Painting and Printmaking

Artist interviews, as well as exclusive visual documentation of their studios.
Also in print: ND212.7 .F54 2009

Painting is a continually expanding and evolving medium. The radical changes that have taken place since the 1960s and 1970s, the period that saw the shift from a modernist to a postmodernist visual language, have led to its reinvigoration as a practice

Vitamin P3 spotlights more than 100 outstanding artists who are engaging with - and pushing the boundaries of - the medium of paint.

Figure drawing exercises that are undertaken one step at a time, along with methods for developing proficiency using a variety of traditional media and the latest art materials available today.

Exercises to develop fluency in drawing, experience in handling media, self-confidence, and an understanding of art elements and their role in pictorial space. Provides examples of works on paper, prints, watercolors, paintings, photography, and sculpture, and including works by a number international artists.

Many New York painters who later went on to become famous, filmed and interviewed informally in their studios. Artists include Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell and more.