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Kahlo - Masters of Art by Eckhard Hollmann
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Discover the life and work of Frida Kahlo in this introduction to the iconic Mexican artist.Although her body of work is relatively small, Frida Kahlo has inspired adoration and admiration that few other artists have attained. This accessible and elegant book offers full page reproductions of a selectio ...Show more
Klimt: Masters of Art by ANGELA WENZEL
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
The story of Klimt's astonishing artistic career is told in this beautifully produced collection of reproductions, photographs and drawings with an accompanying text that places the artist in a unique historical moment and reflects his fierce appetite for life and beauty. Gustav Klimt's career strad ...Show more
Lucian Freud - Masters of Art by Brad Finger
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Get to know the master figurative painter Lucian Freud who depicted humanity with a poet's gaze and a perfectionist's eye for detail. Lucian Freud dedicated his life to portraying the people in his world without flattery or refinement. Although his technique and style evolved tremendously over the d ...Show more
Lyonel Feininger by Ulrich Luckhardt
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Great Masters of Art Ser.
Elegant sailing ships, expansive seascapes, crystal - clear spread - out views of architecture - with his unique pictorial language and range of subjects Lyonel Feininger became one of the most important artists of Classic Modernism, whose works remain very popular to this day. It was in Paris that Lyon ...Show more
László Moholy-Nagy by Hans-Michael Koetzle
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Great Masters of Art Ser.
L szl Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a painter, photographer, Bauhaus teacher, and founder of the New Bauhaus and the School of Design in Chicago--one of the most important artistic figures of the twentieth century. As one of the first artists to work across such a wide range of media--including painting, ...Show more
Magritte - Masters of Art by Alexander Adams
Category: Art | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
This revelatory examination of the Surrealist master updates prevailing theories about Magritte's life and beliefs, and offers a surprising new assessment of an artist who strived for anonymity rather than fame. Throughout his career, Magritte subverted expectations about artists in the world by dis ...Show more
Matisse: Masters of Art by ECKHARD HOLLMANN
Category: Colouring Books | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Learn about Henri Matisse, one of 20th century's most beloved artists, and his artistic legacy. From his earliest pointillist-influenced paintings to this mature and playful paper cut-outs; from enormous, ebullient murals to reverent stained glass - Henri Matisse was renowned for his dramatic use of col ...Show more
Monet: Masters of Art by Simona Bartolena
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Monet's dazzling depictions of flowers, sunsets, fields, and oceans, in which line and shape are suggested through pure colour, changed the way we perceive our natural surroundings. His numerous series, in which he depicts the same object at varying times of the day and in different seasons, pushed the ...Show more
Pablo Picasso: Masters of Art by Rosalind Ormiston
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Discover the motifs, masterpieces, and driving forces behind the artist Pablo Picasso. Picasso was arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades--and included thousands of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, prints, and tapest ...Show more
Rubens - Masters of Art by Michael Robinson
Category: Art | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Arguably the greatest artist of the Baroque period, Peter Paul Rubens was an accomplished painter and draftsman, as well as a valued diplomat. This accessible examination of his life and work looks at every aspect of Rubens's oeuvre; from his commissioned portraits of royalty and the nobility to his mag ...Show more
Toulouse Lautrec by Douglas Cooper
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
The forty stunning colorplates in this volume are brilliant demonstrations of Toulose-Lautrec's virtuosity. The text, liberally illustrated with both reproductions of his works and documentary photographs, gives a graphic and sensitive account of the artists's life and work.
Turner: Masters of Art by Gabriele Crepaldi
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Perhaps the best-loved English romantic painter, Turner became known as the painter of light.A" The use of brilliant watercolour characterizes his numerous landscapes. Travelling throughout Europe, Turner captured the vitality of urban and pastoral scenes. As he developed his technique, his paintings to ...Show more