Ce livre explore l'impact de l'abstraction sur l'art occidental au 20e siècle, en s'éloignant du naturalisme et en présentant des mouvements comme le cubisme, le constructivisme et l'expressionnisme abstrait. Il met en lumière des artistes emblématiques tels que Pollock, Mondrian et Kandinsky, ainsi que des figures moins connues, illustrant la diversité de l'art abstrait.
Gerhard Richter is among the most prominent painters of the 20th and 21st centuries, with a career spanning almost 60 years. Beyond his monumental abstract and photo-realistic works, his working method, artistic processes and philosophy are less well known. The Belgian photographer Benjamin Katz captures the notoriously camera-shy artist at work.
Gerhard Richter (*1932 in Dresden) has always dealt with the landscape. No other motif has fascinated him as much or kept him so occupied over the years: black-and-white landscapes based on images from magazines and amateur photos; views of mountains and parks painted in thick impasto; softly hued, transparent, illusionist lake scenes. Ever since the subtle Corsica paintings of 1968/69, landscapes have become an established, distinct group of works within the artist’s oeuvre. Richter captures reality in a painterly way, such that landscape and abstraction manifest not as opposites but as related concepts. Containing outstanding illustrations and insightful texts, this volume examines Richter’s landscapes from the early sixties to the present.
L'expressionnisme allemand, à travers notamment Grosz, Dix, Kokoschka, les groupes Die Brücke ou Der Blaue Reiter