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Dali Basic Art Series by Gilles Néret (Editor)
Category: Art and Design
Lobsters and lunacy: The zaniest Surrealist of them all Painter, sculptor, writer, film-maker, and all-round showman Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the twentieth century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis to art, he i ...Show more
Dalí. The Paintings by Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret
Category: Art and Design | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
The seminal surrealist: Exploring Dali's grandiose and grotesque oeuvre Picasso called Dali "an outboard motor that's always running." Dali thought himself a genius with a right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head. Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was on ...Show more
De Lempicka by Gilles Néret
Category: Art and Design
FreewheelingTamara de Lempicka, icon of Art DecoTamara de Lempicka (1896-1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set about taking Paris by storm. Her prolific, monumental oeuvr ...Show more
Edouard Manet 1832-1883 - The First of the Moderns by Gilles Néret
Category: Learning | Series: Basic Art
The inventor of modernity Violently criticized during his lifetime for his supposedly provocative paintings, French painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883) is now considered a master of inestimable importance in the history of painting. His 1863 painting "Dejeuner sur l'herbe" depicting two clothed men picnic ...Show more
Henri Matisse. Cut-Outs. 40th Ed by Xavier-Gilles Néret (Editor)
Category: Art and Design
Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life--he was almost 80 years of age--he developed the technique of "carving into color," creating bright, bold paper c ...Show more
Henri Matisse - Cut-Outs, Drawing with Scissors by Gilles Néret (Editor); Xavier-Gilles Néret (Editor)
Category: Art and Design
Drawing with Scissors Matisse's revolutionary late-period work Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life--he was almost 80 years of age--he developed the t ...Show more
Klimt by Gilles Néret
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Cult of pleasure: Feminine sensuality by the Vienna Secession's greatest proponentGustav Klimt's ornate, sensual, and decadent style made him not only the most prominent of the Vienna Secessionists but one of the best loved artists of all time. In his own time, Kilmt (1862-1918) was a highly successful ...Show more
Matisse Cut-outs by Gilles Néret
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Series 2.0
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty, and the confines of a wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest to make art. With what he called une seconde vie, a second life, he embarked on a remarkable collage period, cut ...Show more
Renoir by Gilles Néret
Category: Art and Design | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's (1841-1919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. Derived from our large-format volume, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work published to date, this compact edition examines the personal history and motivation behind th ...Show more
Renoir. 40th Ed by Gilles Néret; Gilles Néret
Category: Art and Design | Series: 40th Edition Ser.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's (1841-1919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. Derived from our large-format volume, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work published to date, this compact edition examines the personal history and motivation behind th ...Show more
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