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„Dadurch, dass er die Natur und alle für ihre vollkommene Wiedergabe wichtigen Wissenschaften - Anatomie, Perspektive, Physiognomie - leidenschaftlich studierte und klassische Modelle konsultierte, sich gleichzeitig allerdings die für ihn typische Unabhängigkeit...
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Als Impressionist zu gelten war für Monet eine Auszeichnung. Er war es aus tiefer Überzeugung und blieb es bis an das Ende seines langen Lebens. Er begnügte sich mit einem einzigen Genre, dem der Landschaftsmalerei. Hier aber brachte er es zu einer Vollkommenheit, an...
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Johannes Vemeer, a 17th century artist, is recognised primarily for his genre scenes. Through meticulous precision in his paintings and drawings he achieves perfection and maximum impact. Unlike his predecessors, Vermeer used a camera obscura to bring even more...
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Degas was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. His career was long and his style, unlike that of most famous artists who worked into their old age, never ceased developing. He is regarded as one of the founders of...
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Más allá de los girasoles, los lirios y el retrato del Doctor Gachet, está el hombre, Van Gogh, con su fragilidad y su talento. Van Gogh, el post-impresionista que nació en 1853 y murió en 1890, dio forma a los conceptos de la pintura del siglo XIX con su creatividad y...
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Nur wenige Leute diskutieren die Tatsache, dass Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) der bedeutendste Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts war. Der in Malaga, Spanien, geborene Picasso zeigte schon in jungen Jahren sein Genie und kam schnell mit der fortschrittlichsten Kunst in Kontakt...
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Chagall loved blue.
“The blue of the sky which ceaselessly combats the clouds which pass, which pass…” (Baudelaire).
Marc Chagall’s journey began in his native Russia and concluded with his Parisian triumph, the extraordinary ceiling of the Paris Opera House,...
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A Chagall le encantaba el azul. “El azul del cielo que incesante combate las nubes que pasan, que pasan” (Baudelaire). El viaje de Marc Chagall se inicia en su nativa Rusia y culmina con su triunfo en París, el extraordinario techo de la Casa de la Ópera de París que le...
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A painting by Rembrandt is a living entity that exists according to its own laws, which reflects the multiplicity of the thoughts and emotions in the painter’s mind. Men and their mental condition: that is the fundamental issue the artist tries to solve throughout his...
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Modigliani (1884-1920), a painter who didn’t find much happiness in his native Italy, managed only to find sorrow in France. From this unhappiness was born an original style of painting, influenced by African art, Cubism, and nights of drinking in Montparnasse.
His...
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Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) war ein französischer Künstler der Jahrhundertwende, dessen Werke bürgerliche Konventionen hinterfragten und den Geschlechterkampf thematisierten. In kühl konstruierten Kulissen findet sich eine ästhetische Provokation, die sich die Moderne...
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Hidden behind the portraits of Frida Kahlo is the remarkable story of the artist’s life. It is precisely this combination that attracts the spectator. Frida’s work is a testimony of her life; it is not often that one can understand an artist simply by looking within the...
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Chagall’s life and works have an international dimension that endows it with universal appeal. Throughout his life, this Jewish artist imbued his painting with passion and poetry, and left his mark across the world, from the Metropolitan Opera House of New York to the...
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With Impression, Soleil Levant, exhibited in 1874, Claude Monet (1840-1926) took part in the creation of the Impressionism movement that introduced the 19th century to modern art. All his life, he captured natural movements around him and translated them into visual...
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For Monet, the act of creation was always a painful struggle. His obsession with capturing the effects of lighting in nature was much more intense than that of his contemporaries. In his words: “Skills come and go … art is always the same: a transposition of nature that...
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In this book one can find many artworks created by Picasso between 1881 and 1914. The first style of the artist was influenced by the works of El Greco, Munch and Toulouse-Lautrec, artists that he discovered when he was a student in Barcelona. Picasso, fascinated by the...
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Raphael (1483-1520), the Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, was a genius in and ahead of his time. Together with Michelangelo and da Vinci, he formed the classical trinity of this era and elaborated a rich style of harmony and geometry. As one of the...
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Few people discuss the fact that Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was the most important artist of the 20th century. Born in Malaga, Spain, Picasso revealed his genius at a very early age and was quick to make contact with the most advanced art circles of his time, first in...
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Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) was active at the turn of the century. Although he is best known for his striking and elegantly composed Japanese-inspired woodblock prints, Vallotton was also a skilled painter, creating works that arrestingly combined technical perfection...
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Esta paradoja, la tristeza y la salud del campo, refleja la propia situación de Van Gogh: la naturaleza fue siempre una especie de hogar para él: un hogar que nunca podría compartir con nadie más. En Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh había trabajado en una pintura llamada el...
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