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Kandinsky by Dchting Hajo
Category: Art | Series: Basic Art Ser.
The founder of abstract art The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting.Together with Fr ...Show more
Klimt by Gilles Néret
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Cult of pleasure: Feminine sensuality by the Vienna Secession's greatest proponentGustav Klimt's ornate, sensual, and decadent style made him not only the most prominent of the Vienna Secessionists but one of the best loved artists of all time. In his own time, Kilmt (1862-1918) was a highly successful ...Show more
Klimt by Gilles Neret
Category: Accessories | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
This is the work of the great Austrian symbolist who paid particular homage to the female form. Gustav Klimt's ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the ...Show more
Leonardo: Basic Art Album by Frank Zöllner
Category: Art | Series: Basic Art Album Ser.
The genius non-specialist: From key points in anatomy to plans for vehicles, planes, helicopters and submarines One of the most fully achieved human beings who has ever lived, Leonardo remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world's most famous painting, scientist, philosopher, bui ...Show more
Leonardo Big Art by Frank Zollner
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
This title is a Taschen 25 - Special edition! It covers Leonardo: from art and anatomy to helicopters and submarines. One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world's most famous painting, this scientist, artist, phi ...Show more
Monet by Christoph Heinrich
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Lasting impressions of nature: The most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. His long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, o ...Show more
Pop Art by Klaus Honnef
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Pop artists of the 1960s, heralded by the Great Andy Warhol, commented on everything from mainstream media to consumer society to advertising to product packaging with colorful and often comical works. Pop Art's profound influence on contemporary art and culture remains prominent today. Nowhere else can ...Show more
Prouve by Nils Peters & Peter Gossel
Category: Accessories | Series: Basic Art Series 2.0
French architect and designer Jean Prouve (1901-1984) was one of the most important constructors of the 20th century. Prouve's design innovations included cleverly-shaped metal parts for building prefabricated structures; he designed buildings and furniture that could be produced with economy of labor a ...Show more
Renoir by Peter H. Feist
Category: Art | Series: Taschen's Basic Art Series
La belle vie: impressionism's most joyful paintings. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is universally acclaimed and celebrated: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flock to his retrospectives. His work shows art at its most light-hearted, sensual and luminous. Renoir never wanted anything ...Show more
Toulouse-Lautrec by Matthias Arnold
Category: No Category | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
The Prince of Pigalle. In pursuit of pleasure in the belle epoque. Today, the painter and graphic artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) is considered as one of the most inspired portrayers of human figures. This physically handicapped scion of the old French nobility was fascinated by life around Mo ...Show more
Turner by Michael Bockemuhl
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
This title is a Taschen 25 - Special edition! It deals with the topic of the innocence of the eye. As a blind person might see the world if the gift of sight were suddenly returned - this is how we might describe the effect of William Turner's paintings on the observer. John Ruskin, Turner's uncompromis ...Show more
Van Gogh by Ingo F. Walther
Category: No Category | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
"Vision and Reality" Van Gogh - one of the great forerunners of 20th century painting. This richly illustrated and expert study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his homeland, through his bright and colourful Parisian perio ...Show more