As a consequence, you may find your favourite genres either under-represented or too many examples from genres you don't care about. From the mid 1960s, he's used exclusively white paint, so as not to distract attention from these concerns. The good things about it: the wealth of periods it hits on and the quality of the reproductions, to say nothing of its size (I have the pocket size version, in case there are others). entries gives room for all the most famous artists (given the constraints of my alternative title) with plenty of space left over for people I had not heard of, some of whom piqued my interest.

In addition to a large number of classical nudes, to which I have less objection, there are also quite a few more modern ones some of which I would not want my kids to see. that book is very good, in this book your can learn more about the art and in this book have something is so surprised for me.I'd normally laugh at the artwork's description but considering the topic, the blurb angered me instead "in previous works, Boltanski had used photographs of Jewish children. Late twentieth century modern art was about to fulfil its destiny, which was to become nothing less than literature pure and simple". Baumeister, mortaruru with red overhead (Willi by name, Baumeister by nature, or vice versa, just too easy, so no retitling. Great little book if you take it for what it is - something to dip into to stimulate ideas or discussion. Impressionism was as an interesting experiment and the last of the tolerable departures from traditional painting, but everything after that - I just found myself turning the pages without even looking at the names of the authors of yet another solid cube, formless splatter or weird installation.

No more realism, no more representation objects, no more lines, colours, forms, and contours, no more pigments, no more brushstrokes. In 1918, he took the development of non-objective art to its logical conclusion in a series of works entitled "white on white", consisting of a white square on a white background, the abstract to end all abstracts.Though it might frustrate those looking for an in-depth analysis, The Art Book is great for casual appreciation or anyone who doesn't know where to start. An A to Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times, it debunks art historical classifications by throwing together brilliant examples of all periods, schools, visions and techniques. If however you want to own just one book on art, I recommend the immeasurably better and magnificent "Art" by DK, which is my opinion is one the best books on art ever published. Here, by using images of the Swiss, a race associated with neutrality rather than a specific and terrible fate, Boltanski lays greater emphasis on the universality of mortality"). And then there are so many names (in a book that's supposed to be a very basic introduction as well), which to this layman here at least meant almost nothing, usually not even a feeling of vague recognition of the name.

If however you are interested in only certain time periods or art styles, you'd be better off purchasing a more focused book with better quality prints. By breaking with traditional classifications, The Art Book presents a fresh and original approach to art: an unparalleled visual sourcebook and a celebration of our rich and multi-faceted culture.If the blurb is actually describing the painting or has some psychological/social context, chances are something imaginative or skillful follows and that something is from the nineteenth century or earlier. A couple of lines about the artist, a couple of lines about the artwork, a couple of lines about the historical context, and that's it, the art can speak for itself after that. Some of it is artful and appropriate, but there were some that I felt the artist used only for shock value. I found myself paying closer attention to the art from around the 16th until the middle of the 19th century, which I consider the golden age and pinnacle of painting.