'Ik benijd de Japanners om die enorme helderheid die alle dingen bij hen hebben. Nooit is het saai en nooit lijkt het te veel in haast gemaakt. Hun werk is even gemakkelijk als ademhalen en zij maken een figuur in enkele trefzekere lijnen'

- Vincent van Gogh aan zijn broer Theo, september 1888

Vincent van Gogh kocht tijdens zijn verblijf in Parijs meer dan 600 Japanse kleurenhoutsneden. Japanse kunst was op dat moment een rage. Van Gogh wilde handeldrijven in deze populaire prenten, maar de ...

In de jaren 1909 tot 1914 ontwikkelde Fernand Léger zich tot een vooraanstaand kubist. Een belangrijke rol in die ontwikkeling speelde een serie schilderijen die hij in 1911-1912 maakte, de zogenaamde Fumées sur les toits (Rook boven de daken). Hij schilderde het uitzicht vanuit zijn atelier in Parijs, waar hij uitkeek over daken met daarboven rookpluimen. De combinatie van de zachte vormen van de rookwolken en de harde en hoekige massa’s van de architectuur greep hij aan om zich een weg ...

Show Your Hope is an art project that serves as a communication project between the participating artists, the audience, and you. Mr Martin travels around the world giving blank canvasses to artists and asking them to visualize their idea of Hope. When the painting is finished, Martin collects the Story behind it order to share it during one of the mobile exhibitions, or at his home in the Inkijkmuseum in Eindhoven. Over 1000 stories have been collected since 2003. This book shows a collectio...

How can art weave meaningful connections between different people, their surroundings, and social systems? What does art mean in a specific community? How can art contribute to the advancement of civil society? Intricate questions that are being addressed in Forces of Art. This book looks at how artists, artworks and cultural organizations affect people and their social environments, and explores how cases of creative practice have been operational in empowering people, communities, and socie...

Firstly I remember the way Lucassen used to look at things, his eyes so indescribably still and attentive. The eyes of a painter looking at things in order to make them still. Painters look with intense patience so that they will not disregard even the smallest of things. They look that way at a painting for a long time while it is being made – until the work is finished. It is finished when the painter no longer knows how to continue.

But still he goes on looking and peering to see what th...

Crowned the “Prince of Painters” by Giorgio Vasari, Raphael (1483–1520) was one of the most popular artists of the Italian Renaissance. Famous for his serene and harmonious series of Madonnas and his work at the Vatican Palace, he was an extremely influential painter, both during and after his own lifetime. Raphael in Detail shows his masterpieces in unprecedented, large-format details. The art historian and specialist of the Italian Renaissance, Stefano Zuffi, takes the reader on a voy...

A beloved introductory physics textbook, now including exercises and an answer key, explains the concepts essential for thorough scientific understanding In this concise book, R. Shankar, a well-known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, explains the essential concepts of Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, waves, fluids, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics. Now in an expanded edition—complete with problem sets and answers for course use or self-study—this work p...

A new look at the ways van Gogh represented the seasons and the natural world throughout his careerThe changing seasons captivated Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), who saw in their unending cycle the majesty of nature and the existence of a higher force. Van Gogh and the Seasons is the first book to explore this central aspect of van Gogh's life and