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In our demanding, fast-paced culture, it's increasingly important to find ways to decompress and recuperate from the busyness and stress of life. More and more, mindfulness and creativity are being recognized as antidotes to the speed and overstimulation of modern society. This beautiful book combines the two, offering both creative and meditative practices to provide a guided journey into contemplative art for healing, relaxation, deeper connection, and greater well-being.

Já pensou em exercitar sua criatividade como se fosse um músculo? "Todo mundo é criativo" traz uma seleção de exercícios inspirados em grandes gênios para ajudar pessoas comuns a treinarem seu lado criativo e trazerem suas ideias à vida com expressividade e originalidade. Seja para encontrar soluções inovadoras no trabalho ou superar bloqueios criativos na arte, os exercícios deste livro oferecem ferramentas para enxergar o mundo de uma forma diferente e enriquecer seus projetos, tanto pessoais quanto profissionais.

All you need is 10 minutes a day to spark your imagination and boost your creative confidence. You don’t need drawing skills. You don’t need to be a creative professional (although, it’s also great for writers, artists, and other creative pros). All you need is a pen and a piece of paper or a notebook.

Esistono periodi straordinari durante i quali, in un unico luogo e tempo, in un solo campo del sapere, si succedono e si affiancano così tanti uomini geniali da far gridare al miracolo. È il caso dei poeti tragici e lirici nella Grecia del quinto secolo avanti Cristo, dei filosofi tedeschi del Settecento e dell'Ottocento. E, ovviamente, dei pittori italiani del Rinascimento. In poco più di due secoli, una fioritura mai vista prima di talenti rivoluzionò la pittura, creando una nuova visione del mondo che suscita, ancora oggi, stupore, estasi, meraviglia.

Es curioso comprobar que si bien la arquitectura románica se desarrolla con anterioridad en la región pirenaica, la escultura toma, en cambio, la ventaja en Galicia y León desde el siglo XI. Cierto es, sin embargo, que los más antiguos dinteles y capiteles fechados parecen ser pirenaicos...

Ferocious Love is about Latimer Bowen’s journey from a wounded artist struggling with depression to a prophetic artist and seer who partners with the Holy Spirit to transfer God’s message and vision onto canvas.

Are you seeking a simple, enjoyable, and effective way to manage anxiety? Outsmart Your Anxiety will show you a unique approach to outsmarting your anxiety and enhance your calmness. Outsmart Your Anxiety is perfect for anyone looking to enhance their calmness. And it’s a great supplement to any treatments or professional help you might be getting. Or simply use it on your own.

Do you want to draw people? This book makes it easy and fun! It will help you get better at drawing, even if you've never drawn before. What makes this book special?

In the spring of 1790 two of the most gifted artists in Europe met in Rome and became fast friends, sharing their views on art, visiting the city’s ancient sites and making trips to the opera together. The Swiss history painter Angelica Kauffman and the French portraitist Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun are no longer household names in the early twenty-first century but were much-fêted celebrities in the late eighteenth. Franny Moyle uses their meeting in the eternal city as the point of departure for a lavishly illustrated 'life and times’ biography of two brilliant but neglected women artists.

"Шедевры Третьяковки. Личный взгляд" – это увлекательная прогулка по залам Третьяковской галереи вместе с Зельфирой Трегуловой. В книге описываются знаменитые полотна российских художников XIX и XX веков: Ильи Репина, Михаила Врубеля, Казимира Малевича и других. Автор рассказывает о том, какие картины кажутся ей наиболее значимыми для истории мирового искусства и почему. Книга будет интересна читателям, которые хотят по-настоящему оценить сокровища российской живописи и взглянуть на них глазами одного из самых уважаемых кураторов страны.

The difference between a painting of a face and a painting that speaks to the viewer is the ability to capture the essence of the model, the ability to see the soul. In this book, I hope to help the artist to see that soul.

This book recognizes the special difficulties faced by creative educators, such as the need for freedom of expression and the diversity in class sizes and ability levels as well as physical space constraints. In order to help instructors create a learning environment that not only manages behavior and makes the most use of class time, but also ignites students' desire for learning, Dr. Dawn has painstakingly selected 30 secrets. Each secret is a combination of strong academic concepts and practical advice.

Landscape painting is a genre that has captured the hearts and imaginations of artistic souls throughout history. From the early Renaissance to the present day, painters have sought to capture the beauty and essence of the natural world on their canvases. We will delve into the core principles and techniques that define landscape painting, exploring its various forms and styles.

Introduction to landscape painting with pastel covering mountains, beaches, farms, and autumn landscapes will show colors to be used and techniques to help give a feeling of being there to the viewer of the finished painting. Color temperature is discussed and how it is best used.

El Museo del Prado no es solamente la mejor pinacoteca del mundo; es también el álbum familiar de las dinastías españolas, los Austrias y los Borbones, que han regido los destinos de España desde hace cinco siglos. En este audiolibro, Juan Eslava Galán, con su inconfundible estilo ameno y...

La agitación socioeconómica provoca una reacción escultórica contra los estilos anteriores dando lugar a un nuevo naturalismo que busca de nuevo su inspiración en el clasicismo renacentista. Rodin es el autor más representativo de este nuevo estilo, pero hay muchos otros autores, como se...

Cliché-verre is a technique of etching and painting directly on photographic negatives. The term means “glass negative” in French and is as old as photography itself, dating to the 1840s and earlier.

Murray's son Mason Ball shares all the hits and misses and long years of hard graft that went into what would become the wildly successful creative enterprise: Footrot Flats. From his unique viewpoint and with candid honesty, Mason reveals the real-life backstory to Murray's most iconic characters and themes, telling the story of the man—and father—who could see the quirks of human nature and capture them with the stroke of a pen.

Великий русский художник Казимир Малевич — одна из ключевых фигур отечественного авангарда, основоположник супрематизма, теоретик искусства, философ и педагог. Всю свою жизнь он посвятил поиску и созданию уникального направления живописи, отображающего его философскую теорию, представление о мироздании и искусстве. Его концепция прошла несколько стадий своего развития: импрессионизм — неопримитивизм — кубофутуризм — супрематизм.

"En este poema, Eliana Hernández bordea la Masacre de El Salado eligiendo narrar, en verso, sus contornos. El dibujo de María Isabel Rueda crece y se desborda a través de las páginas como la naturaleza implacable que no se detuvo ante la violencia de los hombres. Desde la mirada del monte...