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Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528 : The Genius of the German Renaissance by Norbert Wolf
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Category: No Category | Series: Basic Art Series 2.0
Germany's greatest Renaissance artist Though most famous for his engravings, Albrecht D rer (1471-1528) was also a master painter and draftsman whose work exemplifies the spirit of German art. D rer's importance in the German High Renaissance was such that he can be considered to embody the movement ent ...Show more
Bacon by Luigi Ficacci
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Category: No Category | Series: Basic Art Series 2
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) possessed the rare ability to transform unconscious compulsions into figurative, human-like forms that seem to evoke the raw emotions that bore them. Mixing realism and abstraction, Bacon delves deep beneath the surfaces of things, opening up the human body to reveal the chaos ...Show more
Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling
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Category: No Category | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Life lines: The 80s art star who put poverty, power, and racism on the wall An icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) first made his name under the graffiti tag "SAMO," before establishing his studio practice and catapulting to fast fame at the age of 20. Although his career lasted ba ...Show more
Dadaism by Dietmar Elger
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Category: No Category | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Anti-meaning: Absurdity against the establishment Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid 1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, and New York posed a radical assault against ...Show more
Egypt Art by Rose-Marie Hagen; Rainer Hagen
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From the Land of the PharaohsThe finest treasures of ancient EgyptThe art of ancient Egypt that has been handed down to us bears no names of its creators, and yet we value the creations of these unknown masters no less than the works of later centuries, such as statues by Michelangelo or the paintings b ...Show more
Expressionism (Basic Art series) by Norbert Wolf & Uta Grosenick (eds)
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Category: No Category | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Expressionism is a style of art in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to expressthe inner state of the artist. The movement is also associated with Germany in particular, and was influenced by such emotionally-charged styles as Symbol ...Show more
Kandinsky by Dchting Hajo
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Category: No Category | Series: Basic Art Ser.
The founder of abstract art The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting.Together with Fr ...Show more
Klimt by Gilles Néret
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Category: Art & Fashion | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Cult of pleasure: Feminine sensuality by the Vienna Secession's greatest proponentGustav Klimt's ornate, sensual, and decadent style made him not only the most prominent of the Vienna Secessionists but one of the best loved artists of all time. In his own time, Kilmt (1862-1918) was a highly successful ...Show more
Leonardo: Basic Art Album by Frank Zöllner
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Category: No Category | Series: Basic Art Album Ser.
The genius non-specialist: From key points in anatomy to plans for vehicles, planes, helicopters and submarines One of the most fully achieved human beings who has ever lived, Leonardo remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world's most famous painting, scientist, philosopher, bui ...Show more
Matisse Cut-outs by Gilles Néret
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Category: No Category | Series: Basic Art Series 2.0
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty, and the confines of a wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest to make art. With what he called une seconde vie, a second life, he embarked on a remarkable collage period, cut ...Show more
Monet by Christoph Heinrich
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Category: Art & Fashion | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Lasting impressions of nature: The most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. His long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, o ...Show more
Wright by Pfeiffer Bruce Brooks ; Gossel Peter
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Category: DIY | Series: Basic Art Ser.
That's Wright One of the greatest pioneers in the history of architecture Acclaimed as the "father of skyscrapers," the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and a ...Show more
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