Posts Tagged ‘Wall’
Guitars 2012 Calendar (Wall Calendar) The calendar that speaks to the guitar lover’s soul, Guitars is a passionate tribute to music, mojo, and craftsmanship, presenting a dozen groundbreaking and visually dazzling instruments in full color. There’s the Gibson L-5, an uncommon marriage of aesthetics and acoustics, whose fans included Mother Maybelle Carter. The cutting-edge Krundaal [...]
Who Farted? 2012 Calendar (Wall Calendar) You can’t help but laugh. It’s a calendar, it’s a fart joke, it’s a hilarious way to pass the year. Every month, Who Farted? asks the age-old question alongside a straightforward full-color photograph. Press the button at the bottom of the page, and one of fifteen different fart noises [...]
Kitties in the Kitchen 2012 Calendar (Wall Calendar) It’s a full year of organization—plus kittens! Kitties in the Kitchen is the week-at-a-glance calendar that helps keep busy families running smoothly. The 12″ x 12″ magnetic, fridge-friendly pad features tear-off pages that are divided into seven columns—one for each day of the week. Fill in every [...]
Art Nouveau 2012 Calendar (Wall Calendar) What was new about Art Nouveau? Painters and graphic artists transported the wistful, solitary young woman created by Pre-Raphaelite poets and painters into modern urban settings, where she became the standard-bearer of commercial advertising. Here are twelve classic Art Nouveau works by many great artists of the era, including [...]
Haiku: Japanese Art and Poetry 2012 Calendar (Wall Calendar) The traditional Japanese haiku contains seventeen sound characters, a seasonal reference, and a distinct pause or interruption. The seasonal allusion emphasizes the essence of haiku: nature and its ephemeral beauty. The twelve deceptively simple haiku featured in this calendar rendered in English with Japanese calligraphies and [...]
Classic Guitars 2012 Calendar (Wall Calendar) The guitar we recognize today was born in Renaissance Europe, but in the past two centuries American musicians, playing everything from blues to western swing to rock, and companies such as Martin, Gibson, and Fender, have virtually redefined the instrument. American trends and innovations have in turn traveled back [...]
Carl Larsson 2012 Calendar (Wall Calendar) Carl Larsson (Swedish, 1853-1919) studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Art, worked as an illustrator, lived in Paris, and then moved to an artists, colony, where he met his future wife and underwent an artistic transformation, exchanging oils for watercolors. In the 1880s Larsson moved his young family [...]
Puppies in the Kitchen 2012 Calendar (Wall Calendar) Stay organized week by week, and get your puppy fix too! Puppies in the Kitchen is the marriage of practical and cute. The calendar is a 12″ x 12″ pad with tear-off pages and a magnetized back for fridge-compatibility. Each page is divided into seven columns, Sunday [...]
Exquisite Creatures: The Insect Art of Christopher Marley 2012 Calendar (Wall Calendar) Ironically, the insects that inspired terror in the young Christopher Marley (American, b. 1969) later became the medium of his artwork. As an adult, Marley developed a fascination with insects’ jewel-like colors, their often outlandish shapes, and their perfect mechanics, which led him [...]
John William Waterhouse 2012 Calendar (Wall Calendar) An Englishman born in Rome to artist parents, John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) was deeply influenced by his early life in Italy. The paintings of the mature artist show an Italian attention to bodily masses; his trees suggest Botticelli; even in paintings inspired by English verse, his settings suggest [...]
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