Individual artists, art monographs

In the wake of Ireland s recent economic rise, fall, and associated social crises, theatre and performance have played vital roles in reflecting on the past, engaging the present, and imagining possible futures.

According to the defined canons of art technique, a portrait should be, above all, a faithful representation of its model.

Maler, Designer, Hersteller von seltsamen Gegenständen, Autor und Filmemacher: Dali wurde der Berühmteste der Surrealisten.

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) est connu pour son style unique et saisissant au répertoire artistique varié, mêlant cinéma, peinture, photographie et sculpture.

Pascin, der heute noch immer als „Bad Boy” bezeichnet wird, war ein brillanter Künstler, der im Schatten seiner Zeitgenossen, wie Picasso, Modigliani und einiger anderer, lebte und arbeitete.

Encore aujourd’hui considéré comme un bad boy, Pascin était un artiste brillant qui vécut dans l’ombre de contemporains tels que Picasso, Modigliani et tant d’autres.

Hieronymus Bosch (S’Hertogenbosch, 1450 – 1516)Né au milieu du XVe siècle, Jérôme Bosch fait l'expérience d'un monde pris dans les luttes religieuses, où les valeurs médiévalestraditionnelles commencent à s'effondrer.

John Constable (East Bergholt, 1776 – Hampstead, 1837)John Constable fut le premier peintre de paysage anglais qui ne tira pas son enseignement des peintres hollandais.

Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dali became the most famous of the Surrealists.

Poet, draughtsman, engraver and painter, William Blake's work is made up of several elements - Gothic art, Germanic reverie, the Bible, Milton and Shakespeare - to which were added Dante and a certain taste for linear designs, resembling geometric diagrams, and relates him to the great classical movement inspired by Winckelmann and propagated by David.

They met in 1928, Frida Kahlo was then 21 years old and Diego Rivera was twice her age.

It is impossible to reflect upon Frederic Remington's art without thinking of the merely human elements.

Without a doubt, Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous Japanese artist since the middle of the nineteenth century whose art is known to the Western world.

At a time when the dominant mode of painting, Abstract Expressionism, emphasised expressive drama through bold brushwork and largely abstract compositions, Johns' paintings of the American flag, targets, numbers and the alphabet demonstrated a decided departure from convention.

He was the son of a citizen in comfortable circumstances, and had been, in Vasari's words, "e;instructed in all such things as children are usually taught before they choose a calling.

Through his eclecticism, William Morris (1834-1896) was one of the most emblematic personalities of the nineteenth century.

Pieter Brueghel was the first important member of a family of artists who were active for four generations.

Little is known of Memling's life.

In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted to the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s.

After staying in Milan for his apprenticeship, Michelangelo da Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592.

Ornans, 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.

Secluded within cloister walls, a painter and a monk, and brother of the order of the Dominicans, Angelico devoted his life to religious paintings.

Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (June 1599 - August 6 1660), known as Diego Velasquez, was a painter of the Spanish Golden Age who had considerable influence at the court of King Philip IV.

Mantegna; humanist, geometrist, archaeologist, of great scholastic and imaginative intelligence, dominated the whole of northern Italy by virtue of his imperious personality.

An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland.

Born in 1912, in a small town in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock embodied the American dream as the country found itself confronted with the realities of a modern era replacing the fading nineteenth century.

In 1905 Georgia travelled to Chicago to study painting at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion.

The smoothly metallic portraits, nudes and still lifes of Tamara de Lempicka encapsulate the spirit of Art Deco and the Jazz Age, and reflect the elegant and hedonistic life-style of a wealthy, glamorous and privileged elite in Paris between the two World Wars.

Behind Frida Kahlo's portraits, lies the story of both her life and work.

Spanish architect and designer, Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) was an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art.

In the 5th century, the Champa kingdom held sway over a large area of today's Vietnam.

John Constable was the first English landscape painter to take no lessons from the Dutch.

At fifteen, Turner was already exhibiting View of Lambeth.

Hieronymus Bosch was painting frightening, yet vaguely likable monsters long before computer games were ever invented, often including a touch of humour.

The first appearances of graffiti "e;tags"e; (signatures) on New York City subway trains in the early 1970s were discarded as incidents of vandalism or the rough, violent cries of the ignorant and impoverished.

If sensuality had a name, it would be without doubt Utamaro.

Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935) was a painter and a great art theorist, but first and foremost he was the founder of Suprematism, a style seeking pure abstraction based on geometrical forms.

Canaletto began his career as a theatrical scene painter, like his father, in the Baroque tradition.

Paul Klee gehört zu den Künstlern, die sich nur schwerlich einer bestimmten kunstgeschichtlichen Bewegung zuordnen lassen.

Maler, Designer, Hersteller von seltsamen Gegenständen, Autor und Filmemacher: Dali wurde der Berühmteste der Surrealisten.

Als Hauptvertreter der romantischen Bewegung war der britische Künstler William Blake (1757-1827) gleichzeitig Dichter, Maler, Designer und Graphiker.

Sie lernten sich 1928 kennen, als Frida Kahlo gerade einundzwanzig Jahre und Diego doppelt so alt war.

Katsushika Hokusai ist ohne Zweifel der seit der Mitte des 19.

Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926), Architekt und Künstler aus Barcelona, nimmt einen bedeutenden Platz in der Geschichte der spanischen Gegenwartskunst ein.

Der unter dem Namen Canaletto bekannte Venezianer Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768) wurde durch seinen Vater, einen Theaterdekorateur, an die Malerei und die Perspektive herangeführt.

Zu einer Zeit, als der abstrakte Expressionismus die amerikanische Malkunst beherrscht und die Betonung auf kühnen Farben, einem fast brutalen malerischen Duktus und zumeist abstrakten Kompositionen liegt, beschreitet Jasper Johns mit seinen amerikanischen Flaggen, Schießscheiben, Zahlen und Buchstaben ganz eigene Wege.

Kasimir Malewitsch (1878-1935) war ein Maler und ein großer Kunsttheoretiker, vor allem aber war er der Begründer des Suprematismus, einer auf geometrische Formen gegründeten Ausprägung der reinen abstrakten Kunst.

Courbet, ein Kind des Materialismus und des Positivismus, war ohne Zweifel einer der komplexesten Maler des 19.