Art: The Renaissance, the Baroque, the modern worldPrentice-Hall, 1985 - Art |
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Page 478
... artists worked characteristi- cally on commission . No matter how much they enjoyed their work , and how much of themselves they poured into it , they never thought of un- dertaking a major work without the support of a patron and the ...
... artists worked characteristi- cally on commission . No matter how much they enjoyed their work , and how much of themselves they poured into it , they never thought of un- dertaking a major work without the support of a patron and the ...
Page 498
... artists are above all individuals , often intensely so . They are , of course , not the first artists since antiquity whose names we know . But the personalities and ideas of medieval artists can be deduced only from their work and ...
... artists are above all individuals , often intensely so . They are , of course , not the first artists since antiquity whose names we know . But the personalities and ideas of medieval artists can be deduced only from their work and ...
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... artists . Second , the vast majority of painters and sculptors at the opening of the twentieth century were working in diluted versions of styles whose basic principles had been laid down by the Neoclassicists , the Romanticists , or ...
... artists . Second , the vast majority of painters and sculptors at the opening of the twentieth century were working in diluted versions of styles whose basic principles had been laid down by the Neoclassicists , the Romanticists , or ...
Contents
The Pioneers The Mexicans Abstract Expressionism The Reaction Against | 956 |
Richardson Sullivan and the Chicago School Art Nouveau and Expressionist | 965 |
GLOSSARY | 977 |
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