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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) war zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts nicht nur einer der einflussreichsten Künstler, sondern gründete zudem die Bewegung der Wiener Secession. Mithilfe dieser Bewegung übte er Kritik an der traditionellen Kunst, die sich d...

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Pornografisch, unsittlich, amoralisch und letztendlich sogar ?entartet? wurde die Kunst des Egon Schiele genannt. Lange Zeit verkannt und verunglimpft, hat der geniale, von Selbstobsession getriebene Künstler dennoch unbeirrt seine künstlerische...

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Até ao final do século XIX a Arte Naÿve, criada por artistas inexperientes e caracterizada pela espontaneidade e simplicidade, foi pouco reconhecida quer pelos artistas profissionais quer pelos crÿticos de arte. A pintura Naÿve caracterizava-...

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Goya es tal vez el pintor más accesible. Su arte, al igual que su vida, es un libro abierto. Nada ocultó a sus contemporáneos y les ofreció su obra con la misma franqueza. La puerta a su mundo no está oculta detrás de grandes dificultades tÃ...

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Amedeo Modigliani nació en Italia en 1884 y murió en Parÿs a la edad de treinta y cinco años. Desde temprana edad se interesó en estudios de desnudos y en la noción clásica del ideal de belleza. En 1900-1901 visitó Nápoles, Capri, Amalfi ...

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Picasso era español y por eso, según dicen, comenzó a dibujar antes que a hablar. Cuando niño, se sintió atraÿdo de manera instintiva hacia las herramientas del artista. En sus primeros años pasaba horas en feliz concentración dibujando es...

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Ornans, Courbet?s birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape.He was by nature a revolutionary, a man born to oppose existing order and to assert...

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Pierre Bonnard was the leader of a group of Post-Impressionist painters who called themselves the Nabis, from the Hebrew word meaning ?prophet?. Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel and Denis, the most distinguished of the Nabis, revolutionised decorative p...

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Ever since its triumph at the Paris Universal Exposition, Art Nouveau has continued to inspire artists. The movement offered an artistic response to the industrial revolution and the creative vacuum left in its wake, exerting a huge impact on the ...

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Flowers are the centerpiece in the majority of pictorial still-lifes. By painting their colours and forms, artists from Brueghel to O?Keeffe have created symbols for both life and mortality. Van Gogh?s sunflowers, Monet?s water lilies and Matisse?...

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Mega Square Shoes focuses on the history of the shoe and elevates the shoe to the rank of a work of art. The author is a leading expert on the subject and curator of France?s Shoe Museum, which holds the greatest shoe collection in the world, with...

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Impressionism has always been one of the public?s favourite styles of art and Impressionist works continue to enchant beholders with their amazing play of colours and forms. This book offers a well-chosen selection of the most impressive works of ...

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Encounter one of history?s greatest civilisations through miniatures. In Persian Miniatures, the story of the magnificent Persian Empire is told by way of a small but vibrant artistic tradition. The colourful images, which are, in fact, elaborate ...

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Influenced by the masters of Antiquity, the genius of Michelangelo and Baroque sculpture, particularly of Bernini, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is one of the most renowned artists in history. Though Rodin is considered a founder of modern sculpture, ...

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Van Dyck se acostumbró pronto al estilo de vida suntuoso de Rubens, y cuando viajó a Italia con unas cartas de presentación de su maestro, vivió en los palacios de sus mecenas, adoptando para sÿ una ostentación tan elegante que llegó a cono...

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La vida y obra de Vincent van Gogh están tan entremezcladas que es prácticamente imposible observar una sin pensar en la otra. Van Gogh se ha convertido en la encarnación del sufrimiento, en el mártir incomprendido del arte moderno, el emblema...

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Questo volume contiene numerose opere create da Picasso tra il 1881 e il 1914. Inizialmente, lo stiledell?artista ä influenzato da El Greco, da Munch e da Toulouse-Lautrec, che lui scoprÿ da studente aBarcellona. Affascinato dall?espressione psi...

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Hieronymus Bosch, der um 1450 im niederlÿndischen ''s-Hertogenbosch geboren wurde, gehört zu den Künstlern, deren Werke den Kunsthistorikern bis heute Rÿtsel aufgeben. Bosch lebte in einer Zeit, die vom Aufkommen der Devotio Moderna und dem bÃ...

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Goya ist einer der zugÿnglichsten 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 hunde...

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Amedeo Modigliani wurde 1884 in Livorno (Italien) geboren und starb im Alter von 35 Jahren in Paris. Die einzigartige visionÿre Kraft des Künstlers speiste sich aus drei Quellen: Neben seiner Aufgeschlossenheit gegenüber seinem italienischen un...

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Von Pablo Picasso erzÿhlt man, er hÿtte zu zeichnen angefangen, noch bevor er sprechen konnte. Geboren wurde er in Málaga, und hier verbrachte er auch die ersten zehn Jahre seines Lebens. Von seinem Vater lernte Pablo die Grundlagen der akademi...

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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuentetodos, 1746 ? Bordeaux, 1828)Goya est peut-être le peintre le plus accessible entre tous. Son art, comme sa vie, est un livre ouvert. Il ne cachait rien de ses contemporains, et leur offrait son art avec la mÃ...

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Amedeo Modigliani(Livourne, 1884 ? Paris, 1920)Amedeo Modigliani naquit en Italie en 1884 et mourut ÿ Paris ÿ l?âge de trente-cinq ans. Träs tÿt il s?intéressa ÿ l?étude du nu et ÿ la notion classique de la beauté idéale.En 1900-1901 il...

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Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 1881 ? Mougins, 1973)Picasso naquit en Espagne et l?on dit même qu?il commença ÿ dessiner avant de savoir parler. Enfant, il fut nstinctivement attiré par les instruments de l?artiste. Il pouvait passer des heures de jo...

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Goya is perhaps the most approachable of painters. His art, like his life, is an open book. He concealed nothing from his contemporaries, and offered his art to them with the same frankness. The entrance to his world is not barricaded with technic...

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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 meani...

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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 ...

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Sargent was born in Florence, in 1856, the son of cultivated parents. When Sargent entered the school of Carolus-Duran he attained much more than the average pupils. His father was a retired Massachusetts gentleman, having practised medicine in Ph...

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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 familia...

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Until the end of the 19th century Naÿve Art, created by untrained artists and characterised by spontaneity and simplicity, enjoyed little recognition from professional artists and art critics. Naÿve painting is often distinguished by its clarity...

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