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Lucian Freud by Sebastian Smee
Category: Art | Series: Basic Art
British artist, Lucian Freud is widely considered the most important figurative painter working today. Master portraitist and specialist in nudes, Freud uses impasto to create depth and intensity while restraining his color palate to mostly muted hues. His portraits may be physically unflattering to the ...Show more
Marc Chagall 1887-1985 : Painting as poetry: Basic Art Album by Ingo F. Walther & Rainer Metzger
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Album S.
Colourful dreams and tales - Chagall's world full of everyday miracles The Russian painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is widely regarded as epitomizing the "painter as poet". The worldwide admiration he commanded remains unparalleled by any artist of the century. Chagall's paintings, steeped in mythology ...Show more
Mark Rothko 1903-1970 - Pictures as Drama by Jacob Baal-Teshuva
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art
One of the most esteemed abstract expressionists and greatest painters of the 20th century, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) invented the bold yet subtle color-field style that has become synonymous with his name.
Matisse by Essers, Volkmar
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Album S.
Le Bonheur de Vivre: The vital colors and shapes of a modernist masterThe work of Henri Matisse (1869 1954) reflects an ongoing belief in the power of brilliant colors and simple forms. Though famed in particular for his paintings, Matisse also worked with drawing, sculpture, lithography, stained glass, ...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
Michelangelo by Gilles Neret
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
This title is a Taschen 25 - Special edition! It describes Michelangelo between earthly passions and fear of God. During the Renaissance, several great homosexual artists - from Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli to Michelangelo and Raphael - transformed the history of art, striving for ever closer imitat ...Show more
Miro Basic Art by Janis Mink
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Assassinator of painting. The artist who upset the establishment. Joan Miro (1893-1983) is one of the most significant Spanish painters of the twentieth century. His early work clearly shows the influence of Fauvism and Cubism. The Catalan landscape also shapes the themes and treatment of these initial ...Show more
Monet by Christoph Heinrich
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Lasting impressions of nature: The most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. His long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, o ...Show more
Monet: Basic Art Album by Christopher Heinrich
Category: Fiction | Series: Basic Art Album Ser.
Impressionism's founding father Claude Monet (1840-1926), the most individual Impressionist painter, dedicated his long life to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offers the human eye. In his endeavor to capture the ever-changing face of reality, Monet ...Show more
Neutra (Basic Art) by Barbara Lamprecht
Category: Architecture | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
The quintessential California Modernist "The continual refinement of human knowledge of the body and soul came to be one and the same thing for me, and the architecture of human living space its most necessary application and valuation." - Richard Neutra Born and raised in Vienna, Richard Neutra (1872-1 ...Show more
O'Keefe by Britta Benke
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Mighty nature: The pioneering forms of Georgia O'KeeffeGeorgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was a major figure in modern American art for some seven decades. Importantly, her fame was not associated with shifting art styles and trends, but rather with her own unique vision, based on finding essential and abstra ...Show more
Odilon Redon : 1840-1916: the Prince of Dreams by Michael Gibson
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Series 2.0
A major Symbolist artist, Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was also a painter of scenic and emotional extremes. Until around 1890, he was renowned for work in black and white only. These "Noirs" in charcoal drawing or lithograph were composed not only of a sombre palette, but also by fantastic, frightening figu ...Show more