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Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910

Rodolphe Rapetti

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This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition dedicated to landscapes by
the Symbolists, the innovative movement whose artists took imaginative and
emotional approaches to painting and embraced themes like music, nationalism,
science, and modernity.
The book focuses on major artists of the avant-garde such as Gauguin, van Gogh,
Munch, Mondrian, and Kandinsky, and also showcases other inventive artists from
throughout Europe such as Hammershoi, Hodler, Khnopff, and Gallen-Kallela, who
are set alongside the visionary British artistry of Crane, Leighton, Watts, and Millais.
The works illustrated here offer a range of poetic and suggestive interpretations of
nature from the period 1880–1910, with essays by acknowledged experts in the
field providing a new chapter in the history of landscape painting.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Thames Hudson

Release: September 10, 2012

ISBN: 050023891X

ISBN 13: 9780500238912

Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910

Rodolphe Rapetti

4/5 ( ratings)

This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition dedicated to landscapes by
the Symbolists, the innovative movement whose artists took imaginative and
emotional approaches to painting and embraced themes like music, nationalism,
science, and modernity.
The book focuses on major artists of the avant-garde such as Gauguin, van Gogh,
Munch, Mondrian, and Kandinsky, and also showcases other inventive artists from
throughout Europe such as Hammershoi, Hodler, Khnopff, and Gallen-Kallela, who
are set alongside the visionary British artistry of Crane, Leighton, Watts, and Millais.
The works illustrated here offer a range of poetic and suggestive interpretations of
nature from the period 1880–1910, with essays by acknowledged experts in the
field providing a new chapter in the history of landscape painting.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Thames Hudson

Release: September 10, 2012

ISBN: 050023891X

ISBN 13: 9780500238912

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