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This easy-to-fold mini art museum comes with more than 16 classic
works of art from world-renowned museums, ready for you to arrange
and rearrange! Escape into your own creative world! Open up The
Tiniest Art Museum in the World to find easily foldable museum
walls and more than a dozen masterpieces to place and rearrange in
your very own tiny museum! Including classics such as: - The Great
Wave by Katsushika Hokusai - Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat by
Vincent Van Vogh - The Thinker by August Rodin - Esther before
Ahasuerus by Artemisia Gentileschi - Melencolia I by Albrecht Durer
- Study for a Sunday on la Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat This
handsome paper box features a complete miniature museum, ready for
you to curate. Contents include: - Our comprehensive 48-page
guidebook to the artworks included, The Tiniest Art Museum in the
World Guidebook, plus step-by-step instructions for building your
museum and how to keep your art safe and not wrinkled, bent,
destroyed, etc.! - Foldable museum walls - 16+ pieces of classic
art for your museum (both portrait and landscape) that attach to
the walls so you can mix and match Gift this miniature
make-your-own museum to your favorite art lover--or yourself!
Marc Chagall's remarkable oeuvre spans a variety of media; from
painting, ceramics, and stained glass to illustration, tapestry,
and stage sets. Regardless of the format, his singular narrative
style embraced the memories of his happy childhood in Vitebsk,
Russia and his roots in Jewish culture. This engaging examination
of the artist and his life features stunning full- page
illustrations of Chagall's works, along with illuminating
biographical details. On every page, Chagall's genius with color
and composition spring to life. Comparisons and contrasts are made
to the works of other Fauve and Cubist artists among whom he lived
and worked, as well as to the poetry of the era. Although he
depicted the harsh anti-Semitism that his countrymen faced, Chagall
nevertheless embraced a vision of humanism and tolerance that
remains refreshingly poignant decades after his death.
Born in 1899 to Russian Aristocrats, Tamara de Lempicka escaped the
Bolsheviks by exchanging her body for freedom, dramatically
beginning a sexual career that included most of the influential men
and women she painted. Her paintings, like the artist herself, glow
with beauty and sexuality. Contemporary critics, however, dismissed
her gorgeously stylised portraits and condemned her scandalous
lifestyle. A resurgence of interest in her work occurred in the
1980s, spurred by such celebrity collectors such as Jack Nicholson,
Barbra Streisand and Madonna.
"There were no pictures on the walls of the rented rooms my mother
and I lived in when I was a child. But there were pictures on the
school walls, details of exhibitions and the lives of great
painters in Everybody's Weekly, and, when we could afford it, we
would treat ourselves to a trip to the nearest city and its
travelling exhibitions of prints, which was how I saw most of Van
Gogh that wasn't at school."For Duffy, pictures were and still are
magical creations and recreations of the visible world - of
history, mythologies, landscape, love and death - where the artists
who make them attempt risk-taking feats analogous to a poet's with
words. Pictures abound in this collection, ushering the reader from
canvas to screen via x-rays and iPhone snapshots, the latter
inspiring the closing sequence 'Burdsong'. Above all, Pictures from
an Exhibition celebrates the mind's eye, which is its own
exhibition gallery: transforming Darlington Station into an
upturned ship's hull or a mauled pigeon into a still life, and
glorying in the lives, loves and creations of painters from
Veronese to Anselm Kiefer.
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