Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen and precision of a laboratory scientist. He recorded not only the blotches, bruises, and swellings of the living body, but also, beneath the flaws and folds of flesh, the microscopic details of what lies within: the sensation, the emotion, the intelligence, the bloom, and the inevitable, unstoppable decay. Despite rejecting parallels between him and his renowned grandfather, the correlation between Lucian Freud's ... |
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At the age of six, Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. "Since then", he later said, "my ambition has steadily grown, and my megalomania with it. Now I want only to be Salvador Dali, I have no greater wish". Throughout his life, Dali was out to become Dali: that is, one of the most significant artists and eccentrics of the 20th century. This weighty volume is the most complete study of Dali's painted works ever published. After years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret located painted works by the master that had been ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. On a hot August night in Milwaukee in the USA, a young artist and a gang leader's girlfriend are shot in the street, a woman dies mysteriously in the Mercy Hospital emergency room, and a famous artist is killed at the opening of an exhibition of his work. Dr Maxine Cassidy feels sure there must be a connection between these events and sets out to find it. ... |
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Master of the sublime: The essential Impressionist. ... No other artist, apart from J.M.W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cezanne called "only an eye, but my God what an eye!" who stayed true to the principle of absolute fidelity to the visual sensation, painting directly from the object. It could be said that Monet reinvented the possibilities of color. Whether it was through his early interest in Japanese prints, his time as a conscript in the dazzling light of Algeria, or his personal acquaintance with the ... |
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Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and line and is today credited with creating the first purely abstract work. As much a teacher and theorist as he was a practicing artist, Kandinsky's interests in music, theater, poetry, philosophy, ethnology, myth, and the occult, were all essential components to his painting and engraving. He was involved with both the influential Blaue Reiter and Bauhaus groups and ... |
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"For a person to write a book like this, he has to love art, passionately and selflessly, and to love, of course, the artist as well. The author possesses these qualities in full measure. But even with the love, enthusiasm, and admiration that permeate the entire book, it in no way amounts to a glorification, veneration, or canonization of Zlatyu Boyadzhiev’s image. Quite the opposite - the author has succeeded in keeping a necessary distance, allowing him the opportunity to combine an up-close and a distant view of the artist. He doesn’t carve a monument, he doesn’t paint an icon; rather, he presents a dynamic image, ... |
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 - 1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run. Though famed for his dramatic use of color, light, and shadow, it was above all Caravaggio's boundary-breaking naturalism which scorched his name into the annals of art history. From the dirtied soles of feet to the sexualized languor of bare flesh, the artist allowed even sacred and biblical scenes to unfold with a startling, often visceral humanity. This ... |
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Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Focusing on issues of materialism, celebrity, and media, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources, from advertising imagery to comic books, from Hollywood's most famous faces to the packaging of consumer products, the latter epitomized by Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans. As well as challenging the establishment with the elevation of such popular, banal, and kitschy images, Pop ... |
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"Ïðîáëåìúò Ëîðà - ßâîðîâ, íà ïðúâ ïîãëåä ñåíçàöèîíåí, íå ìîæå äà áúäå îòìèíàò, áåç äà ñå äîèçó÷è è äîîáÿñíè, òúé êàòî å ñâúðçàí ñ ó÷àñòòà íà åäèí ãîëÿì ïîåò, çàãèíàë â ðàçöâåòà íà òâîð÷åñêèòå ñè ñèëè. Òîâà, ÷å íå ñàìî øèðîêàòà ïóáëèêà, íî è õîðà íà èçêóñòâîòî è íàóêàòà ñå çàíèìàâàò îò äúëãî âðåìå ñ íåãî, íè êàðà äà ñå óáåäèì, ÷å â òàÿ íåçàáðàâåíà è çà ìíîçèíà îùå çàáóëåíà èñòîðèÿ èìà ïðåâåñ íå òîëêîâà ñåíçàöèÿòà, êîëêîòî ðàçãàäêàòà íà åäíà òúìíà, íåèçÿñíåíà ÷îâåøêà òðàãåäèÿ... Èíòåðåñúò êúì æèâîòà è òâîð÷åñòâîòî íà ßâîðîâ å âñåîáõâàòåí è íåñïèðàù. Òîé âñå ïîâå÷å ñå óâåëè÷àâà è ùå ïðîäúëæàâà äà ñúùåñòâóâà, äîêàòî èìà ... |
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Äóõîâíà ïúòåêà êúì ïî-âèñøà ñúçèäàòåëíîñò. Ðúêîâîäñòâî çà ïðåîäîëÿâàíå íà òâîð÷åñêè êðèçè. Ïúòÿò íà òâîðåöà å êíèãà, ïðåäíàçíà÷åíà êàêòî çà íà÷èíàåùè òâîðöè, òàêà è çà âå÷å óòâúðäåíè èìåíà. Òðúãíåòå ñ Äæóëèÿ Êàìåðúí ïî íåéíèÿ ïúò è ùå ðàçáåðåòå - àêî ÷îâåê ñå îñâîáîäè îò ïðå÷êèòå, êîèòî ñàì ñè ñúçäàâà; àêî ïðåîäîëåå ñòðàõà, çàâèñòòà, êîìïëåêñèòå è ïðåäóáåæäåíèÿòà; àêî èçïèòà ñìèðåíèå ïðåä ìîãúùåñòâîòî íà Âåëèêèÿ òâîðåö, êàêâîòî è äà ñå ðàçáèðà ïîä òîâà îïðåäåëåíèå, òîé ùå ñå ðàçãúðíå òâîð÷åñêè è ùå ïîñòèãíå íåùà, çà êîèòî ñàìî òàéíî å ìå÷òàë. Îò ñòðàíèöèòå ѝ ùå ïî÷åðïèòå ìíîãî ìúäðîñò, èñòèíñêî âäúõíîâåíèå è ... |
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Äåéñòâèåòî â òîçè òðàãè÷åí è ìúäúð ðîìàí ñå ðàçâèâà âúâ Âåëèêî Òúðíîâî - ñ íåãîâàòà ïðèêàçíîñò. Ïðåïëèòàò ñå äåéñòâèòåëíè è âúîáðàæàåìè èñòîðèè äîðè íà ðåàëíî ñúùåñòâóâàëè ëè÷íîñòè êàòî Åìèëèÿí Ñòàíåâ è Íåâåíà Êîêàíîâà . Ðåäóâàò ñå òðàãè÷íè è êðàñèâè ìîìåíòè, à ñðåä ãðîõîòà íà ïðåëèòàùèòå àìåðèêàíñêè ñàìîëåòè ïðåç Âòîðàòà ñâåòîâíà âîéíà ñå çàðàæäà èñòèíñêà ëþáîâ. Ïîêàçàíî å ðàçäåëåíèåòî íà áúëãàðñêîòî îáùåñòâî. Âå÷íèòå çëîñòîðíèöè, êîèòî âèíàãè ñà áëèçî èëè ñà ÷àñò îò âëàñòòà è íîñÿò ãèáåë. Ïðåäàòåëèòå, êîèòî ñàìè ñå ïðîäàâàò, âîäåíè îò òúæíàòà ìàêñèìà "Ñòðàõóâàé ñå è ùå æèâååø". Ïðîñëåäåíè ñà ÷îâåøêèòå ... |
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Øâåäñêèÿò ðåæèñüîð è ñöåíàðèñò Èíãìàð Áåðãìàí (1918 - 2007) ðàáîòè çà òåàòúðà íàä 60 ãîäèíè, ïðåç êîèòî ïîñòàâÿ 172 ïèåñè è å äèðåêòîð íà òåàòðèòå â Õåëñèíãáîðã, Ãüîòåáîðã, Ìàëìüî, Êðàëñêèÿò äðàìàòè÷åí òåàòúð â Ñòîêõîëì è Ðåçèäåíöòåàòúð â Ìþíõåí. Òàëàíòúò ìó ãî îòâåæäà è â êèíîòî, êúäåòî çà 40 ãîäèíè ðåæèñèðà íàä 60 ôèëìà çà ãîëåìèÿ è ìàëêèÿ åêðàí. Íàñòîÿùèÿò ñáîðíèê îáõâàùà ïî÷òè öÿëàòà ìó êàðèåðà, îò ïúðâèòå ìó ñòúïêè â ñÿíêàòà íà Âòîðàòà ñâåòîâíà âîéíà, äî 90-òå ãîäèíè, êîãàòî âå÷å å ïðèêëþ÷èë ñ êèíîòî, íî ïðîäúëæàâà äà ðàáîòè â òåàòúðà. Òåêñòîâåòå ñà ïèñàíè ïî íàé-ðàçëè÷íè ïîâîäè: ÷àñò îò òÿõ ñà ïóáëèêóâàíè â ... |
