The Art Book

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Yet, let's find something good to quote from it from Wikiquote (and as it turns out, even the quote on its own is repetitive). As stated in the introduction, this book is "an A to Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times. Full of themes and genres from the art world, this title also goes into detail with dedicated spreads and examples of how artists use colour, composition and the era of the time into their art.

So if you re-titled this, "The (Almost Entirely Western) Painting and Sculpture (14th - 20th Century) Book, you'd know what you're in for - but it's not exactly pithy.With materials and photography close to hand, it's easy to forget the sheer labour involved in producing an Old Master canvas. Also the depicted scenes (at least until the beginning of the 20th century) are from either Roman or Christian mythology or Western European aristocratic and everyday life.

Another amusing/sad detail, you can tell from each entry's blurb how good/bad the art is going to be. In this guide, we’ve found the best art books for all your artistic needs, including general art, art history and concept art. Faz-se um passeio por manifestações artísticas, destacando-se que não fica limitado à arte ocidental. A century-and-a-half ago the Swiss art historian, Jacob Burckhardt, popularized the idea of a 'Renaissance' in 14th century Italy. Originally written and published in 1926, this book covers a chronological and comprehensive history of art and covers work from iconic artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Jackson Pollock, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and more.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. Leider sind mir ziemlich oft Schreibfehler untergekommen und ich empfand das letzte Kapitel mit der Kunst von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart etwas kurz und hätte mir gewünscht auch etwas mehr über Zeitgenössisches zu erfahren. You get the high art of Caravaggio's "doubting Thomas" followed by Caro's "rape of the sabines" (or for a better title, "a hoarder visits a scrapyard"). The book is more of a journal than an instructional guide but it’s a great read full of images, colours and notes.