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The Fauves
Nathalia Brodskaya
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844848478
Born at the dawn of the 20th century, Fauvism burst onto the artistic scene at the 1905 Salon d'Automne with great controversy by throwing bright, vibrant colours in the face of artistic convention. Fuelled by change, artists like Matisse, Derain, ...
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Rococo
Victoria Charles
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Klaus Carl
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844847402
Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the French created the term ‘Rococo’. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, it rapidly spread to the whole of Europe. ...
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Post-Impressionism
Nathalia Brodskaya
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844847464
Whilst Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and opened it to new, unknown ...
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Impressionism
Nathalia Brodskaya
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844847433
“I paint what I see and not what it pleases others to see.” What other words than these of Édouard Manet, seemingly so different from the sentiments of Monet or Renoir, could best define the Impressionist movement? Without a doubt, this singularity ...
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Cubism
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Dorothea Eimert
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844847495
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines - with this work, Picasso ...
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The Nabis
Albert Kostenevitch
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844846238
Pierre Bonnard was the leader of the group of post-impressionist painters who called themselves “the Nabis”, from the Hebrew word for “prophet”. Influenced by Odilon Redon, Puvis de Chavannes, popular imagery, and Japanese woodblock printing, ...
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Byzantine Art
Charles Bayet
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844846207
For more than a millennium, from its creation in 330 CE until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine Empire was a cradle of artistic effervescence that is only beginning to be rediscovered. Endowed with the rich heritage of Roman, Eastern, and Christian ...
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Baroque Art
Victoria Charles
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Klaus Carl
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844846214
The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists’ response to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its ...
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The Arts & Crafts Movement
Oscar Lovell Triggs
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844846221
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” This quote alone from William Morris could summarise the ideology of the Arts & Crafts movement, which triggered a veritable reform in the applied arts in ...
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