Throughout his life, Salvador Dalí produced a body of work both revolutionary and visionary. From the Purism of the twenties to the great mystical paintings of the fifties, Jean-Louis Gaillemin takes us on a complex journey through the life and career of an artist who turned paranoia into a way of painting and provocation into a way of life. Hundreds of colour illustrations and documentary pictures complemented by extracts from the writings of Dalí and his contemporaries makes this the perfect companion to his work.
Egon Schiele (18901918) was one of the most popular and influential painters to emerge from turn-of-the-century Vienna. Before his premature death at 28, he managed to be thrown in prison on a morals charge and also to create a strongly erotic body of work, both deeply expressive drawings and sublimely beautiful paintings. This enfant terrible of pre-WWI Vienna worked in the shadows of Klimt and Freud, but he found his own voice, and his own nude body was his best model. Egon Schiele delves into both his controversial sexual themes and neglected aspects of Schieles art, notably his formal experiments and his later expressionistic portraits and allegorical paintingsworks that reveal much about the importance of his short career. Egon Schiele (18901918) was one of the most popular and influential painters to emerge from turn-of-the-century Vienna. Before his premature death at 28, he managed to be thrown in prison on a morals charge and also to create a strongly erotic body of work, both deeply expressive drawings and sublimely beautiful paintings. This enfant terrible of pre-WWI Vienna worked in the shadows of Klimt and Freud, but he found his own voice, and his own nude body was his best model. Egon Schiele delves into both his controversial sexual themes and neglected aspects of Schieles art, notably his formal experiments and his later expressionistic portraits and allegorical paintingsworks that reveal much about the importance of his short career.
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