About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 108. Chapters: Pablo Picasso, History of painting, Gertrude Stein, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, Diego Rivera, Jacques Villon, Collage, Manes Union of Fine Arts, Simbolul, Lyubov Popova, La prose du Transsiberien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, Robert Delaunay, Maurice Princet, Pierre Reverdy, Orphism, Amedee Ozenfant, Raoul Dufy, Leopold Survage, House of the Black Madonna, Hans Hartung, Mallikarjuna Reddy, Section d'Or, Sergei Shchukin, Jerzy Zaruba, Roger de La Fresnaye, Berge Missakian, Jeanne Rij-Rousseau, Cubist sculpture, Fritz Wotruba, Purism, Tobeen, Esprit Jouffret, Czech Cubism, Jesus Fuertes, Cubo-Futurism, Concert 1937, Jorge Castillo, Papier colle, Tubism. Excerpt: The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures. It represents a continuous, though periodically disrupted tradition from Antiquity. Across cultures, and spanning continents and millennia, the history of painting is an ongoing river of creativity, that continues into the 21st century. Until the early 20th century it relied primarily on representational, religious and classical motifs, after which time more purely abstract and conceptual approaches gained favor. Developments in Eastern painting historically parallel those in Western painting, in general, a few centuries earlier. African art, Islamic art, Indian art, Chinese art, and Japanese art each had significant influence on Western art, and, eventually, vice-versa. Initially serving utilitarian purpose, followed by imperial, private, civic, and religious patronage, Eastern and Western painting later found audiences in the aristocracy and the middle class. From the Modern era, the Middle Ages through the Renaissance painters worked for the church and a wealthy aristocracy. Beginning with the Baroque era artists received private commissions from...
