Le style Art déco fut érigé sur les cendres d'un monde dévasté par la première guerre mondiale. S'oubliant dans le tourbillon du Jazz Age et de l'ivresse des années folles, la mince « Garçonne » reflète le style architectural de l'Art déco : aux sinusoïdes généreuses sont désormais préférées la simplicité et la sobriété de la droite androgyne... Architecture, peinture, mobilier et sculpture, analysés ici par l'auteur, revendiquent leur préférence pour les lignes incisives et arbitraires, les angles cassés et volontaires. Bien qu'éphémère, l'Art déco continue encore d'influencer le design contemporain.

Art déco

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

Az e-könyv a Kossuth Kiadó által nyomtatásban megjelentetett nagysiker? Világhíres fest?k cím? sorozat azonos cím? kötetének szöveganyagát tartalmazza, az illusztrációk nélkül. Sandro Botticelli itáliai fest?, a korai reneszánsz idején a firenzei iskola legjelesebb képvisel?je volt. Nem könny? feladat teljes bizonyossággal megkülönböztetni a kezét?l származó alkotásokat, e termékeny életm? legszembet?n?bb vonása sajátos kett?ssége, ami a hagyományos kompozíciós elemek és kötöttségek merev betartása, illetve az érzelemkifejezés rendkívüli felszabadultsága és ereje között feszül? ellentétnek köszönhet?. A festmények architektonikus merevsége mögött ugyanakkor gyakran bonyolult szimbolikus tartalmak és a fest? saját életére, illetve kortársaira történ? konkrét utalások rejlenek.

Botticelli

L'oeuvre de Van Gogh symbolise la transition des Impressionnistes vers la peinture moderne, notamment celle des Fauves tels que Vlaminck ou Derain ou celle des Expressionnistes tels que Soutine ou Utrillo. Les différents tableaux que comptent les musées russes proviennent en presque totalité des collections Chtchoukine et Morozov (seuls marchands d'art russes qui s'intéressèrent à Van Gogh).
Le gouvernement de 1917 les confisquera et les oeuvres seront ensuite partagées entre le musée de l'Ermitage et le musée Pouchkine de Moscou.

Van Gogh

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

Peu  de  personnes  contestent  le  fait  que  Pablo  Picasso  (1881-1973)  ait  été  l'artiste  le  plus important du XXe siècle. Né à Malaga, en Espagne, Picasso a révélé son génie dès son plus jeune âge et s'est rapidement trouvé une place au sein des cercles artistiques les plus populaires de son temps, d'abord à malaga puis à Paris. En recherche d'inspiration et dans un contexte de renouveau artistique, Picasso se tourne vers l'histoire médiévale et les arts primitifs. On lui doit, ainsi qu'à George Braque, l'invention du Cubisme, non seulement l'un des nombreux mouvements avant-gardistes mais aussi l'expression d'une esthétique qui allait changer l'art de la peinture pour toujours. Une fois libéré des principes traditionnels, Picasso a produit des oeuvres remarquables aussi bien en qualité qu'en quantité.

Picasso

Die russischen Landschaften gehören zu den schönsten der Welt, mit den berühmten Wildblumenteppichen in den Wäldern im Frühling und der eisigen Wintertundra, die das Vordringen Napoleons und Hitlers vereitelte, bilden sie die Kulisse für so viele bekannte Szenen der russischen Literatur. Und doch wurden sie erst durch die Hand des Malers Iwan Schischkin (1832-1898) unsterblich, indem er wie kein anderer vor oder nach ihm den Zauber und die Majestät der russischen Landschaften auf die Leinwand bannte. Irina Shuvalova und Victoria Charles untersuchen in dieser umfassenden Studie die herausrageenden Werke Schischkins.

Iwan Schischkin

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, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group of Parisian Surrealists, where he met Gala, the woman who became his lifelong companion and his source of inspiration. But his relationship soon deteriorated until his final rift with André Breton in 1939. Nevertheless Dalí's art remained surrealist in its philosophy and expression and a prime example of his freshness, humour and exploration of the subconscious mind. Throughout his life, Dalí was a genius at self-promotion, creating and maintaining his reputation as a mythical figure.

Dalí

Architecte et designer barcelonais, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) occupe une large place dans l'histoire de l'art espagnol. L'usage de la couleur, l'emploi de différents matériaux et l'introduction du mouvement dans ses constructions furent une innovation dans le domaine de l'architecture. 
Il laissa dans ses carnets de nombreuses réflexions à propos de son art telles que : « La couleur dans  l'architecture doit être intense, logique et fertile. » Appuyée par de nombreuses photographies et de nombreux détails architecturaux, l'étude que mène l'auteur, Jeremy Roe, permet une approche du contexte de l'art barcelonais et introduit une minutieuse étude critique des constructions, objets et écrits du plus célèbre architecte barcelonais.

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