Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) était un peintre russe qui fut lÊun des premiers à réellement sÊaventurer dans lÊart abstrait. Il sÊévertua à représenter son monde intérieur dÊabstraction malgré les critiques négatives de ses pairs. Il sÊéloigna de la peinture potentiellement figurative dans le but dÊ...
Questo volume contiene numerose opere create da Picasso tra il 1881 e il 1914. Inizialmente, lo stile dell'artista è influenzato da El Greco, da Munch e da Toulouse-Lautrec, che lui scoprì da studente a Barcellona. Affascinato dall'espressione psicologica, nel suo periodo Blu (1901-1904) Picasso d...
Tra gli artisti più noti del XX secolo, Kandinsky si distinse per il valore internazionale della sua parabola esistenziale e della sua arte, che congiunse Russia, Germania e Francia; per il suo impegno come insegnante al celebre Bauhaus e la produzione di versi e scritti teorici; per il suo saldo e ...
Der russische Maler Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) gilt als einer der Ersten, die sich auf das Feld der abstrakten Kunst gewagt haben. Trotz negativer Reaktionen einiger Kollegen bestand er darauf, sein Innenleben mithilfe der Abstraktion darzustellen. Dazu entfernte er sich immer mehr von einer Male...
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negative criticism from his peers. He veered away from painting that could be viewed as representational in o...
Gauguin: "Per me il grande artista è il risultato della più grande intelligenza: a lui giungono i sentimenti, le traduzioni più sottili e quindi più invisibili alla mente. Lavorate liberamente e pazzamente... Soprattutto non affaticatevi su un dipinto: un grande sentimento può essere reso con immed...
Whistler saltó repentinamente a la fama, como una estrella errante en un momento crucial en la historia del arte, un campo en el que fue pionero. Como los impresionistas a los que admiraba, deseaba imponer sus propias ideas. La obra de Whistler puede dividirse en cuatro periodos. El primero puede ll...
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, ...
Goya ist einer der zugänglichsten Maler. Seine Kunst ist wie sein Leben ein offenes Buch und es ist nicht die Kunst einer idealen, sondern einer garstigen und unheimlichen Welt. Er kam als Sohn eines Vergolders in einem kleinen Bergdorf mit hundert Einwohnern zur Welt. Als Kind arbeitete er zusammen...
Whistler (Lowell, 1834 - Londres 1903) Whistler surgit à un moment crucial de l'histoire de l'art et il joue un rôle de précurseur. Il a, comme les Impressionnistes, la volonté d'imposer ses idées. Son oeuvre se déroule en quatre périodes. Dans une première période de recherche, l'artiste est influe...
Anthonis van Dyck (Anvers, 1599 - Londres, 1641) Van Dyck connut très tôt le train de vie somptueux de Rubens. Lorsqu'il visita l'Italie, muni de lettres d'introduction de son maître, il vécut dans les palais de ses mécènes, adoptant lui aussi une telle ostentation dans l'élégance, qu'on parlait de ...
Amedeo Modigliani (Livourne, 1884 - Paris, 1920) Amedeo Modigliani naquit en Italie en 1884 et mourut à Paris à l´âge de trente-cinq ans. Très tôt il s´intéressa à l´étude du nu et à la notion classique de la beauté idéale. En 1900-1901 il visita Naples, Capri, Amalfi et Rome, puis Florence et Veni...
Gustav Klimt (Baumgarten, 1862 - Vienne, 1918) «Faire un autoportrait ne m'intéresse pas. Les sujets de peinture qui m'intéressent ? Les autres et en particulier les femmes... » Aucune référence au monde extérieur ne vient contrarier le charme des allégories, portraits, paysages et autres personnage...
Dalí, Salvador (Figueras, 1904 - Torre-Galatea, 1989) Peintre, artiste, créateur d´objets, écrivain et cinéaste, il est connu du public comme un des représentants majeur du surréalisme. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso, Breton... : ces rencontres constituent autant d´étapes dans la carrière de Dalí. Réalisé a...
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 ...
Van Dyck was accustomed early to Rubens´ sumptuous lifestyle; and, when he visited Italy with letters of introduction from his master, lived in the palaces of his patrons, himself adopting such an elegant ostentation that he was spoken of as `the Cavalier Painter´. After his return to Antwerp his pa...
Rembrandt is completely mysterious in his spirit, his character, his life, his work and his method of painting. What we can divine of his essential nature comes through his painting and the trivial or tragic incidents of his unfortunate life; his penchant for ostentatious living forced him to declar...
Los claros retratos metálicos, desnudos y naturalezas muertas de Tamara de Lempicka resumen el espíritu del Art Déco y del apogeo del Jazz, además de reflejar la vida elegante y hedonista de la élite adinerada, exclusiva y glamurosa de la París de entre guerras. En el arte de Lempicka confluyen una ...
In 1905 Georgia travelled to Chicago to study painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907 she enrolled at the Art Students´ League in New York City, where she studied with William Merritt Chase. During her time in New York she became familiar with the 291 Gallery owned by her future husband, p...
Marc Chagall nació en el seno de una familia judía sumamente estricta, para la cual la prohibición de la representación de la figura humana tenía la fuerza de un dogma. El no haber pasado el examen de admisión de la escuela Stieglitz no evitó que Chagall ...
El arte ecléctico con el que soñaba la familia Carracci quedó finalmente plasmado en la obra de Rubens, con toda la facilidad del genio. Sin embargo, el problema era mucho más complicado para un hombre del norte, que deseaba añadir una fusión de los espíritus flamenco y latino, algo cuya dificultad ...
Marc Chagall was born into a strict Jewish family for whom the ban on representations of the human figure had the weight of dogma. A failure in the entrance examination for the Stieglitz School did not stop Chagall from later joining that famous school founded by the Imperial Society for the Encoura...
Leonardo´s early life was spent in Florence, his maturity in Milan, and the last three years of his life in France. Leonardo´s teacher was Verrocchio. First he was a goldsmith, then a painter and sculptor: as a painter, representative of the very scientific school of draughtsmanship; more famous as ...
Egon Schiele´s work is so distinctive that it resists categorisation. Admitted to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts at just sixteen, he was an extraordinarily precocious artist, whose consummate skill in the manipulation of line, above all, lent a taut expressivity to all his work. Profoundly convince...