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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...
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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...
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This fine collection of extraordinary stories and stunning illustrations recount the harrowing rescues of ships and cities in distress."The sea is at its best at London, near midnight, when you are within the arms of a capacious chair, before a glowing fire, selecting phases of the voyages you will never make."
-Henry Major Tomlinson
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The reader may already be acquainted with the Hoeidō edition (1833-34) of The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō. This was the most popular print series ever made in Japan.Hiroshige did two other editions, the Kyōka edition (abt 1838) and the Reisho (abt 1840) which is the focus in this book. We include thumbnails from the two other editions for comparison. It is a total view!There were 53 post stations along this important road, apart from the...
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Ashley Jackson has had an extremely distinctive and illustrious life in the world of art. Since opening his first gallery back in 1963, he has become one of the country's leading and most successful landscape watercolorists. His unique evocative and distinctive paintings of brooding moorlands have become synonymous with Yorkshire, and more particular the moors above and around his Gallery situated in the heart of the Pennines, Holmfirth. His works...
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David Milne is one of Canada's finest artists, a man whose work speaks to the intricate beauty of the world as he experienced it. David Milne (1882–1953) dedicated his life to exploring nature and casting it into art in a variety of modernist formats. He was born into poverty in rural Ontario and remained poor all his life because of his relentless dedication to his art. For him, art was life. Nothing mattered to him as much as the enormous "kick"...
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Life Force is a stunning sequence of over 30 abstract artworks, each taking their inspiration from the poetry of former UK poet laureate Ted Hughes (1930-1998) and the evocative setting of the Yorkshire moors.
With quotations from Hughes's work included alongside the pieces they provoked, moving commentary by Louise detailing their background and inclusive of preliminary sketches and photography, this wonderfully produced hardback documents a journey...
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Pieter Brueghel was the first important member of a family of artists who were active for four generations. Firstly a drawer before becoming a painter later, he painted religious themes, such as Babel Tower, with very bright colours. Influenced by Hieronymus Bosch, he painted large, complex scenes of peasant life and scripture or spiritual allegories, often with crowds of subjects performing a variety of acts, yet his scenes are unified with an informal...
10) Constable
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John Constable was the first English landscape painter to take no lessons from the Dutch. He is rather indebted to the landscapes of Rubens, but his real model was Gainsborough, whose landscapes, with great trees planted in well-balanced masses on land sloping upwards towards the frame, have a rhythm often found in Rubens. Constable's originality does not lie in his choice of subjects, which frequently repeated themes beloved by Gainsborough. Nevertheless,...
11) Vincent Van Gogh
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a vita e l'opera di Vincent van Gogh sono talmente intrecciate che è quasi impossibile osservare i suoi quadri senza leggervi la storia della sua vita: una vita raccontata tanto spesso da essersi trasformata in leggenda.
Van Gogh è l'incarnazione della sofferenza, il martire incompreso dell'arte moderna, l'emblema dell'artista come outsider.
12) American Realism
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Urban realism, snow-covered streets of New York, boxing matches, children on the banks of a river, the painters of the Ash Can School preferred realistic images. Their paintings are a true hymn to noise and sensations. This unconventional movement enabled the birth of a true national artistic identity which broke free from the establishment. The Ash Can School resolutely promoted the affirmation of the modernist current of American art. Edward
...13) Hokusai
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Katsushika Hokusai est sans doute l'artiste japonais le plus connu en Occident, et ce, depuis le milieu du XIXe siècle. Reflet de l'expression artistique d'une civilisation isolée, les œuvres de Hokusai, qui furent parmi les premières en provenance du Japon à émerger en Europe, influencèrent particulièrement les peintres impressionnistes et post-impressionnistes, tels que Vincent van Gogh. Considéré de son vivant comme un maître de l'estampe...
14) Les Brueghel
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Pieter Bruegel, l'Ancien (près de Breda, 1525 – Bruxelles, 1569)
Pieter Bruegel fut le premier membre important d'une famille d'artistes, actifs durant quatre générations. D'abord dessinateur avant de devenir peintre, il peignit des thèmes religieux, comme la Tour de Babel, avec des couleurs extrêmement vives. Influencé par Jérôme Bosch, il s'attela à de vastes scènes complexes décrivant la vie paysanne et des allégories bibliques ou...
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Andrea Mantegna (1431 Isola di Carturo – 1506 Mantoue)
Mantegna, humaniste, géomètre, archéologue, homme d'une grande intelligence et d'une puissante imagination, domina la scène de l'Italie septentrionale grâce à sa personnalité impérieuse. Cherchant à produire des illusions d'optique, il parvint à maîtriser la perspective. Il se forma à la peinture auprès des maîtres de l'école de Padoue, que Donatello et Paolo Uccello avaient fréquentée...
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John Constable (East Bergholt, 1776 - Hampstead, 1837). John Constable fut le premier peintre de paysage anglais qui ne tira pas son enseignement des peintres hollandais. Assez proche de la vision de Rubens, c'est à Gainsborough qu'il doit tout : ses paysages, avec leurs grands massifs d'arbres bien répartis à travers le décor vallonné, possèdent un rythme souvent présent chez Rubens. Son originalité ne repose pas sur le choix de ses sujets,...
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Mantegna; humanist, geometrist, archaeologist, of great scholastic and imaginative intelligence, dominated the whole of northern Italy by virtue of his imperious personality. Aiming at optical illusion, he mastered perspective. He trained in painting at the Padua School where Donatello and Paolo Uccello had previously attended. Even at a young age commissions for Andrea's work flooded in, for example the frescos of the Ovetari Chapel of Padua. In...
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John Constable was the first English landscape painter to take no lessons from the Dutch. He is rather indebted to the landscapes of Rubens, but his real model was Gainsborough, whose landscapes, with great trees planted in well-balanced masses on land sloping upwards towards the frame, have a rhythm often found in Rubens. Constable's originality does not lie in his choice of subjects, which frequently repeated themes beloved by Gainsborough. Nevertheless,...
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John Constable (East Bergholt, 1776 – Hampstead, 1837) John Constable fut le premier peintre de paysage anglais qui ne tira pas son enseignement des peintres hollandais. Assez proche de la vision de Rubens, c'est à Gainsborough qu'il doit tout : ses paysages, avec leurs grands massifs d'arbres bien répartis à travers le décor vallonné, possèdent un rythme souvent présent chez Rubens. Son originalité ne repose pas sur le choix de ses sujets,...
20) Van Gogh
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Vincent van Gogh (Groot-Zundert, Brabant, 1853 – Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890) La vie et l'oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh sont si étroitement liées qu'il est quasiment impossible de voir ses toiles sans y lire le récit de sa vie : van Gogh est en effet devenu l'incarnation du martyr souffrant et incompris de l'art moderne, l'emblème de l'artiste marginal. Le premier article, publié en 1890, donnait des détails sur la maladie de van Gogh. L'auteur de...
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