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Henri Matisse was one of the most important and beloved artists of the 20th century, rivalled only by his friend and competitor Pablo Picasso. Hilary Spurling's The Unknown Matisse and Matisse the Master were together heralded as the definitive biography of the artist, and Matisse the Master went on to win the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 2005. This essential abridged edition of The Life reveals the origins of Matisse's astonishing talent, provides a unique insight into his life and work and places him at the front rank of those who made art modern.

La agitación socioeconómica provoca una reacción escultórica contra los estilos anteriores dando lugar a un nuevo naturalismo que busca de nuevo su inspiración en el clasicismo renacentista. Rodin es el autor más representativo de este nuevo estilo, pero hay muchos otros autores, como se puede ver en esta breve colección que ahora les presentamos.

Se recoge aquí brevemente la transformación del arte europeo a partir de la decadencia del Imperio romano. Normalmente suele conocerse como arte prerrománico, en relación con la etapa posterior que marca una nueva revolución del arte occidental. Es una etapa humilde, de escasa producción artística, pero dotada sin duda de gran originalidad por su aparente primitivismo, que parece incompatible con la brillantez de los estilos helénicos y romanos anteriores.

Además de la escuela castellana, a la que se ha dedicado el volumen precedente, la escuela andaluza es la más floreciente durante el siglo XVII. Sevilla es una ciudad que ahora está en auge a causa del comercio con las Indias. Esto explica la abundancia de encargos y la aparición de una mayor cantidad de escultores, que extenderán su actividad también a Granada y a otras ciudades andaluzas, al igual que dejarán sentir su influjo en la otra orilla del Atlántico.

Hasta hace poco tiempo el arte colonial era considerado como una prolongación del arte español peninsular. Pero no es así; se trata de un arte de carácter peculiar en el que las influencias europeas, españolas sobre todo, son utilizadas con un sentido plenamente original por tres razones fundamentales: el medio ambiente, la tradición precolombina y la intervención de la mano de obra indígena.

A continuación de la escultura románica, que, plena de simbolismo y alejada de todo cuanto viniera a suponer relación con la realidad, se había extendido hasta las décadas finales del siglo XII, se abre una nueva concepción de las artes plásticas, en la que el carácter fundamental es el realismo naturalista. Lentamente van desapareciendo los tipos estilizados del románico para ser sustituidos por otros directamente inspirados en la Naturaleza.

Ante todo separar y distinguir como el agua del aceite los dos estilos que, por necesidades de programación nos vemos obligados a incluir en una misma colección. Poco o nada tienen que ver el arte asturiano y el mozárabe. El primero es creación de un núcleo primitivo, pastoril, aislado; el segundo, creación de una minoría segregada, resentida y muchas veces hostil a la propia civilización musulmana que la originó. Téngase todo ello bien en cuenta.

El siglo XV es uno de los más gloriosos para la escultura española, tanto en calidad como en abundancia de obras. España sigue abierta a las influencias del exterior, que si bien antes eran francesas, ahora proceden de Borgoña, cuyo paladín había sido el genial Claus Sluter, con sus paños ondulados y fuertemente agitados y el penetrante realismo de los rostros; pero, a partir del segundo tercio del siglo y, sobre todo, al mediar éste, el estilo que predomina en la escultura española es el flamenco, de paños angulosos y muy atenta observación del natural.

Dive into the dazzling world of modern glass art with "Refracting Genius," the compelling eBook that shatters the boundaries of traditional craftsmanship. This treasure unfolds with a pristine glance into the evolution of glass as an artistic medium and sweeps you through the dynamic fusion of technique and imagination, where art is not just seen but felt through its transparent allure. From the marriage of technology and tradition to pioneering digital designs, "Refracting Genius" guides you through the modern alchemy of transforming sand into treasured art. Witness the revolutionary tools...

Ann Beattie, a master storyteller, has been delighting readers since the publication of her short stories in the 1970s and her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter. But as her literary acclaim grew and she was hailed “the voice of her generation,” Beattie was also moonlighting as a nonfiction writer.

Wooed away from a top job at a competing firm by Ed Roth with promises of breaking the glass ceiling when she succeeds him as the head of the investment bank Drake Carlson, Kate learns that she has real potential for the top spot. First, she must prove her worth by unconventionally putting together an IPO for a small games maker whose most valuable but unknown asset may be a painting stolen from a Jewish family as they fled Austria after the Nazi invasion. Kate’s professional challenges play out amid a family crisis: Her husband’s company is imploding and he may have to relocate to a remote part of China to save even a small portion of his business.

Art evolves and revolutionises itself through these simple - but ground-breaking - creative leaps. Art Firsts brings together 30 of these pioneering firsts to piece together an original approach to looking at and appreciating art, as well as understanding where it has come from and how it relates to you. Each first is approachable and engaging, while each work is simply and satisfyingly explained. Art Firsts offers a refreshing and fascinating narrative for those curious about why so-called 'masterpieces' are so important.

Shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art began an ambitious program of collection building and physical expansion that transformed it into one of the world’s foremost museums, an eminence that it has maintained ever since. Two men of singular qualities and accomplishments played key roles in the Met’s transformation—J. P. Morgan, America’s leading financier and a prominent art collector, and Roger Fry, the headstrong English expert in art history who served as the Met’s curator of painting.

En un oscuro rincón del mundo del arte, oculto tras la majestuosidad de las pinturas más famosas, se tejió una trama épica que desafiaría los límites de la creatividad y la astucia humana. En 1960, una denuncia por una estafa aparentemente insignificante desencadenó una revelación que dejaría al descubierto un entramado de plagios perfectos de los maestros consagrados: Velázquez, Zurbarán, El Greco, Mengs, Picasso, Ribera y muchos más.

The Power of Art is an epic work of non-fiction that will transform our understanding of the world by unlocking the human stories behind millennia of art. Taking listeners from ancient Babylon to contemporary Pyongyang, the eminent curator Caroline Campbell explains art's power to illuminate our lives, and inspires us to benefit from its transformative and regenerative power.

Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen’s non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of his vivid, moral intelligence, confirming his status not only as a great American novelist but also as a master noticer, social critic, and self-investigator. In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, the writer returns with renewed vigour....

Art is a distinct entity. It has its own characteristic, its own function, its own role to play in society. It must be afforded the status and identity it rightly deserves in a world that is becoming ever more needful of its existence. “Art”, however, has increasingly become a catch-all term. Intended primarily for artists of all colours and flavours, as well as art appreciators, this audiobook aims to free up the thinking of the artist – or indeed anyone – by opening their eyes to many unexamined assumptions, and thereby questioning the validity of strongly-held views.

Today it is widely recognized that gay men played a prominent role in defining the culture of mid-20th-century America, with such icons as Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson defining much of what seemed distinctly "American" on the stage and screen. Even though few gay artists were "out," their sexuality caused significant anxiety during a time of rampant anti-homosexual attitudes.

In Robyn’s 2010 track Dancing on My Own, the Swedish pop-singer chronicles a night on the dance floor in the shadow of a former lover. She is bitter, angry, and at times desperate, and yet by the time the chorus arrives her frustration has melted away. She decides to dance on her own, and in this way, she transforms her solitude into a more complex joy. Taking inspiration from Robyn’s seminal track, emerging art critic and curator Simon Wu dances through the institutions of art, capitalism, and identity in these expertly researched, beautifully rendered essays.

The book reveals the creative and innovative discoveries made as a result of in depth research, and years of Graduate studies, beginning at the Villa Schifanoia, and Villa I Tatti on Renaissance Art in Florence, Italy. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City with Maria Theresa Duncan and La Bibliothèque Château de Versailles. The Renaissance Culture known as Humanistic, Humanitus, as depicted in the Sculpting and Paintings of Michelangelo, Sandro Boticelli, Raphael, Da Vinci and others. Man was in balance with the Greater Universe, Art and Architecture.