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Tanto como profesor como pintor Wassily Kandinsky (1869-1944) jugó un papel determinante en el desarrollo del arte moderno . Influido profundamente por la música Kandinsky pintó sus primeras composiciones abstractas durante su período en Bavaria .

En los primeros 25 años de la Muestra de Arte Joven hemos disfrutado de obras de gran calidad y originalidad. Estas cualidades no sorprenden porque Aragón es cuna de grandes y valientes artistas. Desde la primera convocatoria, las ediciones de la Muestra de Arte Joven se han ido superando en número de participantes y en calidad. Son cientos los artistas que han mostrado en este escaparate sus obras, fiel reflejo de la evolución de los formatos artísticos y de las inquietudes de los jóvenes aragoneses.

La obra pictórica completa de Klimt en una edición de lujo de gran formato.La gran personalidad y la extensa obra pictórica de Gustave Klimt se recogen en este magnífico volumen que combina 600 reproducciones a color de pinturas y frescos del artista, con brillantes textos sobre su vida, su relacion con las mujeres, su mision en el mundo del diseño y de la moda, y su vision revolucionaria del color en forma de estampados y dorados. El gran formato del libro y los acabados de lujo permiten apreciar el detalle exquisito y la luminosidad que hacen de Klimt uno de los artistas mas importantes de todos los tiempos.Volumen de gran formato, con acabados de lujo: excelente reproduccion de los dorados de las pinturas, incluye estuche, cinta y bolsa de tela. Un regalo perfecto tanto para aficionados como para coleccionistas.El libro incluye textos sobre la vida y la trayectoria del pintor, asi como las mas recientes conclusiones academicas sobre su obra.Bolsa de tela de regalo.

"A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, Madame, if that's the way you see it, so be it.'" An engagingly sly comment by the renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (18981972)the complex ambiguities of whose work leave hasty or single-minded interpretations far behind. Long before the first computer-generated 3-D images were thrilling the public, Escher was a master of the third dimension. His lithograph "Magic Mirror" dates as far back as 1946. In taking that title for this book, mathematician Bruno Ernst is stressing the magic spell Escher's work invariably casts on those who see it. Ernst visited Escher every week for a year, systematically talking through his entire uvre with him. Their discussions resulted in a friendship that gave Ernst intimate access to the life and conceptual world of Escher. Ernst's account was meticulously scrutinized and made accurate by the artist himself.

The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th century painters, and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state. Kahlo was one of the daughters of an immigrant German photographer and a Mexican woman of Indian origin. Her life and work were more inextricably interwoven than in almost any other artist's case. Two events in her life were of crucial importance. When she was eighteen, a bus accident put her in hospital for a year with a smashed spinal column and fractured pelvis. It was in her sick bed that she first started to paint. Then, aged twenty-one, she married the world-famous Mexican mural artist Diego Rivera. She was to suffer the effects of the accident her whole life long, and was particularly pained by her inability to have children. Kahlo's arresting pictures, most of them small format self-portraits, express the burdens that weighed upon her soul: her unbearable physical pain, the grief that Rivera's occasional affairs prompted, the sorrow her childlessness caused her, her homesickness when living abroad and her longing to feel that she had put down roots, profound loneliness. But they also declare her passionate love for her husband, her pronounced sensuousness, and her unwavering survival instinct.

Traducción del alemán de Jorge Seca; Postfacio, cronologías y bibliografía de Jorge Seca. París, Rodin y un encargo se le antojan a Rilke las soluciones en una época llena de dificultades económicas y personales. El estimulo de Rodin Hay que trabajar y solo trabajar y un puesto como secretario con alojamiento en su casa de Meudon traduciran el conflicto interior del poeta en una divisa que hara fortuna en su obra: transformar la angustia en cosas de arte. Libro-himno, pues, al Viejo soberano. Tributo de admiracion hacia la figura y la obra del escultor, pero tambien oportunidad para incorporar la disciplina, el oficio y el trabajo a su propio quehacer poetico. Su poesia de porcelana habia de transformarse en marmol, dijo Musil. Y seran la contemplacion paciente de las cosas y el rigor de observacion del maestro los que propicien con esta obra el inicio de la etapa media del poeta, la del decir objetivo y el poema-cosa de los Nuevos poemas.

Una síntesis retrospectiva de las series que el pintor mexicano Jusidman ha realizado desde 1987 hasta la fecha.

Antología de la obra del artista cubano Flavio Garciandia.

At the age of ten, Don Ed Hardy recognized the unique force of tattoo art. Growing up in the center of 1950s and early 60s California pop culture, he went on to earn an art school degree and then learned to tattoo by apprenticing himself to master artists. Over the past forty years Hardy has revolutionized this ancient tradition while also bringing fresh energy to the classical mediums of painting, printmaking and ceramics through his exhibitions in galleries and museums across the United States and abroad.

To contemporaries, Amedeo Modigliani was the very definition of Parisian Bohemia, the controversial darling and target of the popular press and the model on which many a novel, play and film was based. As an artist, the scandalous Modigliani made his name chiefly with his celebrated pictures of women, with almond eyes and long necks and bodies. His style had ancient roots that lay deep in classical antiquity or Africa. But his portraits of intellectual giants of the age, friends such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau or Diego Rivera, were inimitable also. In Doris Krystof's study, the scene Modigliani was the hero of comes alive, and his sensitive paintings and sculptures speak in tongues.

A tragic icon of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) took influences from Picasso and Mexican surrealism and developed his own way of seeing, interpreting, and expressing. Though his name inevitably conjures up images of the drip paintings for which he is most famous, this technique was only developed midway through his career. The progression from his earlier work to his final "action" paintings a veritable revolution of painting as a conceptreveals the genius of this tortured artist whom many call the greatest modern American painter.

Christian Derouet"C'était l'heure du crépuscule naissant. J'arrivai chez moi avec ma boîte de peinture après une étude, encore [perdu dans mon rêve et absorbé par le travail que je venais de terminer

El Institut Valencià d'' Art Modern reúne en una exposición 145 obras que ponen de relieve la convergencia de los dos artistas en sus relaciones con el cubismo

A través de "La persistencia de la memoria" se redescubre el Dalí surrealista de los años treinta, época de gran plenitud artística.