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Japanese manga artist Takehiko Inoue wrote and illustrated a travel memoir on the life and architecture of Gaudí, titled Pepita: Takehiko Inoue Meets Gaudí and published in 2013. [84] Each year, since 2013, on 10 June, the day when Gaudí died, the World Art Nouveau Day is celebrated.
The Art and Thought of Michelangelo. 5 vols. New York: Pantheon Books. Wallace, William E. (2011). Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and his Times. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-67369-4. Wallace, William E. (2019). Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece.
Unity of the arts and the abolition of any distinction between major art (architecture) and minor arts (decorative arts). [19] Nature's logic is the model to be used for architecture. [20] Architecture should adapt itself to man's environment and needs. Use of modern technologies and materials. [21]
In the Renaissance, architecture was used to emphasize the perspective and create a sense of depth, like in Masaccio's Holy Trinity from the 1420s. In Western art, architectural painting as an independent genre developed in the 16th century in Flanders and the Netherlands, and reached its peak in 16th and 17th century Dutch painting.
Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.
At the beginning of the 20th century Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre-cubist Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy and Maurice de Vlaminck revolutionized the Paris art world with "wild", multi-colored, expressive, landscapes and figure paintings that the critics called Fauvism.
Poster by Frances MacDonald (1896). The Modern Style is a style of architecture, art, and design that first emerged in the United Kingdom in the mid-1880s. It was the first Art Nouveau style worldwide, and it represents the evolution of the Arts and Crafts movement which was native to Great Britain.
Median man in Persepolis. Persian realist Gouache painting of the Qajar dynasty and soldiers in 1850-1851.. The arts of Iran are one of the richest art heritages in world history and encompasses many traditional disciplines including architecture, painting, literature, music, weaving, pottery, calligraphy, metalworking and stonemasonry.