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Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.Discover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment. In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impressionism, we explore the artists, subjects, and techniques that first br...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.Edward Hopper (1882–1967) is something of an American success story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he was a failing artist who struggled to sell a single painting. As he approached 80, Time ma...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.An Expressionist before the term was coined, James Ensor (1860–1949) was the classic insider-outsider enigma. He knew all the right art-world figures but loathed most of them. His style lurched from the Gothic fantasti...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898–1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his ...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.The beauty of nature and man’s loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artist often places a small human figure in a broad landscape, as in his famous paintings Monk by the...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.From the towering Sagrada Familia to the shimmering, textured facade of Casa Batllo and the enchanting landscape of Park Guell, it’s easy to see why Antoni Gaudi (1852–1926) gained the epithet “God’s architect.” With f...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miro (1893–1983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and ceramics, and embracing ideologies...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.A hairless, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth wide in a haunting wail. In painting The Scream, Edvard Munch (1863–1944) created Mona Lisa for our times. T...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.Though numbering just 35 known works, the ?uvre of Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) is hailed as one of the most important and inspiring portfolios in art history. His paintings have prompted a New York Times best seller, ...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.Religion, Renaissance, and Reformation-these three ideologies shaped the world of 16th-century portraitist Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98–1543), a pivotal figure of the Northern Renaissance, whose skills took him to...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning “pictures of the floating world,” ukiyo-e was a particular woodblock print genre of art that flourished betwee...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909–1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions. Emerging into noto...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso and Mexican surreal...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring public appeal. Sun-kissed, charming, and sensual, his work shows paintin...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31–1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well as religious subje...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, precise in techniqu...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cezanne (1839–1906), busily plied his brush to landscapes and still lifes that would become anchors of modern art. With comp...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.embrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) never left his homeland of the Netherlands but in his massive body of painting, drawing, and etching, he changed the course of Western art. His prolific oeuvre encompasses religious, histo...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.August Macke (1887–1914) quickly ascended to notoriety, only to be killed at the tender age of 27 at the start of World War I. Despite his brief career, the artist left a remarkable oeuvre in his wake, his obsessions w...

Книга не бере участь в програмі Зимова єПідтримка.A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose influence resonates to this day. Coining the term “Neo-plasticism”, he pu...