Book Description
Surveys the life, works and times of Antoine Watteau, the greatest painter of 18th century France.
Author : Pierre Schneider
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 1981
Category : France
ISBN :
Surveys the life, works and times of Antoine Watteau, the greatest painter of 18th century France.
Author : Emily A. Beeny
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606067354
Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Jean Antoine Watteau’s death, this publication takes a close, revealing look at his recently rediscovered painting La Surprise. The painting La Surprise by Jean Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) belongs to a new genre of painting invented by the artist himself—the fête galante. These works, which show graceful open-air gatherings filled with scenes of courtship, music and dance, strolling lovers, and actors, do not so much tell a story as set a mood: one of playful, wistful, nostalgic reverie. Esteemed by collectors in Watteau's day as a work that showed the artist at the height of his skill and success, La Surprise vanished from public view in 1848, not to reemerge for more than a century and a half. Acquired by the Getty Museum in 2017, it has never before been the subject of a dedicated publication. Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Watteau's death, this book considers La Surprise within the context of the artist's oeuvre and discusses the surprising history of collecting Watteau in Los Angeles. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from November 23, 2021, to February 20, 2022.
Author : Jed Perl
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0307270459
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he died in 1721, when he was only thirty-six, has influenced innumerable painters and writers in the centuries since—and whose work continues to deepen our understanding of the place that love, friendship, and pleasure have in our daily lives. Perl creates an astonishing experience by gathering his reflections on this “master of silken surfaces and elusive emotions” in the form of an alphabet—a fairy tale for adults—giving us a new way to think about art. This brilliant collage of a book is a hunt for the treasure of Watteau’s life and vision that encompasses the glamour and intrigue of eighteenth-century Paris, the riotous history of Harlequin and Pierrot, and the work of such modern giants as Cézanne, Picasso, and Samuel Beckett. By turns somber and beguiling, analytical and impressionistic, Antoine’s Alphabet reaffirms the contemporary relevance of the greatest of all painters of young love and imperishable dreams. It is a book to savor, to share, to return to again and again.
Author : Hannah Rothschild
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101874155
Finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize Annie McDee, thirty-one, lives in a shabby London flat, works as a chef, and is struggling to get by. Reeling from a sudden breakup, she’s taken on an unsuitable new lover and finds herself rummaging through a secondhand shop to buy him a birthday gift. A dusty, anonymous old painting catches her eye. After spending her meager savings on the artwork, Annie prepares an exquisite birthday dinner for two—only to be stood up. The painting becomes hers, and Annie begins to suspect that it may be more valuable than she’d thought. Soon she finds herself pursued by parties who would do anything to possess her picture: an exiled Russian oligarch, an avaricious sheikha, an unscrupulous art dealer. In her search for the painting’s identity, Annie will unwittingly discover some of the darkest secrets of European history—and the possibility of falling in love again.
Author : Alan Wintermute
Publisher : American Federation of Arts
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
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Author : Musée des beaux-arts du Canada (Ottawa)
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300099460
Leading scholars shed light on the development of genre painting in this heavily illustrated volume.
Author : Pierre Rosenberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691252912
Unique perspectives from an acclaimed art historian on the relationship between drawing and painting From Drawing to Painting interweaves biographical information about five renowned French artists—Nicolas Poussin, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres—with a fascinating look at dozens of their drawings and the links that they have to their paintings. This book explores drawing as a site of reflection, the space between the idea of a painted image and its realization on canvas. How, why, and for whom did these artists draw? What value did they place on their drawings? How did their drawings get handed down to us? In what way do they enable us better to understand the artists’ intentions, their creative processes, and to penetrate their worlds? Pierre Rosenberg determines that each artist approached drawing in a distinctive way, reflecting his individual training, work habits, and personal ambitions. For example, Poussin viewed his drawings simply as working documents, Watteau preferred his drawings to his paintings, and Fragonard made a lucrative business selling his graphic work. For David and Ingres, drawing had a considerable pedagogical function, whether in copying the great works of their predecessors or in sharpening their own techniques. From Drawing to Painting Offers an unprecedented view of the artistic process, and makes an important and beautiful addition to any art library. Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.
Author : Helmut Borsch-Supan
Publisher : H.F. Ullmann
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2008-02
Category : Painters
ISBN : 9780841600867
Author : Antoine Watteau
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Antoine Watteau
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Artists and theater
ISBN : 1588393356
"Accompanying an exhibition in honor of Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this engaging book examines the influence of music and theater on the art of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Fifteen major paintings and a number of drawings by Watteau that illustrate the connections between painting and the performing arts in Paris are explored. In addition, drawings and prints by other 18th-century artists featuring musical or theatrical subjects and objects and musical instruments are included."--Publisher description.