Jonah Winter
This story of Diego Rivera, the greatest muralist of Mexico--and of the world--is told in Spanish and English. Vibrant miniature paintings convey the sense of adventure and magic that marked Rivera's early years. And the story shows how his ... [... more]
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Buddhist Paintings 2008 Wall Calendar
During the two and one-half millennia since Siddhartha Gautama achieved spiritual enlightenment while meditating under a sacred fig tree, Buddhism has spread from India to Tibet, East Asia, and around the world. The images in this calendar include fo [... more]
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Japanese Scrolls & Screen Paintings 2008 Wall Calendar
Through the centuries, scrolls and screens have provided forms within which Japanese artists have created some of their most captivating works. Made of paper and silk decorated with ink, watercolors, and gold leaf, they show various influences, inclu [... more]
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Japanese Lacquer Paintings 2008 Mini Wall Calendar
Japanese Lacquer Paintings Mini Wall Calendar: A painter and lacquer artist in nineteenth-century Edo (today's Tokyo), Shibata Zeshin (1807& #1501891) perfected the urushi-e technique for painting with colored lacquer on paper. Unlike oils, urus [... more]
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Henri Matisse Paintings 2009 Wall Calendar
Henri Matisse Paintings Wall Calendar: This new wall calendar for 2009 features a fine collection of paintings by Henri Matisse. [... more]
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Aboriginal Art Paintings from Australia 2009 Wall Calendar
Aboriginal Art Paintings from Australia Wall Calendar: Australian Aboriginal art, reflecting perhaps the world’s oldest continuous culture, is a manifestation of the Dreaming, or ancestral past, linking the physical world with the unseen dimensio [... more]
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Japanese Scrolls & Screen Paintings 2009 Wall Calendar
Japanese Scrolls & Screen Paintings Wall Calendar: Through the centuries, scrolls and screens have provided forms within which Japanese artists have created some of their most captivating works. Made of paper and silk decorated with ink, watercol [... more]
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Japanese Screen Paintings 2009 Mini Wall Calendar
Japanese Screen Paintings Mini Wall Calendar: Some of Japan’s most captivating art has taken the form of scrolls and folding screens. Japanese scrolls—made of silk or paper decorated with ink, gold leaf, and watercolors—bear the influence [... more]
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Chinese Paintings 2009 Wall Calendar
Chinese Paintings Wall Calendar: The brush-strokes tell the story—what else would we expect from a country that has turned writing into an art form? Chinese Paintings celebrate nature in a beautiful way that illustrates a deep respect for [... more]
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Philip Booth
Start with a vintage poem by Philip Booth, whose rhythms recall the cadence of a moving freight train. Pair it with detailed realistic paintings... Written by Philip Booth, Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline Philip Booth Bagram Ibatoulline [... more]
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Charles Jencks
Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier dominated twentieth-century architecture much the way Picasso dominated painting. His outstanding achievements, his vision of a harmonious machine civilization, his paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture, ... [... more]
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Buddhist Paintings 2009 Wall Calendar
Buddhist Paintings Wall Calendar: This calendar features Tibetan and Chinese thangkas, devotional paintings used as teaching tools. Originally carried by nomadic storytellers to illustrate their tales, thangkas evolved into religious artifacts fabric [... more]
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