V roce 2012 se součástí Nakladatelství Slovart stalo nakladatelství Brio. Nakladatelství Brio vydávalo ve spolupráci s předními spisovateli a výtvarníky nádherně ilustrované originální příběhy a sbírky pohádek pro děti od šesti do dvanácti let. Pro starší děti, mládež a dospělé Brio nabízelo sebrané spisy pohádek a bajek od renomovaných spisovatelů, doplněné o to nejlepší z klasické literatury celého světa. V této tradici pokračujeme také my v rámci stejnojmenné edice.
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Realism is a monolithic, lockstep, strictly governed method of painterly
visualization shattered into nuances of interpretation. Where you paint
can make you a Regional Realist. What you paint might label you a Genre
Realist, or who you paint classifies your work as Portrait Realist - or
maybe a Portrait Regionalist Realist if you paint Native Americans in
the West, or sea captains on the East Coast.
Of the variations cited, there are even further nuances that mock the
concept of “American Realism” as an
all-embracing style. What remains are American Realist artists, each
facing subject matter that is part of the fabric of the American scene.
The result of their efforts is determined by the filtering of their
perceptions through their individual intellects, skill sets, training,
regional influences, ethnic influences and basic nurturing. If there is
any binding together it is within the tradition of Realist Art in the
United States, which accepts such a range from Winslow Homer's poetic
watercolors of the 1860s to the haunting minutiae of Andrew Wyeth and
melancholy light of Edward Hopper in the 1950s and 1960s.
This book presents a cross-section of American Realist artists spanning
more than 100 years of art. It begins as some artists struggle with the
influences of Europe and other home-grown painters bring their
nineteenth-century American scenes to life, and ends as today's
generation of Realist painters co-exist with American Modernism and
absorb this new freedom into the latest incarnation of their art.
The Author
Gerry Souter earned his degree at The Art Institute of Chicago and then
went on to do further studies in art at the University of Chicago.
Himself an artist, Souter has exhibited his paintings and photographs at
The Art Institute of Chicago, the Phoenix Art Museum and a number of
other galleries. A professional author, he has written more than twenty
books since 1997, with great success. His continuing studies in Art
History and Architecture, the sharpness of his writing, and his visual
experience add a dynamic aspect to the study of the lives of artists and
the description of their works, keeping the reader captivated, page
after page.
