ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1959
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Slikarstvo
Autor: Strani

Margaret Fairbanks Marcus - Flower Painting By the Great Masters
Hary N Abrams Pocket Books, 1959
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Flower paintings are for those who love plants as well as for those who love pictures. This book-com-prising more than 30 pages in full color and 20 in black and white-provides a superb cross-section of a genre that has fascinated artists for five thousand years. The illustrations include reproductions from the time of the Ming Dynasty to Dufy and Picasso. The author of the text is Margaret Fairbanks Marcus, art historian and author-Sty on flowers and flower arrange-iment, of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The Pocket Library of Great Art will ultimately constitute the most remarkable collection of art-in-reproduction ever published. Each new volume, as it presents the life-enriching values which art can give, will bring you closer to that comprehensive knowledge of the great masters which all cultured people would like to have.

T HE FIRST known examples of flower painting appeared on the walls of Egyptian tombs some 5000 years ago. Ever since then flowers have been a source of inspiration for countless generations of artists. Botticelli and other Renaissance masters reserved some of their most exquisite touches for their floral details. With the seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish artists flower painting came into its own as a separate and distinct type,
In this volume the great tradition of flower painting is richly represented and brought up to date with recent examples that present a surprising we of moods and styles: Renoir`s voluptuous riot of thecs and pinks; Redon`s papery, delicate blossoms in pastel, Cezarine`s un-adorned, architectonic tulips; Van Gogh`s emotionally charged blooms, and many other full colour reproductions of modern flower masterpieces. The text is also supple-mented with examples of drawings by Leonardo, Dürer, Chinese and Japanese artists.