A title in the LITTLE BOOKS OF series which present a selection of manifestations of the Green Men and gargoyles, grotesques and spirits which are to be found in the churches and cathedrals of Europe. This book looks at the miserycord, a carved wooden prayer rest, decorated on the underside with bawdy caricatures by medieval craftsmen.
RESTLESS lives is a portrait of the eventful, often stormy marriage of two distinguished painters as observed by their only son. Rodrigo Moynihan and Elinor Bellingham Smith met at the Slade and married in 1931, and John was born in the following summer. John Moynihan records, as through a child's eyes, their early life in the London art world of the 1930s. Their close friends included the three founders of the Euston Road School, William Coldstream, Claude Rogers and Victor Pasmore, Coldstream's wife Nancy Sharp and Geoffrey Tibble, Rodrigo's fellow pioneer of 'Objective Abstraction'.
In 1943, Rodrigo was appointed an Official War Artist and soon displayed his portraiture gifts with his famous Private Clarke A.TS, which hangs in Tate Britain and his eloquent depiction of wartime indignities in The Medical Inspection.
After the war, and the family's move to Chelsea, John noted signs of cracks in his parents' marriage. Both were now successful artists, Elinor showing regularly at the Leicester Galleries and winning second prize in the Festival of Britain Exhibition in 1951, and Rodrigo being elected an Associate of the Royal Academy and commissioned to paint his noted portraits of Princess Elizabeth and Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
...the pair's home at 155 Old Church Street became an artists' and writers' salon, frequented by luminaries such as Francis Bacon, Johnny Minton, Henry Lamb, David Sylvester, the novelist Elizabeth Taylor and Lucian Freud.
Dominating all other personalities in this early 1950s milieu was the increasingly manic John Minton, with whom Elinor had developed a close friendship as her marriage to Rodrigo began to fall apart, but this in turn became strained as Minton drank more and more heavily. The Moynihans' marriage finally broke up in 1957, and the story concludes with Minton's suicide, Rodrigo moving to the South of France to live with Anne Dunn, whom he would later marry, and Elinor settling in Boxford, Suffolk.
This standard edition of the 'Discourses on Art' - a study of 18th-century English painting - delivered by Sir Joshua Reynolds, is now reissued in a new format and with revised illustrations.
This book contains a wealth of images - of both natural and manmade objects - that will spark the imagination of all who see them. In this book the author shows how these images can be visually abstracted and then refined and developed to create beautiful patterns and designs.
Aims to provide the next best thing to an actual life drawing studio. This book contains a compilation of traditional life drawing poses and positions revealing nuances of light, shadow, musculature, detail and definition.
This work gives away all the secrets of professional cartooning. It tells how to bring work up to a professional standard, gives facts about syndication, the greetings card industry, advice and information about how to set up your own business, and useful addresses and Websites.
Provides details on an array of materials available to the artist, including canvases and papers, sizes and grounds, pigments and binders, solvents and thinners, and varnishes and preservatives. This book also contains step-by-step recipes for making art materials, including made at home or the studio paints, pastels, varnishes, gessoes, and more.
Features over 1,000 photos of attractive models to draw from, focusing on men and boys of varying ages (16-45), ethnicities and body types.
