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1) Paul Cézanne
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Cézanne was perhaps the most complex artist of the 19th century. One of the greatest of the Postimpressionists, his works and ideas were crucial to the aesthetic development of many 20th-century artists and art movements, especially Cubism.
Cézanne's ambition, in his own words, was "to make out of Impressionism something as solid and durable as the paintings of the museums". He aimed to achieve the monumental in a modern language of glowing, vibrating...
2) Memory of Empires: Ancient Egypt - Ancient Greece - Persian Empire - Roman Empire - Byzantine Empire
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Empires are born. Empires reach their peak. Empires die but leave their mark through their architecture and artistic achievements. From these specks of dust of memory, 40 centuries of history shape our world of the 21st century. The power of ancient Egypt was followed by the influence of Greece, which brought the Persian East together in the conquests of Alexander the Great. After Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt, Rome became the power that ruled...
3) Greek Art
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Greek art, at the very moment that it was breaking up in depth, was scattering over the whole material surface of Hellenic antiquity. After the movement of concentration that had brought to Athens all the forces of Hellenism, a movement of dispersal began, which was to carry from Athens to southern Italy, to Sicily, to Cyrenaica, Egypt, the Islands, and Asia Minor the passion and, unfortunately, the mania, for beautiful things-in default of creative...
4) L'art grec
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L'art grecque qu'on situe traditionnellement entre le Xe et le Ier siècle av. J.C., est naturaliste - tout symbolisme lui est étranger. Et si dans son désir d'absolu réalisable, il fait la nature plus belle, c'est dans le sens étroit qu'elle lui a enseigné. Il ne transpose pas, il ne stylise pas, il ne schématise pas, il ne résume même pas. Il exprime avec perfection. Il pousse la splendeur physique de la vie, et rien que physique, jusqu'à...
5) Egyptian Art
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Egyptian art is perhaps the most impersonal that exists. The artist effaces himself. But he has such an innate sense of life, a sense so directly moved and so limpid that everything of life which he describes seems defined by that sense, to issue from the natural gesture, from the exact attitude, in which one no longer sees stiffness. His impersonality resembles that of the trees bowing in the wind with a single movement and without resistance, or...
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