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

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

La période de la Renaissance débute en Italie à la fin du XIVe siècle et s'étend sur tout le continent européen jusqu'à la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle. La redécouverte des splendeurs de la Grèce et de la Rome antique marque les débuts d'une " renaissance " des arts, en rupture avec les dogmes du Moyen Age. Nombre d'artistes vont innover aussi bien dans les domaines de la peinture, que dans ceux de la sculpture et de l'architecture. Le réel et l'idéal, le profane et le sacré, le mouvement et la perspective constitueront les thèmes de référence, qui influenceront l'art européen pour les quatre siècles à venir. Léonard de Vinci, Michel-Ange, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Giorgione, Mantegna, Raphaël, Dürer et Bruegel sont au nombre de ces artistes qui apporteront une contribution décisive à l'art de la Renaissance.

L'Art de la Renaissance

S'étant développé à travers l'Europe pendant plus de 200 ans, l'art gothique est un mouvement qui trouve ses raciness dans la puissante architecture des cathédrales du nord de la France. Délaissant la rondeur romane, les architectes commencèrent à utiliser les arcs-boutants et les voûtes en berceau brisé pour ouvrir les cathédrales à la lumière. Période de bouleversements économiques et sociaux, la période gothique vit aussi le développement d'une nouvel iconographie célébrant la Vierge, à l'opposé de l'iconographie terrifiante de l'époque romane. Riche de changements dans tous les domaines (architecture, sculpture, peinture, enluminure, etc.), l'art gothique s'effaça peu à peu face à la Renaissance italienne.

L'Art gothique

Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the French created the term 'Rococo'. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, it rapidly spread to the whole of Europe. Extravagant and light, Rococo responded perfectly to the spontaneity of the aristocracy of the time. In many aspects, this art was linked to its predecessor, Baroque, and it is thus also referred to as late Baroque style. While artists such as Tiepolo, Boucher and Reynolds carried the style to its apogee, the movement was often condemned for its superficiality. In the second half of the 18th century, Rococo began its decline. At the end of the century, facing the advent of Neoclassicism, it was plunged into obscurity. It had to wait nearly a century before art historians could restore it to the radiance of its golden age, which is rediscovered in this work by Klaus H. Carl and Victoria Charles.

Rococo

Over the course of history, many wars have changed the political and cultural landscape of our world. While these events are defined by their upheaval and violence, they frequently contribute to the formation of the identity of entire generations or groups of people, and thus have significant cultural effects. Despite the physical and emotional destruction that occurs during these turbulent periods, they have inspired prolific artistic creation. In the wake of traumatic events over the centuries, a myriad of artists have produced works that immortalise the most dramatic moments of these wars in order to establish them in history forever. 

This book presents beautiful images depicting famous battles and war scenes, accompanied by the iconic text of the legendary Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, as well as texts documenting notable moments of different wars, each written by well-known writers. From Uccello's The Battle of San Romano to Picasso's Guernica, this work offers a captivating look at artworks inspired by war and what they reveal about humanity's history.

Art of War

Alle lebendigen Wesen sind Buddhas und verfügen über Weisheit und Tugend." (Buddha) Buddha zählt zu den am häufigsten dargestellten Heiligenfiguren der gesamten Welt, vielleicht ist er sogar häufiger als der in der westlichen Kunst so wichtige Christus abgebildet worden. Buddha wird in ganz Asien und weit darüber hinaus verehrt. Sein Bild nahm an der Seidenstraße, dem Geburtsort vieler Varianten des Buddhismus, Gestalt an. Die buddhistische Religion erkennt viele verschiedene Buddhas an, die wiederum unterschiedliche Traditionen verkörpern: so z. B. den Buddhismus der Lehre der Ordens-Älteren (Theravada), des Großen Fahrzeugs (Mahayana) und den Tantrischen Buddhismus (Vajrayana). Der in allen Traditionen verehrte Buddha ist in jeder Kunstform dargestellt worden: in der Bildhauerei, häufig in monumentalen Skulpturen wie etwa den heute zerstörten Buddhas von Bamyan, in der Malerei und vor allem in unzähligen Höhlenmalereien wie etwa jenen im indischen Ajanta oder in den Dunhuang-Höhlen in China. Das vorliegende Werk ist sowohl für den leidenschaftlichen Liebhaber asiatischer Kunst als auch für Neulinge auf diesem Feld ideal geeignet. Es lädt ein, Buddha, seine Geschichte, seine Lehren, aber auch seine unzähligen Gesichter durch insgesamt tausend Abbildungen, großartige Kunstwerke aus den größten Museen der Welt, zu entdecken oder wiederzuentdecken.

1000 Buddhas

Au-delà des tournesols, des iris et du docteur Gachet, il y a l'homme, van Gogh, avec sa fragilité et son talent. Né en 1853, décédé en 1890, le post-impressionniste van Gogh bouscule, en quelques années, par sa créativité et sa technique, tous les principes de la peinture du XIXe siècle. Précurseur, son influence s'étendra aux expressionnistes, aux Fauves et à l'art moderne. Mais van Gogh reste aussi le symbole du peintre torturé par la maladie, les autres et surtout par lui-même. Dans cet ouvrage, les auteurs ont suivi comme fil conducteur la correspondance de van Gogh, rythmée par ses oeuvres où s'exprime une nouvelle approche des couleurs. La légende y côtoie souvent le banal, celui d'un immense génie de la peinture confronté aux petites réalités de l'existence. Malgré ses inquiétudes et ses peurs, van Gogh pressent l'importance de son œuvre et revendique le droit à la différence. Le temps lui donnera raison.

Vincent Van Gogh - De la peinture à l'écrit

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".

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