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Otto Wagner 1841-1918 by August Sarnitz
Category: Architecture | Series: Basic Art Ser.
The pioneer of Viennese Modernism One of Austria's most influential architects, Otto Wagner (1841-1918) played a key role in modernizing urban architecture. Forming an approach described as structural rationalism, Wagner pioneered use of materials such as glass, steel, and especially aluminum. He was as ...Show more
Paul Gauguin 1848-1903 - The Primitive Sophisticate by Ingo F. Walther
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art
A Frenchman in Tahiti: Gauguin's search for pristine originality and unadulterated nature After starting a career as a bank broker, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) turned to painting only at age twenty-five. After initial successes within the Impressionist circle, he broke with Vincent van Gogh and subsequentl ...Show more
Pop Art by Klaus Honnef
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Whaam When the kitschy, banal, and mass-market became art Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork.Focusing ...Show more
Prouve by Nils Peters & Peter Gossel
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Series 2.0
French architect and designer Jean Prouve (1901-1984) was one of the most important constructors of the 20th century. Prouve's design innovations included cleverly-shaped metal parts for building prefabricated structures; he designed buildings and furniture that could be produced with economy of labor a ...Show more
Raphael by Christoph Thoenes
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Influenced by his contemporaries Michelangelo and Leonardo, Raphael Santi (1483-1520) became, in his own right, one of the most important artists of the High Renaissance. Though Raphael painted many important works in his Florence period, including his famous Madonnas, it was his mature work in Rome tha ...Show more
Renoir by Peter H. Feist
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Ser.
La belle vie: Impressionism's most joyful paintings Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is now universally acclaimed: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flock to his retrospectives. His work shows art at its most light-hearted, sensual and luminous. Renoir never wanted anything ugly in his ...Show more
Renoir by Peter H. Feist
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen's Basic Art Series
La belle vie: impressionism's most joyful paintings. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is universally acclaimed and celebrated: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flock to his retrospectives. His work shows art at its most light-hearted, sensual and luminous. Renoir never wanted anything ...Show more
Rivera by Andrea Kettenmann
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
It was as a revolutionary and troublemaker that Picasso, Dali and Andre Breton described the husband of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, but he was also responsible for creating a public art that was both highly advanced and profoundly accessible. From 1910 Rivera lived in Europe where he absorbed the influen ...Show more
Rousseau by Cornelia Stabenow
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art
Tiger, Tiger Henri Rousseau's dreamlike jungles Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a clerk in the Paris customs service who dreamed of becoming a famous artist. At the age 49, he decided to give it a try. At first, Rousseau's bright, bold paintings of jungles and exotic flora and fauna were dismissed as chi ...Show more
Roy Lichtenstein Basic Art Album by J Hendrickson
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Rubens (Basic Art) by Gilles Neret
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
There are over 1,000 catalogued works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama, movement, and sensuality. This essential introduction takes in the most important works from this astonishingly prolific oeuvre to explore Rubens's influences and innovations, and ...Show more
Salvador Dali 1904-1989 by Gilles Neret
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
"Every morning when I awake," wrote the painter of the soft watches and burning giraffes, "the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali..."