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A képek története
„Képek vesznek körül minket: laptopon, telefonon, magazinokban, újságokban, olyan könyvekben, mint ez, és – még mindig – ott lógnak a falakon is. Legalább annyit gondolkodunk képekben, mint szavakkal, képekkel álmodunk, és rajtuk keresztül próbáljuk megérteni az embereket és a környezetünket. Ám a képeket eddig ritkán tekintették önálló kategóriának. A képek különböző fajtáinak, mint a festészet, a fotográfia vagy a film, sokszor megírták már a történetét. A képek történetét viszont nem.” David Hockney, a ma élő egyik legkeresettebb festő, akinek képei milliárdokért kelnek el, és Martin Gayford műkritikus, életrajzíró izgalmas beszélgetést folytatnak: feltérképezik, hogyan és miért készítenek több ezer éve képeket az emberek. A két szerző a magasművészetből és a popkultúrából egyaránt hoz példákat, és a különböző korok és médiumok meghökkentő egymásra hatásaira, kapcsolataira mutat rá. Unásig ismert képekre olyan friss szemmel nézhetünk most, mintha először látnánk őket.
A képek története gyerekeknek
A képek története nem egy szokványos művészettörténet gyerekeknek.
Az egyik legnevesebb kortárs angol festő, David Hockney és művészettörténész barátja arról beszélgetnek sok-sok érdekes sztorival,
-hogy milyen sokféleképpen lehet nyomot hagyni,
-hogy a művésznek mindig végig kell gondolni, hogy mit visz a papírra abból, amit lát,
-és hogy miképp forradalmasította egy-egy találmány a festészetet, a képeket és a látásmódunkat.
Közben végigmutogatják nekünk és egymásnak a véső-festő-fotózó emberiség legcsodálatosabb képeit az ősember alkotásaitól Caravaggión és Disney-n át a számítógépes grafikákig. Mintha egy exkluzív tárlatvezetésen járva bepillanthatnánk a mesterek kulisszatitkaiba.
A beszélgetésre Rose Blake ragyogó illusztrációi felelnek.
David Hockney a 20. század egyik legbefolyásosabb brit képzőművésze. Szinte minden technikával alkotott - festett, rajzolt, fotózott, készített nyomatokat -, és mindnek kitágította a határait. Szenvedélyes képalkotó
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Lucian Freud's Sketchbooks
Lucian Freud was one of the world's greatest realist artists. Working only from life, he once claimed, 'I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't there in front of me.' This revelatory publication features a selection of beautifully reproduced images from his sketchbooks. Most of the sketches - which include works in pencil, pastel and watercolour from across the artist's long career - are published here for the first time. These fascinating images extend our understanding of Freud's work and demonstrate the scrutiny he brought to his subjects. The sketchbooks, now in the archive of the National Portrait Gallery, London, include portraits of Freud's family members, friends and lovers. Designs for book covers, images of his beloved dogs and horses, landscapes and interiors appear among nudes, still lifes and several sketches that relate to major works. Around and between the drawings are Freud's annotations and jottings - appointments, racing tips, notes, musings - which, with startling immediacy, provide a glimpse into the working life of one of the twentieth century's most important artists. The book includes an insightful essay by Martin Gayford, who sat for portraits by Freud and knew him well, and an illustrated chronology of the artist's life.
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Rendez vous with Art
This book is about how we experience art, how we look at it, how we think about it. It is structured in the form of a series of conversations in some of the best-known museums in the world, but also outside the museums, where we often look upon art in a completely different way. The two protagonists are Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for 31 years to 2008, and the art critic Martin Gayford. In the process, both men convey, with subtlety and brilliance, the delights and significance of their subject matter.
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Man with Blue Scarf
A beautifully produced paperback edition of this literary artbook, hailed as one of the best and most continually fascinating books about painting in recent memory. Lucian Freud spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. Gayford describes the process chronologically, from the day he arrived for the first sitting through to his meeting with the couple who bought the finished painting. As Freud creates a portrait of Gayford, so the art critic produces his own portrait of the notoriously private artist, recounting their wide-ranging conversations and giving a rare insight into Freuds working practice. The book is illustrated throughout with photographs by David Dawson of Freud at work, with paintings by Freud from the 1940s to the present, and images by other artists discussed by Freud with Gayford. The result vividly conveys what it is like to be on the inside of the process of creating a painting by a great artist.
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Bigger Message Conversations with David Hockney
In this remarkable book, a record of a decade of private conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, David Hockney reveals via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of represen
ting a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. These conversations are punctuated by wise and witty observations from both parties on numerous other artists, and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of C
alifornia, where Hockney spent so many years, and Yorkshire, the birthplace to which he has returned. Some of the diverse people he has encountered along the way from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Billy Wilder make entertaining entries into the dialogue.
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Spring Cannot be Cancelled
David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy
On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquility for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons; a place to keep the madness of the world at bay. So when Covid-19 and lockdown struck, it made little difference to life at La Grande Cour, the centuries-old Normandy farmhouse where Hockney set up a studio a year before, in time to paint the arrival of spring. In fact, he relished the enforced isolation as an opportunity for even greater devotion to his art.
Spring Cannot be Cancelled is an uplifting manifesto that affirms art's capacity to divert and inspire. It is based on a wealth of new conversations and correspondence between Hockney and the art critic Martin Gayford, his long-time friend and collaborator. Their exchanges are illustrated by a selection of Hockney's new, unpublished Normandy iPad drawings and paintings alongside works by van Gogh, Monet, Bruegel, and others.
We see how Hockney is propelled ever forward by his infectious enthusiasms and sense of wonder. A lifelong contrarian, he has been in the public eye for sixty years yet remains entirely unconcerned by the view of critics or even history. He is utterly absorbed by his four acres of northern France and by the themes that have fascinated him for decades: light, colour, space, perception, water, trees. He has much to teach us, not only about how to see... but about how to live.
