Frank Milner Knihy

Průřez životem a dílem velkého francouzského malíře, okouzleného vyznavače životních krás. I když byl jedním ze zakladatelů skupiny „Fauves“, nepatřil po celý svůj život k žádnému z uměleckých hnutí. Autor monografie sleduje jeho umělecký vývoj, směřující v kompozici k plošnéa kresebné zkratce, dekorativnímu stylu a svítivé kontrastní barevnosti. V malířově díle, jehož ukázky dokumentují text, jsou nejen krajiny a zátiší, ale i portréty, figurální kompozice a ženské akty vedle zajímavých tzv. lepených papírů.

With prints ranging from the 1860s through the 1920s, Claude Manes nearly seventy years of productivity are fully represented to confirm his artistic eminence as one of the founders of Impressionism. A total of sixty works from each stage of his career ore seen in striking prints. A fascinating introduction reveals the Parisian life and Monet's influences, including the Japanese woodblock prints by Hiroshige which led to the design of his own famous garden.

Frida Kahlo, with over 80 large-scale full-color plates, illustrates the full range of this vibrant artist's work, from the extraordinary series of self-portraits which she painted over more than 20 years, to those more disturbing and cerebral works which were hailed by her contemporaries as Surrealist. Art historian Frank Milner traces the potent mixture of personal history, cultural inheritance, political commitment and sheer self-conscious myth-making that permeates Kahlo's work, and argues that any attempt to subsume her painting within a particular tradition is doomed to a unique artistic phenomenon.

Art historian, Frank Milner introduces 60 of Van Gogh's most characteristic works in this stunningly illustrated volume.