Alfred Sisley (18391899) angol nemzetiség?, de Franciaországban él? és alkotó fest?m?vész, sokak szerint a legtisztább impresszionista. Összesen mintegy 900 olajfestményt alkotott. Tájképein, ahol embereket alig ábrázol, els?sorban a fények játéka dominál. Felt?n? a hó iránti lelkesedése. Egy barátjának küldtt levelében írta: Minden festmény olyan helyet ábrázol, amelybe a fest? beleszeretett.

Sisley

« Le père Pissarro », comme aimaient à l'appeler ses amis, était le plus sage des artistes impressionnistes. Peut être son âge, plus avancé que celui de ses camarades Monet, Sisley, Bazille et Renoir, ou plutot sa maturité, lui firent créer des ouvres sereines et sobres tant dans leur sujet que dans leur composition. 

Homme au goûts simples, il se plut à peindre des paysans sur les chemins, bien qu'il dut sa tardive notoriété à ses paysages urbains, traités avec la même passion que celle que faisaient jaillir en lui les ciels orageux et les matins blanchis par le givre.

Camille Pissarro

For Claude Monet the designation `impressionist' always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true impressionist to the end of his very long life. He was so by deep conviction, and for his Impressionism he may have sacrificed many other opportunities that his enormous talent held out to him. Monet did not paint classical compositions with figures, and he did not become a portraitist, although his professional training included those skills. He chose a single genre for himself, landscape painting, and in that he achieved a degree of perfection none of his contemporaries managed to attain. Yet the little boy began by drawing caricatures. Boudin advised Monet to stop doing caricatures and to take up landscapes instead. The sea, the sky, animals, people, and trees are beautiful in the exact state in which nature created them - surrounded by air and light. Indeed, it was Boudin who passed on to Monet his conviction of the importance of working in the open air, which Monet would in turn transmit to his impressionist friends. Monet did not want to enrol at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He chose to attend a private school, L'Académie Suisse, established by an ex-model on the Quai d'Orfèvres near the Pont Saint-Michel. One could draw and paint from a live model there for a modest fee. This was where Monet met the future impressionist Camille Pissarro. Later in Gleyre's studio, Monet met Auguste Renoir Alfred Sisley, and Frédéric Bazille. Monet considered it very important that Boudin be introduced to his new friends. He also told his friends of another painter he had found in Normandy. This was the remarkable Dutchman Jongkind. His landscapes were saturated with colour, and their sincerity, at times even their naïveté, was combined with subtle observation of the Normandy shore's variable nature. At this time Monet's landscapes were not yet characterized by great richness of colour. Rather, they recalled the tonalities of paintings by the Barbizon artists, and Boudin's seascapes. He composed a range of colour based on yellow-brown or blue-grey. At the Third Impressionist Exhibition in 1877 Monet presented a series of paintings for the first time: seven views of the Saint-Lazare train station. He selected them from among twelve he had painted at the station. This motif in Monet's work is in line not only with Manet's Chemin de fer (The Railway) and with his own landscapes featuring trains and stations at Argenteuil, but also with a trend that surfaced after the railways first began to appear. In 1883, Monet had bought a house in the village of Giverny, near the little town of Vernon. At Giverny, series painting became one of his chief working procedures. Meadows became his permanent workplace. When a journalist, who had come from Vétheuil to interview Monet, asked him where his studio was, the painter answered, "My studio! I've never had a studio, and I can't see why one would lock oneself up in a room. To draw, yes - to paint, no". Then, broadly gesturing towards the Seine, the hills, and the silhouette of the little town, he declared, "There's my real studio."Monet began to go to London in the last decade of the nineteenth century. He began all his London paintings working directly from nature, but completed many of them afterwards, at Giverny. The series formed an indivisible whole, and the painter had to work on all his canvases at one time. A friend of Monet's, the writer Octave Mirbeau, wrote that he had accomplished a miracle. With the help of colours he had succeeded in recreating on the canvas something almost impossible to capture: he was reproducing sunlight, enriching it with an infinite number of reflections. Alone among the impressionists, Claude Monet took an almost scientific study of the possibilities of colour to its limits; it is unlikely that one could have gone any further in that direction.

Claude Monet

Pierre Bonnard était le chef d'un groupe de peintres post-impressionnistes. Ils se nommèrent eux-mêmes les Nabis, du mot hébreux signifiant 'prophète'. Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel, Denis, les plus illustres des Nabis, ont révolutionné l'esprit des techniques décoratives durant l'une des époques les plus riches de la peinture française. Influencés par Odilon Redon, Puvis de Chavannes, l'imagerie populaire ou les estampes japonaises, ces post-impressionnistes furent avant tout un groupe d'amis fréquentat les mêmes milieux culturels. L'individualisme croissant de leurs créations ébranla souvent l'unité du groupe. Bien que liés par une même philosophie, leurs oeuvres divergeaient nettement. Cet ouvrage permet de les comparer et de les mettre en perspective les unes avec les autres.

Les oeuvres présentées dans cet ouvrage offrent une palette d'expressions merveilleusement poétiques : candide chez Bonnard, ornementale et mystérieuse chez Vuillard, doucement rêveuse chez Denis, âpre jusqu'à l'amertume chez Valloton, l'auteur nous fait partager la vie intime des artistes jusqu'à la source profonde de leurs dons créatifs. Bonnard et de nabis do

Bonnard

"Father Pissarro", as his friends liked to call him, was the most restrained of the artists of the Impressionist movement. Perhaps it was his age, being older than his fellow artists Monet, Sisley, Bazille, and Renoir, or rather his maturity, which resulted in his works having such serene and sober subjects and compositions. 

A man of simple tastes, he enjoyed painting peasants going about their daily lives. However, Pissarro owes his belated fame to his urban landscapes, which he treated with the same passion he used to paint beautiful stormy skies and frost-whitened mornings.

Pissarro

Até ao final do século XIX a Arte Naïve, criada por artistas inexperientes e caracterizada pela espontaneidade e simplicidade, foi pouco reconhecida quer pelos artistas profissionais quer pelos críticos de arte. A pintura Naïve caracterizava-se pela sua clareza de linhas, cores vívidas e alegres, assim como pelas suas formas simples e precisas como aquelas representadas pelos artistas franceses tais como Henri Rousseau, Séraphine de Senlis, André Bauchant e Camille Bombois. Contudo, este movimento teve também outros aderentes tais como Joan Miró (influenciado por algumas das suas qualidades), Guido Vedovato, Niko Pirosmani e Ivan Generalic.

Naïve Art

Degas bezog seine wichtigsten Motive aus dem lebendigen Paris der Epoche und lernte die künftigen Impressionisten wahrscheinlich erst im Café Guerbois kennen. Im Jahr 1852 erhielt er ein Juradiplom, und 1853 begann er eine Malerausbildung bei Louis-Ernest Barrias. Ab 1854 reiste Degas regelmäßig nach Italien, zunächst nach Neapel, dann nach Rom und Florenz, wo er sich intensiv dem Studium der Alten Meister widmete. In den sechziger und siebziger Jahren wurde er zum Maler von Jockeys, Pferden und Pferderennen. Sein fabelhaftes Malergedächtnis merkte sich die Besonderheiten ihrer Bewegungen, wo immer er sie beobachten konnte. Das Pferd wurde für ihn zur Inkarnation der Geschwindigkeit. Um die Mitte der 1860-Jahre machte Degas eine neue Entdeckung: Ballett und Oper. Diese Institutionen entwickelten sich für ihn nun zum beherrschenden Thema. Er zeigt das erste, ganz dem Tanz gewidmete Bild: Ballettsaal der Oper in der Rue Le Peletier. Die Komposition ist sorgfältig ausgewogen, die Personengruppen links und rechts ergänzen einander, aber jede einzelne Tänzerin ist ganz in ihre eigenen Übungen versunken, jede bewegt sich unabhängig von allen anderen. In diesen Institutionen fand er die zweite Domäne seines künstlerischen Schaffens, die ihn bis an sein Lebensende faszinieren sollte.

Degas

Este livro convida o leitor a seguir o visionário Paul Gauguin de França até à exótica Tahiti, guiado pelas suas coloridas obras de arte. Apresentando uma colecção de trabalhos icónicos e menos conhecidos deste influente artista , o livro realça o famoso estilo erótico e primitivo de Gauguin, assim como a utilização de cores vivas. Este prático livro é a prenda ideal para os fãs do artista ou para aqueles que ainda não conhecem o trabalho de Gauguin.

Gauguin

Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he felt confident of his ability to earn a living for his family by painting and he resigned his position and took up the painter's brush full time. Following the lead of Cézanne, Gauguin painted still-lifes from the very beginning of his artistic career. He even owned a still-life by Cézanne, which is shown in Gauguin's painting Portrait of Marie Lagadu. The year 1891 was crucial for Gauguin. In that year he left France for Tahiti, where he stayed till 1893. This stay in Tahiti determined his future life and career, for in 1895, after a sojourn in France, he returned there for good. In Tahiti, Gauguin discovered primitive art, with its flat forms and violent colours, belonging to an untamed nature. With absolute sincerity, he transferred them onto his canvas. His paintings from then on reflected this style: a radical simplification of drawing; brilliant, pure, bright colours; an ornamental type composition; and a deliberate flatness of planes. Gauguin termed this style "synthetic symbolism".

Sisley

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