"An understanding of anatomy is essential to being able to draw the human body, whether at rest or in movement. In this particular drawing book, expert anatomical drawing educator Jennifer Crouch shows how the human body works, from understanding how the skeleton fits together, to how the muscles and tendons work to support and move the body. She shows how to create form and tone and how to achieve realistic skin texture as well as reflecting posture,...

From earliest days, artists have sought to record the beauty, form, movement, and infinite variety of the human body. Among the most successful were the great masters of the various European traditions and schools of art. The extraordinary skill, inspiration, and technique they brought to figure drawing resulted in many masterpieces. This anthology, carefully reproduced from rare portfolios, presents over forty of those works, by artists ranging from...

Of all the artifacts from the history of medicine, the Anatomical Venus--with its heady mixture of beauty, eroticism and death--is the most seductive. These life-sized dissectible wax women reclining on moth-eaten velvet cushions--with glass eyes, strings of pearls, and golden tiaras crowning their real human hair--were created in eighteenth-century Florence as the centerpiece of the first truly public science museum. Conceived as a means to teach...

Mega Square In Praise of the Backside celebrates the most sensual part of the female body. The insightful text by Hans-Jürgen Döpp discusses the backside as a feature that stands for both powerful eroticism and supple femininity, seducing famous artists from every genre. This title is sure to entice and delight a wide audience with its lively, provocative images.

Mega Square In Praise of the Backside celebrates the most sensual part of the female body. The insightful text by Hans-Jürgen Döpp discusses the backside as a feature that stands for both powerful eroticism and supple femininity, seducing famous artists from every genre. This title is sure to entice and delight a wide audience with its lively, provocative images.

In this technical guide, Civardi imparts a thorough and intelligent understanding of how to draw the human body. Written with clarity and enthusiasm, and using numerous examples of his own work as teaching aids, Civardi provides the reader with a firm grounding in observation, anatomy, proportion, body structure, perspective and composition. The exploration of static versus dynamic poses provides the artist with an invaluable source of ideas and inspiration,...

La collection populaire de parkstone sur les « cinq plus beaux/belles…» offre aux jeunes lecteurs un cours miniature d'histoire de l'art, associant des puzzles interactifs représentant les chefs-d'œuvre de l'art à des textes simples mais didactiques. ces livres fournissent aux parents et aux professeurs un moyen de développer l'imagination artistique des enfants, posant les fondations d'une vie future d'amateurs d'art. Que ce...

La collection populaire de parkstone sur les « cinq plus beaux/belles…» offre aux jeunes lecteurs un cours miniature d'histoire de l'art, associant des puzzles interactifs représentant les chefs-d'œuvre de l'art à des textes simples mais didactiques. ces livres fournissent aux parents et aux professeurs un moyen de développer l'imagination artistique des enfants, posant les fondations d'une vie future d'amateurs d'art. Que ce...