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Among the few women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907–1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired by generations; along with hundreds of photographs taken by notable artists such as Manuel and Lola Álvarez Bravo, Nickolas Muray, and Martin Munkácsi, they made Frida Kahlo an iconic image of 20th century art.After an accident in her early youth, Frida became a painter of her own free will. Her marriage to Diego Rivera in 1929 placed her at the forefront of an artistic scene not only in the cultural Renaissance of Mexico, but also in the United States. Her work garnered praise from the poet André Breton, who added the Mexican painter to the ranks of international surrealism and exhibited her work in Paris in 1939 to the admiration of Picasso, Kandinsky, and Duchamp.We access the intimacy of Frida’s affections and passions through a selection of drawings, pages from her personal diary, and an extensive illustrated biography featuring photos of Frida, Diego, and the Casa Azul, Frida’s home and the center of her universe.This book allows readers to admire Frida Kahlo’s paintings like never before, including unprecedented detail shots and famous photographs. It presents pieces in private collections and reproduces works that were previously lost or have not been exhibited for more than 80 years.

Conocido tanto por sus ideas políticas y activismo en las redes sociales como por su arte, basado en intervenciones sociales, su aproximación contemporánea al arte encontrado (ready-made) y su conocimiento de la artesanía tradicional china, la fama de Ai Weiwei se extiende más allá del mundo artístico. Esta monografía de Ai Weiwei explora todas...

* Descubra 100 conceptos clave y pautas interdisciplinarias imprescindibles para utilizar el color con éxito. * Profusamente ilustrado y de fácil consulta, vincula explicaciones claras de cada tema y ejemplos visuales aplicados a la teoría y la práctica. * Ya sea en una campaña de branding, un centro sanitario, el embalaje de un producto o la interfaz de una aplicación informática, el color que vemos es la materialización de un gran número de conceptos y prácticas que se unen desde múltiples disciplinas para aumentar el atractivo, influir en la percepción y mejorar la comodidad de uso. Incluye conceptos y ejemplos, con los que podrá aprender a tomar decisiones de color más cimentadas y eficaces. Un punto de referencia fundamental para diseñadores, artistas, arquitectos y estudiantes que deseen ampliar y mejorar su conocimiento y experiencia del color.

The Book of Miracles first surfaced several ago and is one of the most spectacular discoveries in the field of Renaissance art. The near-complete illustrated manuscript, created in Augsburg around 1550, is composed of 169 pages of large-format illustrations in gouache and watercolor, depicting wondrous and often eerie phenomena. The mesmerizing images deal with both biblical and folkloric tales, depicting stories from the Old Testament and Book of Revelation as well as events that took place in the immediate present of the manuscript’s author. From shooting stars to swarms of locusts, terrifying monsters to fatal floods, page after page hypnotizes with visions alternately dreadful, spectacular, and even apocalyptic.