WRITTEN IN FRENCH
A major figure of Art Nouveau and creator of the Vienna Secession movement, Gustav Klimt is today world-famous for his painting The Kiss. This eternal embrace, emblematic of his golden cycle, symbolizes a powerfully decorative and innovative body of work.
Through his large monumental frescoes, such as the Beethoven and Stoclet friezes, his sensual and enigmatic female portraits, or his captivating mythological allegories, his lush gardens and his dreamlike landscapes, Klimt aimed to create a total work of art, uniting painting, architecture and music.
In his desire to break the artistic conventions of his time, he opened the way to new forms of pictorial expression and operated a true stylistic revolution around his favorite themes of feminine beauty, eroticism, life and death, in a profusion of plant and animal motifs, spirals and arabesques, precious textures, often enhanced with gold leaf, in the interlacing of curved and undulating lines.
The L'Art + Grand collection presented in a luxurious binding, offers, through an educational text, to discover the greatest artists in the history of art. In addition to some sixty of the most famous paintings, the book reproduces six exceptional paintings in the form of large-format leaflets that allow you to observe these masterpieces in the smallest details.
L'Art + Grand thus offers an unprecedented immersion in the material and the pictorial touch.
French
172 pages
Éditions Hazan
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