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Rocker Rod Stewart, Jackson says, had it wrong when he titled his breakthrough album Every Picture Tells a Story. Pictures don't tell stories-but many of them call to mind stories or have stories about their making.
Throughout his sixty-year career as folklorist, ethnographer, criminologist, filmmaker, and journalist, Bruce Jackson has taken photographs of family, friends, people he worked with, people he studied, and people he encountered. Ways...
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When artist Tom Curry first moved to Maine, his house overlooked a small, uninhabited island in Eggemoggin Reach. One day, while rowing across to the island, his boyhood fear of water came crashing in on him. So he decided to explore his fear head-on, and began painting the island "as a way to delve into my own darkness and seek a way back to the surface." That series of paintings, capturing the island in all lights, weathers, and moods, forms the...
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Roy Lichtenstein is one of the best-known and accessible artists of the pop art generation of the 1960s. Taking much of his subject matter from comic strips and popular advertising, Lichtenstein produced large, rigorous and highly stylised paintings such as "Whaam!" and "Drowning Girl". Challenged on the originality of his work, Lichtenstein maintained that its purpose and presentation made it more than just reproduction, and with his characteristic...
4) Warhol
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A central figure in pop art, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was one of the most significant and influential artists of the later twentieth century. In the 1960s he began to explore the growing interplay between mass culture and the visual arts, and his constant experimentation with new processes for the dissemination of art played a pivotal role in redefining access to culture and art as we know it today. • At the height of his fame, Warhol claimed he...
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Twenty contemporary artists and writers reimagine Corita Kent's iconic creative manifesto.
Known for her vibrant and powerful serigraphs, Corita Kent left an equally important legacy through her teaching. In the late 1960s, she and her students at the Immaculate Heart College developed their Art Department Rules. From "Consider everything an experiment" to "Be happy whenever you can manage it," these ten deceptively simple principles capture the...
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In February and March of 1849, the "Illustrated London News" carried a series of announcements about the works of the painter John Martin being exhibited at the British Institution, the third of which included an account of his early life. On the 17 March the paper received a long letter from the artist, reproduced here in full, in which he demands a right of reply. Their article is, he claims, "so unfortunate a tissue of errors from beginning to...
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“Song of Innocence and of Experience” is a rare and wonderful book, its seeming simplicity belying its visionary wisdom. Internationally recognised as a masterpiece of English literature, it also occupies a key position in the history of western art.
This unique edition of the work allows Blake to communicate with his readers as he intended, reproducing Blake's own illumination and lettering from the finest existing example of the original work....
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Henry Spencer Moore (1898-1986) was arguably the most influential British sculptor of the twentieth century. Brought up in Castleford in Yorkshire, Moore ended his life completing commissions for large-scale public sculptures in countries around the world. The scale of Moore's success in later life has tended to obscure the radical nature of his achievement. Rejecting the influence of his teachers and inspired by works from other cultures he saw in...
9) Hokusai
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Sin ningún género de duda, Katsushika Hokusai es uno de los artistas japoneses más famosos desde que, a mitad del siglo XIX, este arte le fuera revelado a Occidente. Sus obras, reflejo artístico de una civilización aislada y unas de las primeras que se conocieron en Europa, influenciaron notablemente a los pintores impresionistas y postimpresionistas como Vincent van Gogh. Hokusai, que fue considerado ya en vida como un maestro del Ukiyo-e, nos...
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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) est largement considéré comme l'un des artistes les plus importants de la Renaissance nordique.
Né à Nuremberg, en Allemagne, Dürer est devenu célèbre pour sa maîtrise de plusieurs techniques, notamment la peinture, la gravure et la gravure sur bois. Tout au long de sa vie, Dürer a produit un large éventail d'œuvres qui témoignent de ses compétences techniques et de sa vision novatrice. Son art intègre souvent...
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From an internationally acclaimed artist and social media force, a visually captivating showcase of art made from everyday objects-including tea bags, flower petals, and eggshells-with several do-it-yourself projects.
How to Paint Without a Brush introduces artist Red Hong Yi's creative process-the tools and methods she employs and the motivation behind the artist's work. Organized by artistic medium, including eggshells, matchsticks, flowers, and...
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Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) était connu pour ses lignes droites et ses couleurs pures. Fasciné par les lois mathématiques de l'univers, cet artiste néerlandais nourrit son travail de découvertes scientifiques et crée un nouveau langage abstrait aux ctés de ses alliés Wassily Kandinsky et Fernand Léger. Au fur et à mesure de ses investigations, ses œuvres deviennent plus pures et plus intenses au rythme des voyages comme New York et des nouvelles...
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"Mensajes al poblador rural. Más de setenta años en el aire de la Patagonia" es sin duda el mejor ensayo fotográfico que he visto en mucho tiempo. Una idea original, una edición impecable y una construcción del mensaje sin igual. Sólo alguien paciente y observador como Jorge puede encontrar y conjugar estas dos piezas clave para construir el relato. Por un lado, los mensajes de cientos de pobladores patagónicos que, aislados de todo, se conectan...
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Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) epitomises the grace, intelligence, and poetry of the eighteenth century, a period when French tastes reigned supreme throughout Europe. He is renowned as a pivotal figure in Rococo art. Watteau excels in depicting scenes of daily life and theatrical costumes. His work, while highly stylised, reveals an undercurrent of melancholy beneath its apparent frivolity. It captures profound emotions, hinting at love that transcends...
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Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), Watteau incarne toute la grâce, toute l'intelligence, toute la poésie du XVIIIe siècle, lorsque le goût français triomphe dans toute l'Europe. Il est connu comme l'une des figures clés de l'art rococo. Il excelle dans les scènes de la vie quotidienne et les costumes de théâtre. Son univers est en effet très artificiel, dépeignant une certaine mélancolie sous une apparente frivolité, reflétant le sens profond...
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) punctuates the eighteenth century with a burst of fireworks, closing the arc opened by Watteau with his enchanting poems of love and melancholy. While Watteau was ethereal and profound, Fragonard was delightfully light. He captivates us even as he amuses himself, his emotional distance ever apparent. Specialising in "fêtes galantes" executed in the Rococo style, Fragonard was a pupil of François Boucher and also...
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L'oeuvre du Russe Nicolas Roerich (1874-1947) est marquée par ses nombreux voyages à travers l'Europe, l'Amérique et l'Asie, notamment l'Inde. Il a puisé dans ses pérégrinations une inspiration empreinte d'un certain mysticisme. Ainsi, ce passionné d'archéologie s'est plu à représenter l'origine du monde telle que la voient les grands mythes sacrés et profanes. Il a peint, dessiné et sculpté. La diversité de son oeuvre se retrouve dans...
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El arte ecléctico con el que soñaba la familia Carracci quedó finalmente plasmado en la obra de Rubens, con toda la facilidad del genio. Sin embargo, el problema era mucho más complicado para un hombre del norte, que deseaba añadir una fusión de los espíritus flamenco y latino, algo cuya dificultad se había reflejado en los intentos más bien pedantes del romanismo. Lo logró sin perder nada de su desbordante personalidad, su inquieta imaginación...
19) Rembrandt
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El espíritu, el carácter, la vida, la obra y el método de pintar de Rembrandt son un completo misterio. Lo que podemos adivinar de su naturaleza esencial proviene de sus pinturas y de incidentes triviales o trágicos de su infortunada existencia; su inclinación por la vida ostentosa lo obligó a declararse en bancarrota. Sus desgracias no son del todo comprensibles y su obra refleja ideas perturbadoras e impulsos contradictorios que emergen de...
20) The Red Thread
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The Red Thread is the definitive work on Larry Gottheim, a key figure in the history of American experimental film.
Gottheim's account of the evolution of his work over the decades provide an extraordinary window onto the development of the art form in America in the late 20th century. His own account of his lifelong exploration of the boundaries of cinematic perception is here combined with the reflections of other major film artists and critics...
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