At the end of the nineteenth century, as a member of the avant garde Nabis group, Pierre Bonnard actively participated in the construction of aesthetic modernity. His painting proposed new, radical formulas for transforming space and narrative as he advocated for art that embraced all techniques and challenged the traditional hierarchy of genres. Elegantly packaged, and filled with large, full-colour, high quality reproductions this volume covers every facet of Bonnard's creative work.
A l'occasion de son 100e anniversaire, le Musée ALBERTINA célèbre le maître du Pop Art, Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997, New York), avec une rétrospective complète qui rassemble plus de 90 peintures, sculptures et gravures.
Ce livre présente de nombreux dessins dont certains inédits de Paula Modersohn-Becker représentant des hommes, des femmes et des enfants confrontés à la pauvreté, ainsi que ses peintures de figures et de nus, y compris ses autoportraits. Accompagnant la première exposition muséale de l'oeuvre de Modersohn-Becker aux États-Unis, cette publication révèle le travail profondément personnel et authentique d'une artiste qui a résolument tracé sa propre voie.
Andy Warhol's continuous pursuit of ideal beauty--visible in a body of his work that is brought here together for the first time. Andy Warhol is arguably one of the most widely known and discussed artists of the twentieth century. While his depictions of consumer products and celebrities led him to become household famous, there is a red thread throughout his career, starting even in the late forties until his untimely death in 1987.
Au cours des vingt dernières années de sa carrière, Gustav Klimt a consacré une énergie considérable à peindre des paysages pendant ses vacances d'été ; ces scènes bucoliques comptent aujourd'hui parmi ses images les plus recherchées. Richement illustré, ce catalogue qui accompagne une exposition à la Neue Galerie situe les paysages de Klimt aux côtés d'autres sujets chers au peintre tels que la mode, la photographie et les arts décoratifs. Les paysages de Klimt sont examinés dans le contexte plus vaste de son oeuvre et retracent l'évolution de son style.
Largement ignoré de son vivant, Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) était un peintre méticuleux de paysages mettant souvent en scène des personnages solitaires ou des groupes de personnes dans un décor dramatique. Son oeuvre a inspiré de nombreux artistes jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Ce catalogue d'une exposition à l'Alte Nationalgaleriede Berlin, étudie le rôle qu'a joué la Nationalgalerie de Berlin en mettant Friedrich au premier plan de l'histoire de l'art moderne à partir du début du XXe siècle. Il rassemble soixante peintures, dont plusieurs oeuvres emblématiques, et cinquante dessins et fait état des dernières recherches sur la technique de Friedrich : sa formation à Copenhague, ses esquisses, ses dessins préparatoires et ses sous-dessins, ainsi que sa sélection et son utilisation non conventionnelles des pigments.
This book highlights the intimate relationship between landscape and portraiture in the work of the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Plants, natural environments, and townscapes determine the spaces Egon Schiele created in his paintings, and they also reflect the rich symbolism he employed that is centered around the human condition.
In particular, plants are often endowed with an allegorical meaning. Flowers and trees assume the role of portrait subjects and convey an almost human appearance. Schiele's landscapes always represent more than their apparent subject matter. His portrayal of nature and his rendering of towns and trees epitomize the life cycle and the human condition.
This catalogue, accompanying a spectacular exhibition on view at the Neue Galerie New York, will investigate the importance of landscape in the artist's work. The contributing authors are internationally distinguished experts on Schiele's landscapes and representatives of museums and universities in Europe and the United States.
This lavishly illustrated exhibition catalog features 70 career-spanning works by the French avant-garde painter, one of the 20th century's great colorists and a major proponent of Fauvism.
After his participation at the Paris Salon d'Automne of 1905, Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) quickly established himself as a leading figure of the French avant-garde. More than any other member of the Fauves, he keenly identified with the attribute of wildness and early on propagated the image of a modern artist re
A groundbreaking new perspective on the painter's scandalous nudes.
Among the most celebrated works of Modigliani's brief but brilliant career are his large-format nudes. Drenched in color and glowing with the artist's deep appreciation of women and the female form, these works ushered in a new era of nude portraiture, while also causing an enormous scandal.
This stunning exhibition catalog offers a new perspective on this aspect of Modigliani's work by examining for the first time his portraits of emancipated women sporting coupe garc¸onnes haircuts and wearing loin cloths. Modigliani was one of the first chroniclers of the femme moderne, which also influenced his nude painting and the scandal they caused.
Featuring lavish reproductions and astute texts by leading scholars, this volume also examines Modigliani's cultural context in European Classicism, from Toulouse-Lautrec and Cezanne to the work of his contemporaries, including Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Jeanne Mammen and Wilhelm Lehmbruck; and traces his impact on future European Modernism and New Objectivity.
Pour beaucoup de ses contemporains, l'oeuvre créée par Max Beckmann entre 1917 et 1925 le situe à l'avant-garde de la peinture figurative de l'époque. En 1925, sa notoriété est à l'apogée grâce à l'exposition « Neue Sachlichkeit » (Nouvelle Objectivité) à Mannheim, mouvement dont il prendra ensuite les distances. Ce livre situe Max Beckmann dans le contexte artistique et historique des années 1910 et 1920, grâce à des contributions d'historiens de l'art de renom.
Five of Monet's most beloved works spring to life in this vivid and brilliantly engineered collection of pop-up scenes. One of the joys of a Monet painting is the sense of being fully immersed in a beautiful setting. Now fans of the great artist have an intriguing new way to dive into five of his most enduring paintings: 'Garden at Sainte-Adresse', 'Poppy Field', 'Waterlilies' and 'Japanese Bridge', 'The Artist's House at Argenteuil', and 'The Bridge at Argenteuil'.
Jean-Michel Basquiat's symbolic, complex, and often emotionally charged work made a huge impact on the 1980s downtown New York City art scene. And though his all-too-brief career ended when he died at age 27, Basquiat left behind an enormous legacy-not only in the number of works he produced, but also in the messages he encoded around political, social, racial, and cultural issues.
This exciting book shows how Basquiat used an intricate network of signs and symbols to challenge the very system that made him a darling of the art world. It traces his inspiration from cartoons, children's drawings, and advertising as well as his own Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage; discusses the influence of African-American, African, and Aztec cultural histories; and shows how Basquiat incorporated into his work classical themes and contemporary icons-from athletes to musicians. What becomes clear is how, even as a young man, Basquiat had a profound understanding of the artist's role in art history, and of his position as a young Black artist in a world of racism, suppression and social injustice.
This book helps readers decode Basquiat's unique lingua franca, an intoxicating body of work brimming with social commentary that was in turns incisive, angry, comic, hip, and heartbreaking, and that remains powerful and meaningful today.
For eight years before the First World War, a young Georges Braque and his friend Pablo Picasso shaped what was perhaps the most revolutionary stage in the history of modern painting: Cubism. This catalog of the accompanying exhibition focuses on Braque's turbulent pre-WWI period to reveal the processes by which the artist developed or reinvented his style in rapid succession- from Fauvism, Proto-Cubism, Analytical Cubism, papier colle to Synthetic Cubism. The amazing speed and intensity of Braque's evolution stands as a remarkable parallel to modern art's shifting focus from representation to abstraction. Bringing together sixty works from museums and private collections around the world, this book offers scholarly assessments that contextualise Braque's career amidst unprecedented technological advances, new schools of thought, and an overall acceleration of everyday life in Western Europe. This includes the invention of moving pictures, which held a particular fascination for the young artist. Film stills and documentary and archival material help readers make the connection between dynamization and the development of aesthetic forms in the visual arts, between the visual innovations of the pre-war period and the flood of media images in which we live today. More than half a century after Braque's death, this exploration of his remarkable career brings us closer to understanding the artist whom Guillaume Apollinaire considered the "touchstone" of Cubist art.
Ce livre cherche à offrir une perspective plus large sur la production créative de Gabrielle Munter. Publié à l'occasion du 140e anniversaire de sa naissance, il propose d'aller au-delà de son association avec Vassily Kandinsky et réévalue complètement son art, abordant son travail de photographe avant de devenir peintre, à travers ses nombreuses experimentations tant d'un point de vue technique que stylistique, allant des années du Blaue Reiter et de son associaiton avec l'expressionnisme allemand jusqu'à ces abstractions et à ses oeuvres primitivistes.
Cet ouvrage est le catalogue d'une exposition au Kunstmuseum de Bâle à l'automne 2021. Ami et mentor, Pissarro entretenait d'étroites relations avec des artistes de différentes générations à l'instar de Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas et Mary Cassatt entre autres. Figure centrale de l'impressionnisme, Pissarro marque ce mouvement de manière déterminante. Il est le seul impressionniste à accorder une attention égale au paysage et à la figure humaine. Puis dans les années 1880, Pissarro se consacre à une seconde révolution picturale : le néo-impressionnisme. Une nouvelle fois, il affiche sa volonté absolue en faveur du progrès artistique.
Aucun autre médium artistique ne transcende les frontières de notre perception autant que le relief ; cette ambiguïté même a poussé certains des plus grands artistes du monde à explorer ses possibilités. Plongant dans le sujet des reliefs dans l'art moderne, ce catalogue qui accompagne une exposition au Städel Museum de Francfort offre aux lecteurs l'occasion unique de faire une exploration eux-mêmes. S'ouvrant sur des oeuvres néoclassiques faisant écho aux reliefs de l'Égypte, de la Grèce et de la Rome antiques, les auteurs examinent des sculpteurs qui ont délibérément défié les frontières de leur médium, tels que Jules Dalou, Auguste Rodin et Medardo Rosso, juxtaposant ces oeuvres à celles de peintres-sculpteurs comme Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin et Pablo Picasso. Riche en images, ce livre célèbre l'évolution d'un moyen d'expression créative qui a commencé comme une dialectique entre les genres et qui, au fil des décennies, a atteint le statut de médium artistique à part entière.
Although Salvador Dali's characteristically provocative behavior and bizarre pictorial language made him an outlier in high society, his body of work reflects his century's most important innovations and concerns.
This introduction to Dali's work features dozens of exquisite reproductions as it traces the artist's development, life and career. Readers will learn how he was influenced by contemporaries Miro, Ernst, and de Chirico as well as by Raphael and Gaudi. It explores his early adoption of Surrealism, his fascination with the subconscious, and his antipathy toward war. It illustrates how Dali's return to the Catholic church and his interest in nuclear and atomic physics was manifested in his paintings; how he experimented in film and, later, even created holograms.
By making Dali's often perplexing art accessible to audiences of every level, this engaging introduction helps readers understand why he remains one of the most influential-and imitated-artists of all time.
Filled with brilliant reproductions and engaging texts reflecting the latest scholarship, this portable and attractively priced volume is the perfect introduction to one of the most important pioneers of modernism in Britain and beyond.
Joseph Mallord William Turner is considered a trailblazer of modernism in Europe. More than almost any other artist in the first half of the nineteenth century, he succeeded in making atmosphere and color the defining elements of his paintings.
Throughout his career, Magritte subverted expectations about artists in the world by disguising himself as an unremarkable member of the bourgeoisie. While the public mined his work for symbolism and deep meaning, the truth is, that with Magritte, what you see is what you get.
What readers will get with this gorgeous volume is a deeply engaging overview of Magritte's entire career, and an eloquent argument that his Surrealist masterpieces were simply an extension of the Romantic tradition. Chronologically arranged, this volume features full- page reproductions of thirty-five works, each paired with a concise text that highlights its significance in Magritte's catalog. In addition to greatest hits, such as Time Transfixed, 1938; The Treachery of Images, 1929; and The Lovers, 1928, the inclusion of several lesser-known works provides an overview of the range and character of Magritte's art. Readers will become acquainted with the main figures in the artist's life, including relatives, colleagues, rivals, and they will see how Magritte's relationships with collectors and dealers led to the production of particular works, as well as how his theories about painting evolved over the years.
Across this compact but utterly satisfying book, Magritte's exquisite use of color, his grasp of collage and composition, and his superb gifts for invention and mood are luminously and thrillingly in evidence.
