Los LLanos, Jose de
L'Aquarelle de Durer a Kandinsky
Paris, Hazan, 1996. Hardcover. Pale blue boards with white lettering, color illustrated dust jacket with red and black lettering, 212 pp, richly illustrated in bw and color. Text in French. "Small thin voice covered by the orchestra of large painting, watercolor rarely plays the first roles in the history of art: preparatory studies, works of decorators or entomologists, entertainment of young Victorian girls, such are, it seems, his areas of election. Jose de Los Llanos traces the original process of this technique, from the Renaissance to abstract art, from Durer the inventor, to Kandinsky who used watercolor to cross the border of the world of objects, abstraction. And this course of watercolor is very different from that of oil painting. It is not, to begin with, the royal route Florence-Rome-Venice: watercolor is not an Italian technique. It is a form of expression of travelers from the North, Germans, Flemings, and in the 18th century of these migratory French people who were Poussin and Le Lorrain. In the 18th century, it was through watercolor that Anglasi art overturned Europe, reaching unequal heights with Cozens, Girtin, Boninton, and others. Accompanying then, but always in counterpoint, the artistic revolutions of the 19th century, we find, watercolor as medium of the masters of modern art at its beginnings, from Manet to Derain, from Daumier to Klee, from Cezanne to Picasso"- Dust jacket translation. VG/VG (corners lightly bumped, text and illustrations are crisp and clean) .
Boeknummer: 177521
USD 48.00 [Appr.: EURO 45]
Trefwoorden: General European Art ; Watercolor Painting ; ;