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Making A Masterpiece: The stories behind iconic artworks
Making A Masterpiece: The stories behind iconic artworks
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The circumstances surrounding the creation of a work of art, such as theft, scandal, artistic reputation, politics, and power, as well as the journey from the easel to popular acclaim, are explored in "Making a Masterpiece." The book challenges the idea of what a masterpiece can be and reveals that the journey from the easel to popular acclaim can be as compelling as the masterpiece itself.
Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 04 October 2022
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
What makes a work of art a masterpiece?
Discover the answers in the fascinating stories of how these artworks came to be and the circumstances of their long-lasting impact on the world.
Beginning with Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, we travel through time and a range of styles and stories, including theft, scandal, artistic reputation, politics, and power, to Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans, challenging the idea of what a masterpiece can be, and arriving in the twenty-first century with Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama, a modern-day masterpiece still to be tested by time.
Each artwork has a tale that reveals making a masterpiece often involves much more than just a demonstration of artistic skill: their path to fame is only fully disclosed by looking beyond what the eye can see. Rather than trying to describe the elements of greatness, Making a Masterpiece takes account of the circumstances outside the frame that contribute to the perception of greatness and reveals that the journey from the easel to popular acclaim can be as compelling as the masterpiece itself.
Featuring:
Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli
Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci
Judith Beheading Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer
Under the Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai
Fifteen Sunflowers, Vincent van Gogh
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (Woman in Gold, Gustav Klimt)
American Gothic, Grant Wood
Guernica, Pablo Picasso
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, Frida Kahlo
Campbells Soup Cans, Andy Warhol
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, Amy Sherald
Discover the stories of how, why, and what makes a masterpiece in this compelling and comprehensive title.
Weight: 836g
Dimension: 243 x 177 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780711257078
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