Der Begriff Romanische Kunst bezeichnet in der Kunstgeschichte die Epoche vom 11. bis zum 13. Jahrhundert. Diese Epoche wies eine große Vielfalt an regionalen Schulen auf, die alle spezifische Merkmale hatten. Sowohl in der Architektur als auch in der Bildhauerei wird die Romanische Kunst durch ihre rauen Formen charakterisiert.

Dieses Buch lässt den Leser durch den faszinierenden Text und seinen umfangreichen Bildteil diese Kunst des Mittelalters, die heute im Vergleich mit ihrer unmittelbaren Nachfolgerin, der Kunst der Gotik, so häufig verachtet wird, neu entdecken.

Romanik

The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break-down of the dogmatic certitude of the Middle Ages. A number of artists began to innovate in the domains of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Depicting the ideal and the actual, the sacred and the profane, the period provided a frame of reference which influenced European art over the next four centuries.

Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Giorgione, Mantegna, Raphael, Dürer and Bruegel are among the artists who made considerable contributions to the art of the Renaissance.

Renaissance Art

Art Deco style was established on the ashes of a disappeared world, the one from before the First World War, and on the foundation stone of a world yet to become, opened to the most undisclosed promises. Forgetting herself in the whirl of Jazz Age and the euphoria of the "Années Folles", the Garçonne with her linear shape reflects the architectural style of Art Deco: to the rounded curves succeed the simple and plain androgynous straight line.

Architecture, painting, furniture and sculpture, dissected by the author, proclaim the druthers for sharp lines and broken angles. Although ephemeral, this movement keeps on influencing contemporary design.

Art Deco

Dali

Peintures de Génie réunit les œuvres incontournables de l'art occidental, à voir au moins une fois dans sa vie. Unanimement reconnues, ces peintures sont accompagnées de légendes détaillées et replacées dans leur contexte historique. De nombreux commentaires et biographies complètent ce passionnant ouvrage, guide absolu de l'amateur d'art. Référence artistique, culturelle et éducative, ce livre vous invite à la visite des grands musées qui abritent ces chefs-d'œuvre.

Peintures de Génie - 1000 Chefs-d'oeuvre du XIIIe siècle à nos jours

Az e-könyv a Kossuth Kiadó által nyomtatásban megjelentetett nagysiker? Világhíres fest?k cím? sorozat azonos cím? kötetének szöveganyagát tartalmazza, az illusztrációk nélkül. El Greco halálakor "minden vagyonként csupán 200 vázlatos festményt hagyott hátra". A spanyol miszticizmus fest?je két évvel el?zte meg halálával nagy kortársát, Cervantest. Ez a dátum az egyike azon kevés támpontoknak, amelyek biztosnak tekinthet?k életrajzában. El Greco hétköznapjairól, életér?l továbbra is alig rendelkezünk adatokkal. Sokszor érezheti úgy az ember, hogy titkait csak a festményei el?tt merengve fejtheti meg, amelyekhez ráadásul sokszor ma is nehéz hozzáférni a félhomályos, toledói templomok és kápolnák mélyén.

El Greco

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 meaning known only to himself. At other times, shunning children's games, he traced his first pictures in the sand. This early self-expression held out promise of a rare gift. Málaga must be mentioned, for it was there, on 25 October 1881, that Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born and it was there that he spent the first ten years of his life. Picasso's father was a painter and professor at the School of Fine Arts and Crafts. Picasso learnt from him the basics of formal academic art training. Then he studied at the Academy of Arts in Madrid but never finished his degree. Picasso, who was not yet eighteen, had reached the point of his greatest rebelliousness; he repudiated academia's anemic aesthetics along with realism's pedestrian prose and, quite naturally, joined those who called themselves modernists, the non-conformist artists and writers, those whom Sabartés called "the élite of Catalan thought" and who were grouped around the artists' café Els Quatre Gats. During 1899 and 1900 the only subjects Picasso deemed worthy of painting were those which reflected the "final truth"; the transience of human life and the inevitability of death. His early works, ranged under the name of "Blue Period" (1901-1904), consist in blue-tinted paintings influenced by a trip through Spain and the death of his friend, Casagemas. Even though Picasso himself repeatedly insisted on the inner, subjective nature of the Blue Period, its genesis and, especially, the monochromatic blue were for many years explained as merely the results of various aesthetic influences. Between 1905 and 1907, Picasso entered a new phase, called "Rose Period" characterised by a more cheerful style with orange and pink colours. In Gosol, in the summer of 1906 the nude female form assumed an extraordinary importance for Picasso; he equated a depersonalised, aboriginal, simple nakedness with the concept of "woman"...

Pablo Picasso and artworks

John Constable ist der erste englische Landschaftsmaler, der den Holländern in nichts nachsteht. Er übernimmt zwar einiges von Rubens Landschaften, doch sein eigentliches Vorbild ist Gainsborough. Constable bringt einen frischen Wind in die Malerei, zum einen, was die Technik, zum anderen, was das Gefühl anbelangt. Mit Ausnahme der Franzosen war Constable der erste Landschaftsmaler, der es als wichtigste Aufgabe erachtete, zunächst in einer einzigen Sitzung in der Natur eine erste Skizze anzufertigen. Diese Idee ist der Keim für die Entwicklung der modernen Landschaftsmalerei  ja vielleicht sogar der modernen Malerei überhaupt. Es ist diese spontane Momentaufnahme, das flüchtigste, persnlichste und am wenigsten reproduzierbare Element, das dem zukünftigen Bild seine Seele gibt. Beim späteren gemächlichen Arbeiten an der Leinwand kann die Absicht des Künstlers nur darin bestehen, diese erste Skizze zu bereichern und zu vervollkommnen, ohne jedoch die jungfräuliche Frische zu verlieren. Diesen zwei Prozessen widmete sich Constable mit dem Ziel, die Fülle des Lebens in den ländlichen Gegenden zu entdecken.

Constable

Goya is perhaps the most approachable of painters. His art, like his life, is an open book. He concealed nothing from his contemporaries, and offered his art to them with the same frankness. The entrance to his world is not barricaded with technical difficulties. He proved that if a man has the capacity to live and multiply his experiences, to fight and work, he can produce great art without classical decorum and traditional respectability. He was born in 1746, in Fuendetodos, a small mountain village of a hundred inhabitants. As a child he worked in the fields with his two brothers and his sister until his talent for drawing put an end to his misery. At fourteen, supported by a wealthy patron, he went to Saragossa to study with a court painter and later, when he was nineteen, on to Madrid. Up to his thirty-seventh year, if we leave out of account the tapestry cartoons of unheralded decorative quality and five small pictures, Goya painted nothing of any significance, but once in control of his refractory powers, he produced masterpieces with the speed of Rubens. His court appointment was followed by a decade of incessant activity - years of painting and scandal, with intervals of bad health. Goya's etchings demonstrate a draughtsmanship of the first rank. In paint, like Velázquez, he is more or less dependent on the model, but not in the detached fashion of the expert in still-life. If a woman was ugly, he made her a despicable horror; if she was alluring, he dramatised her charm. He preferred to finish his portraits at one sitting and was a tyrant with his models. Like Velázquez, he concentrated on faces, but he drew his heads cunningly, and constructed them out of tones of transparent greys. Monstrous forms inhabit his black-and-white world: these are his most profoundly deliberated productions. His fantastic figures, as he called them, fill us with a sense of ignoble joy, aggravate our devilish instincts and delight us with the uncharitable ecstasies of destruction. His genius attained its highest point in his etchings on the horrors of war. When placed beside the work of Goya, other pictures of war pale into sentimental studies of cruelty. He avoided the scattered action of the battlefield, and confined himself to isolated scenes of butchery. Nowhere else did he display such mastery of form and movement, such dramatic gestures and appalling effects of light and darkness. In all directions Goya renewed and innovated.

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