The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. This fully coloured illustrated volume presents the best of his work.

Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills, and umbrellas. This work features his work with illustrations.

Features 1001 paintings, ranging from ancient Egyptian wallpaintings to contemporary Western canvases, which were selected by Professor of Fine Art and acclaimed painter, Stephen Farthing. It also contains text written by a team of artists, curators, art critics and collectors which illuminates both the paintings and the people who painted them.

In December 1962, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa set sail from Paris to New York for what was arguably the riskiest art exhibition ever mounted. The fragile icon travelled like a head of state, with armed guards and military surveillance, in a temperature-controlled vault. This work presents the story of an 88-day visit that forever changed America.

Over the last six hundred years, artists have found ways to work their mothers into their most famous paintings. This full-colour book offers paintings from some of the greatest painters in history. It describes the complex and heartfelt relationship between these artists and the women who nurtured them.

Acrylic is used by many well-known professional artists, but is rather less popular with amateurs. This is surprising, because acrylic is not only the most versatile of all the painting media, but is also highly forgiving. You can paint out mistakes as you work, even making major changes to the colour scheme and composition, so that each new painting can become a springboard for ideas. And the ...

Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history.

Bridget Riley, one of the leading abstract painters of her generation, holds a unique position in contemporary art. She has developed and extended the range of her interests ever since her first success in the 1960s, creating a body of work which is both consistent and highly varied. This title reveals the mind behind this remarkable achievement.

Presents the collection of John Howe's dragon art. This book reveals the myths behind each dragon, as well as an exploration on its render, with full captions, annotations, highlighted details and design elements.

A small practical handbook on choosing and mixing colours successfully. It shows how to create the maximum colour range from the minimum number of paints. The authors address watercolours, acrylics and oils, showing how to mix, blend and dilute in order to achieve a range of effects.

The Figurative Art of Jia Lu.

Contains 40 bookstore paintings chronicling the passion and respect for books, booksellers, and the publishing industry.

After a century of Rationalist skepticism and political upheaval, the nineteenth century awakened to a fierce battle between the forces of secularization and the crusaders of a Christian revival. From this battlefield arose an art movement that would become the torchbearer of a new religious art: Nazarenism. This study deals with Nazarenism.

In 1802, at the age of 26, Joseph Mallord William Turner became the youngest ever member of the Royal Academy.

Draws together an eclectic and personal mix of painters: from Picasso to Carpaccio, from Cranach to Nolan.

A guide to the technical terms most commonly used in painting. It presents explanations of the technical terms most often encountered by art enthusiast, visitors to galleries, and museum goers. It also pays special attention to the processes and methods of painting conservation, and offers definitions and examples of materials and techniques.

Our Place in the World.

Of interest to an art enthusiast, this book is both a practical manual for discovering and understanding the artist, J M W Turner, and a guide to his life and work. It examines in detail key works and the techniques by which Turner realised them and features revealing extracts from his notebooks, travel journals and poetry.

A monograph that explores various groups of the author's work chronologically via genre-oriented approach, such as mud-colored paintings, mirror paintings, computer paintings, and so forth.