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In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his father's nautical supplies business in a French seaside town. Against his father's will, and with nothing but a dream and an insatiable urge to create a new style of art that repudiated the Classical Realism of the time, he set off for Paris.
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"When Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy met and married, they set forth to create a beautiful world together-one that they couldn't find within the confines of society life in New York City. They packed up their children and moved to the South of France, where they immediately fell in with a group of expats, including Hemingway, Picasso, and Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald.On the coast of Antibes they built Villa America, a fragrant paradise where they invented...
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A "compelling" biography of the brilliant abstract expressionist painter who was far more than just Mrs. Jackson Pollock (Los Angeles Times).
Lee Krasner is best known as the artist-wife of Jackson Pollock, the renowned abstract expressionist painter. Yet in this riveting biography, the first full-length account of her colorful life, Krasner emerges as a significant artist who deserves her place in the twentieth century's cultural...
Lee Krasner is best known as the artist-wife of Jackson Pollock, the renowned abstract expressionist painter. Yet in this riveting biography, the first full-length account of her colorful life, Krasner emerges as a significant artist who deserves her place in the twentieth century's cultural...
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Wealthy Americans with homes in Paris and on the French Riviera, Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the very center of expatriate cultural and social life during the modernist ferment of the 1920s. Gerald Murphy-witty, urbane, and elusive-was a giver of magical parties and an acclaimed painter. Sara Murphy, an enigmatic beauty who wore her pearls to the beach, enthralled and inspired Pablo Picasso (he painted her both clothed and nude), Ernest Hemingway,...
6) Frida
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Literatura w szpilkach volume 8
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Polish
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Opowieść bez tabu - o dziewczynie, której mocnego charakteru nie złamały ani choroba, ani wypadek, nie mówiąc już o opinii publicznej, z którą nigdy się nie liczyła, wiodąc skandalizujące życie. Poruszająca historia niezwykłej artystki, przedstawiona z perspektywy jej młodszej siostry, którą Frida z czasem zaczęła nazywać bliźniaczką i przed którą nie miała tajemnic. Zawsze wiedziała, kim chce być: Wielką Fridą Kahlo....
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Apasionada, contradictoria, políticamente comprometida, artista extraordinaria, todos estos calificativos se aplican a Frida Kahlo, pintora mundialmente conocida e icono cultural, quien tuvo una vida marcada por los extremismos. Este relato, narrado desde la perspectiva de su hermana menor Cristina, quien siempre vivió a su sombra, aporta muchos detalles poco conocidos de la niñez y el entorno familiar de Frida Kahlo.