What did Spain look like when Picasso was born? What kind of community did he grow up in? What was his studio like? Who were the people who had the most influence on his art? The answers to these and other questions help bring into focus the Spanish artist's brilliant career and his influence on twentieth-century art. Color reproductions of his masterpieces are interspersed with photographs of Picasso's personal life, and are presented in a dynamic layout that reflects the artist's creative vision and boundless energy. Picasso's anti-war stance, his tumultuous love affairs, and his outspokenness are all examined with journalistic verve. This book not only provides a solid background on Picasso's monumental body of work, but also offers anecdotes, historical context, and a fresh perspective on an enigmatic and endlessly compelling figure.

Perhaps best known for his exceptional apples and pears, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) was one of the founding fathers of modern art. Though he was underappreciated and highly criticized during his life, as time passed Cezanne's work came to be considered of inestimable importance. His method of experimentation with abstraction and perspective was an important precursor to modern painting, particularly cubism. About the author: Hajo Duchting (b. 1949 in Dusseldorf) studied art history, philosophy and archaeology in Munich, where he gained his doctorate in 1981 with a thesis on Robert Delaunay's Windows series. After working in museum and adult education, he moved on to teaching posts and guest professorships at the universities of Munich, Kassel, Leipzig, Saarbrucken and Mainz. Since 2004 he has taught painting and colour theory at the Mediadesign Akademie in Munich. Duchting has published numerous articles on the art of the modern era, colour theory and the teaching of art and has authored a number of TASCHEN titles, including Paul Cezanne (1988), Wassily Kandinsky (1990); Robert and Sonia Delaunay (1993) and Georges Seurat (1999). Издание на английском языке.

На протяжении своей художественной карьеры Василий Кандинский (1866–1944) трансформировал не только собственный стиль, но и ход истории искусства. От ранней фигуративной и пейзажной живописи он стал пионером духовного, эмоционального, ритмичного использования цвета и линии, и сегодня ему приписывают создание первой чисто абстрактной работы. Кандинский был настолько учителем и теоретиком, насколько он был практикующим художником в музыке, театре, поэзии, философии, этнологии, мифах и оккультизме - все это было важными компонентами его живописи и гравюры. Он был связан как с влиятельными группами Blaue Reiter, так и с Bauhaus и оставил в наследство не только великолепные визуальные работы, но и очень влиятельные трактаты, такие как «О духовном в искусстве». Ключевые принципы включали связь между живописью, музыкой и мистическим опытом, а также очищение искусства от материального реализма к эмоциональному выражению, сгущенному, в частности, цветом. В этой книге представлены ключевые работы Кандинского, чтобы представить его репертуар ярких цветов, форм, и чувства. Прослеживая радикальное стилистическое развитие художника, он показывает, как развитие одного художника проложило путь грядущим поколениям абстрактного выражения.Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and line and is today credited with creating the first purely abstract work.As much a teacher and theorist as he was a practicing artist, Kandinsky's interests in music, theater, poetry, philosophy, ethnology, myth, and the occult, were all essential components to his painting and engraving. He was involved with both the influential Blaue Reiter and Bauhaus groups and left a legacy not only of dazzling visual work, but also of highly influential treatises such as Concerning the Spiritual In Art. Key tenets included the connections between painting, music and mystical experience, and the purification of art away from material realism and towards an emotional expression, condensed in particular by color.This book presents key Kandinsky works to introduce his repertoire of vivid colors, forms, and feelings. Tracing the artist's radical stylistic development, it shows how one painter's progression paved the way for generations of abstract expression to come.

Souvent associe au mouvement impressionniste, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) s'en detache pourtant rapidement. Ses recherches esthetiques sur les volumes, la perspective, les formes et les couleurs, a travers de nombreuses natures mortes, mais aussi les paysages de sa Provence natale, l'amenent progressivement vers l'abstraction et font de lui un precurseur de l'art moderne. Decouvrez l'evolution d'un peintre qui a su transposer en peinture sa vision unique du monde.

Au debut des annees 1860, des jeunes peintres se reunissent afin de creer un nouveau type de peinture. Ils souhaitent representer des scenes de la vie quotidienne ainsi que des paysages et refuse toutes institutions, souhaitant se detacher des regles erigees par l'Academie. Ils frequentent des atelier prives car on y peint avec liberte, contrairement a l' Ecole des beaux-arts. Le terme d’« impressionnisme » vient d’un article du critique d’art Louis Leroy, paru dans le journal quotidien Le Charivari du 25 avril 1874, et intitule : « L’exposition des impressionnistes ». Lors de sa visite de l'atelier dans l'atelier du photographe Nadar, il se moque d'un tableau de Claude Monet nomme Impression, Soleil Levant. Ce surnom encombrant d’« impressionnistes », Monet et ses amis vont non seulement l’accepter, mais le reprendre, des 1877, a l’occasion de nouvelles manifestations qu’ils organisent. Les peintres les plus celebres de ce mouvement sont Manet, Pissarro, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Bazille, Sisley, Caillebotte, Cezanne... Dans cet ouvrage, vous decouvrirez la nouvelle peinture impressionniste ainsi que ses plus celebres peintres. Ce livre traite egalement de la posterite du mouvement impressionniste chez les artistes tels que Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent Van Gogh mais aussi de son exportation internationale.

Auf der Suche nach Reinheit Im Laufe seiner Karriere veranderte Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) seinen Stil – und damit den gesamten Verlauf der Kunstgeschichte. Von figurlicher und Landschaftsmalerei ausgehend, setzte er Farben und Formen zunehmend spirituell, emotional und rhythmisch ein und gilt heute als Maler des ersten rein abstrakten Kunstwerks. Kandinsky war nicht nur praktizierender Kunstler, sondern auch Lehrer und Theoretiker, der sein Interesse an Musik, Theater, Lyrik, Philosophie, Ethnologie, Mythologie und Okkultem in seine Bilder einflie?en lie?. Er grundete zusammen mit Franz Marc die ein­flussreiche Gruppe „Der Blaue Reiter“, unterrichtete am Bauhaus und produzierte neben seinem schillernden visuellen Werk auch ma?gebliche theoretische Abhandlungen wie Uber das Geistige in der Kunst. Darin propagierte er u.a. die Verbindung zwischen Malerei, Musik und mystischen Erfahrungen und die Reinheit der Kunst, die sich vom materiellen Realismus weg hin zu einer vor allem durch Farbe kondensierten emotionalen Ausdrucksform bewegen sollte. Dieser Band prasentiert Kandinskys wichtigste Werke und stellt sein Repertoire an Farben, Formen und Gefuhlen vor. Der Verfasser zeichnet die radikale Entwicklung des Kunstlers nach und zeigt, wie diese dem Abstrakten Expressionismus den Weg bereitete.

Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and line and is today credited with creating the first purely abstract work. As much a teacher and theorist as he was a practicing artist, Kandinsky's interests in music, theater, poetry, philosophy, ethnology, myth, and the occult, were all essential components to his painting and engraving. He was involved with both the influential Blaue Reiter and Bauhaus groups and left a legacy not only of dazzling visual work, but also of highly influential treatises such as Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Key tenets included the connections between painting, music and mystical experience, and the purification of art away from material realism and towards an emotional expression, condensed in particular by color. This book presents key Kandinsky works to introduce his repertoire of vivid colors, forms, and feelings. Tracing the artist's radical stylistic development, it shows how one painter's progression paved the way for generations of abstract expression to come.

The precious collection of paintings has established the Hermitage's reputation as one of the most important museums in the world, but the architectural ensemble on the banks of the Neva is also a masterpiece of world architecture. This magical triad of important paintings, treasures from around the world, and architecture attracts an ever-growing stream of visitors each year to St. Petersburg, a city full of wonders shaped by its rich history.

The precious collection of paintings has established the Hermitage's reputation as one of the most important museums in the world, but the architectural ensemble on the banks of the Neva is also a masterpiece of world architecture. This magical triad of important paintings, treasures from around the world, and architecture attracts an ever-growing stream of visitors each year to St. Petersburg, a city full of wonders shaped by its rich history.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), au style inclassable, est le peintre de la boheme parisienne de la fin du XIXe siecle. Operas, cafes-concerts, maisons closes, il saisit d’un style vif et expressif une vie nocturne auquel il participe allegrement. S’il a produit de nombreuses lithographies, Toulouse-Lautrec se distingue notamment par des affiches dont la simplification audacieuse va marquer durablement les arts appliques. Ce grand artiste nous a laisse une ?uvre importante qui annonce a bien des egards le XXe siecle et l’avenement de l’art nouveau.

The charge of 20th-century expressionism Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (1911-1914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the development of modern European art. Named after a Kandinsky painting, The Blue Rider, this loose band of artists, grouped around Russian emigre Wassily Kandinsky and German painter Franz Marc, sought to reject establishment standards and charge into a new artistic unknown. Articulating spiritual values and concerns in an era of rapid industrialization, the artists of the Blaue Reiter were connected by a shared interest in painting, woodcuts, and prints, as well as the symbolic values of color and spontaneous approaches to artwork. Key pieces such as Franz Marc's Blue Horse I (1911), Kandinsky's Picture with a Black Arch (1912), and August Macke's Woman in a Green Jacket (1913) reveal varying subjects, but all channel distorted perspectives, crude lines, and an emphatic, expressionist use of color. The Blaue Reiter was abruptly truncated by the onset of the First World War, which killed two of its leading artists, along with growing dissent between the group's protagonists. This book reveals the movement's remarkable influence despite its brevity, presenting key works, artists, and their reverberating effects.

„Der Blaue Reiter“ – kurzer Ausritt mit weitreichenden Folgen Das 1912 erschienene illustrierte Jahrbuch „Der Blaue Reiter“ gilt als eines der wichtigsten Manifeste der modernen Kunst in Europa. In ihm formulierten der russische Emigrant Wassily Kandinsky, sein Freund Franz Marc und andere assoziierte Kunstler ihre Vorstellungen von einer neuen Kunst, die das traditionelle Formenrepertoire sprengen und den Blick von der au?eren Realitat auf die innere richten sollte. Auch wenn sie sich dabei auf ahnliche Vorbilder wie die Maler der Kunstlergruppe Die Brucke beriefen, auf die Fauvisten etwa und die sogenannte primitive Kunst, strebten sie anders als diese nicht einen einheitlichen neuen Stil an. Der Blaue Reiter fungierte als loser Verbund, in dem eine Vielzahl ganzlich eigenstandiger Entwicklungen moglich war. Der Blaue Reiter wurde durch den Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs, in dem zwei seiner fuhrenden Kunstler fielen, aber auch durch wachsende Unstimmigkeiten zwischen den Protagonisten der Gruppe unvermittelt zu Grabe getragen. Diese Einfuhrung zeichnet anhand zentraler Werke wie Franz Marcs Blauem Pferd I (1911), Kandinskys Bild mit schwarzem Bogen (1912) und August Mackes Dame in gruner Jacke (1913) die kurze, aber fur die moderne Kunst folgenreiche Geschichte dieser Gruppierung nach.

Meet Pablo Picasso and discover the story of his life and work in this engagingly illustrated biography—narrated by the artist himself. Pablo Picasso redefined twentieth-century art, moving from realistic portrayals and experiments in color to primitivism and cubism, in which he deconstructed the subjects he painted. This engaging first-person biography explores the unique career of this master, who began learning to draw and paint at just seven years old. It delves into Picasso’s training, including at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona; his various stylistic periods, from naturalism to surrealism; his experience living in Paris under German occupation during World War II; his many marriages; and his profound influence on later artists.

"Ambiguous work. Where can we start?", wrote the art historian Oscar Schurer in the historic series Junge Kunst about Pablo Picasso's multi - faceted oeuvre back in 1927. Picasso, who was investigating Surrealism at the time, was regarded as a genius even then - and had another 40 years of creativity before him. The magnificent legacy of a talent which showed twentieth - century art the way forward consists of an almost unimaginable number of paintings, drawings, graphic works, sculp tures and ceramic items. The art historian Markus Muller knows where and above all how we can begin to grasp a multilayered oeuvre like Picasso's. In this newly edited artist monograph he skilfully guides the reader through the virtuoso plethora of styles of Pablo Picasso, explains key works from the various periods and provides a fascinating impression of the bubbling energy of this multi - talented artist. Not least as a result of the author's personal acquaintance with the Picasso family, the archive sect ion of the work promises a number of finds which are seldom on view.

In 2016 and 2017, Diana Widmaier-Picasso curated two exhibitions for Gagosian: the first gathered works from the collection of her mother, Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Pablo Picasso's beloved eldest daughter; and the second commemorated the relationship between Picasso and Maya. More than just a catalog of these two exhibitions, this book is a comprehensive reference publication that explores the figure of Maya throughout Picasso's work and chronicles the relationship between the artist and his daughter. The volume features an intimate interview between Ruiz-Picasso and Widmaier-Picasso, along with archival photographs by Edward Quinn and from the Picasso family, many of which have never been published before. New scholarly essays complete the publication, with contributions by distinguished Picasso scholars such as Elizabeth Cowling, Carmen Giménez, and Pepe Karmel. A section of the book is devoted to Picasso's plaster sculpture La Femme Enceinte (1959) and includes a discussion of Roe Ethridge's vivid, specially commissioned photographs of this work.

Picasso produced this work in the Autumn of 1901, during his second trip to Paris, when he was just 22 years old. The theme of man’s loneliness in a cafe, of isolation and emptiness, was not new to French art in the second half of the 19th century and could be found in the works of Degas and of Picasso’s much-admired Toulouse-Lautrec. But in the paintings by the young Spaniard the theme acquired a previously unknown sense of drama.