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La rétrospective consacrée à Jean-Michel Basquiat au musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (15 octobre 2010-30 janvier 2011), qui faisait suite à celle présentée par la fondation Beyeler à Bâle, avait le mérite de mettre en lumière les différentes phases d'une fulgurante carrière...

Aussi instructive que riche en œuvres de haute qualité, l'exposition Millet/Van Gogh, présentée au musée d'Orsay du 14 septembre 1998 au 3 janvier 1999, aurait pu, a priori, sembler dépourvue d'intérêt véritable... À PROPOS DE L’ENCYCLOPAEDIA UNIVERSALIS Reconnue mondialement...

En 1972, une mémorable exposition tenue à l'Orangerie des Tuileries a fait connaître à un large public l'envergure de Georges de La Tour (1593-1652), redécouvert depuis à peine une soixantaine d'années. Les relations du peintre avec le milieu artistique lorrain, si actif à son époque, ont...

In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelites, close to William Morris’ Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing to revive the pure and noble forms of the Italian Renaissance, the major painters of the circle (such...

“How to Draw With Charcoal” is a step by step book manual on how to use charcoal as an art medium. This book covers several ways to use charcoal in different art genres. It will show you how to produce artwork of different styles, including portrait and illustration, and how to work on a caricature....

In this posthumous collection of John Updike’s art writings, a companion volume to the acclaimed Just Looking (1989) and Still Looking (2005), readers are again treated to “remarkably elegant essays” (Newsday) in which “the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to...

Lee Hammond helps you get your acrylic paintings past that initial “awkward stage” with great tips and tricks for achieving realistic results.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is usually considered one of the greatest painters in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. Rembrandt's greatest creative triumphs are exemplified especially in his portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from...

Abstract Expressionism was the defining movement in American art during the years following World War II, making New York City the center of the international art scene. But what the heck did it mean! The drips, the spills, the splashes, the blotches of color, the wild spontaneous energy—signifying...

Sir Edward Burne-Jones was the greatest of the second generation Pre-Raphaelites. Burne-Jones's aim in art is best given in some of his own words, written to a friend: "I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light...

Der unter dem Namen Canaletto bekannte Venezianer Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768) wurde durch seinen Vater, einen Theaterdekorateur, an die Malerei und die Perspektive herangeführt. Canaletto ist vor allem für seine Veduten bekannt. Während die Amateure seiner Zeit ihre Landschaftsbilder als...

Born at the dawn of the 20th century, Fauvism burst onto the artistic scene at the 1905 Salon d'Automne with great controversy by throwing bright, vibrant colours in the face of artistic convention. Fuelled by change, artists like Matisse, Derain, and Vlaminck searched for a new chromatic language...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents Contents JAPANESE COLOUR-PRINTS AND THEIR DESIGNERS CATALOGUE OF A LOAN COLLECTION OF JAPANESE COLOUR-PRINTS INTRODUCTION CATALOGUE Illustrations HARUNOBU. Lovers walking in Snow. MORONOBU. Nobleman and two Ladies...

Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider. An article, published in 1890, gave...