Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435).
Although American by birth and heritage, James McNeill Whistler spent most of his life in western Europe, particularly in Paris and London, where he lived his life in a swirl of controversy over his art and his often self-aggrandizing behavior, which tainted his associations with fellow artists and the public.
"e;One of contemporary fiction's most gifted sentence builders"e; Beejay Silcox, GuardianBehind the ornate doors of 30, rue du M tal in Brussels, twenty students begin their apprenticeship in the art of decorative painting - that art of tricksters and counterfeiters, where each knot in a plank of wood hides a secret and every vein in a slab of marble tells a story.
In Portrait of a Young Painter, the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s.
Fully revised to reflect the latest updates in the most popular creativity apps, this is the original, best-selling guide to using creative apps on your Apple device to produce your very own masterpieces.
The origins of Chinese astrology can be traced to the Han Dynasty (stretching from the second century BC to the AD second century) and evolved in close association to broad Chinese philosophical concepts, most notably Confucianism and Taoism.
From the highly acclaimed author ofThe Photographer of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a tale of a young war widow and one life-changing, sun-drenched visit to Cornwall in the summer of 1923.
Décembre 1808, quatre ans après le sacre de Napoléon à Paris, Dominique Vivant Denon occupe le poste clef de directeur des Musées et amasse avec délectation le fabuleux butin artistique des guerres napoléoniennes.
Esta Historia de la pintura al pastel en Espana comprende toda la trayectoria espanola de la tecnica de pintura al pastel y la situa en el lugar de la historia del arte que le pertenece.
Das Berchtesgadener Panoptikum ist eine von Peter Karger in den Jahren 2011 und 2012 geschaffene Bilderserie, in der er mit Bleistift und malerischen Verwischungen bearbeitete Lichtbild-Montagen im zuweilen leicht beschnittenen DinA-4-Format auf Papier gebracht hat.
Gerhard Richter ist der berühmteste Maler dieser Zeit, es heißt oft, er habe wie kein anderer die Malerei erneuert – überhaupt treffen auf ihn viele Superlative zu.
L'any 2019, coincidint amb la commemoració del centenari del naixement de Joan Brossa, la Fundació Joan Brossa va organitzar, amb el suport de la Institució de les Lletres Catalanes, el cicle Ens va fer Joan Brossa, un programa de converses entre figures sèniors que van conèixer el poeta i escriptors i artistes més joves que, sense haver-hi tingut un tracte personal, se'n senten hereus.
