Frederic Remington: The Color of Night
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (525 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691115540 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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studioprod. said the nocturnes. This book is replete with Remington's night scenes. For the working artist/illustrator, this is the Bible of scenes depicting night and other low-light situations. As always, Remington's compositions are things of wonder.. Kermit said Breathtaking!. I knew very little about Remington's works before buying this book. I had of course, seen many of the famous paintings, but I hadn't really looked seriously at this man's work. Frankly, the cover of this book caught my eye and then the themes of its compositions are what inspired me to buy. I was not disappointed. What a great introduction to the works of this very fine artist. Of all . "Complete and detailed" according to Guido Mangieri. This book is divided in parts.In the first part you will find the biography of Remington and all his artworkIn the second, there are all the "The color of the night" paintings in big size with the description of each one.As a bonus, there is a brief study of the technique that used Remington to paint these great paintings.Great book about a great artist.
Frederic Remington: The Color of Night helps us to do just that."--Christopher Capozzola, The Art Book. Remington's work is rich enough to allow every generation to see him anew. The perceptive essays in this beautifully illustrated work demonstrate how energetically imaginative, experimental, and modern Remington became when he sought to portray the color of night."--Choice"This volume has by far the highest production values of any publication on Frederic Remington, and offers fresh insights from novel approaches to art history, biography and cultural studies. Winner of the Western Heritage Awards Best Art Book"The best book about Remington currently in print."--Library Journal"An unusually candid glimpse of an artist and his work.
As the definitive resource on Remington's nocturnes, this volume pairs large reproductions of these stunning paintings--including newly conserved works and others not seen publicly since the artist's death--with commentary from his personal diaries and letters and from contemporary critics.EXHIBITION SCHEDULEnga/ National Gallery of Art, Washington April 13 - July 13, 2003gilcrease/ The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OklahomaAugust 10 - November 9, 2003denverartmuseum/ Denver Art MuseumDecember 13, 2003 - March 14, 2004. In the decade preceding his untimely death, Frederic Remington (1861-1909) produced a series of paintings that took as their subject the color of night. Focused on the subject the artist had made his own--the American West--these paintings reflect Remington's dramatic reworking of the narrative tradition as well as the spare modernism of his late work.Frederic Remington: The Color of Night, accompanying the first exhibition devoted to the nocturnes, includes three insightful essays discussing Remington's nocturnes within the literary, historical, aesthetic, and technological context of his time. Indeed, these magnificent nocturnes marked an important new direction for the celebrated illustrator, writer, and sculptor of America's vanishing frontier. The nocturnes do much more than document a night that was rapidly disappearing under bright, newly installed electric lights. This richly illus