They met in 1928, Frida Kahlo was then 21 years old and Diego Rivera was twice her age. He was already an international reference, she only aspired to become one. An intense artistic creation, along with pain and suffering, was generated by this tormented union, in particular for Frida. Constantly in the shadow of her husband, bearing his unfaithfulness and her jealousy, Frida exorcised the pain on canvas, and won progressively the public’s interest. On both continents, America and Europe, these commited artists proclaimed their freedom and left behind them the traces of their exceptional talent. In this book, Gerry …
The climax to the act of love casts an indefinable expression on the face – an expression of urgent intensity. A woman, a man, in that moment experiences an ecstasy that for an instant is visible in the eyes and on the lips. A wave of pleasure runs through the body, marking the transition between desire and orgasm. For this fleeting second, when just how violent the senses can be is laid bare, the person involved is not the same as the person immediately before or the person immediately after. With the help of prints and etchings from former centuries, …
Isaac Levitan was one of the greatest landscape painters of the nineteenth century not only in Russian, but in European art as well. He created works of undying artistic merit. His art is for all time and for all people because it absorbed into itself the woes, the joys and the social realities of its age, because it converted that which men lived by into sublime works of art and translated the author's emotions into lyrical images of his native land. At the end of the nineteenth century the landscape was one of the foremost genres in Russian painting. It …
Com una obra mestra del romànic europeu ha esdevingut el símbol d'una batalla política.Les pintures murals de la sala capitular del monestir de Sixena són una obra mestra de l'art medieval europeu. Pintades cap a l'any 1200 per un taller d'artistes segurament anglesos, representen l'últim esclat del romànic i mostren la influència de Bizanci i l'art de les croades. Però la seva història recent, entre el foc i la política, les ha convertides en un símbol de la complexa relació entre art, poder i identitat a Espanya.Des de l'incendi del 1936, quan van ser rescatades heroicament per un equip de …
Dice Eduardo Longoni en su prólogo que esta es la historia de un aprendizaje, que son estos los relatos de un fotógrafo. ¿Será tal vez que los ojos no alcanzan a quien tiene el poder increíble de captar el momento que hace historia?¿Será tal vez que incluso quien puede condensar el todo en una imagen –poética y poderosa capacidad– necesite contar también, para compartir, la historia casi íntima de esa foto? Ha de ser así, ya que Longoni ofrece en este libro las historias escondidas detrás de cada foto. Entre la imagen, la historia y el recuerdo del momento, el …
Sydney Bay was discovered by European explorers in 1770. Populated at first by colonial convicts and their guards, the city today accounts for one fifth of the entire population of Australia. Renowned for its Opera House, it presents an ultramodern vista to the tourists’ gaze. Sydney Harbour Bridge - one of the longest bridges in the world - and the immense high-rise buildings that sore skywards both astound and fascinate. At the same time the great city is truly cosmopolitan, incorporating a celebrated Chinatown and even more prominently an Aboriginal area in which the colourful way of life of these …
María Uve es una artista que nos muestra imágenes cargadas de pasión y erotismo pero que nos transmite mucho más. Si miramos más allá de lo inmediato, en sus dibujos reconoceremos a personas fuertes, seguras de sí mismas e independientes. Personas que aman desde el respeto, se relacionan con libertad y reclaman igualdad en el sexo y en la vida.En su nuevo libro, el más sentido y personal, María Uve explora la cara oscura y luminosa del amor en busca de nuevos equilibrios, diferentes fórmulas y relatos menos opresivos y más liberadores.
« N’ayez rien dans vos maisons que vous ne considérez pas utile ou croyez être beau. » Cette citation de William Morris pourrait résumer à elle seule les Arts & Crafts, mouvement unique qui, en Angleterre, provoqua une véritable réforme des arts appliqués. Fondés par John Ruskin, puis véritablement mis en œuvre par William Morris, les Arts & Crafts véhiculèrent des idées révolutionnaires dans l’Angleterre victorienne. Au milieu de l’ère industrielle « sans âme » qui standardisait les objets, les Arts & Crafts proposèrent de remettre l’esthétique au sein de la production. L’artisanat et le design devinrent ainsi le cœur …
Hieronymus Bosch was painting frightening, yet vaguely likable monsters long before computer games were ever invented, often including a touch of humour. His works are assertive statements about the mental illness that befalls any man who abandons the teachings of Christ. With a life that spanned from 1450 to 1516, Bosch experienced the drama of the highly charged Renaissance and its wars of religion. Medieval tradition and values were crumbling, paving the way to thrust man into a new universe where faith lost some of its power and much of its magic. Bosch set out to warn doubters of the …
Obwohl die Landschaftsmalerei lange Zeit als Untergenre angesehen wurde, ist sie doch über ihre Vorgänger – die religiöse und historische Malerei – hinausgewachsen und hat sich zu einem eigenen Genre entwickelt. Giorgione in Italien, die Brueghels der Flämischen Schule, Claude Lorrain und Poussain der Französischen Schule und Turner und Constable in England sind nur einige wenige großartige Landschaftsmaler, die die Geschichte der Landschaft und die Kunst der Malerei geprägt haben. Nachdem sie lange Zeit nur als Hintergrund oder als Zeichenübung gedient hatte, wurde die Natur als eigener Gegenstand betrachtet und als Veranschaulichung einer aufgeklärten und wissenschaftlichen Studie der Welt in …
