Por la autora de Los amantes de Praga y Las horas de terciopeloVerano de 1890. Van Gogh llega a Auvers-sur-Oise, un bucólico pueblo francés que atrae a los pintores de París y otras ciudades por sus maravillosos colores y paisajes. Ahí ha crecido Marguerite Gachet, una chica de veinte años que, desde la muerte de su madre, se ha dedicado a atender a su padre y a su hermano. Es con ellos donde el pintor pasará su último verano, bajo el cuidado del doctor Gachet, médico homeópata, pintor aficionado y coleccionista. En estos últimos días de su vida, Van Gogh …

Una mujer indomable, un espíritu rebelde... una leyenda. Una de esas novelas que uno, simplemente, no puede perderse.Esta novela cuenta la historia de una mujer indomable, un espíritu rebelde. Destinada a crecer como la rica heredera de un magnate de la industria textil, desde pequeña supo que era diferente, que su capacidad de ver lo que otros no veían, de conectar con los animales, la convertía en especial.Desafió las convenciones sociales, a sus padres y maestros, y rompió cualquier atadura religiosa o ideológica para conquistar su derecho a ser una mujer libre, personal y artísticamente. Leonora Carrington es hoy una leyenda, la …

El proyecto artístico más ambicioso de Sara Rubayo, la historiadora del arte que ha revolucionado los museos en España, y Ana Gállego: una recopilación exhaustiva de todas las mujeres pintoras desde la Antigüedad hasta el siglo XVII.Hablemos de los artistas desde el siglo VI a. C hasta el XVII: son muchos siglos de historia, seguro que recuerdas algún nombre. Pero ¿quién te vienen a la mente? ¿Cuántos hombres? ¿Cuántas mujeres?PintorAs vol. 1 surge de la necesidad de encontrar a las mujeres de la historia del arte para poder pintar una imagen completa del desarrollo artístico a lo largo de los años. …

El proyecto artístico más ambicioso de Sara Rubayo, la historiadora del arte que ha revolucionado los museos en España, y Ana Gállego: una recopilación exhaustiva de todas las mujeres pintoras del siglo XVIII.Cuando un visitante entra en el Museo del Prado, espera ver Las Meninas de Diego Velázquez, no los bodegones de Clara Peeters, pese a pertenecer al mismo estilo artístico, y tener un incalculable valor histórico.PintorAs vol. 2 pretende dar respuesta al vacío de conocimiento que tiene la historia del arte: las mujeres artistas. No es que no las conozcamos porque no existieran, sino porque fueron despreciadas artísticamente y …

Art Nouveau gives a name to the decorative and architectural style developed in the 1880s and 1890s in the West. Born in reaction to the Industrial Revolution and to the creative vacuum it left behind, Art Nouveau was at the heart of a “renaissance” in the decorative arts. The primary objective of the movement was the creation of a new aesthetic of nature through a return to the study of natural subjects. In order to achieve this, artists such as Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Antoni Gaudí, Jan Toorop, and William Morris favoured innovation in technique and novelty of forms. After …

Ever wondered why your ceiling is shaped like the arches in a gothic cathedral? Or why your offi ce building looks so different from its neighboring counterparts? The ABC of Style invites you to explore the many different architectural and decorative interior styles from their ancient origins to the 1940s. Take a journey through history to see how the French aristocracy styled their palaces and castles to the simple designs of the Dominican monastic churches during the middle ages. Often, political changes implicate a stylistic transformation. Thus, the different European styles were frequently named after a sovereign or a historical …

Whilst Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and opened it to new, unknown horizons. Anchored in his epoch, relying on the new chromatic studies of Michel Eugène Chevreul, Georges Seurat transcribed the chemist’s theory of colours into tiny points that created an entire image. With his heavy strokes, Van Gogh illustrated the midday sun, whilst Cézanne renounced perspective. Rich in its variety and in the singularity of its artists, Post-Impressionism was a passage taken by all the well-known figures of 20th century …

Naive art first became popular at the end of the 19th century. Until that time, this form of expression, created by untrained artists and characterised by spontaneity and simplicity, enjoyed little recognition from professional artists and art critics. Influenced by primitive arts, naive painting is distinguished by the fluidity of its lines, vivacity, and joyful colours, as well as by its rather clean-cut, simple shapes. Naive art counts among it artists: Henri Rousseau, Séraphine de Senlis, André Bauchant, and Camille Bombois. This movement has also found adherents abroad, including such prominent artists as Joan Miró, Guido Vedovato, Niko Pirosmani, and …

Oscillating between the majesty of the Greco-Byzantine tradition and the modernity predicted by Giotto, Early Italian Painting addresses the first important aesthetic movement that would lead to the Renaissance, the Italian Primitives. Trying new mediums and techniques, these revolutionary artists no longer painted frescos on walls, but created the first mobile paintings on wooden panels. The faces of the figures were painted to shock the spectator in order to emphasise the divinity of the character being represented. The bright gold leafed backgrounds were used to highlight the godliness of the subject. The elegance of both line and colour were combined …

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines - with this work, Picasso revolutionised the entire history of painting. Cubism was thus born in 1907. Transforming natural forms into cylinders and cubes, painters like Juan Gris and Robert Delaunay, led by Braque and Picasso, imposed a new vision upon the world that was in total opposition to the principles of the Impressionists. Largely diffused in Europe, Cubism developed rapidly in successive phases that brought art history to …