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Chargement... Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors (édition 2003)par Jane Kallir, Ivan Vartanian (Directeur de publication)
Information sur l'oeuvreEgon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors par Jane Kallir
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. An extensive and absolutely beautiful survey of Schiele's drawings and watercolor. I had a lot of fun browsing his erotic pictures. The text is fittingly brief, as it should be in an art book, but provides a decent amount of insight into the artist, his method and his art. My only complaint is that on the occasion images were printed as two page spreads the crease ate a lot of the image. Egon Schiele is a study in the development of an artist from precocity to artistic maturity. All art is biographical. He especially recorded his adolescent preoccupation with the human body until some brief jail time, a love affaire, marriage, and service in the Austrian army in WWI caused him to develop a more mature style and values. He died the same year as Gustav Klimt, and was about to eclipse him in the Austrian art world when death by illness took him, Edith his wife, and Wally his girlfriend before marriage. He died as the Austro-Hungarian empire was about to collapse, the Hapsburg dynasty ended. The book is a tantalizing look at an aspect of Austrian culture that, like a rare Amazon flower, bloomed then just as quickly expired, its beauty drying between the pages of a botanist's collection book. Highly readable, thorough, with extensive though not exhaustive illustrations by Egon Schiele, an Austrian artist born in 1890 who showed precocious talent but just as he was being recognized by the Austrian art world unfortunately died during the great flu epidemic in October 1918 just four days after his wife, Edith, died. His myriad drawings are scattered by the winds of artistic taste all about the world, but his relatively fewer paintings are mostly in Austrian museums. He's known for his nudes, but respected for his portraits and allegories. The author is a well-known expert on Schiele who does him proud with an excellent biography and a fine selection of his work. Neither his biography nor his prints are for the faint hearted. But he is an artist of note who, had he lived, would have been more widely known. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
- Une approche critique et exemplaire de l'oeuvre graphique de Schiele. 300 illustrations repr sentatives de Schiele dessinateur reproduite dans un format d'ouvrage s duisant.L'expressionniste autrichien Egon Schiele, mort en 1918 l' ge de vingt-huit ans, a - malgr la bri vet de sa carri re - laiss une oeuvre prolifique compos e de plusieurs centaines d'huiles mais surtout de pr s de trois mille dessins et aquarelles. Cette part de son oeuvre, de premier plan, n'a jamais t mise en pleine lumi re. Les difficult s d'acc s ces oeuvres fragiles, dispers es dans de multiples mus es et collections priv es, expliquent que l'on ai eu rarement l'occasion de les voir r unies. Ce livre, qui illustre un grand nombre d'oeuvres sur papier de Schiele, offre une possibilit unique de suivre l' volution rapide de ce dessinateur hors pair au cours de ses douze ann es d'activit . Jane Kallir, auteur du catalogue raisonn de Schiele, pr sente la production de l'artiste ann e apr s ann e et analyse les tapes successives de sa progression, depuis le dessinateur prodige qu'il fut enfant jusqu'au ma tre de la forme et de l'expression qu'il est devenu la fin de sa courte vie. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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A very readable book, the text provides a year by year account of the artist’s progress; his family situation and personal life, his education and development as an artist and what influenced him. It is an intelligent and reasoned account.
The vast bulk of the book however is taken up with the drawings and watercolours. All the images are reproduced in full colour, including the monochrome drawings. It contains over three hundred illustrations which, with the exception of those illustrating the text, are presented one to a page, with the a few double page spreads. The printing is excellent and the images appear rich and strong, well conveying the subtle textures evident in the artist’s work.
This is a most handsome volume, fairly modest in dimensions, but at nearly 500 pages certainly not in content. It is beautifully produced and presented; the choice of font for the text has quite obviously been given careful consideration, and perfectly complements Schiele’s drawings. The images combined with the sensitively written text cannot but draw one to Schiele, and highlight what a tragic loss that he should enjoy such a short life. If anyone has any doubts about the genius of Egon Schile, a little time spent perusing this splendid book will surely put that to rights. ( )