Traditional oil painting : advanced techniques and concepts from the Renaissance to the present / Virgil Elliott.
Publisher:
Echo Point Books & MediaLLC,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xv, 208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Notes:
Originally published in 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index. Georges de la Tour, Michelangelo, Joannes Vermeer, Gerrit Lundens, Velazquez, Joseph Wright, Childe Hassam, Jan Lievens, Gerard Ter Borch, Gerrit Van Honthorst, Cornelius N. Gysbrechts, Hans Holbein the Younger, Pieter de Hooch, Thomas Cole, Peter Paul Rubens, Johannes Van Eyck, Titian, Jean Leon Gerome, Frans Hals, John Singer Sargent, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Elizabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun, Adam Pynacker, Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, Claude Lorrain, Joseph Wright, Constant Troy.
Contents:
Aesthetic considerations -- The eye of the artist -- The importance of drawing -- Principles of visual reality -- Color -- Techniques of painting in oils -- Oil painting materials -- Portraiture -- Landscape painting -- Still-life painting.
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