Ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’) is a branch of Japanese art which originated during the period of prosperity in Edo (1615-1868). Characteristic of this period, the prints are the collective work of an artist, an engraver, and a printer. Created on account of their low cost thanks to the progression of the technique, they represent daily life, women, actors of kabuki theatre, or even sumo wrestlers. Landscape would also later establish itself as a favourite subject. Moronobu, the founder, Shunsho, Utamaro, Hokusai, and even Hiroshige are the most widely-celebrated artists of the movement. In 1868, Japan opened up to …
For many people, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was undoubtedly the most important artist of the 20th century. Born in Málaga, 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 Barcelona and later in Paris. In the modernist quest for novelty, Picasso turned to pre-modern history and ÂprimitiveÊ art for inspiration. We owe him and his colleague Georges Braque the invention of Cubism, not just one of many avant-garde movements but the aesthetic that would change the art of painting forever. Once free from …
“I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly women…”Beautiful, sensuous and above all erotic, Gustav Klimt’s paintings speak of a world of opulence and leisure, which seems aeons away from the harsh, post-modern environment we live in now. The subjects he treats – allegories, portraits, landscapes and erotic figures – contain virtually no reference to external events, but strive rather to create a world where beauty, above everything else, is dominant. His use of colour and pattern was profoundly influenced by the art of Japan, ancient Egypt, and Byzantium. Ravenne, the flat, two-dimensional …
A bridge is a link between two worlds, a point of tension between two separate and often disparate locations. Free, belonging neither to one region or another, the bridge imposes upon the landscape and defies nature. Its existence embodies the will of mankind to construct these necessary bonds between people and places. A symbol of progress and innovation, the bridge, anonymous demonstration of the mastery and the durability of new techniques, is gradually becoming more and more light and fluid, constantly defying stateoftheart technology. As veritable aesthetic creations, bridges appear today not only as examples of masterful engineering, but also …
Empires are born. Empires reach their peak. Empires die, but leave their mark through their architecture and artistic achievements. From these specks of dust of memory, 40 centuries of history shape our world of the 21st century. The power of ancient Egypt was followed by the influence of Greece, which brought the Persian East together in the conquests of Alexander the Great. After Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt, Rome became the power that ruled part of the world, finally dying out in the fall of the Byzantine Empire on 29 May 1453. The authors take the reader on a …
En la presente publicación, abordaremos el proyecto del paisaje como territorio situado en la confluencia de tres ejes temáticos o fuentes de sentido: el eje formal, el eje ambiental y el eje socio-funcional. Cada uno de estos ejes agrupa diversos materiales de base. La perspectiva adoptada, y los contenidos que se presentan en base a ella, hacen que este libro pueda considerarse como el complemento perfecto al libro Arquitectura del paisaje: Forma y materia, publicado también por el autor en la Editorial UPV. Conjuntamente, los dos libros forman un cuerpo coherente de contenidos en arquitectura del paisaje, que engloba por …
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 …
Un libro en primera persona sobre la trampa de la belleza femenina: ¿Cuál es el poder de mi cuerpo? ¿Es realmente mi poder?«Implacable y valiente. Un libro importante para una conversación llena de matices. Debería ser obligatorio leerlo.» Lisa TaddeoEmily Ratajkowski es una de las modelos internacionales más aclamadas de la actualidad. Desde que se hiciera famosa por aparecer desnuda en el videoclip de Blurred Lines, ha conquistado el mundo de la moda y se ha enriquecido a su costa, en lo que en su momento vio como un camino claro hacia la libertad personal y el poder.En este ensayo …
La receta es sencilla: mezclar unos platos apetecibles, desde los de toda la vida hasta los más actuales, con los discos y temas de música indie más míticos. Todo ello sazonado con divertidos microrrelatos y con las coloridas ilustraciones de Ricardo Cavolo. Así el lector sacia su apetito culinario y musical a la vez que descubre qué ingredientes pondría Björk en su ensalada ideal, cómo le gustarían los noodles a Franz Ferdinand o cómo preparar un brownie especial para el mismísimo David Bowie. Todo un clásico de Lunwerg en una nueva presentación en cartoné ideal para regalar a todos los …
