La retrospective la plus complete jamais consacree a l’?uvre de Renoir Les tableaux de Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) au charme intemporel n’evoquent qu’amour, bonheur et beaute. Issu de notre edition grand format, qui formait la retrospective la plus complete jamais consacree a l’?...

Comment Matisse finit sa vie dans un tourbillon de couleurs, de formes et de motifs Henri Matisse (1869-1954) a toujours eu un esprit combatif....

Des peintures au tournant de la modernite Vilipende sa vie durant pour son style comme pour le sujet de ses ?uvres, le peintre francais Edouard Manet (1832–1883) est aujourd’hui reconnu comme une figure incontournable de l’histoire de l’art, ayant fait le lien entre realisme et impressionnisme. Dans son ?...

Die luxuriose Welt des Wiener Symbolisten Die ungebrochene Popularitat von Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) ist nicht nur der sinnlich-luxuriosen Ausstrahlung und dekorativen Qualitat seiner Bilder geschuldet, sondern auch den universellen Themen, mit denen er sich befasste: Liebe, weibliche Schonheit, Alter und Tod....

Meet Sir Peter Paul Rubens, master painter and polymath There are over 1,000 catalogued works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama, movement, and sensuality....

Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life-he was almost 80 years of age-he developed the technique of \\\"carving into color,\\\" creating bright, bold paper cut-outs....

The most comprehensive retrospective of Renoir’s work Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s (1841–1919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty....

Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit, and God into visionary masterpieces that changed art history forever....

This fresh edition of TASCHEN\"s award-winning XXL volume explores Matisse\"s gouaches decoupees, produced during the final years of his life. Discover the complete history of these bright, bold cut-outs through rare photographs by the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson and F. W....

After flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) found his metier in dissolving literal, representational figures and landscapes into pure, emotionally-charged abstraction. In 1915, he created what......

The first of the moderns: Paving the way from Realism to Impressionism Violently criticized during his lifetime for his supposedly provocative paintings, French painterEdouard Manet(1832 1883) is now considered a master of inestimable importance in......

Tamara de Lempicka lived art in the fast lane. With an appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set about taking Paris by storm. Her prolific, monumental oeuvre remains one of the most vivid visual documents of 1920s Art Deco....

Matisse at Eighty, Master of Painting And Sculpture, Used Colour as a Sculptor Uses Stone. His Unique Venture Took the Art World by Storm. The Improvisations in Colour And Rhythm, Created with Gouached Paper And Scissors, Marked the Culmination of his Artistic Ambition - a Perfect Synthesis of Colour And Line....

Painter, sculptor, writer, film-maker, and all-round showman Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was one of the twentieth century’s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis to......

Gold, flowers and female beauty: The work of the great Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt\"s ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna\"s upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century - a society devoted to the......