This ebook presents the work of 30 contemporary artists who have turned to clay to shape their most innovative ideas into stunning works of art. From cups shaped like crystals to a tree trunk made of porcelain and stoneware planters painted to look like ladies, popular curator and blogger Kate Singleton collects here whimsical pieces with narrative, graphic, curious, and organic qualities that blur the line between fine art, design, and craft. Ceramics...

"Everything I needed to know about Fox and Grapes mirror, I knew the moment I first saw it" What antiques restorer Maryalice Huggins knew when she stumbled across the mirror at a country auction in Rhode Island was this: She was besotted. Rococo and huge (more than eight feet tall), the mirror was one of the most unusual objects she had ever seen. Huggins had to have it. The frame's elaborate carvings were almost identical to a famous eighteenth-century...

An insider's guide to buying, collecting, and selling art from an insider of Christie's Grounded in real-life stories, Art Collecting Today is the essential practical guide to today's art market. A lightly regulated industry with more than sixty billion dollars of annual sales, the art market is often opaque and confusing to even the most experienced collectors. But whether a seasoned collector, an uninitiated newcomer, or an art-world insider, readers...

One of the wonderful traditions of Christmas is the Nativity. But you don't have to be Christian or a regular churchgoer to love these wonderful displays. The creativity and artistry speaks to all children and to the child in us all. Nativity is a scene from the stories of the birth of Jesus. They are in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. With inspiration in these stories, you use either figurines or live people to create the scene and convey the story. These...

Superb examples of the ironworker's art - elaborately wrought designs for gates, fences, finials, banisters, window grilles, signs, marquees, cathedral screens, and a host of other architectural and decorative appointments, from Gothic style to Art Nouveau - meticulously rendered in fine black-and-white drawings reprinted from rare European and American books and periodicals.

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci ‚ Complete. Leonardo da Vinci-artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man-is a perennial source of fascination because of his astonishing intellect and boundless curiosity about the natural and man-made world. During his life he created numerous works of art and kept voluminous notebooks that detailed his artistic and intellectual...

The chief aim of this series of handbooks of practical art is to bring to the notice of students and anatcuss of art, as well as all Iovers of the highest excellence in workmanship, numerous examples, both ancient and modern, of the application of beautiful design to articles of every-day use and to the various objects which are frequently employed for purposes of decoration. The Handbook will contain an historical record of the progress of the art...

Todo nace de una mirada de reojo. El que promete juventud a la edad: ni del todo en la norma, ni en exceso tampoco. Pero algo que te hace crecer a ti y a los demás. Porque la virtud del artista y la de un doble movimiento de empatía humana y distanciamiento de los demás y del mundo. Ofrece una perspectiva que abre nuevos horizontes entre personas, naciones y continentes. Maestros de los Sueños participa de este impulso entre pueblos donde cada...

The art world was forever changed with the emergence of Vincent Van Gogh. His vivid, emotional paintings captured the attention and admiration of many, even as the artist struggled with mental illness and financial instability. But behind every great artist is often an equally great supporter, and for Vincent Van Gogh, that person was Johanna Bonger.Johanna was more than just Vincent's sister-in-law. She was a woman who was fiercely determined to...

¿Está buscando aprender cómo sacar provecho de la revolución NFT? ¿Acaba de enterarse de las NFT? ¿Quieres unirte a la locura como artista, jugador o músico? ¿Le resulta difícil encontrar toda la información en el mismo lugar o simplemente es completamente confuso? Si esto te suena, ¡sigue leyendo! NFT Arte y Coleccionables para Principiantes ofrece, información completa sobre esta reciente tendencia rentable. Esta guía habla sobre...