha's style was given international exposure by the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris. He decorated the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion and collaborated with decorating the Austrian Pavilion. His Art Nouveau style was often imitated. The Art Nouveau style however, was one that Mucha attempted to disassociate himself from throughout his life; he always insisted that rather than maintaining any fashionable stylistic form, his paintings were entirely a product of himself and Czech art. He declared that art existed only to communicate a spiritual message, and nothing more; hence his frustration at the fame he gained by his commercial art, when he most wanted to concentrate on more artistic projects.
Alphonse Mucha: 240 Plates
Author: Maria Peitcheva
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781522896777
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This Art Book with Foreword by Maria Peitcheva contains 240 selected color plates of drawings and paintings from Alphonse Mucha.Alphonse Maria Mucha was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many drawings, paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs. The Mucha Style but became known as Art Nouveau ("new art"). Mucha's works frequently featured beautiful young women in flowing, vaguely Neoclassical-looking robes, and often surrounded by lush flowers which sometimes formed halos behind their heads. In contrast with contemporary poster makers he used pale pastel colors. Mucha's style was given international exposure by the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris. He decorated the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion and collaborated with decorating the Austrian Pavilion. His Art Nouveau style was often imitated. The Art Nouveau style however, was one that Mucha attempted to disassociate himself from throughout his life; he always insisted that rather than maintaining any fashionable stylistic form, his paintings were entirely a product of himself and Czech art. He declared that art existed only to communicate a spiritual message, and nothing more; hence his frustration at the fame he gained by his commercial art, when he most wanted to concentrate on more artistic projects.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781522896777
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This Art Book with Foreword by Maria Peitcheva contains 240 selected color plates of drawings and paintings from Alphonse Mucha.Alphonse Maria Mucha was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many drawings, paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs. The Mucha Style but became known as Art Nouveau ("new art"). Mucha's works frequently featured beautiful young women in flowing, vaguely Neoclassical-looking robes, and often surrounded by lush flowers which sometimes formed halos behind their heads. In contrast with contemporary poster makers he used pale pastel colors. Mucha's style was given international exposure by the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris. He decorated the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion and collaborated with decorating the Austrian Pavilion. His Art Nouveau style was often imitated. The Art Nouveau style however, was one that Mucha attempted to disassociate himself from throughout his life; he always insisted that rather than maintaining any fashionable stylistic form, his paintings were entirely a product of himself and Czech art. He declared that art existed only to communicate a spiritual message, and nothing more; hence his frustration at the fame he gained by his commercial art, when he most wanted to concentrate on more artistic projects.
Ilsée
Author: Alphonse Mucha
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780486245423
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780486245423
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Alphonse Mucha
Bookseller
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad
Author: William Herman Rau
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812236254
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This volume reproduces almost 100 remarkably detailed and texturally rich photographs. Essays by noted historians John Stilgoe, Mary Panzer, and Kenneth Finkel place Rau and his work in the context of the history of American advertising and landscape photography.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812236254
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This volume reproduces almost 100 remarkably detailed and texturally rich photographs. Essays by noted historians John Stilgoe, Mary Panzer, and Kenneth Finkel place Rau and his work in the context of the history of American advertising and landscape photography.
AB Bookman's Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Life Histories of North American Flycatchers, Larks, Swallows, and Their Allies
Author: Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486258317
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The definitive study of North American birds (United States, Canada, Mexico), prepared under auspices of Smithsonian Institution. Contains practically everything known about birds: description, habitat, range, life history, habits, relation to man, etc. These books will never be surpassed in fullness and useability. Indispensable to every serious birds watcher. All are fully illustrated. 78 species. Nesting, plumage, courtship, migration, range, etc. 117 black-and-white photographs.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486258317
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The definitive study of North American birds (United States, Canada, Mexico), prepared under auspices of Smithsonian Institution. Contains practically everything known about birds: description, habitat, range, life history, habits, relation to man, etc. These books will never be surpassed in fullness and useability. Indispensable to every serious birds watcher. All are fully illustrated. 78 species. Nesting, plumage, courtship, migration, range, etc. 117 black-and-white photographs.
Sculpture in Wood
Author: Jack C. Rich
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486271095
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Down-to-earth, practical book by noted sculptor covers everything you need to know — woods, tools, equipment, carving techniques, finishing, preservation, etc. Especially valuable "dictionary of woods" covers geographical distribution, physical properties, carving characteristics, more. Over 70 photos and drawings illustrate methods and techniques, works by Brancusi, Henry Moore, Leonard Baskin, other artists.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486271095
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Down-to-earth, practical book by noted sculptor covers everything you need to know — woods, tools, equipment, carving techniques, finishing, preservation, etc. Especially valuable "dictionary of woods" covers geographical distribution, physical properties, carving characteristics, more. Over 70 photos and drawings illustrate methods and techniques, works by Brancusi, Henry Moore, Leonard Baskin, other artists.
Adventures with Insects
Author: Richard Headstrom
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486219554
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Thirty-nine adventures in which the anatomy, behavior, and social life of insects are described.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486219554
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Thirty-nine adventures in which the anatomy, behavior, and social life of insects are described.
The Complete "Masters of the Poster"
Author: Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048613458X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Most famous compilation of art from the great age of the poster features full-color, large-format illustrations by nearly 100 artists: Chéret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Mucha, Beardsley, Parrish, Penfield, Steinlen, and many others. Extensive documentation.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048613458X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Most famous compilation of art from the great age of the poster features full-color, large-format illustrations by nearly 100 artists: Chéret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Mucha, Beardsley, Parrish, Penfield, Steinlen, and many others. Extensive documentation.