This stunning book, published to accompany a major international exhibition covering the artist's entire career, reveals the sheer range, quality, and originality of Gainsborough's work, from his engagingly naturalistic landscapes and touching images of children to his sophisticated and glamorous society portraits. "Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the masters of 18th-century art. A lavish monograph on the 18th-century British painter. We are specialists in Catalogues: Exhibitions, Auctions, Collections, etc., with a picture of the cover available on request. Gainsborough shunned the theory-led practice of the Royal Academy in preference for an art based on pleasure over convention, this volume draws on the view that his work has a continuing significance for British culture today.
It intends to present a new angle of the artist, exploring his studio practice and innovative use of colour as well as highlighting the inventiveness and complexity of his techniques. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Tate Britain the text aims to demonstrate the sheer range, quality and originality of this artist's work. This work looks at the art of Thomas Gainsborough, widely acknowledged as one of the great masters of the 18th century. Illustrated in colour and black and white.
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