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Diego Velázquez (1599-1660)

by Klaus H. Carl e Victoria Charles

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 Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez ne le 6 juin 1599 - le 6 août 1660), dit Diego Velázquez, ou Diego Vélasquez en français, est un peintre baroque considéré comme l''un des principaux représentants de la peinture espagnole et l''un des maîtres de la peinture universelle. Parmi ses œuvres les plus célèbres :Les Ménines, Les Fileuses. Le Musée du Prado possède une cinquantaine d’œuvres du peintre, ainsi qu a la Bibliothèque nationale d''Espagne), la Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza ou la Collection Villar-Mir.
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Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)

by Nathalia Brodskaia e Victoria Charles

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 Découvrez les fascinants chefs-d’œuvre de Gustave Caillebotte et promenez-vous sur les boulevards de son Paris du XIXe siècle aux côtés des membres distingués de la haute société de l’époque. Chaque œuvre est accompagnée de trois détails mettant en lumière tous les éléments charmants de l’héritage de cet artiste de talent. Gentilshommes, parisiens et proprets, travailleurs en plein labeur, boulevards parisiens baignés de soleil et barques nonchalantes dérivant sur la rivière, tout scintille dans l’Œuvre captivant de cet impressionniste peu connu. Bien qu’ayant organisé huit de leurs expositions, Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) est généralement négligé parmi ses légendaires camarades impressionnistes. Pourtant, un regard attentif à sa manière moderne de portraiturer la vie parisienne contemporaine est essentiel, ses compositions saisissantes attirant notre attention, nous happant au cœur de la réalité de cette société en constante mutation. Né dans une famille aisée de la bourgeoisie, Caillebotte savait mieux que personne ce que Paris avait à offrir, et, depuis son appartement situé derrière l’opéra, il peignit certains des paysages urbains atmosphériques pour lesquels il est particulièrement célèbre.
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Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

by Jp Calosse

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 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec est un peintre, dessinateur, lithographe, affichiste et illustrateur français, né le 24 novembre 1864 et mort le 9 septembre 1901.Toulouse-Lautrec a vécu pour son art. Peintre du postimpressionnisme, illustrateur de l’Art nouveau et remarquable lithographe, il a croqué le mode de vie de la Bohème parisienne à la fin du XIXe siècle. Au milieu des années 1890, il est considéré comme « L’âme de Montmartre », dans le quartier parisien où il habite. Ses peintures décrivent la vie au Moulin-Rouge et dans les cabarets et théâtres montmartrois ou parisiens. Il peint Aristide Bruant mais aussi la vie dans les maisons closes qu’il fréquente et où, il contracte la syphilis. Trois des femmes connues qu’il a peintes sont Jane Avril, la chanteuse Yvette Guilbert et Louise Weber, plus connue comme La Goulue, danseuse excentrique et meneuse du Cancan. Toulouse-Lautreca encouragé les efforts de Suzanne Valadon, un de ses modèles et aussi sa maîtresse. Ses œuvres les plus célèbres restent : Le Moulin-Rouge : Bal Tous les soirs, La Revue blanche, Salon Rue des moulins, Femme à sa toilette.
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Camille Claudel

by Victoria Charles

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 Camille Claudel) le 8 décembre 1864, et morte le 19 octobre 1943, est une sculptrice et artiste peintre française. Collaboratrice, maitresse et muse du sculpteur Auguste Rodin, sœur du poète, écrivain, diplomate et académicien Paul Claudel, sa carrière est très courte s’interrompt par un internement psychiatrique et une mort quasi-anonyme. Un film (Camille Claudel, 1988) la fait sortir de l''oubli pour le grand public. Son art de la sculpture à la fois réaliste et expressionniste s''apparente à l''Art Nouveau par son utilisation savante des courbes et des méandres. Parmi ses œuvres figurent :Les Causeuses,L''Implorante, réduction en bronze. Jeune Femme aux yeux clos, terre cuite. La Jeune Fille à la gerbe, terre cuite,. LàNiobé blessée, bronze. Paul Claudel à trente-sept ans, bronze. La petite Châtelaine, marbre Profonde pensée, bronze Profonde pensée, La Vague, marbre-onyx et bronze. Et la sublime : La Valse, bronze.
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Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)

by Klaus H. Karl

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 Camille Pissarro, né à Charlotte-Amélie, sur l''île de Saint-Thomas, dans les Antilles danoises — aujourd''hui Îles Vierges des États-Unis —, le 10 juillet 1830 et mort à Paris le 13 novembre 1903, est un peintre impressionniste puis néo-impressionniste franco-danois.le plus sage des artistes impressionnistes. Peut être son âge, plus avancé que celui de ses camarades Monet, Sisley, Bazille et Renoir, ou plutot sa maturité, lui firent créer des œuvres sereines et sobres tant dans leur sujet que dans leur composition. Homme au goûts simples, il se plut à peindre des paysans sur les chemins, bien qu’il dut sa tardive notoriété à ses paysages urbains, traités avec la même passion que celle que faisaient jaillir en lui les ciels orageux et les matins blanchis par le givre.
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Odilon Redon

by Odilon Redon

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 Odilon Redon, né le 20 avril 1840 à Bordeaux, et mort le 6 juillet 1916 à Paris est un peintre et graveur symboliste de la fin du XIXe siècle. Son art explore les aspects de la pensée, l''aspect sombre et ésotérique de l''âme humaine, empreinte des mécanismes du rêve. Odilon Redon fut un passionné de musique et en particulier de Mozart, Beethoven et Schumann.
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Le Gréco (1541 1614)

by Jp Calosse

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 El Greco (DomenikosTheotokopoulos) (Crète, 1541 - Tolède, 1614) « Le Grec » était un peintre d''icônes qui émigra à Venise en 1567. Là, il commença à mêler ses influences byzantines avec celles des maîtres de la Haute Renaissance italienne. Il étudia auprès de Titien et fut influencé par le Tintoret. Trois ans plus tard, il s''installa à Rome pour environ deux ans, puis se rendit à Madrid et, par la suite, établit sa résidence définitive à Tolède, où il mourut. Ce fut en Espagne qu''il manifesta un intérêt pour les sujets spécifiquement catholiques. Les corps étirés et les agencements de couleurs inhabituels devinrent ses traits distinctifs.
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Carl Larsson

by Klaus H. Carl

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 Carl Larsson (1853-1919), artiste suédois bien-aimé, émergea d’un milieu pauvre et gagna une place estimée dans le coeur et l’esprit de ses compatriotes. Aujourd’hui célèbre dans le monde entier pour ses images lumineuses et délicates de sa famille et de sa vie idyllique dans la campagne suédoise, il lutta pendant de nombreuses années en tant que peintre avant de trouver la reconnaissance internationale grâce à ses illustrations de livre. Ses charmants portraits et ses projets décoratifs majeurs pour l’opéra de Stockholm et le Nationalmuseum méritent l’admiration qu’ils suscitent, malgré la critique des institutions artistiques conservatrices. Toutefois, ce sont ses séries d’aquarelles et de dessins à l’encre et au crayon représentant l’intérieur innovant de la maison qu’il imagina avec sa femme Karin qui sont appréciées par-dessus tout, pour la vision heureuse, élégante et moderne du foyer qu’elles offrent à ses millions de lecteurs.
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Piet Mondrian Et Œuvres D'Art

by Stephanie Angoh

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 Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) était connu pour ses lignes droites et ses couleurs pures. Fasciné par les lois mathématiques de l''univers, cet artiste néerlandais nourrit son travail de découvertes scientifiques et crée un nouveau langage abstrait aux côtés de ses alliés Wassily Kandinsky et Fernand Léger. Au fur et à mesure de ses investigations, ses œuvres deviennent plus pures et plus intenses au rythme des voyages comme New York et des nouvelles rencontres.
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Puvis De Chavannes

by Arsène Alexandre e John La Farge

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 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, le 14 décembre 1824 et mort le 24 octobre 1898, est un peintre français, considéré comme une figure majeure de la peinture française du XIXe siècle. Puvis de Chavannes réalise de grands décors muraux : au palais Longchamp à Marseille (1867-1869), à l''hôtel de ville de Poitiers (1870- 1875), à l''hôtel de ville de Paris (1887-1894), à la Bibliothèque publique de Boston (1881-1896), le Panthéon de Paris, où il traite de la vie de Sainte Geneviève (1874-1878) et (1893-1898) ; l''escalier du musée des beaux-arts de Lyon (1884-1886) avec le Bois sacré ; et enfin le grand décor de l''amphithéâtre de la Sorbonne à Paris (1886-1889), qui développe le thème du Bois sacré. Chacun de ces décors donne lieu à des études, copies, répliques, cartons préparatoires qui popularisent cette œuvre décorative immense. Il conquiert l''admiration d''une génération entière, influençant non seulement les idéalistes tels qu’Odilon Redon, Henri Martin, mais aussi les Nabis, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Maurice Denis, et Pablo Picasso .En 1890, ilfonde avec Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonnier, et Auguste Rodin la Société nationale des beaux-arts.
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Éloge De La Main

by Henri Focilon e Victoria Charles

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 Parler d’art, c’est évoquer entre les lignes la main du créateur qui produit l’œuvre. C’est conférer au geste l’importance de la pensée et explorer leur lieu de rencontre sur la toile ou dans la pierre. Avec ce texte, Henri Focillon livre l’un des plus beaux éloges de la main et du talent des artistes, évoquant Hokusai, Cézanne ou encore Rodin. Que peuvent bien avoir en commun des artistes comme Rembrandt, David, Gauguin ou Hokusai ? La virtuosité de la main, nous répond Henri Focillon. Derrière les œuvres, le spectateur oublie souvent qu’il y a d’abord une main et des doigts qui guident le pinceau, la plume ou la pointe d’argent. Le texte de Focillon rappelle l’importance de ce membre dans lequel le talent de l’artiste est contenu. À travers ses lignes, il octroie à la main la place qu’elle mérite et érige le geste en monument artistique.
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Interview With Blackbeard & Other Vicious Villains

by Andy Seed; Illustration: Gareth Conway

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 A fun take on history, featuring true stories from historical figures from across the world. Featuring interviews and bonus facts about key life events.
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Diego Velazquez (1599-1660)

by Carl Justi

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 All throughout his fruitful career, Velázquez painted the powerful just as well as the ordinary Spanish people. His body of work bears the imprint of realism worthy of the greatest Flemish masters of the period, and despite outside influences, he undeniably succeeded in developing his own artistic principles. Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) is one of the world’s most famous artists. Representative of 17th-century European painting, he worked for the Spanish court and for the most important personalities, completing numerous portraits. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, passionate about the human figure, his oeuvreofhis long artistic career of more than forty yearsalso encompasses representations of daily life in the taverns of Spain. Considered the father of Spanish painting, Velázquez inspired entire generations of artists who followed him, including Picasso, Dalí, and Bacon. His mysterious painting Las Meninas, which contains the essence of his work, is still today an inexhaustible source for writing and research.
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Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)

by Nathalia Brodskaia e Victoria Charles

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 The five hundred or more paintings of Caillebotte werenot given much attention during his lifetime. For years, he was considered primarily a generous patron ofimpressionists, but not as a painter in his own right. Later,his style was seen to be more realistic than those of his friends Degas, Monet and Renoir. In 1874, he helped to organise the First Impressionist Exhibition. However, hedid not include his own work - he would show in laterimpressionist exhibitions. In this typical work he capturesthe feeling of a new Parisian boulevard in an area of theBatignolles quarter on a rainy day. The realism with which Caillebotte depicts the scene is later praised by the writer Emile Zola: "Paris Street, Rainy Day displays strollers and, in particular, a man and a woman in the foreground, of a beautiful realism. When his talent will have softened a little, Caillebotte will certainly be the most audacious of the group."
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Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

by Jp Calosse

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 Known for his posters for cabarets and performances, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864- 1901) was the painter of Parisian nightlife par excellence. Completely immerged in the bohemian milieu of the period, he produced numerous paintings and lithographs representing the lower levels of society. More than any other painter of his time, Lautrec stands out as the embodiment of Paris. At night, the city of hidden and frenzied pleasures, as well as of outdoor games during the day; the city on whose perpetual stage-boards the passing show ceaselessly changes into history has never been better understood or more strikingly expressed on canvas. Oscillating between Postimpressionism and Expressionism, he loved to paint dancers and singers at work in the cabarets of the capital. His touch is vigorous, his colors pure. Despite his personal handicap, his numerous works and posters are full of turbulent, incessant movement and figures such as the famous Goulue or Valentin le Désossé. Without doubt too entangled in this Parisian bohemia, he died of syphilis and chronic alcoholism at the age of only thirty-seven, leaving behind a substantial body of work.
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Camille Claudel

by Victoria Charles

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 Delve into the exquisite, sensuous sculpture of Camille Claudel with this in-depth look at her remarkable body of work. Along with many of her paintings and drawings, her sculpture is examined with a focus which reveals every intricate detail of her incredible renditions of movement and human emotions. Fascinated from a young age by crafting models with her hands, French sculptor, painter, and draughtswoman Camille Claudel (1864-1943) fought to overcome the hurdles placed in the way of female artists and carved a place for herself in the history of art. Following an apprenticeship with Alfred Boucher, Claudel entered the studio of Auguste Rodin, with whom she had a tumultuous ten-year love affair which often threatened to eclipse her art. The two artists had a profound impact on one another, each of their features appearing in the other’s work. After breaking off the relationship to forge her own path, Claudel created a stunning, incredibly modern oeuvre. Though many were destroyed by her own hands, those that remain are a powerful testament to her artistic genius.
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Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)

by Klaus H. Karl

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 Camille Pissarro was a pivotal figure of Impressionism, perhaps the world’s most famous art movement. He also tackled different forms of Neoimpressionism, while maintaining very personal characteristics in his art all throughout his life. A key figure in the Impressionist movement and a participant in every one of their exhibitions, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was considered the patriarch of the group. Born in the Danish West Indies, he travelled to Venezuela, and studied with Corot in France, who influencedhis early works and who triggered his passion to paint outdoors. His style evolved as he progressed in life, influenced too by the debateswith his fellow-painters.After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, he moved to England, but his style of painting, which was a forerunnerof the"Impressionism", did not do very well.Like Degas, Pissarro was a great draughtsman. His representations of rural and urban life are often closely intertwined with his social concerns and anarchist beliefs. A quintessential artist ahead of his time, Pissaro sold very few works during his lifetime.
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Puvis De Chavannes

by Arsène Alexandre e John La Farge

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 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes is not a very well-known artist. Famous throughout his life yetquickly forgotten by the history of art, his work remains little-studied in comparison tothe Impressionist masterpieces of the same period. His oeuvre, however, was crucialin France at the end of the 19th century, in particular his mural paintings which are stillvisible today in numerous important public buildings, such as the Hotel de Ville and the Pantheon in Paris, or the Palais des Beaux-arts in Lyon. Puvis’ specialty was monumental decorative works. He tackled traditionalsubjects from a more general angle and his works were accepted by all the artistic principlesof the time. Far from being a cold and academic painter, he supported artists includingCourbet, Bazile, and Degas when they were attacked by the critics. His oeuvreplayed an essential role in the construction of a national French identity in the 19thcentury.Today the glory of Puvis de Chavannes shines forth in uncontested splendour. No one dreams of comparing him with any of his contemporaries, because his art reveals no kinship with that of any one of them. He is recognized as the successor and the equal of the great fresco painters of the Italian Renaissance. Even to these he owes nothing, having borrowed nothing from them. But he shares with them his passionate love of truth, his nobility of inspiration and sincerity of execution.
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Odilon Redon

by Odilon Redon

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 Odilon Redon is a genre-breaking artist. A contemporary of the Impressionists, his oeuvre found its source not in reality but in his own dreams. His work has two sides, which appear to be almost opposite ends: one is daunting and grim, the other one, colourful and lively, they nevertheless merge into a kind of Symbolist magic. Odilon Redon (1840-1916) is without doubt one of the artists who was the most ahead of his time. Indifferent to Naturalism and Impressionism, he drew inspiration from his imagination and his dreams. Affected by infantile fears, the first part of his oeuvre is characterized by his Noirs, charcoal works which gave way to his famous monochrome lithographs. At the end of the 19th century, his work changed radically: his fear evolved and the colors burst out on the canvas. He painted numerous still lifes and turned towards decorative art. The magic, which emanates from his life’s work places him within the Symbolist movement yet hails him as the precursor to Surrealism.The colours used are mostly yellow, grey, brown and light blue.
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In Praise Of Hands

by Henri Focilon e Victoria Charles

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 To speak about art is to evoke the hand of the creator who produced the work. It is to confer to its gestures the importance of thoughts and to explore their point of convergence on the canvas or the stone. With this text, Henri Focillon delivers one of the most beautiful odes to the hand and, simultaneously, to the talent of artists, studying Hokusai, Cézanne, and even Rodin. What do artists such as Rembrandt, David, Gauguin, and Hokusai have in common? A virtuosity of the hand, replies Henri Focillon. The viewer often forgets that behind the works, it is first and foremost a hand and its fingers which guide the paintbrush, the pen, or the stylus. Focillon’s text recalls the importance of this part of the body, in which the artist’s talent comes to life. Within his text, he grants the hand the recognition that it deserves.
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Carl Larsson

by Klaus H. Carl

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 Slip into the idyllic world of turn-of-the-century, rural Sweden with this monograph dedicated to Carl Larsson, the national treasure whose delicate drawings and paintings proffer a vision of his enchanting family life. Accompanying details of every work of art offer an invaluable insight into the exquisite, charming minutiae of these pictures which demand a closer look. Beloved Swedish artist Carl Larsson (1853-1919) emerged from poor beginnings to earn an esteemed place in the hearts and minds of his countrymen. Nowadays known worldwide for his delicate, luminous pictures of his family and their idyllic life in the Swedish countryside, he initially struggled as a painter for many years before finding international fame as a book illustrator. His delicate, charming portraits and major decorative projects in the Stockholm Opera House and the National Museum are deservedly much admired, despite the criticism he provoked from conservative art institutions. Yet it is undoubtedly his series of watercolors and pen-and-ink drawings showcasing the innovative interior design of the house he created together with his wife Karin which are cherished above all, for their vision of a happy, stylish, modern home which he offered to his millions of readers.
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Wassily Kandinsky And Artworks

by Mikhail Guerman

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 Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negative criticism from his peers. He veered away from painting that could be viewed as representational in order to express his emotions, leading to his unique use of colour and form. Although his works received heavy censure at the time, in later years they would become greatly influential.
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Pascin

by Alexandre Dupouy

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 Today still considered a "Bad Boy", Pascin was a brilliant artist who lived and worked in the shadow of contemporaries such as Picasso, Modigliani, and several others. A specialist of the feminine form, his canvasses are as tormented as his party lifestyle. The artist, considered scandalous for the erotic character of his works, exhibited in numerous Salons, notably in Berlin, Paris, and New York.
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Opium

by Donald Wigal

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 Opium, once used for ritual purposes, is a substance which dulls pain and offers access to an artificial world, and has long been idealized by artists and markets. Baudelaire, Picasso, and Dickens were all inspired to create by the blue clouds of smoke. Known as either a sacred drug or the worst of poisons, opium rapidly became popular in Great Britain and a source of commerce with Imperial China. This illustrated work presents the history and quasi-religious rites of opium’s use.
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