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With Impression, Soleil Levant, exhibited in 1874, Claude Monet (1840-1926) took part in the creation of the Impressionism movement that introduced the 19th century to modern art. All his life, he captured natural movements around him and translated them into visual...
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For Monet, the act of creation was always a painful struggle. His obsession with capturing the effects of lighting in nature was much more intense than that of his contemporaries. In his words: “Skills come and go … art is always the same: a transposition of nature that...
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In this book one can find many artworks created by Picasso between 1881 and 1914. The first style of the artist was influenced by the works of El Greco, Munch and Toulouse-Lautrec, artists that he discovered when he was a student in Barcelona. Picasso, fascinated by the...
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Raphael (1483-1520), the Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, was a genius in and ahead of his time. Together with Michelangelo and da Vinci, he formed the classical trinity of this era and elaborated a rich style of harmony and geometry. As one of the...
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Few people discuss the fact that Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was the most important artist of the 20th century. Born in Malaga, Spain, Picasso revealed his genius at a very early age and was quick to make contact with the most advanced art circles of his time, first in...
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Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) was active at the turn of the century. Although he is best known for his striking and elegantly composed Japanese-inspired woodblock prints, Vallotton was also a skilled painter, creating works that arrestingly combined technical perfection...
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Esta paradoja, la tristeza y la salud del campo, refleja la propia situación de Van Gogh: la naturaleza fue siempre una especie de hogar para él: un hogar que nunca podría compartir con nadie más. En Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh había trabajado en una pintura llamada el...
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La vida y la obra de Vincent van Gogh están tan entrelazadas que es casi imposible ver sus pinturas sin leer en ellas la historia de su vida: una vida de la que se habló tanto que ya se ha convertido en leyenda. Van Gogh es la encarnación del sufrimiento, un mártir...
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Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to see his pictures without reading in them the story of his life, a life which has been described so many times that it is by now the stuff of legend. Van Gogh is the incarnation of the...
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This paradox - the sadness and health of the country - reflects van Gogh’s own situation: nature always was a kind of home for him - a home that he could never share with anyone else. In Saint-Rémy, van Gogh had worked on a picture named The Reaper:
“For I see in this...
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Greek art, at the very moment that it was breaking up in depth, was scattering over the whole material surface of Hellenic antiquity. After the movement of concentration that had brought to Athens all the forces of Hellenism, a movement of dispersal began, which was to...
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Egyptian art is perhaps the most impersonal that exists. The artist effaces himself. But he has such an innate sense of life, a sense so directly moved and so limpid that everything of life which he describes seems defi ned by that sense, to issue from the natural...
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Ukiyo-e („Bilder der fließenden Welt“) ist die Bezeichnung für eine in der glanzvollen Edo-Ära (1605-1868) entstandene japanische Kunstbewegung. Der diesen Drucken verliehene hedonistische Name war als ein ironischer Kontrast zu der buddhistischen Astralebene der...
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Este libro ofrece una perspectiva radicalmente novedosa sobre la llamada creativa dinámica Arte Pop que ha estado presente desde la década de los años 1950. Y lo consigue al realzar el término “Pop Art” que siempre ha sido reconocido como nombre inapropiado, pues...
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This book offers a radically new perspective on the so-called ‘Pop Art’ creative dynamic that has been around since the 1950s. It does so by enhancing the term ‘Pop Art’ which has always been recognised as a misnomer, for it obscures far more than it clarifies. Instead,...
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Dieses Buch bietet eine völlig neue Sicht auf die in den 1950er Jahren aufgekommene so genannte “Pop Art”. Der zentrale Ansatz dieses Buches weitet die schon immer die Verhältnisse eher verdunkelnde als erhellende Bezeichnung des Terminus “Pop Art” aus und befasst sich...
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In the arts, Neoclassicism is a historical tradition or aesthetic attitude based on the art of Greece and Rome in antiquity. The movement started around the 18th-century, age of Enlightenment, and continued into the early 19th-century The general credo associated with...
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“La iconografía cristiana y, sobre todo, la representación de Cristo, se basa en la doctrina de la encarnación. De la misma manera que el teólogo se expresa a través del pensamiento, el iconógrafo, a través de su arte, expresa la verdad viviente, la revelación que posee...
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Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.-L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc y los austriacos Oskar Kokoschka y Egon Schiele pertenecieron a la generación de artistas de gran individualidad que contribuyeron al nuevo movimiento, intenso y con frecuencia...
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The French painter Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) revolutionised the use of colour in art. Influenced by the French master Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), close friends with the French poet Apollinaire (1880-1918) and admired by the German painter Paul Klee (1879-1940), he...
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