Masterpieces of World Painting
29.99 €
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Masterpieces of World Painting
29.99 €
Everyone is trying to understand painting. "Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds?" - the famous artist Pablo Picasso once said, hinting that the art of painting is beautiful, but defies interpretation.
In fact, often coming to a museum and admiring the paintings of great masters, we ask ourselves: "What did the artist mean?", "What do these or those symbols or details in the painting mean?", "Why did the artist depict this or that subject?", "What technique was used to paint this or that canvas?", "In what year and in what genre was the painting painted?", and, finally, "How do artists paint?" The viewer cannot do without a commentary from an experienced art historian.
The book is written by an art critic, senior researcher at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin, the keeper of the museum's collection of 19th-20th century sculpture, and the curator of a number of exhibitions at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, will help you learn about how the art of painting changed its forms, why artists turned to certain subjects, what means they used to bring the desired images to life, and beautifully selected illustrations form a visual series that allows you to immerse yourself more deeply and fully in the magical world of painting.
This beautifully illustrated reference book:
- Will introduce you to the art of Western European painting in all its diversity of genres, techniques and styles;
- Will provide an opportunity to take a fascinating journey through time and trace the entire history of the development of fine art - from primitive times to the beginning of the 20th century and learn how and why its forms changed, and which of the great artists played the most significant role in this;
- Will reveal the secrets of painting techniques and methods of famous masters;
- Will tell you how a painting is born.
In fact, often coming to a museum and admiring the paintings of great masters, we ask ourselves: "What did the artist mean?", "What do these or those symbols or details in the painting mean?", "Why did the artist depict this or that subject?", "What technique was used to paint this or that canvas?", "In what year and in what genre was the painting painted?", and, finally, "How do artists paint?" The viewer cannot do without a commentary from an experienced art historian.
The book is written by an art critic, senior researcher at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin, the keeper of the museum's collection of 19th-20th century sculpture, and the curator of a number of exhibitions at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, will help you learn about how the art of painting changed its forms, why artists turned to certain subjects, what means they used to bring the desired images to life, and beautifully selected illustrations form a visual series that allows you to immerse yourself more deeply and fully in the magical world of painting.
This beautifully illustrated reference book:
- Will introduce you to the art of Western European painting in all its diversity of genres, techniques and styles;
- Will provide an opportunity to take a fascinating journey through time and trace the entire history of the development of fine art - from primitive times to the beginning of the 20th century and learn how and why its forms changed, and which of the great artists played the most significant role in this;
- Will reveal the secrets of painting techniques and methods of famous masters;
- Will tell you how a painting is born.
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