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Charts Lucian Freud's works on paper, including the etchings, over his career. This book includes his early work, the sketches in preparation for painting Large Interior W11 (after Watteau) (1983), the sketches of the completed painting in the studio and the studies of his mother. It offers insights into the work of Freud. Una bibliografia de los trabajos de Lucian Freud sobre papel, incluyendo los aguafuertes, a lo largo de su carrera. Desde sus trabajos mas tempranos, los bocetos de preparacion para la pintura de "Large Interior W11 (after Watteau)" (1983), los bocetos de la pintura completa en el estudio y los estudios de su madre,

La piu celebre delle forme capricciose della cultura occidentale e quella che prende il nome di grottesca. Si tratta di un genere che nasce nellarte romana, i cui temi principali sono tralci vegetali, candelabri, figure umane, fantastiche e mostruose, tutti impaginati senza unapparente logica narrativa e spaziale. Se nel Medioevo, furono ibridi mostruosi e droleries a mantenere un ruolo di rilievo, la riscoperta della cultura antica nel XV secolo porto a un recupero sempre piu deciso delle forme ornamentali classiche. Una spinta fondamentale venne dalla scoperta della Domus Aurea, attorno agli anni Ottanta del Quattrocento. Il sontuoso palazzo neroniano giaceva sepolto da secoli e i primi esploratori che si calarono al suo interno ne ricevettero limpressione di trovarsi in una serie di grotte. È questo il motivo per cui come raccontava Benvenuto Cellini le particolari decorazioni che vi si trovavano vennero chiamate grottesche. Le grottesche incontrarono uno straordinario successo, accentuato dal loro impiego nelle Logge Vaticane, realizzate verso il 1518 da Raffaello. Da questo momento, la grottesca divenne una componente ineludibile delle decorazioni di edifici religiosi e profani, comparendo inoltre su ceramiche, vesti, arazzi e giungendo a costituire un campo di specializzazione per molti pittori.

Catálogo de exposición. Centro José Guerrero, del 16 de octubre de 2008 al 11 de febrero de 2009 Real Academia de España en Roma, del 5 de febrero al 29 de marzo del 2009.

Gordon Home

Monografie met een introductie op het werk van Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) en een overzicht van de carriere van deze laatste grote kunstenaar van de Japanse oekiyo-e houtsnede. Deze drukkunst was bekend vanaf de zeventiende eeuw, maar in de jaren dertig van de negentiende eeuw werd - mede door Hiroshige - het landschap het thema. Dit resulteerde in prentseries over stadsgezichten, reisimpressies en afbeeldingen van de jaargetijden. Er is momenteel veel aandacht voor Japanse prentkunst, mede door de invloed die deze op Van Gogh had. Eerder is over delen van Hiroshige's werk al in het Engels gepubliceerd: de serie van Hiroshige's journey in the 60-odd provinces door Marije Jansen (2004)* en de heruitgave van de catalogus van Japanse prentkunst uit 1991 (Van Gogh Museum), waarin de invloed van Hiroshige op Van Gogh aan bod komt. In 2008 verscheen bij Taschen een uitgave over de prentserie '100 beroemde voorstellingen van Edo'. De hier besproken uitgave is in het Nederlands en geeft uitleg over de techniek van de houtdruk en leven en werk van Hiroshige. Prachtige introductie met veel kleurenillustraties. - Wim Visscher

Starker than Velázquez and more ascetic than El Greco, Francisco Zurbarán (1598-1664) is easily among the finest of seventeenth-century Spanish painters. Apprenticed in Seville, he quickly gravitated toward the use of chiaroscuro, possibly having seen paintings by Caravaggio there: he was later to become known as the Spanish Caravaggio. But Zurbarans temperament, as it is realized in his painting, appears more melancholy, and therefore less foreboding, than Caravaggios, and his religious subjects are almost exclusively Christian. He developed a characteristic image repertoire around monasticism and martyrs and made a speciality of the Carthusians, whose white robes he took evident pleasure in depicting. His best-known work may be his 1631 Apotheosis of Saint Thomas Aquinas, now housed in the Seville Museum. It was around this time that Zurbarans star reached its peak, as he was appointed court painter to Philip IV. Later, toward the end of his life, Zurbarans harsh chiaroscuro style fell from favor, but his reputation was restored in the twentieth century, in part through the concerns of Cubism and its attraction to precedents for an emphatic plasticity. In this monograph, illustrated with 114 color plates, Santiago Alcolea, a scholar of seventeenth-century Spanish art and the author of previous books on Velazquez and El Greco, provides us with an overview of Zurbarans artistic career, dividing it into four stylistic phases and reproposing his relevance for our times.

This catalogue accompanying an exciting new exhibition reveals the myriad ways Warhol immersed himself in the music of his time. Tracing back to Warhol''s introduction to music through the musical comedies, songs and soundtracks of his youth, this book opens with Warhol''s portraits of the great films stars of his childhood. (...)

L'obra d'un artista es valora per si mateixa quant a valors estètics i continguts profunds, però de vegades conèixer-ne la vida, ens ajuda a comprendre-la millor. I aquest n'és el cas en aquest llibre, que ens ajuda a saber quines foren les circumstàncies de la seva gestació i el procés de la producció, així com la personalitat del seu autor, que ha pogut influir en el resultat final. La intensa vida d'aquest pintor i orfebre el situen en moments clau de la història i de l'art tant català com europeu. En els seus darrers anys de vida va rebre la Creu de Sant Jordi (1986), fou elegit Acadèmic Honorífic de la Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi (1994) i li fou atorgada la Medalla d'Or al Mèrit Artístic de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona.

Un recorrido por la obra de Joaquín Peinado, desde su formación académica y su posterior integración en el Arte Nuevo, para explorar después los terrenos de la vanguardia parisina en los años en los que la llamada Escuela de Paris alcanzaba su maxima actividad y relevancia.

Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the long-awaited third volume of the definitive biography, full of original, groundbreaking new insights into Picasso's life and work. His lively and incisive analysis of the work meshes seamlessly with the rich and detailed narrative of this complex and sensual life. "The Triumphant Years" reveals Picasso at the height of his powers, producing not only the costumes and sets for such Diaghilev Ballets Russes productions as "Parade" and "Tricorne" but some of his most important sculpture and paintings. These are tumultuous years, Picasso torn between marital respectability with Olga, the Russian ballerina who was his first wife, and the erotic passion of his mistress, Marie-Therese.Rome and Naples would inspire the classicism in Picasso's work of the early twenties and Richardson reveals how the mercurial, witty Cocteau introduced him to the aristocratic and artistic world of Paris, including the de Noailles art patrons who backed the surrealist films of Bunuel and Dali. Picasso was amused by Tristan Tzara and the Dadaists but resisted the advances of Andre Breton and the Surrealists. Sara and Gerald Murphy, whom he met in the south of France, would introduce him to Hemingway and Fitzgerald. With "The Triumphant Years", Richardson has written a masterful and compelling biography full of valuable and intriguing research about the most important artist of the twentieth century.

This huge book nearly 700 pages long is the largest on contemporary sculpture yet to appear. It is itself an object. The sequence creates an artistic vision of the future with reference to H.G.Wells and Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, the film 2001 .The objects presented are derived from every conceivable material and vary from abstract arrangements to re-configurations of everyday forms in magnificent transformations of the mundane, such as giant electric sockets, to the recurring theme of the human body.

Muchos escritores, tanto hombre como mujeres, expresaban o expresan su talento artístico de múltiples maneras y son tambien grandes pintores o músicos. Para algunos, la pintura fue desde el principio una parte importante de su labor artistica; otros descubrieron esta pasion mas tarde, pero en la mayoria de los casos sus obras son mas bien desconocidas. Este libro, con mas de 150 cuadros y dibujos de famosos escritores, quiere llenar este vacio, y muestra las obras de Goethe, Baudelaire, Dostoiewski, las hermanas Bronte, Proust, Durrenmatt, Garcia Lorca, Ionesco, Gunter Grass, Sylvia Plath, Patricia Highsmith, Hans Cristian Andersen, Apollinaire, Pearl S Buck, Kafka, Charles Bukowski, Lewis Carroll, Nabokov, Mark Twain y muchos otros.