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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
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
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
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
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