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Edward Hopper Light and Dark
In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted with the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s. Inspired by the movies and particularly by the various camera angles and attitudes of characters, his paintings expose the alienation of mass culture. Done in cold colours and inhabited by anonymous characters, Hopper's paintings also symbolically reflect the Grea…
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- 9781780429830
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Rivera
« Je connaissais Diego Rivera, le muraliste mexicain, bien avant de découvrir les nombreux autres « Diego Rivera » qui hantèrent le monde du début du XXe siècle à la fin des années 1950. […] Si ses peintures de chevalet et ses dessins forment une grande part de ses œuvres de jeunesse comme de la maturité, ses peintures murales uniques font exploser les murs par la virtuosité de le…
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- 9781780421919
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Kahlo
Por detrás dos retratos de Frida Kahlo esconde-se a história da sua vida - todo um trabalho elaborado a partir de gritos de cólera e fúria, misturado numa potente combinação artisticamente excepcional. Aos seis anos de idade sofreu um ataque de poliomielite, e tinha apenas 18 anos quando foi vitima de um acidente que mudou a sua vida para sempre, deixando-a deficiente fisica e com dores p…
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- 9781780425733
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Tamara de Lempicka
I ritratti metallici, i nudi e le nature morte di Tamara de Lempicka racchiudono lo spirito dell'Art Decoe dell'età del jazz, e riflettono l'elegante ed edonistico stile di vita della ricca e privilegiata élite parigina nel periodo compreso tra le due guerre. Combinando una tecnica decisamente classica a elementi presi in prestito dal Cubismo, e cercando ispirazione nei maestri del ritratto â…
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Frida Kahlo and artworks
Behind Frida Kahlo's portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida's work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside the picture frame. Frida Kahlo truly is Mexico's gift to the history of art. She was just eighteen years old when a terrible bus accident changed her…
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- 9781781608531
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Diego Rivera y obras de arte
"Y a conocÃa a Diego Rivera, el muralista mexicano, mucho antes de encontrarme con los otros "Diego Rivera" que circulaban por el mundo entre principios del siglo XX y finales de la década de los 50. (…) Mientras que sus pinturas de caballete constituyen un amplio corpus dentro de su obra temprana y tardÃa, sus murales únicos hacen estallar las paredes en una explosión de representacione…
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- 9781783102211
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Diego Rivera and artworks
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. Constantly in the shadow of her husband, bearing his unfaithfulness and her jealousy, Frida exorcised the pai…
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- 9781781609422
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Georgia O'Keeffe et Å“uvres d'art
Georgia O'Keeffe (Sun Prarie, Wisconsin, 1887 – Santa Fe, 1986) En 1905, Georgia O'Keeffe suivit des cours à l' Art Institute de Chicago et débuta sérieusement sa carrière artistique. Elle s'installa ensuite à New York et s'inscrivit à l'Art Students League School. Georgia adorait les cours de nature morte dispensés par le fringant William Merritt Chase, un des professeurs qui l'influe…
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- 9781781608609
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Diego Rivera et Å“uvres d'art
« Je connaissais Diego Rivera, le muraliste mexicain, bien avant de découvrir les nombreux autres « Diego Rivera » qui hantèrent le monde du début du XXe siècle à la fin des années 1950. […] Si ses peintures de chevalet et ses dessins forment une grande part de ses œuvres de jeunesse comme de la maturité, ses peintures murales uniques font exploser les murs par la virtuosité de le…
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- 9781781609439
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Frida Kahlo
Dietro i ritratti di Frida Kahlo si può leggere tutta la sua storia: raramente un artista ha lasciato una così chiara e ricca testimonianza della propria vita, privata e lavorativa, tra la cornice dei suoi dipinti. L'arte di Frida Kahlo è il contributo più importante – e un dono prezioso – del Messico alla storia dell'arte mondiale. Nonostante i serissimi problemi fisici, Frida coltivò…
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- 9781780422602
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- 1 online resource (105 pages)
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