If all you read is CHAPTER THREE: Legacies of Twelve Masters: Wisdom of Mystics and Sages disguised as Artists. The way you look at portraits will change forever. You will understand the secret qualities of masters and masterpieces, and ideas that have inspired artists and helped create timeless portrait and portraits that go beyond mere resemblance.
Chapters Include John Singer Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla, and Anders Zorn: their evangelical ideas and technics that popularized impressionism across the globe. The Future of Commissioned Portraits.
As we celebrate the souls of our times and preserve their beauty in paint and color we must go to the source of portraiture and learn, why did ancient Egyptians demand accurate skin tones? What can we learn from portrait masters in history to help us transform today’s people into timeless art? Who are the masters we must be inspired by, and look at, in order to create meaningful and eternal portraits? Why do the portraits of the gods of India have different skin tones? What were the ideas that became the blueprints of their timeless portraits? How should today’s portrait painters look at people? The book equips readers with answers to these questions and more — it is a book about the minds behind eternal portraits.
Origins of Our Complexions: How Portraiture Started in Ancient Egypt • Artistic Demands by Pharaohs • Origin of the Impressionists
Secret Teachings: Sages and Mystics in Disguise Tribute to Women ArtistsDemands by Pharaohs • Origin of the Impressionists
Transforming Visions into Art: In Search of Timeless Beauty • Difference Between Skin Tones and Flesh TonesDemands by Pharaohs • Origin of the Impressionists
Revelations: Artists Search for Beauty and Meaning The Evolution of Portraiture • Skin Tones in Powder
“Great! Great! Great! Terrific gift for all portrait artists!!!” — Jeanine Jackson Founder & President of Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists
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— Thomas Venturella (Founder of Venturella Studios)
“Your new book is a fascinating and terrific tour of art history and artists’ techniques, beautifully illustrated. You are such a force for good and especially for excellent and moving art, which as you know best is so essential for the soul. ”
— Michael J Graetz, Columbia Alumni Professor
“Sam Adoquei was a master teacher at the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Art when I was director there for eleven years. He was a demanding instructor who brought out the best in his students. Since then he has continued on a path of excellence in his paintings and teaching, now shared through his books. This well written and illustrated one on skin tones is much needed.
— Annette Blaugrund, Ph.D.
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Learn Five Evangelical Painting Qualities that Transformed Artists and Impressionism in American
A catalog of portraits and masterpieces in history every portrait enthusiasts must know. And portraits that have inspired artists for centuries.
SAMUEL ADOQUEI a Ghanaian-born American is the author of Origin of Inspiration and How Successful Artists Study, both Strand Books No. 1 bestsellers. Mr. Adoquei is the first and only African in Western art to teach in all of the art academies in New York City, and the artist served on the faculty at the National Academy of Design for twenty five years. He is the founder of the Fine Arts Atelier of Union Square. Mr. Adoquei has appeared in The New York Times and Le Monde of France. His book has been praised in Rolling Stone Magazine. Mr. Adoquei’s artworks have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and at other museums in the United States and abroad. Sams art is in the collections of The Harvard Club, New York; Columbia University, New York; and in many other prestigious private collections. The artist also serves on the executive board of the American Portrait Society.
