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The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, aging, and death. The son of a goldsmith, Klimt created surfaces of ornate and jewel-like luminosity which show influence of both Egyptian and Japanese art. Through paintings, murals, and friezes, his work is defined by radiant color, fluid lines, floral elements, and mosaic-like patterning. With a number of...
| Автор | Neret G., Neret Gilles , Жиль Нере |
| Год | 2022 |
Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909–1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions. Emerging into notoriety in the period following World War II, Bacon took the human body as his nominal subject, but a subject ravaged, distorted, and dismembered so as to writhe with intense emotional content. With flailing limbs, hollow voids, and tumurous growths, his gripping, often grotesque,...
| Автор | Луиджи Фикаччи, L. Ficacci, Л. Фикаччи |
| Жанр | Живопись |
| Год | 2021 |
Альбом содержит фотографии Дмитрия Маркова. Дмитрий Марков о книге: "С момента выхода моего первого фотоальбома "Черновик" прошло почти пять лет. За это время собралось немало новых фотографий; отобрав лучшие и взяв за основу удачную выставку в Гоголь-центре, мы вместе с издательством Treemedia подготовили новый альбом: "Россия в квадрате". Зачем вообще издавать фотографии, которые уже опубликованы и лежат в сети в свободном доступе? Я вижу две причины. Во-первых, события этого года наводят на...
| Автор | Дмитрий Марков , Д. Марков |
| Год | 2024 |
Diego Rivera (1886–1957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent romantic history, he was at once husband and paladin of Frida Kahlo, advocate and adversary of Stalin’s Soviet Union, and liberator and traitor of Leon Trotsky. Vibrant, graphic, and often monumental, Rivera’s paintings carry the same live political and passionate charge as his personal biography. Fusing European influences such as Cubism with a socialist ideology and an...
| Автор | Андреа Кеттенманн, A. Kettenmann |
| Жанр | Живопись |
| Год | 2022 |
One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring public appeal. Sun-kissed, charming, and sensual, his work shows painting at its most lighthearted and luminous, while championing the plein air and color innovations of his time. Renoir’s oeuvre was prolific, with some several thousand works in his lifetime. Much influenced by forerunners such as Courbet, Degas, Manet, Delacroix, he worked with...
| Автор | Петер Файст, П.Х. Файст |
| Год | 2022 |
Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (1911–1914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the development of modern European art. Named after a Kandinsky painting, The Blue Rider, this loose band of artists, grouped around Russian emigre Wassily Kandinsky and German painter Franz Marc, sought to reject establishment standards and charge into a new artistic unknown. Articulating spiritual values and concerns in an era of rapid industrialization, the...
| Автор | Хайо Дюхтинг, Duchting Hajo, Х. Дюхтинг |
| Год | 2022 |
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run. Though famed for his dramatic use of color, light, and shadow, it was above all Caravaggio’s boundary-breaking naturalism which scorched his name into the annals of art history. From the dirtied soles of feet to the sexualized languor of...
| Автор | Neret G., Lambert G., Жиль Ламбер, Ж. Ламбер |
| Год | 2022 |
As cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) remain some of the most enduring enigmas of the art world. Their intricate, allegorical, and often startling content has captivated not only art historians, but also fashion designers, rock stars, writers, and punk rockers, as well as countless modern and contemporary artist successors. Although rooted in the Old Netherlandish tradition, Bosch developed a highly subjective, richly suggestive style to render...
| Автор | У. Босинг |
| Год | 2022 |
The self as a subject is one of the most fascinating and fruitful of artistic enterprises. From the 15th century to today, this collection brings together some of the best examples of self-portraiture to explore the genre’s evolution over the centuries as well as the enduring questions of selfhood and self-representation that have besieged human experience for centuries before social media and the selfie. Is a self-portrait of an artist a medium of reflection? Or is it merely a black void, the...
| Автор | Э. Ребель |
| Год | 2022 |
Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With inspiration from African and Native American art and sculpture, its practitioners deconstructed European conventions of viewpoint, form, perspective to create flattened, fragmented, and revolutionary images. Picasso’s celebrated painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is typically regarded as the original cubist work, with its radical fracturing of objects and figures into...
| Автор | Анна Гантефюрер-Триер, Anne Gantefuhrer-Trier, Uta Grosenick, А. Гантефюрер-Триер |
| Жанр | Живопись |
| Год | 2022 |
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen who did not speak Danish. He began painting in his spare time in 1873 and in 1876 took part in the Paris Salon. Three years later, he was exhibiting alongside Pissarro, Degas, and Monet. A querulous, hard-drinking individual, Gauguin often called himself a savage. His close but fraught friendship with the similarly temperamental Vincent van Gogh...
| Автор | Инго Вальтер, I.F. Walther, И.Ф. Вальтер |
| Год | 2022 |
With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, and Gino Severini. With affiliate painters, sculptors, designers, architects, and writers, the group sought to subsume the dusty establishment into a new age of sleek, strong, purified modernity. Futurism’s place in art history is as ambivalent as it is important. The movement pioneered revolutionary methods to convey...
| Автор | Стив Мартин, Мартин С. |
| Год | 2022 |
With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miro (1893–1983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and ceramics, and embracing ideologies as varied as Fauvism, Surrealism, Dada, Magic Realism, Cubism, and abstraction. Over the course of his prodigious output, Miro evolved constantly, seeking to eschew categorization and the approval of “bourgeois” art critics as much as he pursued his own dreamlike worlds. Emerging...
| Автор | Янис Минк, Я. Минк |
| Год | 2022 |
When marble and clay come alive While anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) paved the way for modern sculpture. From a very early stage, he was interested in movement, the expression of the body, chance effects, and the incomplete fragment. It was these elements that gave shape, and the impression of life, to such famous works as The Kiss and The Thinker. Produced in collaboration with the Musee Rodin, this TASCHEN Basic Art...
| Автор | Francois Blanchetiere |
| Год | 2023 |
Innovative, intimate architecture from China to Chile Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requirements, and vision of particular personalities becomes priority. The delicate task is to translate all the emotive associations and practical requirements of “home” into a workable, constructed reality. This...
| Автор | Jodidio Philip |
| Год | 2022 |
The master of Japanese ukiyo-e Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning “pictures of the floating world,” ukiyo-e was a particular woodblock print genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries. Subjects ranged from the bright lights and attractions of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), to spectacular natural landscapes. In the West, Hiroshige’s prints became exemplary of the Japonisme that swept through Europe and...
| Автор | Адель Шломбс, Adele Schlombs |
| Жанр | Прочее |
| Год | 2021 |
Сказка Ганса Христиана Андерсена "Бузинная матушка" - удивительная история о доброте и сострадании, верности и волшебной силе любви. Однажды к заболевшему маленькому мальчику пришёл весёлый старичок-сосед и рассказал сказку о пожилых супругах, которые в день золотой свадьбы путешествуют по волнам своей памяти - а помогает им в этом старушка-волшебница, Бузинная матушка, которая может прорасти цветущим кустом даже из чайника с бузиной. Но мальчик был разочарован сказкой, решив, что в этой истории...
| Автор | Ганс Христиан Андерсен, Андерсен Ханс Кристиан |
| Жанр | Фольклор, Сказки |
| Год | 2022 |
One of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958–1990) created a signature style that blended street art, graffiti, a Pop sensibility, and cartoon elements to unique, memorable effect. With thick black outlines, bright colors, and kinetic figures, his public (and occasionally illegal) interventions, sculptures, and works on canvas and paper have become instantly recognizable icons of 20th-century visual culture. From his first chalk drawings in the New York City...
| Автор | A. Kolossa |
| Год | 2016 |