Schilderkunst

Inleiding tot leven en werk van de Nederlandse kunstenaar (1853-1890).

On April 26, 1937, the Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain was bombed by Hitler's Luftwaffe in the midst of a bloody civil war on behalf of Francisco Franco's rebel forces. Twenty-four hours later, the village lay in ruins, its population decimated. This act of terror and unspeakable cruelty--the first large-scale attack against civilians in modern warfare-outraged the world, and one man in particular. Pablo Picasso, an expatriate living in Paris, responded to the devastation in his homeland by beginning work on "Guernica," a painting that many today consider the greatest artwork of the twentieth century.
Weaving themes of politics, art, war, and morality, and featuring some of the twentieth century's most memorable and infamous figures, Martin follows this renowned masterwork across decades and continents. From Europe to America and, finally, back to Spain, "Picasso's War" sheds light on the conflict that was an ominous prelude to World War II and delivers an unforgettable portrait of a genius whose visionary statement about the horror and terrible wounds of war still resonates today.

Over 120 paintings are included in this informative book, along with pages from sketchbooks, musings from art critics and the artist's own comments on his work and inspirations. This is an appraisal of the artist's contribution to the development of watercolour painting.

Van Gogh in Saint-Remy and Auvers is the sequel to the highly acclaimed exhibition catalogue Van Gogh in Arles. The seventy paintings, eighteen drawings, and one etching selected for the present volume--drawn from public and private collections throughout Europe, the United States, and Asia for exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art--include some of Vincent van Gogh's most famous images. Remarkable for their intensity and clarity of expression, they trace the development of van Gogh as an artist from May 1889, when he left Arles for a private asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, some fifteen miles northeast of Arles, to his death in Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, in July 1890.

Bevlogen verzamelaars hebben altijd op mijn grote sympathie kunnen rekenen. Ze zijn het zout in de pap. Bovendien spelen ze een belangrijke rol in de ontwikkelingen binnen het kunstklimaat. Extreem gezegd: zonder verzamelaars is er geen bloeiend kunstleven mogelijk. Ir. Poort behoort tot die bijzondere categorie verzamelaars. Zijn bevlogenheid gaat uit naar H.W. Mesdag.

Schets van de ontwikkeling van Laren van ± 1860 tot heden, met de nadruk op het ontstaan van de schilderskolonie in het Gooise boerendorp, de internationaal bekende "Larense school" en uiteindelijk de stichting van het Singer museum. Het ruim geillustreerde, goed verzorgde boek komt uit ter gelegenheid van een gelijknamige tentoonstelling in het Singermuseum, maar het is geen catalogus en is zelfstandig bruikbaar. De geschiedenis van Laren hangt nauw samen met die van het logement "De vergulde postwagen" en de invloed van de organisatorisch en bestuurlijk bekwame logementhouder-hotelier Jan Hamdorff. De beschrijving van de opvolgende episoden is verweven met de biografieen van meer dan 30 belangrijke en ondergeschiktere schilders die de grondleggers Mauve, Neuhuys en Kever volgden. De verwantschap met de "Haagse school" en de "Amsterdamse" (Breitner) wordt wel aangegeven, maar er wordt niet diep ingegaan op schilderkunstige of stijlkritische problemen.

Hans Holbein de Jonge (1497/98-1543) was een veelzijdig kunstenaar die uitblonk in verschillende genres en technieken. Gaandeweg zijn loopbaan legde hij zich meer toe op het vervaardigen van portretten. Het is vooral dit deel van zijn oeuvre dat hem reeds tijdens zijn leven grote roem heeft opgeleverd. Veel van zijn portretten, zowel de tekeningen als de schilderijen, vertonen een fabelachtige technische beheersing en een welhaast ongeëvenaard vermogen het karakter van de geportretteerde weer te geven. Holbein portretteerde beroemde tijdgenoten als Erasmus en Thomas More. Het hoogtepunt van zijn loopbaan was de aanstelling tot hofschilder van de Engelse koning Hendrik VIII, omstreeks 1536.

J.M.W. Turner is one of the greatest artists the world has ever known. His output was prolific and astonishingly varied. Focusing on 125 paintings and drawings from the Tate, which owns the world's largest collection of Turner's work, this lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh and lively survey of his genius. Familiar masterpieces are reproduced along with less well-known prints and sheets from sketch-books; subject matter ranges from landscapes and natural subjects to ancient and modern history; marine subjects; literary illustration; and images of contemporary life.In his essay, David Blayney Brown reveals the paradoxes and contrasts that abound in Turner's life and work: as a painter he looked both backward and forward, bridging the gap between the 18th century and modernism, compelled constantly to reexamine and reinvent his own art, with astonishing success.

In a lakeside scene, a man leans on a graphic of an arrow as if it were a rake handle in the garden; tentacles rise from the shoreline and rectangular speech bubbles hang empty in the yellow sky. In a Dali-esque interior, the corner of a comforter drips off a bed. This major new overview of the work of the Leipzig painter Neo Rauch makes, once again, the case that he is one of the most important artists of his generation. He remains committed to putting brush on canvas in an age when digital media are gaining ground, and among a crowd of similarly dedicated colleagues, he stands out at the forefront. While his work of the 1980s was influenced by Expressionism, his more recent portfolio revels in a new take on Socialist Realism, clearly shaped by the experience of growing up in the former East Germany. Rauch riffs on the once-mandated styles of his youth and on western abstraction from the second half of the twentieth century, all in coloration and figuration that directly allude to the Socialist past. Between cartoon styling and historic technique, he has found a distinctive style, palette and concept. These dreamlike sequences feel both timeless and deeply rooted: Rauch gathers figures from the past in surreal landscapes and interiors to tell enigmatic stories about the present.

Beschrijving van leven en werk van de Nederlandse magisch-realistische schilder (1900-1983)

As a painter, designer, sculptor, and also a collector of art, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was the leader of the Pont-Aven school and one of the most important post-impressionist painters. Trained in painting by Camille Pissarro, he developed a novel approach to the expression of shapes and colors. His aesthetic researches took him to Brittany before luring him to the Pacific isles on a quest for a lost paradise and a wild nature. His influence on modern painting was to be decisive.

Deel zes uit een serie kinder-kunstboeken. Biografie en achtergrond van de spiegel van Rembrandt, foto's van zijn vele zelfportretten en andere kunstwerken die hij in de zeventiende eeuw gemaakt heeft . Met fotoverantwoording.

Kennismaking met de Spaanse schilder Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), die surrealistische schilderijen maakte. Met kleurenfoto's. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.

Paul van Loon is bezig met zijn nieuwe boek over Jeroen Bosch als hij naar Den Bosch gelokt wordt en via een put terecht komt in de wereld die Jeroen Bosch schilderde. Met veel gekleurde illustraties. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.