books by Hajo Duchting (pointillism revolution kandinsky)

books by Hajo Duchting

books:

Pablo Picasso (Living in Art) (Living_art)
Hajo Duchting

Prestel USA, 2008

This lively and accessible introduction to one of the world s most beloved artists is filled with color illustrations, fascinating biographical information and insight into Picasso s artistic development. What did Spain look like when Picasso was born? What kind of community did he grow up in? What was his studio like? Who were the people who had the most influence on his art? The answers to these and other questions help bring into focus the ...

Wassily Kandinsky
Hajo Duchting

Prestel USA, 2008

This highly readable introduction to the abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky reveals why he remains one of the most influential and imitated artists. This book explores all facets of Kandinsky s life and career, from his radical work as the founder of the Blue Rider group and his escape from Weimar Germany to Paris, to his stormy love affair with the painter Gabriele MÃ¼nter and his many friendships with leading artists of his generation. Color ...

Wassily Kandinsky: 1866-1944 a Revolution in Painting (Basic Art)

3 reviews
Hajo Duchting

Taschen, 1999

The Master On Display
The word "visionary" is so often overused, but Wassily Kandinsky truly was one. Pick up this book and find out why!

Paul Klee: Painting Music (Pegasus Library)

5 reviews
Hajo Duchting

Prestel, 1997

The paintings, drawings, and philosophy of Klee
This beautifully illustrated and wonderfully informative monograph is devoted to the reasonable (and wholly accepted) thesis that Paul Klee's dedication to, and love for, musical forms informed his prolific life in art, specifically drawing and painting. Duchting has chosen illustrations that consistently reinforce his assertions. The commentary is smart, informed, and lively. Even if you dozed ...

Miro (Taschen 25th Anniversary)

1 review
Walter Erben, Hajo Duchting

Taschen, 2008

A great book about Miro
This book about Miro is presented in an interview format and is a wonderful representation of the artist's life, not only in the words but in the reproductions as well.

Paul Cezanne: 1839-1906 Nature Into Art (Midsize)

1 review
Hajo Duchting

Taschen, 2003

Cezanne is the father of all of us!
This heart felt statement belongs to Henri Matisse. If a painter wishes to see the beauty that enraptures him, he counts with the power to create it. If he wishes to see the grotesque, the laughable, or the pathetic, he will be about those issues schoolmistress and master. All what it exists in the universe, in essence or in imagination, is before all matter of his mind and then of his hand. ...

Georges Seurat, 1859-1891: The Master of Pointillism (Basic Art)
Hajo Duchting

Taschen, 2001

Georges Seurat died in 1891, aged only 32, and yet in a career that lasted little more than a decade he revolutionized technique in painting, spearheaded a new movement, Neoimpressionism, and bought a degree of scientific rigour to his investigations of colour that would prove profoundly influential well into the 20th century. As a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Seurat read Chevreul's 1839 book on the theory of colour and this, along with ...

Paul Klee (Living Art Series) (Living Art Series) (Living Art Series)
Hajo Duchting

Prestel USA, 2008

This accessible look at Klee s life and art displays the many facets that make his career so intriguing. Filled with personal photographs, quotations from the artist, and beautiful reproductions of his colorful paintings, watercolors, and prints, this volume introduces readers to the various themes that occupied Klee throughout his life. The book explores topics such as Munich between two world wars; the artists whom Klee befriended in the Blue ...

Wassily Kandinsky A revolution in Painting
Hajo Duchting, 1993

Picture book of the work of Kandinsky. Pictures on almost all of 96 pages. Detailed account of Kandinsky's life and work as an artist.