Questo volume contiene numerose opere create da Picasso tra il 1881 e il 1914. Inizialmente, lo stile dell'artista è influenzato da El Greco, da Munch e da Toulouse-Lautrec, che lui scoprì da studente a Barcellona. Affascinato dall'espressione psicologica, nel suo periodo Blu (1901-1904) Picasso descrive lo squallore morale: le scene di genere, le nature morte e i ritratti sono carichi di mal…
Critical conversations and reflections about lessons learned at the intersection of social movements and artist production. Diversity of Aesthetics collects powerful and timely conversations among leading cultural critics, artists, and organizers to connect the threads between some of the most pressing social struggles and conflicts of our time: policing, war, borders and migration, economic …
« 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…
Laissez Anna Green vous dévoiler ses astuces et partager avec vous son expérience en cuisine pour créer la soirée romantique parfaite pour vous et l'élue de votre cœur. Ces 50 recettes sont simples et faciles à suivre et ne nécessitent pas un placard plein d'ingrédients obscurs ou au nom douteux. Même si vous n'êtes pas un expert en cuisine, vous serez en mesure de créer des plats s…
El Renacimiento se inició a finales del siglo catorce en Italia y ya estaba extendido por toda Europa en la segunda mitad del siglo dieciséis. El redescubrimiento del esplendor de la antigua Grecia y Roma supuso el comienzo del renacimiento de las artes como consecuencia de la descomposición de la certeza dogmática de la Edad Media. Surgió una generación de artistas que comenzaron a innov…
In the mid-19th century, intrepid explorers began to shine a light on the darkness of the deep. The mystique of what lay beneath the surface of the vast oceans inspired awe in aquarium enthusiasts, Decadent artists, and authors, including Jules Verne and Hans Christian Andersen. Ever since, books, films and visual arts have invited us to contemplate the sea as both the wellspring of all life an…
Der Maler Fra Angelico hat als einer der ersten die von dem italienischen Künstler, Gelehrten und Humanisten Leon Battista Alberti propagierte Technik der Perspektive angewandt. Seine Methode der Darstellung der Bewegung und sein Einsatz von Farbe und Gesichtsausdruck, um Anmut und Gefühl zu betonen, ordnen ihn in die Reihe der wichtigsten Maler der Frührenaissance ein. Mit Hilfe einer Reihe…
We derive a great deal of cognitive pleasure from asking what artworks mean. And yet, despite the seriousness with which we approach these questions, they all too often rely on theories of art that fail to adequately explain how art conveys meaning. This book proposes a new theory. In contrast to more conventional definitions of art, What Art Does defends the claim that artworks constitute a c…
Leonardo's early life was spent in Florence, his maturity in Milan, and the last three years of his life in France. Leonardo's teacher was Verrocchio. First he was a goldsmith, then a painter and sculptor: as a painter, representative of the very scientific school of draughtsmanship; more famous as a sculptor, being the creator of the Colleoni statue at Venice, Leonardo was a man of striking ph…
In this happily-ever-after tale, author Debi Lewis learns how to feed her mysteriously unwell daughter, falling in love with food in the process. For many parents, feeding their children is easy and instinctive, either an afterthought or a mindless task like laundry and driving the carpool. For others, though, it is on the same spectrum in which Debi Lewis found herself: part of what felt like …