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Schiele by Reinhard Steiner
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
This is a concise overview of the brief, brilliant career of Egon Schiele. Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is the painter who had the most long-lasting influence on the Vienna art scene after the great era of Klimt came to a close. After a short flirtation with the style of Klimt, his mentor, Schiele soon ques ...Show more
Self-Portraits by Ernst Rebel
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Me, myself, and IIs a self-portrait of an artist a medium of reflection--or is it merely a black void, the 'false mirror, ' as the surrealist Rene Magritte entitled his 1928 painting of an eye? Do self-portraits reveal how artists see themselves, or how they wish others would see them? From the 15th cen ...Show more
Toulouse-Lautrec by Matthias Arnold
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
The Prince of Pigalle. In pursuit of pleasure in the belle epoque. Today, the painter and graphic artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) is considered as one of the most inspired portrayers of human figures. This physically handicapped scion of the old French nobility was fascinated by life around Mo ...Show more
Turner by Michael Bockemühl
Category: Art | Series: Basic Art 2.0
As a blind person might see the world if the gift of sight were suddenly returned - this is how we might describe the effect of William Turner's paintings on the observer. John Ruskin, Turner's uncompromising 19th-century defender, alluded to this idea when he spoke of an "innocence of the eye" which pe ...Show more
Turner by anon
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Album S.
This book provides the understandings necessary to open up Turner's paintings for the eye, demonstrating that Turner was not simply illustrating nature, but that his pictures speak directly to the eye as nature does itself - through a world of light and colour.
Van Gogh by Ingo F. Walther
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
"Vision and Reality" Van Gogh - one of the great forerunners of 20th century painting. This richly illustrated and expert study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his homeland, through his bright and colourful Parisian perio ...Show more
Velázquez by Norbert Wolf
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Ser.
Court painter to King Philip IV of Spain, Diego Rodr guez de Silva y Vel zquez (June 1599 - August 6, 1660) is not only a leading light of the Spanish Golden Age, but among the most celebrated masters in all Western art history. Monet and Renoir, Corot and Courbet, Degas and Dal all hailed his influence ...Show more
Vermeer: The Complete Paintings by Norbert Schneider
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
This title is a Taschen 25 - Special edition! This title deals with Vermeer's women, their duties and unspoken dreams. The 35 paintings that have come down to us from the hand of Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) place him beside Rembrandt and Frans Hals as one of the great masters of the golden age of Dutch art. ...Show more
Warhol by Klaus Honnef
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Album S.
Andy Warhol is recognized today as the most important exponent of the Pop Art movement. He overturned the traditional understanding of art and placed in its stead a concept that retracts the individuality of the artist. Warhol was a critical observer of American society, exposing his compatriots' consum ...Show more
Wright by Pfeiffer Bruce Brooks ; Gossel Peter
Category: Home and Garden | Series: Basic Art Ser.
That's Wright One of the greatest pioneers in the history of architecture Acclaimed as the "father of skyscrapers," the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and a ...Show more
Wright (Basic Architecture) by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
Category: Architecture | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Widely thought to be the greatest American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was a true pioneer, both artistically and technically. At a time when reinforced concrete and steel were considered industrial building materials, Wright boldly made use of them to build private homes. His prairie house ...Show more