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An Authoritative, Comprehensive Guide for Contemporary Figurative Artists Mastering the figure is an essential tool for any serious visual artist. At a time when renewed interest in figurative art is surging throughout the art world, author Robert Zeller presents The Figurative Artist's Handbook - the first comprehensive guide to figure drawing and painting to appear in decades. Illustrated with Zeller's own exquisite drawings and paintings as well as works by nearly 100 historical and contemporary figurative art masters, the handbook is also a treasure trove of the finest figurative art of the past and the present day. Included are Michelangelo, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Gustav Klimt, Edward Hopper, Andrew Loomis, Andrew Wyeth, Lucian Freud, Odd Nerdrum, Eric Fischl, Bo Bartlett, Steven Assael, John Currin, and many others.
About the Author
ROBERT ZELLER is an artist, writer and teacher who lives and works in Oyster Bay, New York. Originally from New Orleans, Zeller received a BFA from the Boston Museum School and Tufts University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He finished his education with atelier training from Jacob Collins at the Water Street Atelier and in-depth anatomical and structural study with the sculptor Sabin Howard. Zeller is the recipient of two Posey Fellowships and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and has exhibited at galleries in Los Angeles, Houston, Paris, and New York. He curated "The New Baroque", an exhibition based off of his book, "The Figurative Artist's Handbook" at Booth Gallery in Manhattan, featuring some of the best contemporary figurative artist working today. Zeller is also the director and founder of the Teaching Studios of Art (www.teachingstudios.com) in Oyster Bay, New York. Founded in 2009, the school is devoted to teaching traditional techniques to artists of all ages and skill levels
For more about the artist and his work, visit his website at www.robertzeller.com.
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