Fine Art


Ways of Seeing
The Story of Art
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
Leonardo da Vinci
The Art Spirit
History of Art
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Rembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
Atlas Maior
Anatomy for the Artist
Wall and Piece
Leonardo's Notebooks
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings
J.W. Waterhouse
What Comes After Farce by Hal FosterPotential History by Ariella Aïsha AzoulayWhat Art Is by Arthur C. DantoWhat Is Art? by Leo TolstoyThe Beach Boys Handbook for Iconoclasts by G.A. De Forest
Art Philosophy Books
99 books — 8 voters
Matisse the Master by Hilary SpurlingRenoir, My Father by Jean RenoirLeonardo da Vinci by Walter IsaacsonNegative Space by Lilly DancygerA Life of Picasso, Vol. 1 by John     Richardson
Artist Biographies
202 books — 70 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantFake Like Me by Barbara BourlandLust for Life by Irving Stone
Fiction about Art
27 books — 9 voters
The Renaissance Club by Rachel DacusGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic SmithThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantTheft by Peter Carey
Novels About Art History
23 books — 20 voters

Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi CoatesGemini by Sonya MukherjeeViolet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del ReyThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Paintings as book covers
98 books — 4 voters
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett JohnsonBrown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaolaPat the Bunny by Dorothy KunhardtThe Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle
Art-Related Books for Children
198 books — 8 voters

Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.
Liz Rideal, How to Read Art: A Crash Course in Understanding and Interpreting Paintings

Sol Luckman
Maybe art’s just a mode of escapism, but I’ll take that. It’s certainly a lot cheaper (not to mention safer) than heroin. You can smack me up with art any day.
Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

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