O arquitecto e designer espanhol Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) foi uma figura importante e influente na história da moderna arte espanhola. A utilização da côr, a grande variedade de materiais assim como a introdução de formas orgânicas nas suas construções foram uma inovação no domínio da arquitectura. No seu diário Gaudí expressa livremente os seus sentimentos sobre arte: "As cores utilizadas em arquitectura devem ser intensas, lógicas e férteis".
As suas obras arquitectónicas, completas ou incompletas, assim como os seus designs de mobiliário, ilustram a importância desta filosofia. A Sagrada Família (1882-1926) foi um projecto monumental que tomou conta da sua vida, estando incompleto à hora da sua morte.
Mega Square Gaudí foca-se na biografia e trabalhos deste famoso artista espanhol, proporcionando uma visão inteligente dos principais temas de Gaudí.

Gaudí

De Miguel Ângelo a Rubens, Degas e Picasso, a arte erótica atraiu grandes mestres, cujas obras cativaram o observador como poucas outras. Apesar de, ou talvez devido a esta atracção, a arte erótica foi sempre controversa, devendo regularmente defender-se das acusações de pornografia. Este livro conduz os leitores desde as primeiras cenas de representações eróticas produzidas nos séculos XVI e XVII, até aos destaques contemporâneos tais como os cadernos de desenhos de Picasso, incluindo uma grande variedade de estilos e técnicas.

Desenhos Eróticos

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

Longtemps considéré comme le petit frère négligé de la peinture, l'art du dessin a récemment commencé à avoir meilleure réputation. Des expositions sur le dessin créées à travers le monde, notamment par le Metropolitan Museum de New York ou les Offices de Florence, ont apporté au dessin plus de critiques et d'intérêt académique que jamais. Ce texte captivant offre au lecteur une analyse de l'histoire du dessin, des maîtres de la Renaissance comme Léonard de Vinci ou Michel-Ange, aux artistes modernes comme M. C. Escher ou Pablo Picasso.

1000 Dessins de Génie

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".

Pablo Picasso

A vita e l'opera di Vincent van Gogh sono talmente intrecciate che è quasi impossibile osservare i

suoi quadri senza leggervi la storia della sua vita: una vita raccontata tanto spesso da essersi trasformata in leggenda.

Van Gogh è l'incarnazione della sofferenza, il martire incompreso dell'arte moderna, l'emblema dell'artista come outsider.

Vincent van Gogh

Découvrez les fascinants chefs-d'oeuvre de Gustave Caillebotte et promenez-vous sur les boulevards de son Paris du XIXe siècle aux côtés des membres distingués de la haute société de l'époque. Chaque oeuvre est accompagnée de trois détails mettant en lumière tous les éléments charmants de l'héritage de cet artiste de talent. Gentilshommes, parisiens et proprets, travailleurs en plein labeur, boulevards parisiens baignés de soleil et barques nonchalantes dérivant sur la rivière, tout scintille dans l'OEuvre captivant de cet impressionniste peu connu. Bien qu'ayant organisé huit de leurs expositions, Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) est généralement négligé parmi ses légendaires camarades impressionnistes. Pourtant, un regard attentif à sa manière moderne de portraiturer la vie parisienne contemporaine est essentiel, ses compositions saisissantes attirant notre attention, nous happant au coeur de la réalité de cette société en constante mutation. Né dans une famille aisée de la bourgeoisie, Caillebotte savait mieux que personne ce que Paris avait à offrir, et, depuis son appartement situé derrière l'opéra, il peignit certains des paysages urbains atmosphériques pour lesquels il est particulièrement célèbre.

Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)

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

The five hundred or more paintings of Caillebotte werenot given much attention during his lifetime. For years, he was considered primarily a generous patron ofimpressionists, but not as a painter in his own right. Later, his style was seen to be more realistic than those of his friends Degas, Monet and Renoir. In 1874, he helped to organise the First Impressionist Exhibition. However, hedid not include his own work - he would show in laterimpressionist exhibitions. In this typical work he capturesthe feeling of a new Parisian boulevard in an area of theBatignolles quarter on a rainy day. The realism with which Caillebotte depicts the scene is later praised by the writer Emile Zola: "Paris Street, Rainy Day displays strollers and, in particular, a man and a woman in the foreground, of a beautiful realism. When his talent will have softened a little, Caillebotte will certainly be the most audacious of the group."

Gaudí

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