Famous Human Figure Artists

famous human figure artists: The Human Figure John H. Vanderpoel, 2012-04-24 Classic treatment by a master teacher features 430 pencil and charcoal illustrations depicting fundamental features of human anatomy. Topics include shading, curvature, proportion, foreshortening, muscular tension, and much more.
famous human figure artists: The Human Figure in Motion Eadweard Muybridge, 2012-04-27 The 4,789 photographs in this definitive selection show the human figure — models almost all undraped — engaged in over 160 different types of action: running, climbing stairs, etc.
famous human figure artists: Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts Charissa Bremer-David, Catherine Hess, Jeffrey W. Weaver, Gillian Wilson, 1997-11-13 This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from Gobelins and Beauvais, bronze firedogs from Fontainebleau, and a lathe-turned ivory goblet of astonishing complexity from Saxony are among the other highlights of this handsome volume.
famous human figure artists: The Human Factor Ralph Rugoff, Penelope Curtis, Martin Herbert, Lisa Lee, James Lingwood, 2014 'The Human Factor: the Figure in Contemporary Sculpture' brings together the work of 25 leading international artists, in whose practice the human form plays a central role. Over the past 25 years, artists have reinvented figurative sculpture by looking back to earlier movements in art history as well as imagery from contemporary culture. Setting up dialogues with modernist as well as classical and archaic models of art, these artists engage and confront the question of how we represent the 'human' today. Eschewing concerns related to psychological portraiture, these artists use the figure as a catalyst for evoking far-ranging content, including subjects spanning political violence and mortality to sexuality and voyeurism. A unique survey of figurative sculpture today, this highly illustrated volume features newly-commissioned essays by authors including Tate Britain Director, Penelope Curtis, art critic and writer Martin Herbert, Artangel co-director James Lingwood, art historian Lisa Lee and Hayward Gallery Director, and curator of the exhibition, Ralph Rugoff. Alongside full-colour images of the artists' works, the book also includes original and rarely-seen material documenting the creation of these fascinating works.--Publisher.
famous human figure artists: Morpho: Hands and Feet Michel Lauricella, 2023-04-14 The must-have guide for all artists who draw the human figure! In Morpho: Hands and Feet, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw the human body. In this book, Lauricella focuses exclusively on the hands and feet—arguably the most popular and, for many, the most challenging parts of the body to draw successfully. Breaking the subject matter down into the underlying skeletal shapes, followed by the musculature, then the skin and fat, and finally, the veins, Lauricella offers multiple approaches—from simple forms to complex renderings—and a plethora of positions and gestures are included to help you improve your drawing skills. Geared toward artists of all levels, from beginners through professionals, this handy, pocket-sized book will help spark your imagination and creativity. Whether your interest is in figure drawing, fine arts, fashion design, game design, or creating comic book or manga art, you will find this helpful book filled with actionable insights. (Publisher's Note: This book features an “exposed” binding style. This is intentional as it is designed to help the book lay flat as you draw.) TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Introduction Hands Feet Resources 
famous human figure artists: An Artist in the Garden Jason Gathorne-Hardy, Tessa Newcomb, 2012 'An Artist in the Garden' is the month-by-month story of a year in a magical, 200-year-old walled kitchen garden, told by the author who grew up there and depicted by an artist who spent three years painting it.
famous human figure artists: The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing Anthony Ryder, 2014-03-02 Many of us want to learn “how to draw.” But as artist Anthony Ryder explains, it’s much more important to learn what to draw. In other words, to observe and draw what we actually see, rather than what we think we see. When it comes to drawing the human figure, this means letting go of learned ideas and expectation of what the figure should look like. It means carefully observing the interplay of form and light, shape and line, that combine to create the actual appearance of human form. In The Artist’s Complete Guide to Figure Drawing, amateur and experienced artists alike are guided toward this new way of seeing and drawing the figure with a three-step drawing method. The book’s progressive course starts with the block-in, an exercise in seeing and establishing the figure’s shape. It then build to the contour, a refined line drawing that represents the figure’s silhouette. The last step is tonal work on the inside of the contour, when light and shadow are shaped to create the illusion of form. Separate chapters explore topics critical to the method: gesture, which expresses a sense of living energy to the figure; light, which largely determines how we see the model; and form, which conveys the figure’s volume and mass. Examples, step-by-steps, and special “tips” offer helpful hints and practical guidance throughout. Lavishly illustrated with the author’s stunning artwork, The Artist’s Complete Guide to Figure Drawing combines solid instruction with thoughtful meditations on the art of drawing, to both instruct and inspire artists of all levels.
famous human figure artists: How to Draw the Human Figure Cortina Famous Schools Staff, Famous Schools Cortina, 1990-09-15 Famous Artists School How to Draw the Human Figure This book introduces you to an exciting approach to figure drawing. It was especially created by a group of America's most eminent artists who have demonstrated the methods they have used in their distinguished careers. You, too, will find that figure drawing is one of the areas of art that can bring you much fun and excitement. Not only will you gain rich satisfaction from drawing or painting, but you'll discover that people admire creative talent-- and you'll experience the pride of achievement that comes from developing a valuable skill that most others lack. Also, if you have sufficient desire and dedication, your talent in drawing could even lead you into an exciting and challenging career as a professional artist. But, whether or not you have the ambition to be a professional, you'll find that art will be a wonderfully satisfying pursuit. In this book you'll find fresh approaches to the following features: * THE HUMAN FORM * DRAWING MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES * MODELS-- WHERE TO FIND THEM * GESTURE DRAWING * DRAWING-- STEP-BY-STEP * THE BASIC FORM FIGURE * ARTISTIC ANATOMY * LIGHTING THE FIGURE * THE FIGURE IN MOTION And don't forget-- as a buyer of this book you are entitled to receive a FREE ART LESSON from a professional artist/instructor of the Famous Artists School. Special FREE offer to the buyer of this book! Here's a special opportunity for you ... because you love to draw. Famous Artists School, the foremost institution of home study instruction in art would like you to receive a free art lesson from one of our professional artist-instructors. Therefore, you have this unusual opportunity. This is your chance to actually experience the helpful suggestions and advice of a professional instructor-- right in your own home! Famous Artists School is making this offer to demonstrate to those who are interested in drawing and painting how easy and pleasant it is to learn with the time-tested successful method the School has developed. Just complete the Lesson Project inside and mail it to Famous Schools. One of our professional instructors will personally evaluate your drawing and return it to you with helpful suggestions. This special offer is absolutely free, and there is no obligation. Explore your hidden talents-- don't miss this special opportunity. See inside for your exciting free offer!
famous human figure artists: Antoine Watteau Helmut Borsch-Supan, 2008-02
famous human figure artists: Leonardo Da Vinci, Anatomist Leonardo (da Vinci), Martin Clayton, Ronald Philo, Queen's Gallery (London, England), 2012 Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneer in the study of human anatomy and one of the greatest draftsmen ever to have lived. He dissected around thirty human corpses, exploring every aspect of anatomy and physiology, and recording his findings and speculations on the pages of his notebooks. These drawings remain unsurpassed even today in their lucidity and clarity. Almost all of Leonardo's surviving anatomical studies, some 200 sheets, have been in the Royal Collection since the seventeenth century, and are now preserved in the Royal Library atWindsor Castle. This book presents ninety of the finest of these astonishing documents - the largest showing of Leonardo's anatomical studies there has ever been - with a full discussion of their anatomical content and their significance in Leonardo's pioneering work.
famous human figure artists: Carolee Schneemann : Up to and Including Her Limits Carolee Schneemann, 1997
famous human figure artists: Human Figure Drawing Daniela Brambilla, 2015 This book shows us how to learn to draw the human figure regaining our ability to observe the subject.
famous human figure artists: Art That Changed the World DK, 2013-08-19 Experience the uplifting power of art on this breathtaking visual tour of 2,500 paintings and sculptures created by more than 700 artists from Michelangelo to Damien Hirst. This beautiful book brings you the very best of world art from cave paintings to Neoexpressionism. Enjoy iconic must-see works, such as Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper and Monet's Waterlilies and discover less familiar artists and genres from all parts of the globe. Art That Changed the World covers the full sweep of world art, including the Ming era in China, and Japanese, Hindu, and Indigenous Australian art. It analyses recurring themes such as love and religion, explaining key genres from Romanesque to Conceptual art. Art That Changed the World explores each artist's key works and vision, showing details of their technique, such as Leonardo's use of light and shade. It tells the story of avant-garde works like Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe (Lunch on the Grass), which scandalized society, and traces how one genre informed another - showing how the Impressionists were inspired by Gustave Courbet, for example, and how Van Gogh was influenced by Japanese prints. Lavishly illustrated throughout, look no further for your essential guide to the pantheon of world art.
famous human figure artists: The Artist Project Christopher Noey, Thomas P. Campbell, 2017-09-19 Artists have long been stimulated and motivated by the work of those who came before them—sometimes, centuries before them. Interviews with 120 international contemporary artists discussing works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection that spark their imagination shed new light on art-making, museums, and the creative process. Images of works from The Met collection appear alongside images of the contemporary artists' work, allowing readers to discover a rich web of visual connections that spans cultures and millennia.
famous human figure artists: Michelangelo Drawings Michelangelo Buonarroti, Ludwig Goldscheider, 1966
famous human figure artists: Art of the Forties Guy Davenport, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), 1991 Om 40'ernes malerkunst, skulpturer og kunsthåndværk
famous human figure artists: The Forever Now Laura J. Hoptman, 2014 Timeless Painting presents the work of 17 contemporary painters whose works reflect a singular approach that is peculiarly of our time: they are a-temporal, a term coined by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, the originators of the cyberpunk aesthetic. A-temporality or timelessness manifests itself in painting as an ahistoric free-for-all, where contemporaneity as an indicator of new form is nowhere to be found, and all eras co-exist. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art that explores the impact of this cultural condition on contemporary painting, this publication features work by an international roster of artists including Joe Bradley, Kerstin Brätsch, Matt Connors, Nicole Eisenman, Mark Grotjahn, Charline von Heyl, , Julie Mehretu, Oscar Murillo, Laura Owens and Josh Smith, among others. An overview essay by curator Laura Hoptman is divided into thematic chapters that explore topics such as re-animation and reenactment, recontextualization, 'Zombie' painting, and the concomitant 'Frankenstein approach', which describes a process of stitching together pieces of the history of painting to create a work of art that would be dead but for its juxtaposed parts, all working in association with one another to propel the work into life.
famous human figure artists: Famous Painters Logan Rodriguez, AI, 2025-03-05 Famous Painters explores the lives and legacies of artists who have significantly shaped Western art history. It delves into the historical contexts, techniques, and personal journeys that defined these influential figures, focusing on key movements and artists. The book highlights the Renaissance masters' revolutionary humanism; the Impressionists' capturing of fleeting moments, like Claude Monet's work with light; and the abstract expressionistsâ bold explorations of the subconscious, such as Jackson Pollock's innovative techniques, revealing how each movement challenged previous conventions. The book examines how socio-political climates influence artistic expression, showing that artistic genius results from a complex interplay of talent, historical context, and innovation. By examining various painters' lives and works, the book demonstrates how artists reflect and shape the world. Beginning with Renaissance figures like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, the book progresses through the Baroque period, then moves to Impressionism and concludes with 20th-century abstract expressionists, each section analyzing enduring influence and practical implications for understanding contemporary art. This approach provides readers with a deeper appreciation for art's power.
famous human figure artists: Figure Drawing Michael Hampton, 2010
famous human figure artists: Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure Edouard Lanteri, 1985-10-01 Offering meticulous descriptions of the body's anatomical features, Lanteri — an intimate friend of Rodin — covers modelling from casts and live models; measurements; frameworks; scale of proportions; composition in both relief and in the round; drapery; adding inscriptions; and much more. 107 full-page photographic plates. 27 other photographs. 175 drawings and diagrams.
famous human figure artists: World Famous Great Painters Vikāsa Esa Khatrī, 2011 Short life sketches of 56 world famous painters.
famous human figure artists: Louise Bourgeois Louise Bourgeois, 2019-02-19 Spirals are a recurring motif in the work of Louise Bourgeois, including her sculpture, painting, and drawings from as early as the 50s through 2010 the year of her death. It has two directions. Where do you place yourself, at the periphery or at the vortex? The spiral is simultaneously the fear of losing control and the experience of giving up control; of trust, positive energy, of life itself. In another book Bourgeois is quoted as saying The spiral is important to me. It is a twist. As a child, after washing tapestries in the river, I would turn and twist and wring them... Later I would dream of my father's mistress. I would do it in my dreams by wringing her neck. The spiral -- I love the spiral -- represents control and freedom. In materials as diverse as wood, steel, bronze, latex, marble, plaster, resin, hemp, lead, ink, pencil, crayon, woodcut, watercolor, and gouache, Bourgeois investigates every imaginable manifestation of the spiral, from graphic patterns to graphite whorls, wobbly orbits to chiseled vortices, twisted columns to coiling snakes, staircases, and pyramids. The cursive blue-paper word drawings, in English and French, complement the purely visual works by conveying the spirit of Bourgeois' poetry in extraordinary pictorial forms.
famous human figure artists: American Pop Art Lawrence Alloway, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974 Catalog of the exhibition: p. viii-xii. Bibliography: p. 133-140. Based on an exhibition organized for and shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, April 16. 1974, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
famous human figure artists: Glitter in My Wounds , 2021 The result of a series of chance encounters, 'Glitter in My Wounds' embraces accident and improvisation in the face of the restrictive categories that pervade art and life. The book is shaped around a series of portraits of the transgender activist and actress Gersande Spelsberg made by the artist and educator Adam Broomberg. Spelsberg sat for Broomberg and together they made 100 photographs, shot on 5x4 negative and lit only using the sun and mirrors--the same distinctive lighting technique employed in Helmar Lerski's remarkable series Metamorphosis Through Light. Spelsberg's story of transitioning reflects on and questions the many toxic pre-existing conditions that shape contemporary gender roles. CAConrad's book '(Soma)tic Poetry Rituals', serves as a roadmap for confronting identities that had previously felt fixed and immutable and in this collection Broomberg encountered the poem Glitter in My Wounds, with its sparkling echoes of the portraits Broomberg and Spelsberg had made. A prismatic reflection on identity and encounter formed in the meeting of three uncompromising artists, 'Glitter in My Wounds' confronts rigid conventions with an iconoclastic combination of portraits and poetics.
famous human figure artists: Dali Paintings Sarane Alexandrian, 1969
famous human figure artists: How to Draw the Human Figure , 1983-01-01 Introduces drawing materials and techniques, describes the physical structure of the human body, and offers tips on capturing gesture, form, motion, and shading in figure studies.
famous human figure artists: Miss Interpreted Marlene Dumas, 1992
famous human figure artists: A Century of Artists Books Riva Castleman, 1997-09 Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
famous human figure artists: THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPAEDIA: A POPULAR DICTIONARY OF GENREAL KNOWLEDGE , 1861
famous human figure artists: American Artist Ernest William Watson, Arthur Leighton Guptill, 1987
famous human figure artists: The Writer's Brush Donald Friedman, 2007 Friedman has gathered together reproductions of paintings, drawings and sculpture, many from private collections, by a pantheon of great writers, including Hermann Hesse, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Joseph Conrad.
famous human figure artists: Epitome of the World's History, Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern Edgar Sanderson, 1890
famous human figure artists: The Popular Encyclopedia , 1841
famous human figure artists: Closed Contact Jenny Saville, Gagosian Gallery (Los Angeles, Calif.), Glen Luchford, 2002 After having observed the operations of reconstructive surgery and aesthetic surgery, acclaimed figurative painter Jenny Saville was eager to express the violence and anesthetized pain of this experience in her own work. She and fashion photographer Glenn Luchford thus began an artistic collaboration that captures the full range of color, tonality, and topography of live flesh, in large photographic tableaux that portray Saville's own body. Distortions confront and coerce the viewer into an examination of his or her own body and the grotesqueries and beauties inherent within; the images likewise recall biological specimens preserved, disembodied, and disfigured. The collusion of the art and fashion worlds has produced many hybrids in recent years, yet none perhaps none as intensely striking as this series.
famous human figure artists: Artists, Writers, and Musicians Michel-Andre Bossy, Thomas Brothers, John Craig McEnroe, 2001-10-30 Disney's animated trailblazing, Dostoyevsky's philosophical neuroses, Hendrix's electric haze, Hitchcock's masterful manipulation, Frida Kahlo's scarifying portraits, Van Gogh's vigorous color, and Virginia Woolf's modern feminism: this multicultural reference tool examines 200 artists, writers, and musicians from around the world. Detailed biographical essays place them in a broad historical context, showing how their luminous achievements influenced and guided contemporary and future generations, shaped the internal and external perceptions of their craft, and met the sensibilities of their audience.
famous human figure artists: Modern Theories of Art 2 Moshe Barasch, 1998-03-01 In this volume, the third in his classic series of texts surveying the history of art theory, Moshe Barasch traces the hidden patterns and interlocking themes in the study of art, from Impressionism to Abstract Art. Barasch details the immense social changes in the creation, presentation, and reception of art which have set the history of art theory on a vertiginous new course: the decreased relevance of workshops and art schools; the replacement of the treatise by the critical review; and the interrelation of new modes of scientific inquiry with artistic theory and praxis. The consequent changes in the ways in which critics as well as artists conceptualized paintings and sculptures were radical, marked by an obsession with intense, immediate sensory experiences, psychological reflection on the effects of art, and a magnetic pull to the exotic and alien, making for the most exciting and fertile period in the history of art criticism.
famous human figure artists: A General and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts James Elmes, 1826
famous human figure artists: Circa 1492 Jean Michel Massing, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Luís de Albuquerque, Jonathan Brown, J. J. Martín González, Richard Kagan, Ezio Bassani, J. Michael Rogers, Julian Raby, David Woodward, Francis Maddison, Martin Kemp, Giulio Carlo Argan, Martin Collcutt, Sherman E. Lee, Gari Ledyard, F. W. Mote, Stuart Cary Welch, Michael D. Coe, Miguel León-Portilla, Irving Rouse, José Juan Arrom, Craig Morris, James E. Brown, Warwick Bray, J. H. Elliott, 1991-01-01 Surveys the art of the Age of Exploration in Europe, the Far East, and the Americas
famous human figure artists: Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition Mohammed Hamdouni Alami, 2013-12-20 What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition? Mohammed Hamdouni Alami argues that Islamic art has historically been excluded from Western notions of art; that the Western aesthetic tradition's preoccupation with the human body, and the ban on the representation of the human body in Islam, has meant that Islamic and Western art have been perceived as inherently at odds. However, the move away from this 'anthropomorphic aesthetic' in Western art movements, such as modern abstract and constructivist painting, have presented the opportunity for new ways of viewing and evaluating Islamic art and architecture. This book questions the very idea of art predicated on the anthropocentric bias of classical art, and the corollary 'exclusion' of Islamic art from the status of art. It addresses a central question in post-classical aesthetic theory, in as much as the advent of modern abstract and constructivist painting have shown that art can be other than the representation of the human body; that art is not neutral aesthetic contemplation but it is fraught with power and violence; and that the presupposition of classical art was not a universal truth but the assumption of a specific cultural and historical set of practices and vocabularies. Based on close readings of classical Islamic literature, philosophy, poetry, medicine and theology, along with contemporary Western art theory, the author uncovers a specific Islamic theoretical vision of art and architecture based on poetic practice, politics, cosmology and desire. In particular it traces the effects of decoration and architectural planning on the human soul as well as the centrality of the gaze in this poetic view - in Arabic 'nazar'- while examining its surprising similarity to modern theories of the gaze. Through this double gesture, moving critically between two traditions, the author brings Islamic thought and aesthetics back into the realm of visibility, addressing the lack of recognition in comparison with other historical periods and traditions. This is an important step toward a critical analysis of the contemporary debate around the revival of Islamic architectural identity - a debate intricately embedded within opposing Islamic political and social projects throughout the world.
famous human figure artists: Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly Frank Leslie, 1882
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