Rembrandt is completely mysterious in his spirit, his character, his life, his work and his method of painting. What we can divine of his essential nature comes through his painting and the trivial or tragic incidents of his unfortunate life; his penchant for ostentatious living forced him to declar...
Van Gogh ou la peinture comme tauromachie Présentation 'Le choix de la peinture est question de vie ou de mort. La cause de la peinture est sacrée. A qui veut produire des tableaux immortels, la vraie vie d'étalon ou de taureau sans entrave est impossible... La parabole tauromachique se fait ici fig...
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Since his death 200 years ago, Cézanne has become the most famous painter of the nineteenth century. He was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1839 and the happiest period of his life was his early youth in Provence, in company with Emile Zolá, another Italian. Following Zolá´s example, Cézanne went to Pari...
Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group...
Ce catalogue dévoile les « trésors », peu ou jamais montrés, de la collection d'arts graphiques du musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes. Girodet, Delacroix, Bresdin, Delaunay, Tissot, Toulouse-Lautrec, Maxence, Monet. ...
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Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he felt confident of his ability to earn a living for his family by painting and he resigned his position and took up the ...
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