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Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528 : The Genius of the German Renaissance by Norbert Wolf
Category: No Category | Series: Basic Art Series 2.0 | Reading Level: General Adult
Germany's greatest Renaissance artist Though most famous for his engravings, Albrecht D rer (1471-1528) was also a master painter and draftsman whose work exemplifies the spirit of German art. D rer's importance in the German High Renaissance was such that he can be considered to embody the movement ent ...Show more
Bacon by Luigi Ficacci
Category: No Category | Series: Basic Art Series 2 | Reading Level: very good
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) possessed the rare ability to transform unconscious compulsions into figurative, human-like forms that seem to evoke the raw emotions that bore them. Mixing realism and abstraction, Bacon delves deep beneath the surfaces of things, opening up the human body to reveal the chaos ...Show more
Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling
Category: No Category | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Life lines: The 80s art star who put poverty, power, and racism on the wall An icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) first made his name under the graffiti tag "SAMO," before establishing his studio practice and catapulting to fast fame at the age of 20. Although his career lasted ba ...Show more
Dadaism by Dietmar Elger
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Anti-meaning: Absurdity against the establishment Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid 1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, and New York posed a radical assault against ...Show more
Egypt Art by Rose-Marie Hagen; Rainer Hagen
Category: Art | Series: Basic Art Series
From the Land of the PharaohsThe finest treasures of ancient EgyptThe art of ancient Egypt that has been handed down to us bears no names of its creators, and yet we value the creations of these unknown masters no less than the works of later centuries, such as statues by Michelangelo or the paintings b ...Show more
Expressionism (Basic Art series) by Norbert Wolf & Uta Grosenick (eds)
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Expressionism is a style of art in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to expressthe inner state of the artist. The movement is also associated with Germany in particular, and was influenced by such emotionally-charged styles as Symbol ...Show more
Matisse Cut-outs by Gilles Néret
Category: No Category | Series: Basic Art Series 2.0
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty, and the confines of a wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest to make art. With what he called une seconde vie, a second life, he embarked on a remarkable collage period, cut ...Show more
Odilon Redon : 1840-1916: the Prince of Dreams by Michael Gibson
Category: No Category | Series: Basic Art Series 2.0
A major Symbolist artist, Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was also a painter of scenic and emotional extremes. Until around 1890, he was renowned for work in black and white only. These "Noirs" in charcoal drawing or lithograph were composed not only of a sombre palette, but also by fantastic, frightening figu ...Show more
Prouve by Nils Peters & Peter Gossel
Category: No Category | 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
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