Cezanne transformed a teacup into something alive, raising still-life to the point that it ceased to be inanimate. Wassily Kandinsky said about the French artist: "e;He painted these things as human beings because he was endowed with the gift of divining the inner life in everything."e; In a[...]

Long thought of as the neglected stepchild of painting, the art of drawing has recently begun to enjoy a place in the sun. With major museums around the world, from the Met to the Uffizi, mounting exhibitions focused on the art of draughtsmanship, drawing is receiving more critical and academic atte[...]

Condemned by the Nazis as a degenerate artist, Franz Marc (1880-1916) was a German painter whose stark linearity and emotive use of color eloquently expressed the pain and trauma of war. In work such as his celebrated "Fate of the Animals," Marc created a raw emotional expression of primitive violen[...]

Von tausendjahrigen, als Fruchtbarkeitssymbole verehrten Statuen bis hin zu den Odalisken der modernen Maler erotische Kunst hat immer eine bedeutende Rolle in der Gesellschaft gespielt, unabhangig davon, welche Vorstellung von Kultur oder Moral gerade herrschte. In diesem Werk sind eintausend Bilde[...]

1000 MESTERVERK Malerkunsten gjennom åtte århundrer, fra 1200 til 2000. - 1000 kunstverk - 150 kunstnerbiografier - Innledende oversiktsartikler - Kronologisk presentasjon - Tolkning av de viktigste verkene - Presentasjon av nøkkelbegreper. Uunnværlig for alle kunstinteresserte![...]