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Essential figure in the evolution from Realism to Impressionism, Edouard Manet was an significant painter who left his own distinctive mark on the world of painting. The young artist was influenced by Frans Hals, Diego Velazquez, and Francisco Goya. After Manet opened his own studio, he began painting in a realist technique, which soon changed to a Impressionist style when he met the Berthe Morisot. She represented him to her circle of Impressionist painter friends, including Claude Monet,...

Gustave Doré was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor, best known for his illustrations of epic literature, such as those by Dante, Cervantes, Hugo, and Milton, as well as contemporary texts, such as those by Balzac. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving. He rarely completed any works with colors, leading to the speculation that he was color blind. His vivid work is characterized by images of the grotesque and bizarre. Employing over 40 block cutters, he eventually produ...

Concise. Essential. Annotated. These three words describe what the books in My Pocket Gallery gives readers.This Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Gustav Klimt drawings, date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents and is formatted for all e-readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).Drawings played a major role in Gustav Klimt's artistic development. From sketches and preparatio...

As celebrator of feminine sensuality and beauty, Renoir is final representative of tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene though freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings. The women he painted, the curves of their voluptuous bodies and their ages were all part of Renoir's genius.

Eugene-Henri-Paul Gauguin was French painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Gauguin's style developed from Impressionism through a brief cloisonnist period in the direction of a highly individual Symbolism, which to combine and contrast an idealized vision of primitive Polynesian culture. Paul Gauguin styled himself and his art as "savage."; he fled farther from urban civilization in search of a hedonic paradise where he could create pure, "primitive" art. Gauguin pioneered the Symbolist art m...

This book is collection of 81 Masterpieces formatted for the e-readers, with descriptions, dates and Table of Contents.The book demonstrate how fundamental drawing was to van Gogh's art.Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) drew thousands of images to better his style. He believed that drawing was "the roof of everything" and completed over 1000 drawings from 1877 to 1890.At the outset of his career, he left it necessary to master black and white before attempting to work in...

John William Waterhouse was an English painter famous for working in the Pre-Raphaelite style. His early works were not Pre-Raphaelite in nature, but were of classical themes in the spirit of Alma-Tadema and Frederic Leighton. He painted several decades after the break-up of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Borrowing stylistic influences not only from the earlier Pre-Raphaelites but also from his contemporaries, the Impressionists, his artworks were known for their depictions of women from ...

Concise. Essential. Annotated. These three words describe what the books in My Pocket Gallery gives readers.This Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci drawings, date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents and is formatted for all e-readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).Leonardo recorded his constant flow of ideas for paintings on paper. In his Studies for the ...

This e-book is a collection with 72 Van Gogh's watercolors formatted for the e-readers, with descriptions, dates and Table of Contents.Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. He produced nearly 150 watercolor paintings ...

This book is a collection of 80 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Nikola Tesla:Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.Archimedes was my ideal. I ...

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida was a Valencian Spanish artist, outshined in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most characteristic paintings are described by a skilful depicting of the people in bold landscape under the sunlight of his native Valencia."The painter of light"; this is how Joaquin Sorolla, one of the most important figures in the history of Spanish art and one of the most internationally famous painters of his t...

This e-book is a collection with 73 Masterpieces from John White Alexander formatted for the e-readers, with descriptions, dates and Table of Contents.John White Alexander (1856 –1915) began his career in New York in 1875 as a political cartoonist and illustrator. In 1877 he went to Paris for his first formal art training, and then to Munich. His first exhibition in the Paris Salon of 1893 was a brilliant success. By 1894 his reputation in both Europe and America had soared. Alexand...