Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: Long before there were such terms as Op art or Kinetic art, Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) was making abstractions that dazzled the eye with their chromatic boldness and energetic geometries. His painting Zebra, of 1930, is widely considered the first work of Op art. The Hungarian-born Vasarely settled in Paris in 1930, working as a graphic designer (a calling whose requirement for clarity and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Widely considered the central figure of fifteenth-century painting, Piero della Francesca is also the most modern of all Renaissance painters. To our post-Cubist eyes, Piero's most famous work, his fresco cycle The Legend of the True Cross at Arezzo in Tuscany, conjures nothing so much as Cezanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire paintings; his serene articulations of architecture and perspective bring…
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Russian Avant-Garde offers a single-volume overview of an avant-garde that can legitimately claim to have reinvented everyday life in the Soviet era. Bringing together more than 80 Russian masterpieces from museums in Ivanovo, Kostroma, Yaroslavl and Tula, the emphasis of this book's previously unpublished and untranslated essays is on new perspectives and interpretations, with a focus on the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: The complete oeuvre of the dark genius who revolutionized European painting — and remains as controversial 400 years after his death. Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, was a legend even in his own lifetime.