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A thorough record of the life and art of Marc Chagall, a Russo-French Jewish artist associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most successful artists of the 20th century. This work, written by a longtime friend of Chagall's, spans his early work in Russia and the monumental pieces of his later life. An early modernist, he created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints. This work contains reproductions that capture his use of intense, glowing colors and the unique world he created, full of magic, enchantment, and fantasy

Париж начала XX века — время и место яркого расцвета «нового» искусства. Поражает не только огромное количество заявивших о себе дарований, но и невероятное разнообразие творческих позиций, сосуществовавших и конкурировавших в этой удивительно питательной среде. Молодые таланты, устремившиеся в столицу Франции из самых разных уголков мира (например, А. Модильяни приехал из Италии, М. Шагал и Х. Сутин, А. Архипенко и О. Цадкин — с окраин Российской империи, К. Бранкузи — из Румынии, Фужита — из Японии), сформировали костяк Парижской школы. Рамки творческих поисков внутри нее обозначили колоссальные фигуры Матисса и Пикассо, ведь именно эти художники совершили настоящий прорыв в модернизм, вызвали интерес к абсолютно новым средствам выразительности, экспериментам с формой и цветом. М. Ю. Герман, доктор искусствоведения и виртуоз слова, повествует о самых светлых и самых трагических страницах истории Парижской школы. Книга заинтересует всех любителей искусства XX века.

The founder of abstract art The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting. Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the "Blauer Reiter" in Munich. His art then freed itself more and more from the object, eventually culminating in the "First Abstract Watercolour" of 1910. In his theoretical writings Kandinsky repeatedly sought the proximity of music; and just as in music, where the individual notes constitute the medium whose effect stems from harmony and euphony, Kandinsky was aiming for a pure concord of colour through the interplay of various shades. Gauguin had demanded that everything "must be sacrificed to pure colours". Kandinsky was the first to realise this and thus to influence a whole range of artists. About the Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series