BELLAS ARTES

Carlos del Amor va un paso más allá en el viaje a través de los cuadros que emprendió con Emocionarte. Esta vez se centra en el retrato, un género que le permite recrear las vidas de los retratados y de los artistas, y cómo estos últimos también se retratan en su forma de pintar. La elección de sus modelos o los retratos de encargo, la fidelidad realista al retratado o la percepción de este por parte del artista, el autorretrato que tantos practican, quiénes eran los modelos y qué vidas llevaban, las dificultades de acogida de la obra por parte de quien la encarga o por el público, forman parte de la historia íntima de estas obras que iremos descubriendo en el libro. Con su característico estilo literario, Carlos del Amor nos muestra un mundo detrás de cada cuadro y, de nuevo, nos revela que han sido muchas las mujeres artistas, y muy poco conocidas hasta ahora.

An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From early photographic paintings, along with his famous RAF cycle, to late abstract paintings, experiencing Richter’s work always offers us the unexpected and unseen. Where he once set out to liberate the medium from ideological ballast, today, faced with the overwhelming presence of digital images, he shows us the unsurpassed impact and intensity of painting. A definitive introduction to one of the greatest artists of our time spanning not only his entire career, but also 50 years of cultural, economic, and political events.

While anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) paved the way for modern sculpture. From a very early stage, he was interested in movement, the expression of the body, chance effects, and the incomplete fragment. It was these elements that gave shape, and the impression of life, to such famous works as The Kiss and The Thinker.

Cuando falleció Mozart, su cortejo fúnebre fue seguido por los varones de la familia y por un único músico: Antonio Salieri. Pocos días después, se origina un rumor por toda la ciudad: el compositor italiano habría asesinado a Mozart por celos.

How do you make your home come alive with personality, charm, and memory? In the introduction to Sean Scherer’s first book, Kabinett & Kammer: Creating Authentic Interiors, Anderson Cooper writes, “Scherer has a unique ability to place otherwise ordinary objects in a completely unexpected context or grouping and in so doing change the way you see them.” In Sean Scherer’s Vignettes, Scherer focuses in on the art of combining common objects into aesthetically pleasing groupings, or vignettes. Contending that a vignette can set the whole mood and tone of a room, he shows you how to use any surface in your home, from a tabletop to a bookshelf to a wall, to create lively displays of your favorite items. Beautifully illustrated with Scherer’s own photographs, the book demonstrates how to balance color, texture, and shape, and provides lessons on how to create both symmetrical and asymmetrical vignettes.