Daniel Coenn: 168 books

This book is a collection of 105 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Charles Darwin: "I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men" "Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive." "A scientific man ought to have no...

As celebrator of feminine sensuality and beauty, Renoir is final representative of tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene though freely brushed touches of...

August Macke was one of the foremost members of the German Expressionist group The Blue Rider. He lived during a mostly innovative time for German art and saw the development of the German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the following avant-garde movements which were forming in the...

Paul Cézanne was French painter, the leading figure in the revolution toward abstraction in modern painting. His influence on the course of modern art, particularly on the development of cubism, is enormous and deep. In his early career, he was strongly influenced by Delacroix and Courbet. Through...

As a boy, Ilya Repin received his first lessons in art in 1858, when he worked for a talented icon painter I. M. Bunakov. Working with Kramskoi, in a year Repin developed his skills sufficiently to be accepted in the Academy. In 1870, Repin made his first sketches for Baurge Haulers on the Volga,...

"To tell the truth, the peasant subjects suit my temperament best; for I must confess, even if you think me a socialist, that the human side of art is what touches me most." Jean-François Millet Jean-François Millet (1814 – 1875) was a French painter and one...

This book is a collection of 150 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Jonathan Swift: "My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool." "The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merry-man." "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."...

Frederic Sackrider Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th-century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U. S. Cavalry.His style...

Hans Holbein the Younger was German painter, draftsman, and designer who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, renowned for the precise rendering of his drawings and the compelling realism of his portraits. Holbein was one of the greatest portraitists and most exquisite draftsmen of all time. It...

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French Rococo painter and printmaker whose style was remarkable by cheerfulness and hedonism. His most popular artworks are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism. Fragonard has been ranked with Watteau as one of the two great lyrical...

  Rembrandt was one of the greatest draftsmen in the history of art. His drawings were as creative as it was amazing his paintings. About 1400 recognized to him drawings survive, and probably at least an equivalent number have been lost. Rembrandt made comparatively a small number...

Valentin Serov was outstanding Russian painter, and one of the leading portrait artists of his era. His early inspiration was sparked by the realistic art of Repin and Chistyakov. Further influences on Serov were the old master paintings he viewed in the museums of Russia and Western Europe, friendships...

Konstantin Korovin was a leading Russian Impressionist painter, artist with a rare gift for color harmonization. His works represent a merger of the classic art tradition with impressionism and art-nouveau. In the best of Korovin's portraits, man and nature merge together, the beauty of each complementing...

This Art Book with Foreword contains 146 selected reproductions of paintings from Henri Fantin-Latour.  Henri Fantin-Latour was a French painter and printmaker. Though he associated with innovative artists like Gustave Courbet, Eugene Delacroix and Edouard Manet, he was a traditionalist...