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Keep the page in your book with this gorgeous pack of 10 foiled
bookmarks, printed on both sides, with a silky ribbon and featuring
artwork by Edvard Munch. Munch's most famous painting exemplifies
Norwegian Expressionism. The angst-ridden human condition has never
been so superbly and unassailably conveyed as by the figure
emitting a cry from the heart. Life, love and death are the themes
which Munch endlessly explored in his paintings.
Keep the page in your book with this gorgeous pack of 10 foiled
bookmarks, printed on both sides, with a silky ribbon and featuring
artwork by Wilhelm List. Austrian painter Wilhelm List was born in
Vienna in 1864. He studied there as well as in Munich and Paris,
learning from artists such as Christian Griepenkerl (1839-1912)and
William Bouguereau (1825-1903). List co-founded the Vienna
Secession with renowned artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), exhibiting
at the very first Viennese Secession in March 1897. The
Secessionists strove to break free of the constraints of the late
nineteenth century academic art establishment. List's artwork was a
mixture of portraits, landscapes and genre paintings, often with
mythological subjects. Magnolia is among List's most well-known
works. Its intricate depiction of a beautiful tree in bloom, with a
background of still waters has a spiritual quality that evokes a
sense of peace.
Keep the page in your book with this gorgeous pack of 10 foiled
bookmarks, printed on both sides, with a silky ribbon and featuring
artwork by Gustav Klimt. The Kiss is a prime example of Klimt's
'Golden Phase', in which he began to feature especially sumptuous
ornamentation on a regular basis in his paintings. The couple in
this artwork represent the mystical union of spiritual and erotic
love, and the connection of life and the universe.
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Gothic Alphabets
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Written by the art dealer and friend who was among the first to
recognise Rousseau's importance, these Recollections present a
movingly personal portrait of the artist known as Le Douanier (the
Customs Officer).
The Lammermuir Hills have been an important trade route between
Scotland and England for generations, as well as an effective
barrier when necessary. Drawn by the long history of south-eastern
Scotland and the many conflicting elements in play in its natural
environment - among them wind farms, pylons, forestry plantations,
grouse moors and sheep - the distinguished Scottish painter and
printmaker Barbara Rae CBE RA has made numerous studies of these
wild expanses. This handsome volume reproduces a wide selection of
her intensely colourful images with accompanying photographs and
maps, and texts by the art critic Duncan Macmillan, Emeritus
Professor of the History of Scottish Art at the University of
Edinburgh, and Maureen Barrie, who worked for many years at
National Museums Scotland.
In Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early
Netherlandish Art, Andrea Pearson charts the moralization of human
bodies in late medieval and early modern visual culture, through
paintings by Jan van Eyck and Hieronymus Bosch, devotional prints
and illustrated books, and the celebrated enclosed gardens of
Mechelen among other works. Drawing on new archival evidence and
innovative visual analysis to reframe familiar religious
discourses, she demonstrates that depicted topographies advanced
and sometimes resisted bodily critiques expressed in scripture,
conduct literature, and even legislation. Governing many of these
redemptive greenscapes were the figures of Christ and the Virgin
Mary, archetypes of purity whose spiritual authority was impossible
to ignore, yet whose mysteries posed innumerable moral challenges.
The study reveals that bodily status was the fundamental problem of
human salvation, in which artists, patrons, and viewers alike had
an interpretive stake.
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