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Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he felt confident of his ability to earn a living for his family by painting and he resigned...
Flowers are the centerpiece in the majority of pictorial still-lifes. By painting their colours and forms, artists from Brueghel to O’Keeffe have created symbols for both life and mortality. Van Gogh’s sunflowers, Monet’s water lilies and Matisse’s ...
Born in 1887, Georgia O’Keeffe was one of the key figures who participated in the emancipation of modern art from its conventional forms and subjects. At a time when women were above all wives and mothers, Georgia O’Keeffe defied tradition when she became first the...
Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy concentration drawing spirals with a sense and ...
Rembrandt is completely mysterious in his spirit, his character, his life, his work and his method of painting. What we can divine of his essential nature comes through his painting and the trivial or tragic incidents of his unfortunate life; his ...
Egon Schiele’s work is so distinctive that it resists categorisation. Admitted to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts at just sixteen, he was an extraordinarily precocious artist, whose consummate skill in the manipulation of line, above all, lent a ...
Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside ...
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is one of the great Expressionist painters. He was influenced by Klimt and the Viennese Secession, and at a very early age broke with the traditions of official Austrian art. His many nudes and self-portraits remain true to the neurotic image of...
In 1905 Georgia travelled to Chicago to study painting at the Art Institute of Chicago.In 1907 she enrolled at the Art Students’ League in New York City, where she studied with William Merritt Chase. During her time in New York she became familiar ......
At fifteen, Turner was already exhibiting View of Lambeth. He soon acquired the reputation of an immensely clever watercolourist. A disciple of Girtin and Cozens, he showed in his choice and presentation of theme a picturesque imagination which ...
Cézanne transformed a teacup into something alive, raising still-life to the point that it ceased to be inanimate. Wassily Kandinsky said about the French artist: “He painted these things as human beings because he was endowed with the gift of ...
Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, ...
They met in 1928, Frida Kahlo was then 21 years old and Diego Rivera was twice her age. He was already an international reference, she only aspired to become one. An intense artistic creation, along with pain and suffering, was generated by this ...
En Jazz, Matisse compone con tijeras lo que ya no podía pintar con pinceles. De esa limitación nace una nueva libertad: un torbellino de formas y colores, una danza a la vez alegre y profunda. Página tras página, recorta, marca el ritmo, inventa un lenguaje visual de...
In Jazz komponiert Matisse mit der Schere, was er nicht mehr mit dem Pinsel malen konnte. Aus dieser Einschränkung entsteht eine neue Freiheit – ein Wirbel aus Formen und Farben, ein Tanz zugleich fröhlich und ernst. Seite um Seite schneidet er, rhythmisiert, erfindet...
Dans Jazz, Matisse compose avec des ciseaux ce qu’il ne pouvait plus peindre avec des pinceaux. De cette contrainte naît une liberté nouvelle, un tourbillon de formes et de couleurs, une danse joyeuse et grave à la fois. Page après page, il découpe, rythme, invente un...
Entdecken Sie die fabelhaft bunte Welt von James Ensor! Diese neue Monografie führt Sie auf eine fesselnde Reise durch das Schaffen des bedeutenden belgischen Malers. Ensor, mit seinem einzigartigen Stil und Mut, schenkte uns eine Welt voller Masken, Skelette und...
Véritable électron libre de son époque, William Turner (1775-1851) était considéré comme le maître de la lumière et fut une révélation pour le mouvement impressionniste. Les peintures de ce paysagiste-voyageur s’intensifièrent avec le temps pour quitter définitivement...
Le début du xxe siècle fut une période marquée par une intense recherche esthétique et idéologique. Emportés dans le chaos des conflits mondiaux, les artistes se sont avancés au-delà du simple rôle de témoins pour devenir de véritables acteurs. Conscients de leur...
Découvrez le monde fabuleusement coloré de James Ensor ! Cette nouvelle monographie vous emmène dans un voyage captivant à travers l’œuvre de l’un des plus grands peintres belges. Ensor, avec son style unique et son audace, nous a offert un univers rempli de masques, de...
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