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Apocalypse (English Version) – Camille Flammarion
The final book of the Bible, known both as The Book of Revelation and The Apocalypse of John, is a prophesy of the events that will occur at the end of time. This book pools the most famous pieces of art inspired by this theme, such as the Apocalypse drapery from Angers Cathedral, the carved tympanum of the Autun Cathedral, and the fresco in Albi Cathedral.
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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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Tiffany (English version)
A jeweler with an established reputation through the world, Louis Comfort Tiffany was the spearhead of the Art Nouveau movement in the United States. At a time and in a country in perpetual growth, Tiffany succeeded in elevating the decorative to the rank of fine art. His most famous success is his lamps in mosaic of glass, similar to the cathedral’s stained glass window.
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Spotlight on Felix Vallotton (1865-1925)
Exhibition: Felix Vallotton – Painter of disquiet Date: 29th October to 26th January 2020 Venue: At The Met Fifth Avenue The text below is the excerpt of the book Félix Vallotton, written by Nathalia Brodskaïa, published by Parkstone International. That very strange Vallotton – that was how Thadée Natanson, the publisher of La Revue Blanche magazine, referred to the friend of his youth. In fact, Félix Vallotton did not bare his soul immediately, even to close friends. In the artistic milieu of Paris to which they both belonged, there were no ordinary people, but even among them, Vallotton stood out as being a most unusual individual. The reasons lay not…
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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was one of the most significant American artists and a central figure in the movement known as Pop art.
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Mr. Roboto: The Human Mechanics of Francis Picabia’s Art
“The machine has become more than a mere adjunct of life. It is really a part of human life…perhaps the very soul…” said the French Dada-artist Francis Picabia (1879-1952). While unbeholden to any singular artistic style, Picabia built a world out of his Transparencies and machinery or “mechanomorphs” − a world that mirrors and reveals the construction of our own. Influenced by the fast-paced grind of American industry and specifically New York life in the early 20th century, Picabia paintings display the blueprint of an ascension, of our mechanical evolution over time, and the trajectory in which we still head. They just as poignantly, if not more so, represent the…
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Claude Monets Seerosen – Traumhaft oder Grauenhaft?
Claude Monet ist neben Pablo Picasso einer der bekanntesten und beliebtesten Künstler unserer Zeit. „Das ist wie ein Monet“ oder „Das ist ein echter Picasso.“ ist in unserer Sprache fest verankert, sodass diese Ausdrücke auch Nicht-kunstinteressierten bekannt sind. Doch was lässt ihn sich abheben von den vielen anderen, talentierten Künstlern? Ist Monet nicht viel zu überschätzt? In meiner Zeit in München erfuhr ich aus erster Hand die Wirkung von Monets berühmten Seerosen: In der Pinakothek der Moderne beginnt eine Tour im ersten, großen Hauptsaal, indem Monets Bild „Seerosen“ (um 1915 in Giverny entstanden) in monumentaler Größe auf der rechten Hauptwand zu sehen ist, platziert neben Max Klingers Plastik „Elsa Asenijeff“…
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Art: I know It When I See It
Last year, Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ reignited the old “What is art?” discussion. Serrano shocked the art world in 1987 with a photograph of a crucifix submerged in a jar of his urine. He again sparked controversy in September 2012 when Piss Christ was featured at the Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery in New York. The photograph not only shocked the religious communities who were offended by the desecration of a holy symbol, Serrano’s work also forced even the most open-minded to ask, “Is this art?” A quick Google search of the definition of art yields this: “The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual…
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