In the spring of 1891, the artist, Paul Gauguin left France on his first journey to Tahiti. During his stay there, he achieved an intensification of colour and formal simplicity in his painting. In the more than 200 paintings he produced in the South Pacific, Gauguin was primarily concerned with expressing his own condition and his ideas about the ...
For Henri Matisse, drawing was an exercise as personal as it was essential to his art. Reproduced on elegant paper stock, these black and white and gently coloured sketches allow the viewer to appreciate the quality of Matisse's lines, their confidence and ease, as well as the intense relationship between artist and model. Matisse's joie de vivre, ...
A snazzy new 21st century design for a timeless Prestel classic starting with Rodin and ending with Louise Bourgeois, "Icons of Art: The 20th Century" features full-colour reproductions of nearly one hundred important paintings, sculptures, photographs and multi-media projects and accompanied by brief biographies of the artists, informative essays ...
Although he is best known for his Expressionist portraits and landscapes, Oskar Kokoschka was a passionate painter of women. His portrait of his lover Alma Mahler, "The Tempest (Bride of the Wind)" is one of his most famous works. This intimate book explores Kokoschka's experiments with watercolour. The artist's disdain for the stilted, academic ...
Best known for his distinctive paintings and sculptures, Modigliani drew obsessively and considered this skill vital to his development as an artist. His proficiency, ease, and delight in drawing are clearly in evidence in this collection of nude sketches. The volume, designed to resemble an artist's sketchbook, features stunning reproductions of ...
From its eye-popping cover to the last page, this collection of optical illusion, hyper-realism, and visual puns is a fun and fascinating exploration of five centuries of trompe l'oeil painting. Each of the forty paintings in this book is presented twice - a first glimpse of the painting captures one reality, and then a subsequent view reveals the ...
He brought the watercolours back to St Petersburg and with them opened Russia's first museum. After Peter's death, the paintings were given to the Academy of Sciences, where they have resided ever since.
A survey of landscape paintings from the Roman Empire to today, including notes on famous artists and brief descriptions and reproductions of selected paintings.
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