Erro, Hommage à Walt Disney
Catalogue of the Erro exhibition "Hommage à Walt Disney" at the Galerie Louis Carré et Cie in Paris from March 18th to May 3rd, 2003. Text in French by Anne Tronche, "La mécanique de Mickey", translated into English (Mickey Mouse mechanics). Includes a chronology, the lists of the personal exibitions and main collective exhibitions, a bibliography.
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Francis Bacon, Papes et autres figures
Catalogue published on the occasion of the Francis Bacon exhibition at the Galerie Lelong (15 dec 1999 - 30 jan 2000). Texts in French and in English by David Sylvester 'The Earliest Popes', by Louise Bourgeois 'Francis Bacon'. Text in French by Antonio Saura (Part of Francis Bacon et la beauté obscène, published in 1996 by Séguier, Paris- A first version of this text had been published in El Pais, Madrid, 29 april 1992, the day after the death of Francis Bacon).
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"Gustave Courbet: 1819-1877" by Gustave Courbet
Nowadays it is difficult to conceive of the impact that Gustave Courbet’s paintings made on French art of the mid-nineteenth century. At once casting himself as revolutionary, bohemian and peasant, Courbet (1819-1877) overturned a deeply-entrenched tradition of academic painting in France, and, eschewing the Romanticism of Delacroix and the NeoClassicism of Ingres, coined instead an idiom he named "Realism." Realism was not pretty, classically proportioned or literary; rather, it confronted the conditions of rural working life, then an unimaginable subject for art.
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Eloge du jaune (Praise Yellow) by Jocelyne François
Short and fascinating text by Jocelyne Francois "Eloge du Jaune" (Praise Yellow). She makes us share her praise of "yellow" feelings and memories that she associates with this color. The author explains: "Obviously, yes, there is desire in my books; but it must be verified by experience, looked through my Imagination, and this was nowhere better defined than in a very short text, which is titled "Praise yellow".
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"Watercolor for the first time" by Kory Fluckiger
It doesn’t take years of art lessons to create beautiful watercolors: this fabulous entry in the For the First Time series can guide beginners to success. Featuring a wonderfully lucid question-and-answer format, it addresses all of the basics and some advanced techniques too. Generously-sized photographs and illustrations clearly showcase every exciting procedure—including how to use basic and controlled washes; add detail to an image; and work in black and white.
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"Masterful Color" by Arlene Steinberg
Colored pencil artists are gaining respect in the art world. This book approaches colored pencil work in the same manner as oil/acrylic painters work; offering instruction on how to plan and work on the entire painting at once. The result is a more cohesive, finished painting.
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Les impressions de Pierre Alechinsky
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Les impressions de Pierre Alechinsky", presented at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France on the François Mitterand site, Petite Galerie, 7 June to 4th September 2005.
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