This fascinating look into the world of the artist Frida Kahlo introduces children to the themes that infused Kahlo’s vibrant paintings, while demonstrating how her life influenced her art. Parrots, trees, deer, family members, friends, flowers, the sun and the moon—Frida Kahlo’s use of symbolism and color wonderfully lends itself to teaching children about the artistic process. Through illustrations of her work and photographs of Kahlo and her family, children are encouraged to learn about her life, artworks, and important relationships. An engaging text and gorgeous reproductions call attention to Kahlo’s use of bold color and natural imagery, as well as her ingenious use of perspective, collage, and varying styles. Children will learn much about creative self-expression through this beautifully designed and insightful book about Kahlo’s life and work.

Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House (Adventures in Art)

Children's Books

Holzhey, Magdalena

Arts, Music & Photography

Prestel Junior

This fascinating look into the world of the artist Frida Kahlo introduces children to the themes that infused Kahlo’s vibrant paintings, while demonstrating how her life influenced her art. Parrots, trees, deer, family members, friends, flowers, the sun and the moon―Frida Kahlo’s use of symbolism and color wonderfully lends itself to teaching children about the artistic process. Through illustrations of her work and photographs of Kahlo and her family, children are encouraged to learn about her life, artworks, and important relationships. An engaging text and gorgeous reproductions call attention to Kahlo’s use of bold color and natural imagery, as well as her ingenious use of perspective, collage, and varying styles. Children will learn much about creative self-expression through this beautifully designed and insightful book about Kahlo’s life and work.

Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House

Biographies

Vasarely

Influenced by the innovative use of color in Bauhaus art, Hungarian painter Victor Vasarely (1908-1997) developed his own abstract-geometric visual language, exploring the relationship between pure form and pure color. Vasarely's experimentation with optical effects in the 1940s and 50s earned him a central role in the evolution of Op Art. By the late 50s and early 60s, he concentrated on the "democratization of art" by no longer producing his works as expensive originals but in large editions of affordable screen prints; this attempt to redefine the position and function of the artist in society was an important first step in the Pop Art movement. Vasarely's boldly colorful and eye-popping paintings are instantly recognizable and remain entirely modern and relevant today.

Vasarely: 1906-1997

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

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Giorgio De Chirico: 1888-1978: the Modern Myth

Greek-born Italian painter Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978) was hugely influential in the early years of the Surrealist movement. His paintings during the teens in Paris, where he moved in 1911, caused such a stir that such important figures as Picasso and Paul Eluard immediately praised them. This phase of his work, which he later termed pittura metafisica (metaphysical painting) was marked by dramatic compositions involving sharp perspective, striking shadows, geometrical planes, voids of space, and a general feeling of anxiety and loneliness; the sense of absurdity evoked by the mannequin-like figures in almost nightmarish landscapes seemed to suggest a Freudian expression of the unconscious. After 1930, De Chirico turned to a more classical style of painting and continued in the same vein for the rest of his career; his later work was widely criticized, especially by the Surrealists who had so admired his early paintings.

History & Criticism

In 1968, artist Daniel Spoerri founded Restaurant Spoerri in Düsseldorf; two years later he opened the Eat Art Gallery, where artists such as Joseph Beuys, Roy Lichtenstein and Dieter Roth exhibited objects made of foodstuffs. Taking the activities of Eat Art as its starting point, Eating the Universe gathers together artworks that have been made using edible materials, starting in the 1970s and continuing through to the present day. Over the past decade in particular, artists have evinced a growing interest in food and eating, concomitant with an increasing overall consciousness about the political, ecological, cultural and economic dimensions of what we put in our mouths. With 170 color images, Eating the Universe presents a range of contemporary artwork that explores linkages between food and the formation of identity, societal affluence, globalization and awareness of one's own body.

Eating the Universe

Buschmann, Renate

Groos, Ulrike

Ermacora, Beate

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Dumont Buchverlag

With his Pittura Metafisica, Greek-born Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978) was a major influence in Europe’s interwar avant-garde, hailed by the likes of Pablo Picasso and Paul Éluard.
The artist’s Pittura Metafisica set statues or mannequin-like figures in exaggerated one-point perspective spaces including city squares, receding arcades, distant walls, or claustrophobic interiors. Sharp perspectives, striking shadows, geometrical planes, and voids of space crafted a compositional drama and lurking mood of anxiety and loneliness.The paintings set out to disquiet, to make the viewer reassess the nature of reality and search beneath its appearances for elusive memories and unexpected insights. While the Surrealists around Breton turned to Freud’s theories of the unconscious, de Chirico was fascinated by Nietzsche.
This dependable artist introduction explores all the ominous shadows and brooding corners of de Chirico’s Pittura Metafisica as well as his later development into a more classical style, a shift widely criticized by the Surrealists who had so admired his early paintings.

With his Pittura Metafisica, Greek-born Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) was a major influence in Europe's interwar avant-garde, hailed by the likes of Pablo Picasso and Paul Éluard. The artist's Pittura Metafisica set statues or mannequin-like figures in exaggerated one-point perspective spaces including city squares, receding arcades, distant walls, or claustrophobic interiors. Sharp perspectives, striking shadows, geometrical planes, and voids of space crafted a compositional drama and lurking mood of anxiety and loneliness.The paintings set out to disquiet, to make the viewer reassess the nature of reality and search beneath its appearances for elusive memories and unexpected insights. While the Surrealists around Breton turned to Freud's theories of the unconscious, de Chirico was fascinated by Nietzsche. This dependable artist introduction explores all the ominous shadows and brooding corners of de Chirico's Pittura Metafisica as well as his later development into a more classical style, a shift widely criticized by the Surrealists who had so admired his early paintings.

De Chirico

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Le plasticien français d'origine hongroise Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) fut un talent précoce. Sa peinture la plus ancienne aujourd'hui conservée - un paysage réalisé à 12 ans - surprend par son réalisme et annonce les fascinantes illusions de profondeur de champ qui constitueront plus tard son univers fulgurant. S'inspirant de Malevitch et du Bauhaus, Vasarely élabora son propre langage visuel géométrico-abstrait en explorant la relation entre forme et couleur pures. Ses expériences autour des effets d'optique dans les années 1940 et 1950 lui conférèrent un rôle central dans l'évolution de l'op art. Au tournant des années 1950-1960, Vasarely se concentra sur la «démocratisation de l'art» en produisant des «multiples», oeuvres originales au prix plus avantageux et reproductibles. Cette tentative pour «détruire le mythe complètement dépassé du chef-d'oeuvre unique et inimitable» fut décisive dans la théorie de l'art. Selon Vasarely, il ne pouvait plus y avoir de classement hiérarchique entre oeuvre originale et reproduction, ni de distinction entre art noble et art utilitaire: «Nous ne pouvons laisser la jouissance de l'art à la seule élite des connaisseurs», disait-il. Cette redéfinition de la place et de la fonction de l'artiste dans la société marqua un premier pas important vers le mouvement du pop art. Cette introduction de référence explore les caractéristiques essentielles d'un artiste en avance sur son temps. Reproductions impeccables et textes éclairants rendent hommage au père du mouvement de l'op art, depuis ses premières illusions d'optique hypnotisantes jusqu'à ses oeuvres en damier à nulles autres pareilles.

Hungarian-French painter Victor Vasarely (1906–1997) was a precocious talent. His earliest surviving painting, a landscape done at age 12, baffled through its realism―an indication of the compelling illusions of spatial depth that would later define his dazzling universe.
Inspired by the likes of Malevich and the Bauhaus school, Vasarely developed his own abstract-geometric visual language, exploring the relationship between pure form and pure color. Vasarely’s experimentation with optical effects in the 1940s and ’50s earned him a central role in the evolution of Op Art. By the late ’50s and early ’60s, he concentrated on the “democratization of art” by producing “multiples”―reasonably priced original
works reproduced in large editions. Vasarely’s attempt to “destroy the completely obsolete myth of the unique, inimitable masterwork” was a tremendous contribution to art theory. To him, there was no place for hierarchical division into originals and reproductions, nor for distinction between fine and commercial art―“We cannot leave the enjoyment of art to an elite of connoisseurs forever,” he declared. This redefinition of the artist’s position and function in society marked a crucial first step in the Pop Art movement.
Vasarely’s boldly colorful and eye-popping paintings are instantly recognizable and remain entirely modern and relevant today. In this dependable introduction, we explore the makings of an artist ahead of his time. Crisp reproductions and insightful texts celebrate the father of the Op Art movement, from his earliest hypnotizing optical illusions to his hallmark checkerboard works.

Victor Vasarely: 1906-1997

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Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House (Adventures in Art)

Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House

Vasarely: 1906-1997

Giorgio De Chirico: 1888-1978: the Modern Myth

Eating the Universe

Giorgio De Chirico: 1888-1978: the Modern Myth

De Chirico

Vasarely

Vasarely

Victor Vasarely: 1906-1997