Vasily Kandinsky 1866–1944

 

Caravaggio • Félix Witting & M. L. Patrizi

Hokusai • After Edmond de Goncourt

Painting in the Dutch Golden Age - A Profile of the Seventeenth Century

 

Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci

 

Portrais By Ingres • The Metropolitan Museum Of Art New York

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, más conocido como Dominique Ingres, (Montauban, 29 de agosto de 1780 – París; 14 de enero de 1867), fue un pintor francés.

Ingres no es, en sentido estricto, neoclásico ni académico, sino un ferviente defensor del dibujo. Resulta a la vez clásico, romántico y realista. Ingres constituye un claro exponente del romanticismo en cuanto a los temas, el trazo abstracto y las tintas planas de intenso colorido. Algunas de sus obras se enmarcan en el llamado «Estilo trovador», inspirándose en el ideal estético griego y gótico, además de en las miniaturas de los libros de horas de Fouquet. Igualmente, es ejemplo de orientalismo, pues muchos de sus cuadros, especialmente desnudos femeninos, están dominados por un sentido irreal del exotismo propio del siglo XVIII. Bio completa en wiki

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French: [ʒɑnoɡyst dominik ɛ̃ɡʁ]; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy.

A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix. His exemplars, he once explained, were "the great masters which flourished in that century of glorious memory when Raphael set the eternal and incontestable bounds of the sublime in art ... I am thus a conservator of good doctrine, and not an innovator."[1] Nevertheless, modern opinion has tended to regard Ingres and the other Neoclassicists of his era as embodying the Romantic spirit of his time,[2] while his expressive distortions of form and space make him an important precursor of modern art.

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Toulouse Lautrec in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum has in its collection an exceptional body of art in a range of media by the late-nineteenth-century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. In exhibiting a large portion of these works, the Metropolitan once again invites the visitor—and the reader of this accompanying catalogue—to examine the product of a single fertile, inventive, and tireless mind through the rich veins of material housed at the Museum. The exhibition also gives us the chance to reassess the body of work in terms of recent scholarship. Additionally, since much of Toulouse-Lautrec's work is on paper and can be exhibited for only intermittent and limited periods of time, this show has given us an opportunity to examine these works from the point of view of conservation. Indeed, as it turned out, a number of the works on paper underwent extensive treatment before going on view.

The Museum's collection of art by Toulouse-Lautrec, the result largely of generous donations from private collectors, includes paintings, drawings, and examples of his finest and most important prints. The artist excelled in lithography; a hundred years ago his bold, persistent experimenting gave this medium an entirely new appearance just when the centennial of its invention was being marked in Europe. In fact, with the wealth of examples at the Metropolitan Museum, we now can celebrate the bicentennial of lithography through the works of Toulouse-Lautrec, the artist who virtually reinvented this medium.

Still-Life

 

Cézanne transformed a teacup into something alive, raising still-life to the point that it ceased to be inanimate. Wassily Kandinsky said about the French artist: “He painted these things as human beings because he was endowed with the gift of divining the inner life in everything.” In addition to those of Cézanne, this book is devoted to still-life paintings by artists such as Van Gogh, Matisse, Chardin and Picasso.

 

Victoria Charles (Author)

 

The Private Collection of Edgar Degas: A Summary Catalogue

 

Colta Ives (Author), Susan Alyson Stein (Author)

The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin

 

The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then little-known Keats and Blake, as well as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, Pre-Raphaelite poetry "etherialized sensation" (in the words of Antony Harrison), and popularized the notion ofl'art pour l'art—art for art's sake. Where Victorian realist novels explored the grit and grime of the Industrial Revolution, Pre-Raphaelite poems concentrated on more abstract themes of romantic love, artistic inspiration and sexuality. Later they attracted Aesthetes and Decadents like Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Ernest Dowson, not to mention Gerard Manley Hopkins and W.B. Yeats.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

 

Al-Andalus׃ The Art of Islamic Spain • Metropolitan Museum of Art

  

 

Balthus, 1908-2001 The King of Cats

 

Realist of the unreal   French-German painter Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (1908-2001), known as Balthus, shocked the Parisian art world in 1934 with his dreamy, sensual, Neo-Classical portraits of nymphets at a time when Surrealism and abstraction were de rigueur. As a provocateur, Balthus was often scorned; as an artist, he was widely embraced as a prodigy. In response to critics of his realist style, Balthus said: "The real isn’t what you think you see. One can be a realist of the unreal and a figurative painter of the invisible." His erotic, poetic paintings live on as examples of the best figurative work of the modern era.   

 

Gilles Néret (Author) 

 

Dalí: 1904-1989

 

Victoria Charles (Author)

Through the Eyes of Vincent Van Gogh • Barrington Barber

Editorial Reviews
View the world as seen through the eyes of the legendary artist Vincent Van Gogh in this follow-up to the wildly successful Through the Eyes of Leonardo da Vinci. Beautiful color illustrations by Van Gogh are accompanied by informative and captivating text. Learn about the themes, motives, and meanings behind the drawings and paintings of one of the most fascinating artists of the nineteenth century. All of Van Gogh's major works are here, from portraits such as that of postman Joseph-Etienne Roulin to the best-known landscape "Starry Night."

Art For The Nation • National Gallery Of Art

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Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall An Artists Country Estate

Love in the art

 

A timeless theme that cannot be ignored, love has always fascinated artists. Painters, sculptors and even architects have drawn inspiration from and illustrated it. Ever new, love has led artists to create the masterworks of their life.
From Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love to Brancusi’s The Kiss, the treatment of love has changed along with time and style, but remains, in the end, an everlasting universal language. This book illustrates love in all its strength and variety.

 

Jp. A. Calosse (Author)

 

Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg 1300-1550