Серия «Mega Square» 164 книги
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Mikhail Guerman442Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite ...
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Nathalia Brodskaya746Since his death 200 years ago, Cézanne has become the most famous painter of the nineteenth century. He was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1839 and the happiest period of his life was his early youth in ...
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Victoria Charles595Spanish architect and designer, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art. His use of colour, application of a range of materials ...
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Rainer Maria Rilke650Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) intensiviertseine zeichnerische Tätigkeit als etwa 10-Jähriger und besucht ab 1854 in der Zeichen– und Mathematikschule La Petite ÉcoleKurse von Henri Lecoq de Boisbaudran (...
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Nathalia Brodskaya495“I paint what I see and not what it pleases others to see.” What other words than these of Édouard Manet, seemingly so different from the sentiments of Monet or Renoir, could best define the ...
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Klaus H. Carl584Mega Square Herbarium is based on the work of Basilius Besler, the famous plant expert who, for the first time in history, described, painted and engraved over a thousand species of plants. His ...
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Hans-Jürgen Döpp615Mega Square In Praise of the Backside celebrates the most sensual part of the female body. The insightful text by Hans-Jürgen Döpp discusses the backside as a feature that stands for both powerful ...
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Jp. A. Calosse775A timeless theme that cannot be ignored, love has always fascinated artists. Painters, sculptors and even architects have drawn inspiration from and illustrated it. Ever new, love has led artists to ...
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Nathalia Brodskaya713For Claude Monet the designation ‘impressionist’ always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true impressionist to the ...
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Patrick Bade629Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplicity ...
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Eugène Müntz473Raphael was the artist who most closely resembled Pheidias. The Greeks said that the latter invented nothing; rather, he carried every kind of art invented by his forerunners to such a pitch of ...
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Jp. A. Calosse497Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he felt confident of ...
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Donald Wigal657Paul Klee nació en 1879 en Münchenbuchsee, Suiza, y creció en una familia de músicos. En vez de seguir la tradición musical de la familia, decidió estudiar arte en la academia de Munich. Sin embargo,...
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Victoria Charles747Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí'...
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Forrestier Sylvie525Marc Chagall was born into a strict Jewish family for whom the ban on representations of the human figure had the weight of dogma. A failure in the entrance examination for the Stieglitz School did ...
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John James Audubon476Audubon’s ambitious project to paint all the birds of North America resulted in a work that represents one of the greatest advances in ornithology. Not only did he identify new species, he also ...
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Jp. A. Calosse, Hans-Jürgen Döpp572Lacan, dernier propriétaire de L’Origine du monde de Courbet, aimait le tableau si fort qu’il ne pouvait le regarder. Alors il le cacha derrière un tableau anodin.Les Chinois l’appelaient la « vallé...
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Alexandre Dupouy535Today still considered a “Bad Boy”, Pascin was a brilliant artist who lived and worked in the shadow of contemporaries such as Picasso, Modigliani, and several others. A specialist of the feminine ...
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Edmond de Goncourt, de Goncourt Jules535A painter and printmaker of the Rococo movement, Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) is recognised as one of France’s most prolific artists. His genius however almost went forgotten after the Revolution ...
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Clara Erskine Clement537Even today, the splendid appearance of angels remains undiminished. Images of these heavenly and powerful messengers convey protection, innocence and calm, and have been an inspiration to religious ...
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Ingles Elisabeth552Léon Bakst (1866-1924) was a painter, illustrator, stage and costume designer. He is universally acknowledged for representing a synthesis of creative energy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ...
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O. du Sartel449The art of porcelain manufacturing is linked closely to China and its history, appearing in the 7th century when it became an important symbol of royalty or high status. The masterpieces of the ...
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Patrick Bade517Ornans, Courbet’s birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape. He was by nature a revolutionary, a ...
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Alexandre Dupouy577Erotic photo art has lost much of its exquisite soul since Playboy and other girlie monthlies repackaged the human body for mass-market consumption. Like much painting, sculpture and engraving, ...
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Alexandre F. Tcherviakov455Besides its practical uses in regions across the globe, the fan has a long history as a fashion item, with new shapes, materials, and colours constantly being created. This book portrays the most ...
Авторы
- Jp. A. Calosse
- Nathalia Brodskaya
- Hans-Jürgen Döpp
- Victoria Charles
- Patrick Bade
- Alexandre Dupouy
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Klaus H. Carl
- Eugène Müntz
- Donald Wigal
- Alexandre F. Tcherviakov
- Forrestier Sylvie
- John James Audubon
- de Goncourt Jules
- Edmond de Goncourt
- Clara Erskine Clement
- Ingles Elisabeth
- O. du Sartel
- Mikhail Guerman