Loot Audiobook by Edward Lucie-Smith

Gourd Art: A Proven Step-by-Step Method to Making Beautiful Gourd Art Today Audiobook by Amber Lewis

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com [http://hotaudiobook.com] Title: Gourd Art: A Proven Step-by-Step Method to Making Beautiful Gourd Art Today Author: Amber Lewis Narrator: Mindy Newell Format: Unabridged Length: 36 mins Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Amber Lewis Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Publisher's Summary: Learn the beauty of gourd art! An art is an essential way of life. Any form of art is an expression of your soul and identity. It not only nourishes your life by providing endless opportunities with which to create new masterpieces, it also helps you find inner peace. Traditional art forms like painting, sketching, and sculpting have managed to stay alive despite the storm of technology and machinery. There are still many young people who, motivated by passion and the dream to paint, sculpt, or sketch something that might capture the essence of true beauty, live their lives exploring what the fine arts can offer them. Some of the greatest men and women have claimed for themselves a unique art style or contribution to the talk of art and creation. Today, there are new art forms readily available for the public. The most common art forms of today include those that need the Internet or a graphic user interface for the artist to be able to come up with digital images that sometimes look more convincing than any real object or person. However, there are art forms that, rooted in the simpler pleasures of rural life, continue to beckon creative intellectuals and art enthusiasts to rethink what art is and how it may be created. Gourd art is an example of that simple, rural-based art form. It is a little known practice that begins with growing, harvesting, choosing, then cleaning and designing a gourd. The design possibilities of gourd art are virtually endless as artists can express their creativity through carving or painting on the gourds surface. If you do not have an artistic hobby yet, you would do well to learn all about gourd art and how easy it is to get started with this art form. There is nothing as satisfying as learning a new way to express your creative side. Come learn the simple yet truly gratifying art that Mother Nature herself provides. Members Reviews: do not buy Unless you want to learn how to grow pumpkins, this book is worthless in regards to creating gourd art. There is no information on how to lay out designs, no step by step instructions for creating a piece of artwork. The information contained in this book can easily be found on the internet for free. Complete waste of money. Not much here Not very much information and few pictures. Very little use for anyone starting out in Gourd Art. For a supposed step by step manual this is sorely lacking. Most steps are missing or glossed over and in fact the procedures are not truly laid out in steps at all. Not worth the price and way over hyped. A waste. Of time This book does nothing to give a person any valuable information on gourd art. Finished the book in five minutes and learned nothing. Why is this book even in the kindle library? The title and picture on the cover of this book leads one to believe something that is not found in the book. gourd man Way to simple, not as advertised. Very disappointed. Expected more. Informative for real basic beginners, I guess I am further along than I thought. Five Stars Great

Paris and Beyond Audiobook by Edward Lucie-Smith

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com [http://hotaudiobook.com] Title: Paris and Beyond Subtitle: Studies in World Art, Book 60 Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Joe Van Riper Format: Unabridged Length: 9 mins Language: English Release date: 01-15-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Publisher's Summary: In the early years of the 20th century, Paris became the center for an international community of artists. Some of them were French, but the city also offered its hospitality to artists from an increasingly wide range of other nationalities. Some, like Marc Chagall, came from communities that had never produced artists of international note before. The result was a mixture between a stewpot and a laboratory. A stewpot because all kinds of cultural traditions were blended together. A laboratory because this is where all kinds of artistic ideas were continually tested to their limits. Nothing like this artistic community had ever existed previously, not even in Rome during the 17th century, when artists from Northern Europe flocked to Italy to complete their technical and intellectual education.

Loot Audiobook by Edward Lucie-Smith

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com [http://hotaudiobook.com] Title: Loot Subtitle: Studies in World Art, Book 45 Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Paul Bright Format: Unabridged Length: 30 mins Language: English Release date: 01-10-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Publisher's Summary: The current agitation about the restitution of artistic treasures of all kinds to their original locations is usually presented as overdue justice for faults committed by European colonialism. In fact, this is a serious oversimplification. Conquering armies have always regarded works of art as legitimate spoil. Swedish collections, for instance, are rich in objects from the collection of the Hapsburg Emperor, Rudolph II, taken during the Thirty Years War. These, however, were not generally the work of Czech artists but the possessions of an alien court that had based itself for a while in Prague. The modern Czech Republic does not pine for them too much, even when there is proof that they were actually created in Bohemia. Modern attitudes to the legitimate or illegitimate possession of famous artworks can be traced to the European Enlightenment that blossomed in the late 18th century, and in particular to the impact made by Enlightenment ideas on the men of the French Revolution.

Physiology of the Opera Audiobook by John H. Swaby

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com [http://hotaudiobook.com] Title: Physiology of the Opera Author: John H. Swaby Narrator: Ella Porter, John H. Swaby Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 12-31-17 Publisher: Audioliterature Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Publisher's Summary: "Physiology of the Opera" by John H. Swaby describes the opera and its actors in great detail - on the stage and behind the curtains. Excerpt: As an introduction to the dissertation upon which we are about to enter, such an antiquarian view of the subject might be taken as would tend to establish a parallel between the ancient Greek tragedy and the modern sanguinary Italian opera, the strong resemblance therein being displayed of Signor Salvi trilling on the stage, to the immortal Thespis jargoning from a dung-cart. But we shall indulge in no such wearying pedantry. Our intention being merely to "hold the mirror up to nature," in presenting our immaterial reflector to the public, we invite our readers to a view of the present only - a period of time in which they take most interest, since they adorn it with their own presence. ©2017 Audioliterature (P)2017 Audioliterature

Meditation Audiobook by Edward Luie-Smith

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com [http://hotaudiobook.com] Title: Meditation Subtitle: Studies in World Art, Book 2 Author: Edward Luie-Smith Narrator: Joe Van Riper Format: Unabridged Length: 11 mins Language: English Release date: 12-29-17 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Publisher's Summary: This is not an exhibition about Realist art, as will be immediately apparent from some of the works included. Instead, it is an exhibition that invites the spectator to consider what his, or her, vision of reality truly is. The philosophical debate about the nature of realism in art began in earnest quite late in the history of Western painting and sculpture. The trigger was the invention of photography. When Louis Daguerre announced his new process in 1839 there were many people who thought that it might, in due course, make the visual artist superfluous. This feeling was particularly strong in Protestant countries, such as Great Britain, which was than in the throes of a religious revival that had its roots.