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Meryl Streep is an American theater, television and film actress. She attended Vassar College for undergrad then the Yale School of Drama. Meryl Streep is one of the most beloved and critically acclaimed actresses of her generation.   During her career Meryl has won three Academy...

Kevin Hart is an American comedian, producer, spokesman and actor. He attended George Washington High School in Philadelphia before moving to New York City to pursue his career in comedy. Kevin took classes at community college for two years and after graduating decided to focus all of his energy...

Joshua Reynolds was English portrait painter who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century. His art, frequently based on the Old Masters or antique sculpture, were intended to raise classical standards. His rich colour, strong lighting and free handling of paint greatly influenced...

The greatest artist of the 18th century, Francisco de Goya began his career as an apprentice to a local artist where one of his jobs was adding draperies and modesty items to nude figures in religious paintings; for this he was titled “Reviser of Indecent Paintings.” But by the age of 40, Goya...

Piet Mondrian pioneered the de Stijl movement—Dutch for “The Style”—that emerged in the early 20th century and which served as an important transition from a focus on Symbolism and Realism to a new and growing focus on abstraction. The evolution of Mondrian’s initial, traditional style,...

Études biographiques de quelques auteurs français par Émile Hennequin, selon sa méthode de critique scientifique, où il examine les côtés psychologiques, sociologiques et esthétiques. Dans ce livre : Gustave Flaubert, Émile Zola, Victor Hugo, Edmond deGoncourt, J.-K. Huysmans.

本書は、後期印象派を代表する画家 ポール・ゴーギャンの作品22点を集めた作品集です。印象主義への反発としてクロワゾニスム（対象の立体感や固有の色彩などを否定し、輪郭線で囲んだ平坦な面によって対象を構成する描写方法）を唱え、新たな表現方法を確立しました。一八九一年、憧れの地であったタヒチに移住し、数々の傑作を生み出します。どうぞ、ゴーギャンの描く純粋な世界を存分にお楽しみください。...

Art du Bouchon - Art Imagé - Dessins, trois approches de l'artiste plasticien David Mishkin, aussi originales, inédites que contemporaines. Cet art issu du simple emploi des bouchons de liège naturel qui obturent nos bouteilles, ou de leur habillage, prolonge le souvenir...

Plateau-Stiefel, ausgefallene Kostüme und viel Schminke Die faszinierende Chronik der Entstehung von KISS Kaum zu glauben: Der erste Auftritt von KISS fand am 30. Januar 1973 vor gerade einmal drei zahlenden Zuschauern im PopcornClub in New York statt. Jedes Bandmitglied hatte eine eigene, festgelegte...

本書は、日本のＳＦの元祖ともいえる２人の作家 海野十三と平林初之輔の短編７編と、抽象画の巨匠 カジミール・マレーヴィチ、ピエト・モンドリアンの２人の絵画10点を配して編集しています。ＳＦや抽象画を楽しむには、想像力が重要です。その２つの芸術が融合すれば、恐らく皆様の脳内で何らかの化学反応が起こることと思います。どうぞ、その反応を楽しみながら作品をご覧ください。...

Cosa può spingere una persona di quasi mezzo secolo, apparentemente normale, con una vita normale, un lavoro normale, interessi normali, a trasformare radicalmente la sua vita e sviluppare un talento giovanile abbandonato trasformandolo nella sua principale ragione di vita? La risposta nelle pagine...

Michel-Ange, sculpteur et peintre de génie, a été toute sa vie englué dans des engagements forcés, par les papes, par les riches de ce monde. Romain Rolland prouve que cet homme, enserré dans le malheur et la tristesse, a toujours gardé un coeur pur...

Ambientato nell'affascinante Las Vegas degli anni Settanta, Overlay è la storia di una bambina nata in un contesto di violenza e abbandono. Mentre gli adulti che dovrebbero occuparsi di lei si sbriciolano via via, vittime delle proprie dipendenze e debolezze, Marlayna sviluppa un forte senso di autoconservazione,...

Then came the time which is called 'The Renaissance,' a word which means being born again, or a new awakening, when men began to draw real pictures of real things and fill the world with images of beauty. Now it is the stories of the men of that time, who put new life into Art, that I am going...