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

John Constable was the first English landscape painter to take no lessons from the Dutch. He is rather indebted to the landscapes of Rubens, but his real model was Gainsborough, whose landscapes, with great trees planted in well-balanced masses on land sloping upwards towards the frame, have a rhythm often found in Rubens. Constable's originality does not lie in his choice of subjects, which frequently repeated themes beloved by Gainsborough. Nevertheless, Constable seems to belong to a new century; he ushered in a new era. The difference in his approach results both from technique and feeling. Excepting the French, Constable was the first landscape painter to consider as a primary and essential task the sketch made direct from nature at a single sitting; an idea which contains in essence the destinies of modern landscape, and perhaps of most modern painting. It is this momentary impression of all things which will be the soul of the future work. Working at leisure upon the large canvas, an artist's aim is to enrich and complete the sketch while retaining its pristine freshness. These are the two processes to which Constable devoted himself, while discovering the exuberant abundance of life in the simplest of country places. He had the palette of a creative colourist and a technique of vivid hatchings heralding that of the French impressionists. He audaciously and frankly introduced green into painting, the green of lush meadows, the green of summer foliage, all the greens which, until then, painters had refused to see except through bluish, yellow, or more often brown spectacles. Of the great landscape painters who occupied so important a place in nineteenth-century art, Corot was probably the only one to escape the influence of Constable. All the others are more or less direct descendants of the master of East Bergholt.

Constable

Delve into the exquisite, sensuous sculpture of Camille Claudel with this in-depth look at her remarkable body of work. Along with many of her paintings and drawings, her sculpture is examined with a focus which reveals every intricate detail of her incredible renditions of movement and human emotions. Fascinated from a young age by crafting models with her hands, French sculptor, painter, and draughtswoman Camille Claudel (1864-1943) fought to overcome the hurdles placed in the way of female artists and carved a place for herself in the history of art. Following an apprenticeship with Alfred Boucher, Claudel entered the studio of Auguste Rodin, with whom she had a tumultuous ten-year love affair which often threatened to eclipse her art. The two artists had a profound impact on one another, each of their features appearing in the other's work. After breaking off the relationship to forge her own path, Claudel created a stunning, incredibly modern oeuvre. Though many were destroyed by her own hands, those that remain are a powerful testament to her artistic genius.

Camille Claudel

Born in the Industrial Revolution, the factory has long been considered like a monster of iron, subjugating the individual to the collective in an act of mass dehumanisation. Turning away from the pure functionality for which it was built, the factory is evolving into an aesthetic space, sometimes transformed into modern lofts or a museum of contemporary art. The surprising photographs featured in this work help us rediscover the volume, purity of line, beauty, and stunningly modern architecture of these steelboned monuments.

Factories

Maler, Designer, Hersteller von seltsamen Gegenständen, Autor und Filmemacher: Dali wurde der Berühmteste der Surrealisten. Bunuel, Lorca, Picasso und Breton hatten einen großen Einfluss auf seine Karriere. Dalis und Bunuels Film "Ein andalusischer Hund" markierte seinen offiziellen Einstieg in die festgefügte Gruppe der Pariser Surrealisten, wo er Gala kennen lernte, seine lebenslange Gefährtin und die Quelle seiner Inspiration. Aber seine Beziehung verfiel bald bis zu ihrem endgültigen Ende mit André Breton im Jahr 1939. Trotz allem blieb Dalis Kunst in ihrer Philosophie und Ausdrucksweise surrealistisch, und ein Schulbeispiel für Humor, Reinheit und Erforschung des Unbewussten. Während seines ganzen Lebens war Dali ein Genie der Selbstvermarktung, indem er seinem Ruf eine mystische Note zufügte und immer beibehielt.

Salvador Dalí

Nach den definierten Kanons der Kunsttechnik sollte ein Porträt vor allem eine getreue Darstellung seines Modells sein. Diese Galerie mit 1000 Porträts zeigt jedoch, wie sich das Genre im Laufe der Geschichte verändert hat und sich als viel komplexer erwiesen hat als eine bloße Nachahmung der Realität. Über die Darstellung der Kunstfertigkeit des Künstlers hinaus muss das Porträt die Aufgabe der Nachahmung, so gerecht und präzise es auch sein mag, übertreffen, sowohl die Absicht des Künstlers als auch die seines Gnners zu übersetzen, ohne seine Wünsche zu verraten. Deshalb enthüllen diese stillen Zeugen, die auf diesen Seiten sorgfältig ausgewählt wurden, mehr als die Gesichter historischer Persnlichkeiten oder anonymer Personen: Sie enthüllen eine psychologische Tiefe, die mehr als eine Identität ist, sie veranschaulichen eine Allegorie, dienen der politischen und religisen Propaganda und verkrpern die Bräuche ihrer Epochen. Mit einer beeindruckenden Anzahl von Meisterwerken, Biografien und Kommentaren zu den Werken präsentiert und analysiert dieses Buch verschiedene Porträts und stellt so dem Leser und jedem Kunstliebhaber ein Spiegelbild der Evolution der Gesellschaft und vor allem die Umwälzungen eines Genres dar, das über 30 Jahrhunderte der Malerei die Kunstgeschichte geprägt hat.

1000 Porträts

Entre courbes et contre-courbes, Mucha créa, à la fin du XIXe siècle, une égérie nouvelle qui devait hanter les rues de Paris. Au fil des représentations de Sarah Bernhard, cette muse voluptueuse devint un véritable emblème de l'Art nouveau et offrit à l'affichiste succès et renommée.

Néanmoins, le talent de l'artiste ne se limita jamais à la lithographie. Nourri par cette passion d'exalter, au mieux, la sensualité du monde qui l'entourait, l'art de Mucha, s'exprima indifféremment tant sur les monumentaux panneaux décoratifs des salles à manger que sur les petites pièces délicates de porcelaine. C'est toute la richesse et la variété de cet artiste fin-de-siècle que nous fait redécouvrir ici l'auteur.

Alphonse Mucha

The influence of works by French artists extends itself across all artistic styles, and many French works have gained world fame as classics. This book gives an overview of the French milestones in still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, and includes artists like Poussin, Clouet, Moreau, Millet, Courbet, Signac, and Rouault. The convenient format makes the Mega Square edition an ideal gift for any art lover.

French Painting 120 illustrations

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". The importance that female nudes were to assume as subjects for Picasso in the next few months (in the winter and spring of 1907) came when he developed the composition of the large painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Just as African art is usually considered the factor leading to the development of Picasso's classic aesthetics in 1907, the lessons of Cézanne are perceived as the cornerstone of this new progression. This relates, first of all, to a spatial conception of the canvas as a composed entity, subjected to a certain constructive system. Georges Braque, with whom Picasso became friends in the autumn of 1908 and together with whom he led Cubism during the six years of its apogee, was amazed by the similarity of Picasso's pictorial experiments to his own. He explained that: "Cubism's main direction was the materialisation of space." After his Cubist period, in the 1920s, Picasso returned to a more figurative style and got closer to the surrealist movement. He represented distorted and monstrous bodies but in a very personal style. After the bombing of Guernica during 1937, Picasso made one of his most famous works which starkly symbolises the horrors of that war and, indeed, all wars. In the 1960s, his art changed again and Picasso began looking at the art of great masters and based his paintings on ones by Velázquez, Poussin, Goya, Manet, Courbet and Delacroix. Picasso's final works were a mixture of style, becoming more colourful, expressive and optimistic. Picasso died in 1973, in his villa in Mougins. The Russian Symbolist Georgy Chulkov wrote: "Picasso's death is tragic. Yet how blind and naïve are those who believe in imitating Picasso and learning from him. Learning what? For these forms have no corresponding emotions outside of Hell. But to be in Hell means to anticipate death. The Cubists are hardly privy to such unlimited knowledge".

El Greco

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