Techniques of the Great Masters of ArtThe techniques of 77 of the world's greatest painters are examined in over 100 of their finest paintings. The book shows the development of technique from the frescoes of Giotto to the acrylic paintings of David Hockney, revealing the extent to which changes of technique and the evolution of artists' material went hand in hand. |
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abstract Actual size detail alizarin appears applied areas artists background Braque brush brushstrokes brushwork century Cézanne Cézanne's chiaroscuro chrome chrome yellow cobalt blue cobalt violet collage color composition contours contrasts Courbet create Cubism dark Degas depicted Derain drawing Duchamp early Ecole des Beaux-Arts edge effects executed exhibition Fauve Fauvism figure flat foreground frottage Gauguin Gogh handling hues impasto Impressionist Kandinsky landscape lead white lines Manet Matisse Matisse's method mixed mixture Monet movement Naples yellow nature Neo-Impressionists Oil on canvas oil paint opaque paint layer paint surface painter pale palette papier collé Paris pastel Picasso pictorial pigment Pissarro Pollock portrait primed canvas Prussian blue Renoir Salon scumbled Seurat shadows shows slurred strokes studies style Surrealist technical technique thick thin thinly tints tonal tone touches traditional transparent ultramarine underdrawing underpainting varnish vermilion viridian viridian green visible warm wet-in-wet yellow ochre