Rudolf Steiner's Watercolour Painting - A New Approach to Evolution
Rudolf Steiner’s watercolour pain4ng ‘The Archetypal Human- Animal’ presents us with the enigma4c image of a strange creature apparently swimming in water. It has a human profile, showing a clearly outlined nose and slightly-opened mouth, with a mysterious eye, almost concealed in its greenish hair. It has appendages similar to hands and feet, and ......
Artist Geoff Harvey has won The Gallipoli Prize twice, and the current edition of The Desert Column by Ion Idriess holds last years winning work. This book is a survey of 50 paintings of his Gallipoli sequence, from Enlisting, through Landing, through the campaign to final embarkation.
On the first day of lockdown, Mary Collis decided to post a painting onto her Facebook page, suggesting she would ‘lift the
day’ during the forecast two-week lockdown. 245 days later she was still posting daily. This Facebook lockdown exhibition
became a daily source of inspiration and sanity for Mary and her followers, as they shared memories ......
This lavishly illustrated book celebrates the life of Doris and Anna Zinkeisen, charting the rise of the sisters from a childhood in Scotland, to their emergence as amongst the most eminent artists of their day in London, to a quieter yet still highly productive life during their twilight years in rural Suffolk. During the golden age from the ......
The book begins with the previously unpublished transcripts of the broadcasts which cast a unique light on Lowry's art and developing reputation. In addition to all the usual elements of an art historical monograph on this scale, Rosenthal has devoted chapters to Lowry's technique, his visual friendship with his fellow painter David Carr; and a ......
In early 1910s, two pioneering women entrepreneurs, Nadezhda Dobychina in St Petersburg and Klavdia Mikhailova in Moscow
set up two of the first art galleries in Russia. Skilfully balancing current art market trends and daring avant-garde
experimentations, Dobychina and Mikhailova soon transformed their establishments into vibrant centres of ......
In 1944 a battle in the art world was knocking World War II off front pages. Angry and disappointed contestant, Mary Edwards, launched a Supreme Court attack on famous innovator, William Dobell, and the judges who gave him the Archibald Prize—world’s richest portrait prize.
The remarkable plein air paintings of Liu Xiaodong (b.1963), which chronicle everyday lives within our diverse modern world, are the focus of this first monograph of his career to date. Immersing himself in communities around the globe, Xiaodong seeks to present people who often sit on the fringes of society who find themselves marginalised ......
