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1000 Meisterwerke der Dekorative Kunst: Wo Schönheit auf Handwerkskunst trifft
Victoria Charles feiert die Schönheit und das künstlerische Potenzial in den alltäglichsten Gegenständen. Der Leser wird darin seine Wertschätzung der geschickten Kunstfertigkeit des produzierenden Gewerbes neu entdecken.
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Goya: Blood, tragedy and eternal Spain
His use of chiaroscuro in his dark, intense paintings influenced many artists, including Manet. This monograph presents the essential works of this pioneering artist, today considered the father of modern art.
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Goya (English version)
Goya is perhaps the most approachable of painters. His art, like his life, is an open book. He concealed nothing from his contemporaries, and offered his art to them with the same frankness. He proved that if a man has the capacity to live and multiply his experiences, to fight and work, he can produce great art without classical decorum and traditional respectability.
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Hieronymus Bosch – The Conjurer, 1502. In HD!
Click on the image to see Hieronymus Bosch’s The Conjurer in High Resolution, with all its amazing details!
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"A painting is finished when the artist says it's finished" – Rembrandt
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Rembrandt – Old Man with a Gold Chain, 1631. In HD!
Click on the image to see Rembrandt’s Old Man with a Gold Chain in High Resolution!
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All at Sea
Think of Turner, and you think of the sea. Beaches, ports, sunrises, sunsets, raging storms, crashing waves and heavy battles, conjured up in a swirling mist of colour and light. You might be surprised to learn, then, that the National Maritime Museum’s current exhibition is in fact the first major one dedicated to this theme. The sea has been a subject of fascination for many of the greatest artists, from Brueghel and Rembrandt to Signac and Monet. But it was Turner whom the subject gripped with the most fervour, pulling him in with its charms and relentless metamorphosis. Watch the sea from a cliff top for an hour or two…
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Leonardo da Vinci: Jack of Everything
I could make another reference to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and discuss how, both Leonardo the man and the turtle are the eldest, wisest, and most level-headed of their pairings; however, part of that would be false (Donatello [the sculptor] was older by 66 years) and I’d have no way of proving the rest. Jack of all trades, master of… all trades. Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His friends described him to have extraordinary powers of invention, incredible strength and generosity, boundless grace, an infinite mind, a majestic spirit, and in addition to all of…
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