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Frida Kahlo Masterpieces of Art by Flame Tree Studio (COR)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art
The painful, exquisite art of Mexico's favourite artist was a product of immense physical pain, and an emotional tumultuous life. The new book features the range and power of her heavily autobiographical work, from the early, disturbing explorations of personal suffering to the more dulled, painkiller-d ...Show more
Gauguin by Professor Paul Gauguin
Category: Art | Series: Masterpieces Collection S.
One of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists and a founding figure of modern art, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) incorporated the influences of many cultures into his work. He pioneered an appreciation of the simple and primitive, traveling to Martinique, Tahiti, and the Marquesas Islands for inspiration. T ...Show more
Glasgow Boys Masterpieces of Art by Susie Hodge
Category: Art | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
Over 100 paintings by artists based in Scotland in the early 19th Century, many influenced by the ground-breaking masterworks of James McNeil Whistler. A group of primarily Scottish artists (mainly William York Macgregor, Joseph Crawhall, George Henry, Edward Atkinson Hornel, Sir John Lavery and Art ...Show more
Glasgow Boys Masterpieces of Art by Susie Hodge
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art
A group of primarily Scottish artists (mainly William York Macgregor, Joseph Crawhall, George Henry, Edward Atkinson Hornel, Sir John Lavery and Arthur Melville) they painted in a number of different styles, and were active around the turn of the 20th Century. The Glasgow Boys are defined by their rejec ...Show more
Gustav Dore - Masterpieces of Art by Dan Malan; Flame Tree Studio (Created by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
An artist who worked across many media, the multi-skilled Gustave Dor remains unequalled as a supremely talented illustrator, whose detailed and imaginative engravings for major works of literature - from Cervantes's Don Quixote to Dante's Divine Comedy, and even the Bible - have hugely influenced the w ...Show more
Gustav Klimt Masterpieces of Art by Susie Hodge
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
New edition of Gustav Klimt in the popular Masterpieces of Art series. Gustav Klimt, well known for his sensual, arresting depictions of women (The Kiss, Fulfillment, The Tree of Life), was a founder of the Viennese Secession movement at the turn of the 20th century, Vienna's own Art Nouveau. His ex ...Show more
Gustav Klimt Masterpieces of Art by Susie Hodge
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces in Art
Gustav Klimt, well known for his sensual, arresting depictions of women (The Kiss, Fulfillment, The Tree of Life), was a founder of the Viennese Secession movement at the turn of the 20th century, Vienna's own Art Nouveau. His extravagant work, was an obsessive manifestation of the dazzling intellectual ...Show more
Gustave Dore Masterpieces of Art by Dan Malan
Category: Art Books | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
An artist who worked across many media, the multi-skilled Gustave Doré remains unequalled as a supremely talented illustrator, whose detailed and imaginative engravings for major works of literature - from Cervantes's Don Quixote to Dante's Divine Comedy, and even the Bible - have hugely influenced the ...Show more
Heath Robinson Masterpieces of Art by Susan Grange
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art
Illustrator and cartoonist W. Heath Robinson is renowned for his ingenious and haphazard contraptions. His witty drawings of complicated machines, are ironically designed to simplify everyday life, but always manage to make everything appear more complicated! His work is steeped in the humour of calamit ...Show more
Hieronymus Bosch Masterpieces of Art by Rosalind Ormiston
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art
Bosch lived and worked over 500 hundred years ago in the Netherlands' town of 's Hertogenbosch, from which he takes his name. He is best known for his fantastical, wondrous art full of strange creatures both grotesque and heavenly. The work he has left behind still defies the imagination. Taking account ...Show more
Illuminated Manuscripts Masterpieces of Art by James Peacock
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces in Art
Prior to the invention of the printing press, all books had to be written by hand. Manuscripts are the beautiful manifestation of this craft, and the most precious and expensive of such manuscripts were 'illuminated' through the use of brightly coloured pigments and gold embellishments. Beginning with a ...Show more
Impressionists Masterpieces of Art by Michael Robinson
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art
Bringing to life the gorgeous, inspiring art of Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro and their group, Impressionists takes the reader back to Nineteenth Century Paris to explore one of the most influential, and popular art movements in the history of painting. A careful selection of the period's most enduring ...Show more