Rembrandt
Michael Bockemühl
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Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669) never left his homeland of the Netherlands but in his massive body of painting, drawing, and etching, he changed the course of Western art. His prolific oeuvre encompasses religious, historical, and secular scenes, as well as one of the most extraordinary series of portraits and self-portraits in history.
Rembrandt's work foregrounds texture, light, and acute observation. Like sudden, startling apparitions in a shadowy street, his subjects are illuminated against deep, dark backgrounds and rendered with immense physical as well as psychological scrutiny. Whether biblical or mythological figures, ... |
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Louis I. Kahn
Joseph Rosa
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Louis Isadore Kahn (1901 - 1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Israel, his designs combined the sleek, utilitarian surfaces of modernism with a devotion to geometric forms and a reverence for natural light that suffused his structures with a monumental and breathtaking spirituality.
This essential introduction brings together 17 of Kahn's most important buildings across his cultural, governmental, religious, and residential repertoire. Plans, views, descriptions, and quality photographs trace the context and development of each project, while an introductory essay ... |
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Kirchner
Norbert Wolf
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 - 1938) is regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he sent seismic waves through the art world with his hard-edged, intensely colored paintings and disseminated his ideas through Die Brücke art movement and the MUIM-Institut school of modernist painting, both of which he cofounded.
Kirchner's work reconciled past and present through an Expressionist prism, reflecting the latest avant-garde ideas in art, while exploring traditional academic approaches and subjects. His works tackled social, moral, and emotional questions with a fierce intensity. ... |
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Palladio
Manfred Wundram
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Andrea Palladio (1508 - 1580) is widely considered the father of Western architecture. Strongly influenced by formal temple designs in Ancient Greece and Rome, he pioneered a revival of Classical symmetry and perspective, and with it created a universal architectural language.
From his humble beginning as a stonemason's apprentice, Palladio rose to become Chief Architect of the Republic of Venice, at the time the epicenter of European innovation. There, he designed the Church of the Redentore and San Giorgio Maggiore on the landmark promontory between the Giudecca Canal and the greater Venetian Lagoon. In nearby Vicenza, Palladio ... |
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Mondrian
Susanne Deicher
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A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose influence resonates to this day. Coining the term "Neo-plasticism", he pursued a style of painting composed only of primary colors against a grid of black vertical and horizontal lines and a white base background.
Mondrian's vision was that this essential painting would help to achieve a society in which art as such has no place, but rather exists for the total realization of "beauty". With stints in Amsterdam, Paris, London, and New York, Mondrian drew upon the modern ... |
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Cubism
Anne Ganteführer-Trier
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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 distinct areas, corresponding to multiple different viewpoints. Cubism thereafter developed two distinct trends: Analytical Cubism, which ... |
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Koons
Hans Werner Holzwarth
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The creations of Jeff Koons (born 1955) are at once immediately accessible and eloquently art historical. From basketball tanks to flower puppies, his instantly recognizable work frolics with banal imagery as much as it integrates cultural references such as Surrealism and Pop Art.
Koons' art revels in visual pleasure, but also in the power to affront. He has made his name as much for stainless-steel rabbits as he has with his sinister sculpture of Michael Jackson, or his sexually explicit photographic series with then-wife Cicciolina. The result is mega-artist status. An indisputable king of contemporary visual culture, Koons is ... |
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Mucha
Tomoko Sato
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All about the Belle Époque. Delicate illustration that defined an era. ... With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (1860 - 1939) defined the look of the fin-de-siecle. In evocative shades of peach, gold, ochre, and olive, his seductive compositions of patterns, flowers, and beautiful women became paradigms of the Belle Époque years.
Mucha's work permeated illustration, posters, postcards, and the advertising designs of his day. His striking posters of star actress Sarah Bernhardt were particularly famous. Alongside this delicate decorative work, Mucha also harbored ... |
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Star Wars - Origami + 72 Sheets Origami Paper
Chris Alexander
Workman
36 amazing paper-folding projects from "A galaxy far, far away".
Foreword by Tom Angleberger, author of "The Strange Case of Origami Yoda". ... Chewbacca. Boba Fett. General Grievous and Jabba the Hutt. Starfighters, Lighsabers, and Podracers...
May the Folds be with you.
"The power of the Force" meets the joy of origami. Here is everything you need to create a galaxy of "Star Wars" characters, ships, droids, and weapons. The ingenious models are created by Chris Alexander, the master of "Star Wars" origami, and come with complete step-by-step directions as well as an introduction to ... |
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Перспективата: Как да я видим и нарисуваме
Матю Брем
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Включва 32 страници с упражнения и разграфени листове за рисуване и довършване на картини. ... Тази книга е ръководство да се научим как да изобразяваме перспективата с помощта на прави линии, събиращи се в точка, как да наблюдаваме света около нас и да забелязваме къде се разполагат невидимите линии. Подходяща е за всеки, който иска да рисува във всякакви жанрове и с всякакви изобразителни средства и материали. Показва как да се работи, без да ви натоварва с излишна теория.
Най-важното са интересните упражнения. Използвайте специалните ни "перспективни решетки", за да изобразявате обекти върху съществуваща сцена в правилна ... |
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Renaissance
Manfred Wundram
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Art as we know it today would not exist without the Renaissance. Widely considered the most influential phenomenon in European art, architecture, literature, and science, the movement revolutionized the Western conception of reality and heralded the emergence of modernity out of the Middle Ages.
The Renaissance first gained momentum in Italy, at the end of the 14th century, spreading across Europe over the course of the next centuries, with dynamic epicenters in Florence, the Low Countries, and Germany. The movement found its intellectual basis in humanism, derived from classical Greek philosophy. Across art, science, literature, and ... |
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Албум: Евгений Кузманов
Захарий Стоянов
Скулптура. Живопис. Графика. Рисунка. ... "Евгений Кузманов е художник на вдъхновеното съзерцание и вкаменената пластическа динамика. Той е творец с ясна, дълбоко промислена концепция за традиционното и модерното, за преходното и вечното. Той следва и разгръща неотклонно тази своя концепция през годините във все по-впечатляващи творби, които, убеден съм, ще надмогнат със своите естетически и художествени достойнства суетнята на боричкащите се псевдо пост модерни слави и ще емблематизират продуктивните търсения на съвременната българска художествена култура. Евгений Кузманов - поет на вдъхновеното пластическо съзерцание."
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