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Impressionism
Изобразительное искусство, фотография

Impressionism

Автор: Brodskaia Nathalia
Серия: Art of Century Collection
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
Статус: Закончена
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“I paint what I see and not what it pleases others to see.” What other words than these of Edouard Manet, seemingly so different from the sentiments of Monet or Renoir, could best define the movement of Impressionism? Without a doubt this...
Surrealism: Genesis of Revolution
Изобразительное искусство, фотография

Surrealism: Genesis of Revolution

Автор: Brodskaia Nathalia
Серия: Art of Century Collection
Язык: английский
Год: 2009
Статус: Закончена
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The Dada movement and then the Surrealists appeared in the First World War aftermath with a bang: revolution of thought, creativity, and the wish to break away from the past and all that was left in ruins. This refusal to integrate into the...
The Fauves
Изобразительное искусство, фотография

The Fauves

Автор: Brodskaia Nathalia
Серия: Art of Century Collection
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
Статус: Закончена
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Born at the dawn of the 20th century, Fauvism burst in 1905 Salon d'Automne with a resounding scandal. It was like throwing colors at the face of the academic art entangled in its ancestral conventions. Then several artists, like Matisse, Derain...
Baroque Art
Изобразительное искусство, фотография

Baroque Art

Автор: Charles Victoria , Carl Klaus
Серия: Art of Century Collection
Язык: английский
Год: 2009
Статус: Закончена

The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists' response to the Catholic Church's demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its...
Early Italian Painting
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Early Italian Painting

Автор: Crowe Joseph Archer , Cavalcaselle Giovanni Battista
Серия: Art of Century Collection
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
Статус: Закончена

Vacillating between the majesty of the Greco-Byzantine heritage and the modernity forecasted by Giotto, Early Italian painting summarises the first steps that lead to the Renaissance. Trying out new mediums, those first artists left frescoes for...
Post-Impressionism
Изобразительное искусство, фотография

Post-Impressionism

Автор: Brodskaia Nathalia
Серия: Art of Century Collection
Язык: английский
Год: 2010
Статус: Закончена
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While Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and opened it to new, unknown horizons....