PIETER ZAADSTRAS AUSTRALIAN KELPIE ART by PIETER ZAADSTRA

$19.95 AUD

Category: Art

The Hangman' Garden by Simon Mroczkowski (Illustrator)

$45.00 AUD

Category: Art

A-Z illustrated book of characters that meet their demise

Jimmi Buscombe's Trick of the Eye Colouring Workbook by Jimmi Buscombe (Created by, Drawings by, Curated by, Artist, Illustrator, Designed by, Concept by, Cover Design by, Arranged by); Sheridan Buscombe (Created by, Concept by, Text by, Produced by, Photographer, Intro and Notes by, Assisted by, Curated by, Arranged by)

$21.99 AUD

Category: Art

Hello from Warrnambool - a small city by the wild Southern Ocean, off the Southwest coast of Victoria, Australia. As a full-time visual artist, my time is divided between working alone in my studio and working in public spaces such as schools, aged care facilities, zoos, laneways and even water towers. In these outdoor spaces, the walls and paths become my canvas. I love to paint images that are very life-like, but also very playful and eye catching; a wombat bursting through a hole in a wall, kookaburras sitting on a drinking fountain, a daddy emu watching over his nest of eggs that eventually crack and then hatch!My family and I came up with this colouring workbook at our kitchen table in Warrnambool. We worked out that the "tricks" I use to create my 3D trompe l'oeil (trick of the eye) public art pieces can also be used on a smaller scale, in the format of a colouring book! All you need is some pencils, scissors and the special worksheets I have designed. Once finished, use a camera on your phone or device to find the perfect viewing spot and turn your artwork into a 3D optical illusion, then take some photos and share them with your friends!This workbook is for everyone, everywhere, but smaller children may need help from a grown-up. We hope that what we created at our kitchen table in Warrnambool will bring you many happy hours at your kitchen table too.From our family to your family, wherever you are in the world, we wish you much health, creativity and fun.The world is always brighter with art!?Jimmi Buscombe's Trick of the Eye Colouring Workbook includes a folio with 18 trick of the eye colouring worksheets, simple instructions, example photos and a message from Jimmi. ...Show more

Criss Canning - The Pursuit of Beauty by David Thomas

$80.00 AUD

Category: Art

Criss Canning is one of Australia's best loved and most celebrated still life artists. Inspired by the beauty of nature and the works of advanced European modernists, and with dedication to the absolutes of colour and pictorial composition, she has created paintings that are immediately seductive. One c annot help but be astonished by their beauty and by the level of skill required to achieve their effects.Among the book's 320 colour images are reproductions of some 218 paintings created between 1980 and 2020 - including her most recent. David Thomas's text elucidates the artist's life story and describes the aesthetic qualities of the paintings from a critical and art historical point of view. The book also contains extensive biographical and bibliographical data and details of all works exhibited in art galleries since 1982.This comprehensive account of an artist's life and work also focuses on developments in the paintings over the past two years, which herald exciting new aspects of Canning's ongoing 'pursuit of beauty'. ...Show more

The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie

$39.99 AUD

Category: Art

Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula M odersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained dress, scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Cézanne solved the problems that she too is facing. She's railing against her corsets, her chaperones, her husband and her brothers; she's hammering on doors, dreaming in her bedroom, working day and night in her studio. Despite the immense hurdles that have been placed in her way, she sits at her easel, picks up a mirror and paints a self-portrait because, as a subject, she is always available. In The Mirror and the Palette, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery. ...Show more

Rone: Street Art and Beyond by Rone

$59.99 AUD

Category: Art

Known for his multi-storey murals gracing buildings all over the world, Melbourne-based artist Rone uses his work to explore the friction and connection between beauty and decay, youth and ruin.Rone was a seminal figure in the explosive Melbourne street art scene of the early 2000s. With his beginnings in street art, stencil and screen printing, Rone is now best known for his haunting images of women's faces, rendered in arresting detail on silos and store fronts, museums and apartment blocks. His immersive installations have continued his investigation into divergent themes of beauty and ruin, materiality and loss, through the transformation of condemned, derelict or forgotten spaces - with each artwork painstakingly produced, only to be destroyed. Rone: Street Art and Beyond presents a survey of the artist's work from the street, the studio, and the ephemeral installations. The works are bookended by essays that trace the evolution of Rone's career over the last two decades, delve into his depictions of women, and go behind the scenes of his most ambitious installation to date: Empire (2019), set in the disused Art Deco mansion Burnham Beeches on the outskirts of Melbourne. Anecdotal notes from the artist unpack the stories behind the portraits, tying them to their communities in London, Paris, New York, Havana, Christchurch, Hong Kong and beyond. ...Show more

Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles

$34.99 AUD

Category: Art

This is the paperback edition of the highly successful Chromatopia. Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Throughout history, artists' pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dun g, and even crushed insects. Chromatopia reveals the origin stories of over 50 of history's most extraordinary pigments. ...Show more

Colour in Australia by Agnieszka & Pych Sierzputowska

$24.95 AUD

Category: Art

Use your creativity to explore Australia with these 30 enchanting drawings… Take your coloured pencils on a journey from desert to ocean, finding exotic animals, wildflowers and spectacular Australian landmarks on the way. A perfect souvenir for travellers to Australia or gift for creative dreamers ever ywhere. Use your creativity to explore Australia with these 30 enchanting drawings… Take your coloured pencils on a journey from desert to ocean, finding exotic animals, wildflowers and spectacular Australian landmarks on the way. A perfect souvenir for travellers to Australia or gift for creative dreamers everywhere. ...Show more

Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting by Blaise Ducos

$49.95 AUD

Category: Art

A landmark exploration of the engaging network of relationships among genre painters of the Dutch Golden Age  The genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age between 1650 and 1675 ranks among the highest pinnacles of Western European art.  The virtuosity of these works, as this book demonstrates, was achiev ed in part thanks to a vibrant artistic rivalry among numerous first-rate genre painters working in different cities across the Dutch Republic.  They drew inspiration from each other's painting, and then tried to surpass each other in technical prowess and aesthetic appeal.    The Delft master Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is now the most renowned of these painters of everyday life.  Though he is frequently portrayed as an enigmatic figure who worked largely in isolation, the essays here reveal that Vermeer's subjects, compositions, and figure types in fact owe much to works by artists from other Dutch cities.  Enlivened with 180 superb illustrations, Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting highlights the relationships - comparative and competitive - among Vermeer and his contemporaries, including Gerrit Dou, Gerard ter Borch, Jan Steen, Pieter de Hooch, Gabriel Metsu, and Frans van Mieris. ...Show more

Gauguin to Picasso, Masterworks from Switzerland: The Staechelin & Im Obersteg Collections by Dorothy M Kosinski

$69.99 AUD

Category: Art

This is a unique chance to see works from two remarkable private Swiss collections. It pays tribute to two pioneering supporters of modernism, Rudolf Staechelin (1881 1946) and Karl Im Obersteg (1883 1969), industrialists and businessmen, close friends, and enthusiastic champions of impressionist, post- impressionist, and school of Paris artists."Gauguin to Picasso," "Masterworks from Switzerland "features over sixty celebrated paintings from their collections, created during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century by twenty-two world-famous artists. Masterpieces include Paul Gauguin's "Nafea faa ipoipo "("When will you Marry?") (1892), the most expensive work of art ever sold, Vincent van Gogh's "Daubigny's Garden "(1890), Pablo Picasso's double-sided canvas "Femme dans la loge / Buveuse d'absinthe "(1901), and Marc Chagall's three monumental Rabbi portraits. There are extraordinary paintings by artists of international statureincluding Swiss master Ferdinand Hodler, Russian expressionist painter Alexej Jawlensky, works by Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Rouault, and Wassily Kandinsky.The volume also studies how Staechlin and Im Obersteg developed friendships with and influenced the work of artists, and how they came to create two of the most significant collections of modern art in Europe.Dorothy Kosinski is the director of The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.Hans-Joachim Muller is an art critic at the German weekly paper "Die Zeit "and the culture editor at "Basler Zeitung"Henriette Mentha is the Curator of the Im Obersteg Collection at the Kunstmuseum Basel.Renee Maurer is assistant curator, The Phillips Collection." ...Show more

BB : VAN GOGH & FRIENDS ART GA by Wenda B. O'Reilly

$19.99 AUD

Category: Art

Mixing learning and play, this game teaches youngsters about the artist Van Gogh, along with Cezanne, Gaugin, Seurat, Rousseau and Toulouse-Lautrec. Comes with a deck of 36 museum-quality cards and an art book, packaged in a treasure box. 90 color photos. Pkg.

Picturing a Nation: The art and life of A.H. Fullwood by Gary Werskey

$49.99 AUD

Category: Art

The untold story of a major Australian artist. Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863–1930) was also the most widely viewed British–Australian artist of the Heidelberg era.Fullwood's illustrations for the popular Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and the Bulletin, as well as leading Australian and English newspapers, helped shape how settler–colonial Australia was seen both here and around the world. Meanwhile his paintings were as celebrated as those of his good friends Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton. So why is Fullwood so little known today?In this pioneering, richly illustrated biography, Gary Werskey brings Fullwood and his extraordinary career as an illustrator, painter, and war artist back to life, while casting a new light on the most fabled era in the history of Australian art.'Gary Werskey's compelling and vivid biography of A.H. Fullwood — a decade-long labour of love, written with a sharp, empathetic eye – rescues one of Australia's most accomplished artists from oblivion. It also stands as a highly original and deeply researched history of Australian culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.' — Mark McKenna'Through extensive, patient research, a discerning eye and lyrical prose, Gary Werskey recovers the life of brilliant artist A.H. Fullwood and guides us on a fresh journey into the fabled world of Australian art and artists in the crucible decades of the 1880s and 1890s. Here is a fascinating creation story about the visual language of a nation enchanted by its own dreams.' — Grace Karskens'Gary Werskey's essential and rousing portrait lifts Fullwood to his rightful place in the pantheon of Australian art, and reminds us how much the nation owes a generation of inspired bohemians for uncovering and defining its character and identity. It's a great read, and looks beautiful.' — Don Watson'Werskey has used the engaging life and work of A.H. Fullwood to re-cast the history of Australia's settler–colonial art. Set against the era's revolution in how art was produced and reproduced, Fullwood's pictures reveal him to be a master of half-toned illustrations, underpinned by the high-keyed palette of his creativity. A double vision splendid!' — Humphrey McQueen'An outstanding account of one of Australia's most fascinating Bohemian artists. Werskey not only reveals the very heart of Fullwood's art, but uncovers an Australian Georgic in which a prosperous agriculture emerges on small farms, and the life of the pub and the office and the quiet corners of the everyday in settler Australia are brilliantly evoked.' — Jeanette Hoorn ...Show more