Monday, March 23, 2009

Monta May- Accomplished Artist

Monta May- accomplished artist, will share her passion for creating art that is bound up in the mystery of antiquity, the ancient artifacts, techniques, motifs, and imagery that allow us brief glimpses into the lives of our common ancestral pasts. Monta’s work reflects a fascination with things from the past.

-March 24 2:00-3:00 p.m.

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Books Available @ the Fitz

The art of arts : rediscovering painting
Anita Albus

Chinese art : a guide to motifs and visual imagery
Patricia Bjaaland Welch

Cyprus: Byzantine mosaics and frescoes
By Unesco

Greece: Byzantine mosaics
By New York Graphic Society 1960

Great women masters of art
Jordi Vigué.

How I paint : secrets of a Sunday painter
Thomas S. Buechner.

Israel: ancient mosaics
By Unesco

Leonardo : the last supper
with essays by Pinin Brambilla Barcilon and Pietro C. Marani

Masterpieces up close : Western painting from the 14th to 20th centuries
by Claire d'Harcourt

Mixed emulsions : altered art techniques for photographic imagery
Angela Cartwright

A modern mosaic : art and modernism in the United States
edited by Townsend Ludington

Mosaics
by P. B. Hetherington

The mystical language of icons
Solrunn Nes.

Painting the century : 101 portrait masterpieces 1900-2000
Robin Gibson

The passion in art
Richard Harries

Secret knowledge : rediscovering the lost techniques of the old masters
David Hockney

Sister Wendy's 1000 masterpieces
Sister Wendy Beckett

Tunisia: ancient mosiacs
Unesco

Van Gogh face to face : the portraits
contributing authors, Roland Dorn et al.