A major figure of the Romantic Movement, the British artist William Blake (1757-1827) was at once a painter, designer, engraver and poet. He devoted himself to the illustration of his literary works, and his texts developed following the lines of...
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Автор: Apollinaire Guillaume , Eimert Dorothea
Серия: Art of Century Collection
Язык: английский
Год: 2010
Статус: Закончена
Les Five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines-with this painting, Picasso...
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...
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...
“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...
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Chip Carving - Expert Techniques and 50 All-Time Favorite Projects
Chip carving, also known as spoon carving or “Kerbschnitt,” is the ideal introduction to woodcarving for...
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...
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...
Автор: Charles Victoria , Carl Klaus
Серия: Art of Century Collection
Язык: английский
Год: 2010
Статус: Закончена
Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the French created the term Rococo. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, it rapidly spread to the whole of Europe....
Автор: Kostenevitch Albert
Серия: Art of Century Collection
Язык: английский
Год: 2009
Статус: Закончена
Pierre Bonnard was the leader of the group of post-impressionist painters who called themselves "the Nabis," based on the Hebrew word for "prophet". Influenced by Odilon Redon, Puvis de Chavannes, popular imagery and Japanese woodblock...