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-- It is a paradox that Marquet belongs more to the past and future than to the present. His art awaits the silence that is yet to fall. He nevertheless teaches us to appreciate the riches of meditation, directing us to that exalted place of peace so central to his vision. - Read full article here: https://bom.so/yXXtgM - Buy this wonderful book here: https://bom.so/NJl98g ------------------------...

-- The art of shoe design is a captivating blend of fashion, function, and creativity. From simple sandals to high-fashion stilettos, shoes have evolved into wearable masterpieces that reflect culture, style, and individuality. - Read full article here: https://bom.so/llVg0h - Buy this wonderful book here: https://bom.so/N43Xyx ------------------------------ PARKSTONE INTERNATIONAL offers a wide r...

-- Art of the Devil: An exploration of artistic depictions and interpretations of the devil, evil, and temptation throughout history. Artists have grappled with the devil's image, creating works that range from diabolical to symbolic, reflecting the complex relationship between good and evil in human culture and imagination. - Read full article here: https://bom.so/88JtvB - Buy this wonderful book...

-- Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) is widely regarded as one of the most significant artists of the Northern Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Germany, Dürer became renowned for his mastery of various mediums, including painting, printmaking, and wood-cutting. -- Throughout his life, Dürer produced a vast array of works that demonstrated his technical skill and innovative vision. - Read full article here...

-- They met in 1928; Frida Kahlo was then 21 years old and Diego Rivera was twice her age. He was already an international reference, she only aspired to become one. An intense artistic creation, along with pain and suffering, was generated by this tormented union, in particular for Frida. -- On both continents, America and Europe, these committed artists proclaimed their freedom and left behind t...

Icon painting, the ultimate expression of Orthodox Christian art, reached its zenith in Ukraine between the 11th and 18th centuries. This book spans the entire period, showing the development of the style. The Ukrainian icon is a surprising synthesis of the traditions of Eastern Byzantine art and the stylistic characteristics of Russian icon painting. - Read full article here: https://bom.so/pCxdc...

All his life, Monet captured natural movements around him and translated them into visual sensations. Considered the leader of Impressionism, Monet is internationally famous for his poetic paintings of water lilies and beautiful landscapes. - Buy this wonderful book here: https://bom.so/dvOchD ------------------------------ PARKSTONE INTERNATIONAL offers a wide range of lavishly-illustrated fine a...

Baroque art was artists’ response to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts... - Read full article here: https://bom.so/cY03pb - Buy this wonderful book here: https://bom.so/eTp0ph ------------------------------ PARKSTONE INTERNATIONAL offers a wide range of lavishly-illu...

Egyptian art is perhaps the most impersonal that exists. The artist effaces himself. But he has such an innate sense of life, a sense so directly moved and so limpid that everything of life which he describes seems defi ned by that sense, to issue from the natural gesture, from the exact attitude, in which one no longer sees stiffness. - Read full article here: https://bom.so/rhDgUQ - Buy this won...

The European continent gathers together, without a doubt, the most famous works of art, evidence of the history of Western art. The cultural capitals and their emblematic museums contain paintings, sculptures, or rather works of art, devised by the great artists, representative of European culture. - Buy this wonderful book here: https://bom.so/B6PfQL ------------------------------ PARKSTONE INTER...

Diego Rivera is one of the most influential Mexican artists of the 20th century, known for his larger-than-life murals and politically charged themes. If you're an art lover, you'll want to read on to discover more about the life and work of this fascinating figure. - Read full article here: https://bom.so/HAFEit - Buy this wonderful book here: https://bom.so/hP3SZb ------------------------------...

-- Romanticism was a reaction against the Neoclassicism that invaded the 19th century, and marked a veritable intellectual rupture. Found in the writings of Victor Hugo and Lord Byron, amongst others, its ideas are expressed in painting by Eugène Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich and William Blake. -- In sculpture, François Rude indicated the direction this new artistic freedom would take, endowin...

-- Începând cu perioada Renaşterii şi trecând prin baroc şi romantism până la suprarealism şi stilul pop, aceste lucrări canonice ale artei occidentale se întind pe opt secole şi cuprind o gamă vastă de subiecte. Găsim în ele sacrul şi scandalosul, minimalismul şi opulenţa, inovaţia şi convenţionalul. Sunt picturi care au imortalizat spiritul unei epoci sau care anunţau începutul unei epoci noi. O...

-- Johannes Vemeer, a 17th century artist, is recognised primarily for his genre scenes. Through meticulous precision in his paintings and drawings he achieves perfection and maximum impact. -- Vermeer used a camera obscura to bring even more perspective to his art in the most delicate of manners. He revolutionised the way in which we use and make paint and his colour application techniques predat...

-- As international cultural statements without words, symbols of a peoples values devotion, patriotism, power symbols of a civilisation's grandeur, these monuments still fascinate and attract an ever-growing public who is captivated by the createvity and ingenuity of these architects and stonemasons. -- This work, featuring 1000 monuments chosen from around the globe, retraces human history, the...

-- African Art invites you to explore the dynamic origins of the vast artistic expressions arising from the exotic and mystifying African continent. -- Since the discovery of African art at the end of the nineteenth century during the colonial expositions it has been a limitless source of inspiration for artists who, over time, have perpetually recreated these artworks. - Read full article here: h...

-- Art Nouveau gives a name to the decorative and architectural style developed in the 1880s and 1890s in the West. Born in reaction to the Industrial Revolution and to the creative vacuum it left behind, Art Nouveau was at the heart of a “renaissance” in the decorative arts. -- The primary objective of the movement was the creation of a new aesthetic of nature through a return to the study of nat...

-- The climax to the act of love casts an indefinable expression on the face – an expression of urgent intensity. A woman, a man, in that moment experiences an ecstasy that for an instant is visible in the eyes and on the lips. -- A wave of pleasure runs through the body, marking the transition between desire and orgasm. For this fleeting second, when just how violent the senses can be is laid bar...

-- India, with its extensive and colourful history, has produced an artistic tradition in many forms: architecture, painting, sculpture, calligraphy, mosaics, and artisan products all display the country’s cultural, religious and philosophical richness. -- From Hinduism, with its pantheon of imagery of gods, goddesses, animals and many other figures, to Islam, with its astounding architecture and...

-- The art of Siberia is a fascinating subject, and the artifacts discovered in the hidden archives of the Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg are nothing less than extraordinary. ✨-- Artwork, day-to-day subjects and photos dating from the turn of the century all represent the testimonies of the Siberian people who refused to yield to the hegemony of a modern world. - Read full articl...

-- The English Gothic style developed somewhat later than in France, but rapidly developed its own architectural and ornamental codes. -- Several photographs of these architectural testimonies allow us to understand the whole originality of Britain during the Gothic era: in Canterbury, Wells, Lincoln, York, and Salisbury. The English Gothic architecture is a poetic one, speaking both to the senses...

-- Raphael (1483-1520), the Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, was a genius in and ahead of his time. Together with Michelangelo and da Vinci, he formed the classical trinity of this era and elaborated a rich style of harmony and geometry. -- His surroundings and experience gave rise to his propensity to combine the ideals of humanism with those of religion, and firmly establis...

-- Turner’s pictures fascinate us and yet we think of nothing precise, nothing human, only unforgettable colours and phantoms that lay hold on our imaginations. -- Humanity really only inspires him when linked with the idea of death – a strange death, more a lyrical dissolution – like the finale of an opera. - Read full article here: https://bom.so/t0zH2c - Buy this wonderful book here: https://bo...

-- Edvard Munch (1863-1944), a Norwegian painter involved in Expressionism, was so attached to his work that he called his paintings his children, which is rather unsurprising given that they were deeply personal. Indeed, Munch expressed much of his own inner turmoil through his art, particularly in the earlier part of his career. -- He painted not what he saw, but what he felt when he saw it, all...

-- Surikov is one of the great masters of history painting, and he occupies a special place in Russian culture. Like Delacroix, he believed that history was not a pretext for nice painting but an inexorable drama with neither culprits nor innocents but rather people driven by invisible forces. -- He was very knowledgeable about Russian history, and his paintings deal with crucial moments. He sough...