Jp. A. Calosse

Jenseits der Sonnenblumen, der Schwertlilien und des Portrts von Doktor Gachet befindet sich ein Mensch, Vincent van Gogh (geboren 1853; gestorben 1890) mit all seiner Begabung und Zerbrechlichkeit. Der Post-Impressionist van Gogh bte mit seiner Kreativitt und seiner Technik einen enormen Einfluss auf das Verstndnis der Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts aus. Er war Vorlufer der Expressionisten, der Fauvisten und der modernen Kunst berhaupt. Heute jedoch wird van Gogh vor allem als das Symbol des von Krankheit, anderen Menschen und vor allem seinen eigenen Dmonen gequlten Malers wahrgenommen. Die Autorin dieses Ebooks befasst sich sowohl mit van Goghs Briefen als auch seinen Gemlden, die eine vllig neue Herangehensweise an die Farbe verkrpern....

Дата выхода: ноябрь 2013

Whistler (Lowell, 1834 – Londres 1903) Whistler surgit un moment crucial de l\'histoire de l\'art et il joue un rle de prcurseur. Il a, comme les Impressionnistes, la volont d\'imposer ses ides. Son oeuvre se droule en quatre priodes. Dans une premire priode de recherche, l\'artiste est influenc par le ralisme de Courbet et par le japonisme. Puis Whistler trouve son originalit avec les Nocturnes et la srie des Cremorne Gardens en s\'opposant l\'acadmisme qui veut qu\'une oeuvre d\'art raconte une histoire. Lorsqu\'il peint le portrait de sa mre, Whistler l\'intitule Arrangement en gris et noir (p.31), ce qui est significatif de ses thories esthtiques. S\'il dpeint les jardins de plaisir de Cremorne, ce n\'est pas pour y figurer, comme...

Дата выхода: октябрь 2013

Pablo Picasso (Mlaga, 1881 – Mougins, 1973) Picasso naquit en Espagne et l’on dit mme qu’il commena dessiner avant de savoir parler. Enfant, il fut nstinctivement attir par les instruments de l’artiste. Il pouvait passer des heures de joyeuse concentration dessiner des spirales pourvues d’un sens qu’il tait seul connatre. Fuyant les jeux d’enfants, il traa ses premiers tableaux dans le sable. Cette manire prcoce de s’exprimer contenait la promesse d’un rare talent. Nous nous devons de mentionner Mlaga, car c’est l, le 25 Octobre 1881, que Pablo Ruiz Picasso naquit et qu’il passa les dix premires annes de sa vie. Le pre de Picasso tait lui-mme peintre et professeur l’cole des Beaux-Arts de la ville. Picasso apprit...

Дата выхода: октябрь 2013

Vincent van Gogh (Groot-Zundert, Brabant, 1853 – Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890) La vie et l\'oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh sont si troitement lies qu\'il est quasiment impossible de voir ses toiles sans y lire le rcit de sa vie : van Gogh est en effet devenu l\'incarnation du martyr souffrant et incompris de l\'art moderne, l\'emblme de l\'artiste marginal. Le premier article, publi en 1890, donnait des dtails sur la maladie de van Gogh. L\'auteur de l\'article voyait le peintre comme un «gnie terrible et dment, souvent sublime, parfois grotesque, toujours la limite du cas pathologique ». On sait trs peu de choses sur l\'enfance de Vincent. l\'ge de 11 ans, il dut quitter le «nid humain », comme il le nommait lui-mme, pour poursuivre sa...

Дата выхода: октябрь 2013

Lonard de Vinci (Vinci, 1452 – Le Clos-Luc, 1519) Lonard passa la premire partie de sa vie Florence, la seconde Milan et ses trois dernires annes en France. Le professeur de Lonard fut Verrocchio, d\'abord orfvre, puis peintre et sculpteur. En tant que peintre, Verrocchio tait reprsentatif de la trs scientifique cole de dessin ; plus clbre comme sculpteur, il cra la statue de Colleoni Venise. Lonard de Vinci tait un homme extrmement attirant physiquement, dot de manires charmantes, d\'agrable conversation et de grandes capacits intellectuelles. Il tait trs vers dans les sciences et les mathmatiques, et possdait aussi un vrai talent de musicien. Sa matrise du dessin tait extraordinaire, manifeste dans ses nombreux dessins, comme dans...

Дата выхода: октябрь 2013

Lacan, dernier propritaire de L’Origine du monde de Courbet, aimait le tableau si fort qu’il ne pouvait le regarder. Alors il le cacha derrire un tableau anodin. Les Chinois l’appelaient la « valle des roses » (attention aux pines !), les Perses « la source du miel » (attention aux abeilles !), les Grecs « le mont de Vnus » (attention l’escalade !). chaque poque ses fantasmes et son explication du mystre de la femme. Il nous reste le tmoignage des potes, des peintres et mme de quelques psychiatres clbres. L’Origine du monde, un ouvrage mettre seulement entre les mains des amoureux du mystre.

Дата выхода: октябрь 2013

Tout comme le mot « nu » peut avoir deux significations compltement diffrentes, un corps dshabill peut provoquer un sentiment de plaisir ou de honte, servant de symbole des concepts contradictoires, la beaut et l’indcence. Ce livre est consacr toutes les magnifiques reprsentations de nus des grands artistes de l’Antiquit, de la Renaissance, de l’Impressionnisme franais et de l’art contemporain ; de Botticelli et Michel-Ange, en passant par Czane et Renoir, Picasso et Botero. Ce livre soign et complet ne plaira pas seulement aux amateurs d’art, mais sera aussi un bel objet de collection.

Дата выхода: октябрь 2013

Lacan, dernier propritaire de L’Origine du monde de Courbet, aimait le tableau si fort qu’il ne pouvait le regarder. Alors il le cacha derrire un tableau anodin. Les Chinois l’appelaient la « valle des roses » (attention aux pines !), les Perses « la source du miel » (attention aux abeilles !), les Grecs « le mont de Vnus » (attention l’escalade !). chaque poque ses fantasmes et son explication du mystre de la femme. Il nous reste le tmoignage des potes, des peintres et mme de quelques psychiatres clbres. L’Origine du monde, un ouvrage mettre seulement entre les mains des amoureux du mystre.

Дата выхода: октябрь 2013

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuentetodos, 1746 – Bordeaux, 1828) Goya est peut-tre le peintre le plus accessible entre tous. Son art, comme sa vie, est un livre ouvert. Il ne cachait rien de ses contemporains, et leur offrait son art avec la mme franchise. L\'entre dans son monde n\'est pas barricade de difficults techniques. Il prouva que si un homme a la capacit de vivre et de multiplier ses expriences, de se battre et de travailler, il peut produire un grand art sans besoin de recourir au dcorum classique, ni la dcence traditionnelle. Il naquit en 1746, Fuendetodos, un petit village de montagne d\'une centaine d\'habitants. Enfant, il travailla dans les hamps avec ses deux frres et sa soeur, jusqu\'au moment o son talent pour le...

Дата выхода: октябрь 2013

Thme intemporel et on ne peut plus incontournable, l\'amour ne cesse aujourd\'hui encore de fasciner les artistes. Qu\'il soit peintre, sculpteur ou architecte, l\'artiste l\'aborde, l\'voque, l\'illustre, y puise son inspiration, comme tout un chacun s\'y rfre chaque jour de sa vie. Jamais puis, toujours renouvel, il porte les artistes vers les chefs-d\'uvre de leur vie. De L’Amour sacr et l’Amour profane de Titien au Baiser de Brancusi, l\'amour se transforme au fil des mouvements et des poques, mais reste, quelles que soient les couleurs qui l\'clairent, un langage universel dfiant la fois le temps et l\'espace. C\'est toute la force et la varit de ses formes que l\'auteur nous invite ici dcouvrir.

Дата выхода: октябрь 2013

Just as there is a fundamental difference in the use of the words “naked” and “nude”, the unclothed body can evoke a feeling of delight or shame, serving as a symbol of contradictory concepts – beauty and indecency. This book is devoted to representations of the nude by great artists from antiquity and the Italian Renaissance to French Impressionism and contemporary art; from Botticelli and Michelangelo to Czanne, Renoir, Picasso and Botero. This beautifully produced book provides a collection that will appeal to all art lovers.

Дата выхода: август 2013

Lacan, the last owner of Courbet’s The Origin of the World, loved the painting so much that he couldn’t even bring himself to look at it. Instead, he hid it behind a “safer” painting. The Chinese called it the “valley of the roses” (watch out for the thorns!), the Persians, the “honey-pot” (watch out for the bees!), and the Greeks, “the mound of Venus” (mind the steep climb!); to each era its fantasies and its theories about the feminine mystique. Then there are the testimonies of poets, painters, and even of some famous psychiatrists. The Origin of the World is a work of art only suitable for lovers of intrigue.

Дата выхода: сентябрь 2013

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), who can be assigned to the school of classical modernism, was born in Amersfort, Netherlands. After studying in Amsterdam, he started his artists career in the impressionist style as a figure and landscape painter. His works from these years showed the influence of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) and of Fauvism, a French school from the beginning of the 20th century. When he traveled to Paris in 1911, he discovered Pablo Picassos works (1881-1973) and, with that, Cubism. He thereafter became a pioneer of abstract painting in the Netherlands. From the 1920s on, his paintings show a vertical and horizontal composition that, combined with the oppositions of blue, yellow, red, and noncolored spaces, turned into his...

Дата выхода: август 2013

A timeless theme that cannot be ignored, love has always fascinated artists. Painters, sculptors and even architects have drawn inspiration from and illustrated it. Ever new, love has led artists to create the masterworks of their life. From Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love to Brancusi’s The Kiss, the treatment of love has changed along with time and style, but remains, in the end, an everlasting universal language. This book illustrates love in all its strength and variety.

Дата выхода: август 2013

The eclectic art of which the Carracci family dreamed was realised by Rubens with the ease of genius. However, the problem was much more complicated for a man of the north, who wished to add to it a fusion of the Flemish and Latin spirits, of which the rather pedantic attempts of Romanism had illustrated the difficulties. He achieved it without losing anything of his overflowing personality, his questing imagination, and the enchanting discoveries of the greatest colourist known to painting. Rubens, the greatest master of Baroque painting’s exuberance, took from the Italian Renaissance what could be of use to him, and then built upon it a style of his own. It is distinguished by a wonderful mastery of the human form and an amazing...

Дата выхода: август 2013

Those who have had the chance to hold a medieval manuscript in their hands cannot fail to have been impressed by the feeling of being in touch with a long-passed epoch. Back when a book was a true handicraft and every copy the result of a laborious process, the object was more a work of art than a volatile commercial product. The Mega Square Illuminated Manuscripts puts the reader in touch with amazing medieval illustrations and unique adornments, which document the imaginative power of their creators.

Дата выхода: август 2013

Whistler suddenly shot to fame like a meteor at a crucial moment in the history of art, a field in which he was a pioneer. Like the impressionists, with whom he sided, he wanted to impose his own ideas. Whistler’s work can be divided into four periods. The first may be called a period of research in which he was influenced by the Realism of Gustave Courbet and by Japanese art. Whistler then discovered his own originality in the Nocturnes and the Cremorne Gardens series, thereby coming into conflict with the academics who wanted a work of art to tell a story. When he painted the portrait of his mother, Whistler entitled it Arrangement in Grey and Black and this is symbolic of his aesthetic theories. When painting the Cremorne Pleasure...

Дата выхода: август 2013

Goya is perhaps the most approachable of painters. His art, like his life, is an open book. He concealed nothing from his contemporaries, and offered his art to them with the same frankness. The entrance to his world is not barricaded with technical difficulties. He proved that if a man has the capacity to live and multiply his experiences, to fight and work, he can produce great art without classical decorum and traditional respectability. He was born in 1746, in Fuendetodos, a small mountain village of a hundred inhabitants. As a child he worked in the fields with his two brothers and his sister until his talent for drawing put an end to his misery. At fourteen, supported by a wealthy patron, he went to Saragossa to study with a court...

Дата выхода: август 2013

Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy concentration drawing spirals with a sense and meaning known only to himself. At other times, shunning children’s games, he traced his first pictures in the sand. This early self-expression held out promise of a rare gift. Mlaga must be mentioned, for it was there, on 25 October 1881, that Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born and it was there that he spent the first ten years of his life. Picasso’s father was a painter and professor at the School of Fine Arts and Crafts. Picasso learnt from him the basics of formal academic art training. Then he...

Дата выхода: август 2013

Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he felt confident of his ability to earn a living for his family by painting and he resigned his position and took up the painter’s brush full time. Following the lead of Czanne, Gauguin painted still-lifes from the very beginning of his artistic career. He even owned a still-life by Czanne, which is shown in Gauguin’s painting Portrait of Marie Lagadu. The year 1891 was crucial for Gauguin. In that year he left France for Tahiti, where he stayed till 1893. This stay in Tahiti determined his future life and career, for in 1895, after a sojourn in France, he...

Дата выхода: август 2013

Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider. An article, published in 1890, gave details about van Gogh’s illness. The author of the article saw the painter as “a terrible and demented genius, often sublime, sometimes grotesque, always at the brink of the pathological.” Very little is known about Vincent’s childhood. At the age of eleven he had to leave “the human nest”, as he called it himself, for various boarding schools. The first portrait shows us van Gogh as an earnest nineteen year old. At that time he...

Дата выхода: август 2013

Whistler suddenly shot to fame like a meteor at a crucial moment in the history of art, a field in which he was a pioneer. Like the impressionists, with whom he sided, he wanted to impose his own ideas. Whistler’s work can be divided into four periods. The first may be called a period of research in which he was influenced by the Realism of Gustave Courbet and by Japanese art. Whistler then discovered his own originality in the Nocturnes and the Cremorne Gardens series, thereby coming into conflict with the academics who wanted a work of art to tell a story. When he painted the portrait of his mother, Whistler entitled it Arrangement in Grey and Black and this is symbolic of his aesthetic theories. When painting the Cremorne Pleasure...

Дата выхода: август 2013

Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider. An article, published in 1890, gave details about van Gogh’s illness. The author of the article saw the painter as “a terrible and demented genius, often sublime, sometimes grotesque, always at the brink of the pathological.” Very little is known about Vincent’s childhood. At the age of eleven he had to leave “the human nest”, as he called it himself, for various boarding schools. The first portrait shows us van Gogh as an earnest nineteen year old. At that time he...

Дата выхода: август 2013

The eclectic art of which the Carracci family dreamed was realised by Rubens with the ease of genius. However, the problem was much more complicated for a man of the north, who wished to add to it a fusion of the Flemish and Latin spirits, of which the rather pedantic attempts of Romanism had illustrated the difficulties. He achieved it without losing anything of his overflowing personality, his questing imagination, and the enchanting discoveries of the greatest colourist known to painting. Rubens, the greatest master of Baroque painting’s exuberance, took from the Italian Renaissance what could be of use to him, and then built upon it a style of his own. It is distinguished by a wonderful mastery of the human form and an amazing...

Дата выхода: август 2013

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), who can be assigned to the school of classical modernism, was born in Amersfort, Netherlands. After studying in Amsterdam, he started his artists career in the impressionist style as a figure and landscape painter. His works from these years showed the influence of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) and of Fauvism, a French school from the beginning of the 20th century. When he traveled to Paris in 1911, he discovered Pablo Picassos works (1881-1973) and, with that, Cubism. He thereafter became a pioneer of abstract painting in the Netherlands. From the 1920s on, his paintings show a vertical and horizontal composition that, combined with the oppositions of blue, yellow, red, and noncolored spaces, turned into his...

Дата выхода: август 2013