Join the green revolution !Bring plants into the home to reconnect with nature-it's the perfect antidote to life's frenetic pace. With stepby-step tips, you'll learn how to choose and care for stylish, low-maintenance houseplants, including ferns, air plants, cacti, and succulents. Then create your own garden of paradise with more than seventy fun and rewarding ideas for nesting at home with greenery. From decorativeDIY crafts to natural, homemade cosmetics, and from infusions to essential oils, these simple-to-follow projects will foster a sense of well-being and turn your home into a leafy, relaxing retreat.- Foolproof growing tips- Terrariums and aquatic plants- Himmeli and macramé planters- Pressed leaves and flowers- Wreathes and decorative touches- Natural, homemade dyes- Embroidery samplers- Essential oils and beauty DIY- Infusions and green recipes
From the first decorative pigments in Paleolithic caves, to Sonia Delaunay's contrasts of primary and secondary colors, to Dan Flavin's neon light installations, this comprehensive, illustrated guide demonstrates how color-through different periods, cultures, and artistic movements-has been used and interpreted in art. Through sixty masterworks from prehistory to the present day, the history and symbolic meanings of colors are explored, as well as the materials and techniques employed by artists to convey their effects, from Yves Klein's monochromes to Mark Rothko's fields of vibrant colors, or from Claude Monet's impressions of a fleeting moment in time to David Hockney's ultramarine blue reflections and shadows, inspired by Johannes Vermeer. Featuring the chromatically remarkable creations of artists including Veronese, Van Gogh, Hokusai, Kandinsky, O'Keeffe, Kahlo, or Warhol, this volume offers an enlightening overview of the history of color in art.
