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Cover of Toulouse-Lautrec
by Nathalia Brodskaya
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011

Lautrec studied with two of the most admired academic painters of the day, Léon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon. Lautrec’s time in the studios of Bonnat and Cormon had the advantage of introducing him to the nude as a subject. At that time life-drawing of the nude was the basis of all academic art training...
Cover of Van Gogh
by Jp. A. Calosse
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011

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...
Cover of Sculpture
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014

Mega Square Sculpture spans over 23,000 years and over 120 examples of the most beautiful sculptures in the world: from prehistoric art and Egyptian statues to the works of Michelangelo, Henry Moore and Niki de Saint-Phalle. It illuminates the wide variety of materials used and the evolution of styles over centuries, as well as the peculiarities of the most important sculptors.
Cover of Cézanne
by Nathalia Brodskaya
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011

Since his death 100 years ago, Cézanne has become the most famous painter of the nineteenth century. He was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1839 and the happiest period of his life was his early youth in Provence, in company with Emile Zolá, another Italian. Following Zolá’s example, Cézanne went...
Cover of Ukiyo-E
by Dora Amsden, Woldermar von Seidlitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014

Ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’) is a branch of Japanese art which originated during the period of prosperity in Edo (1615-1868). Characteristic of this period, the prints are the collective work of an artist, an engraver, and a printer. Created on account of their low cost thanks to...
Cover of Hiroshige
by Mikhail Uspensky
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014

The art of the Ukiyo-e reflected the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation which, when it became accessible to the West, significantly influenced a number of European artists. The three masters of Ukiyo-e, Hokusai, Utamaro and Hiroshige, are united here for the first time to create a true...
Cover of Hokusai
by Edmond de Goncourt
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Without a doubt, Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous Japanese artist since the middle of the nineteenth century whose art is known to the Western world. Reflecting the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation, the works of Hokusai - one of the first Japanese artists to emerge in Europe -...
Cover of Ilya Repin
by Grigori Sternin, Jelena Kirillina
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012

Ilya Repin was the most gifted of the group known in Russia as “The Itinerants”. When only twelve years old, he joined Ivan Bounakov’s studio to learn the icon-painter’s craft. Religious representations always remained of great importance for him. From 1864 to 1873 Repin studied at the Academy...
Cover of Le surréalisme
by Nathalia Brodskaïa
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Dépassant son admiration, Gerry Souter, auteur du remarquable Frida Kahlo, n’hésite pas à ramener Diego Rivera à une dimension humaine, en constatant ses choix politiques, ses amours, et « qu’au fond de lui bouillonnait le Mexique, langue de ses pensées, sang de ses veines, azur du ciel au-dessus de sa tombe. »
Cover of Mucha
by Patrick Bade
Language: French
Release Date: December 22, 2011

Entre courbes et contre-courbes, Mucha créa, à la fin du XIXe siècle, une égérie nouvelle qui devait hanter les rues de Paris. Au fil des représentations de Sarah Bernhard, cette muse voluptueuse devint un véritable emblème de l'Art nouveau et offrit à l'affichiste succès et renommée. Néanmoins,...
Cover of Egon Schiele
by Esther Selsdon, Jeanette Zwingenberger
Language: French
Release Date: January 17, 2012

Egon Schiele (Tulln, 1890 – Vienne,1918) L’oeuvre d’Egon Schiele est tellement singulière qu’elle résiste à toute catégorisation. Admis à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Vienne dès l’âge de seize ans, ce fut un artiste extraordinairement précoce, dont le talent consommé pour le...
Cover of Diego Rivera
by Gerry Souter
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015

« Je connaissais Diego Rivera, le muraliste mexicain, bien avant de découvrir les nombreux autres « Diego Rivera » qui hantèrent le monde du début du XXe siècle à la fin des années 1950. […] Si ses peintures de chevalet et ses dessins forment une grande part de ses œuvres de jeunesse comme...
Cover of Manet
by Nathalia Brodskaya
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Edouard Manet (Paris, 1832 – 1883) Manet est l'un des plus célèbres artistes de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, lié aux impressionnistes sans faire vraiment partie de leur groupe. Chérissant son indépendance, il eut une grande influence sur la peinture française, en partie due au choix...
Cover of Klimt
by Klaus Carl
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Gustav Klimt (Baumgarten, 1862 – Vienne, 1918) «Faire un autoportrait ne m'intéresse pas. Les sujets de peinture qui m'intéressent ? Les autres et en particulier les femmes… » Aucune référence au monde extérieur ne vient contrarier le charme des allégories, portraits, paysages et autres...
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