"Asher Sculptures"
Itzik (Itzhak) Asher’s art is the total embodiment of his life. To better comprehend his work one need to understand the events and circumstances comprising his life. Artistic expression is the sum total of experience – of a creative person’s development and maturity. It originates with early childhood, continues through the formative teen years and is contoured by the events of his mature life today.
Asher’s oeuvre can be divided into three major periods: the iron period, erotic period and the journey period, each tracing a significant stage that provided his sculptures with fundamental and decisive influences. But in order to truly realize the essence of his work it is necessary to divide his 35 years of creative activities into those three periods. This book will deal solely with his third chapter, the journey period. This will allow the reader to come to know Asher’s late works and appreciate the polished master sculptor and craftsman he has become today.
'Endless is the Way Leading Home The Art of Stephen Csoka'
Reprinted with permission of the Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
The works of Stephen Csoka (1897 – 1989) reflects a lifetime of passions, hardships, triumphs, and change. Referred to as a romantic realist, his career spans seven decades – decades of fluctuation and turbulence in Europe and the United States. Throughout his career, through stylistic and aesthetic transitions, his insight, emotions and skill held fast as did his devotion and drive to create art, whether a painting, pastel, etching, lithograph, or drawing. Csoka believed drawing could take you anywhere. His particular ardor for drawing set the stage for many events in his life; even saved it.
"Painting Cowboys and the Old West" - Robert Hagan
If you’ve ever struggled with getting action into your oil paintings, then take heart because Robert Hagan has come galloping to your rescue.
In this instructive book, Robert shows you all the elements that go to making a painting with so much “oomph” it will stop people in their tracks.
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"Romantic Oil Painting Made Easy" - Robert Hagan
Robert Hagan reveals his secret techniques for creating romantic oil paintings the easy way.
In his no-nonsense way, Robert Hagan explains the nuts and bolts of making a painting, and describes how to work with the two "mother colours".
This teaching book will not only show you Robert's romantic oil painting techniques but also a unique way to interpret the world of nature around you.
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"Walt Horton: Sculpture and The Art of Being"
Sculpture was a small part of an extraorinary life, becoming an outlet for passions and experiences. All lighthearted fun and big ideas, Walt Horton: Sculpture and the Art of Being takes you on an odyssey from Walt’s early years as a professional cartoonist to stories behind many of his favorite bronzes.
Stuffed full of drawings and cartoons created by Walt himself you can see how he grew from a kid with a pencil to one of America‘s most beloved sculptors.
We offer two choices, both 100 pages and 9″x9″ in size:
An unlimited soft cover edition;
An exclusive hardcover Collector’s Edition limited to 475, signed and numbered by the author.*
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'Vassiliy Petrovich Kossenkov, Master Russian Impressionist Painter'
The name Vassiliy Petrovich Kossenkov is rightly mentioned in the same rank with the names of such famous Soviet landscape painters as Efrem I. Zverkov, Nikolai Efimovich Timkov, Vladimir Y. Yukin, and Vladimir Fedorovich Tokarev. These masters are brought together by openness, simplicity, and delicacy. The emotional intensity of their creations is rooted in their tender allegiance to their native land.
As you peruse this book and enjoy the beautiful impressionistic artworks of Vassiliy Petrovich Kossenkov, you will no doubt come to realize that the works speak for themselves in a subtle and enchanting way.
The landscapes of Kossenkov are also based on reality. There is not obtrusive demonstrativeness and declaration in them. There is no false delight, or pretentiousness with the simplicity of rural nature. The art of Kossenkov is vital and humane.
"A Vision of Life" - Makk Family
Eva and Americo Makk were fused into an unprecedented art development by fate and circumstance. After completing their studies in the Academies of Paris and Rome, they started their artistic life by creating large compositions in churches, cathedrals, business and government buildings. This opportunity made it possible for them to leap over the usual confinements and searches of an artist’s formative years and plunged them straight into works of great magnitude and challenge.
A.B. has incorporated the Makk style into his paintings, continuing the family techniques of ingeniously adapting his parents’ concept of subtly interweaving colors and gradually bringing them to a climax of exploding brilliance. Each artist, however, uses this style in a distinct and markedly different way. And unanimously, they believe that to paint is not just to reproduce what life reveals to the eye but to glorify that which life encompasses as a whole in is fleeting, yet eternal, passage.
'Soviet Era Master Impressionist'
(Coffee Table Book)
Fedor Zakharov was an artist by vocations, by profession and by way of life. He was a famous, respected, and recognized master during his lifetime. He was named the People’s Artist of Ukraine, given the laureate of the State Award of Crimea, made the recipient of the T. G. Shevchenko State Award of Ukraine and awarded with two orders. His works are displayed in the best museums of the former Soviet Union: the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, and many others. He participated in many foreign exhibitions abroad. His paintings have found worldwide acceptance in galleries and private collections.
The scale of his personality corresponded to the level of his gift. He has enriched the Russian realistic tradition with new dimension, the best in best painting achievements, inspiring with light, piercing and transforming all around, sated with air and smells. He took the impressionist vision to previously unreachable depth and subtlety and created an exclusive Zakharov’s style which distinguishes him and makes his works memorable at first sight.
L. A. Shiryaeva
Art Critic
Member of the Russian Union of Painters
'Reflections From Russia, Volume III, Fedor Zakharov'
“Fedor Zakharov is a master of transferring effects of light. Bright solar light, vanishing twilight, soft evening glow, and the cold lunar effects of the moon – all are found in the varied landscapes of the artist.
Interest in Zakharov is growing year to year, both in Russia and abroad. Society in general does not yet realize his place in the cultural context of the second half of the twentieth century, but there is an intuitive feeling that his art is original and of high cultural value. Creative advances always outpace public acceptance. The process of defining Fedor Zakharov’s cultural status is progressing at a normal rate for the cultural process …”
Olga Kostina, Editor-in-Chief of Russian Gallery magazine (State Tretyakov Gallery Edition)
Doctor of Art Criticism
Senior Scientist of the State Art Institute