Portraits and Personalities: An Introduction to the World's Great Art

136 Pages·1967·16.762 MB·English

by  Luise C. Kainz, Olive L. Riley

Personalities
An Introduction to the World's Great Art
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Luise C. Kainz / Olive Riley
People have always been the favorite subject of
artists—how they look, what they represent, or
how the artist feels about them. The time and
place in which the artist lives, the materials at
his disposal, the sorts of people he makes paint-
ings and sculptures of—all these help to deter-
mine what kind of art he makes out of what he
sees and how he thinks. Although his interpre-
tation of a subject is very much his own, every
artist is also the child of his particular culture
and civilization. In certain periods, paintings and
sculptures of people may attempt to show what
a particular person looks like, while in our own
time the artist is often more interested in his own
reactions to his model. In other periods, the artist
may give an ideal beauty to his pictures of indi-
viduals, and in yet others he may be interested
in showing only stylized, impersonal types. But,
primarily, we must look at each work for its own
artistic qualities, aware that often the artist is
more concerned with his own creation than with
merely representing what he sees. By under-
standing why artists at different times show
people in different ways, we learn a great deal
about art, about the past—and about ourselves
and our own world.
Luise C. Kainz, chairman of art at Washington
Irving High School in New York, and Olive L.
Riley, director of art for the New York City
Board of Education, have collaborated to bring
together biography, portraiture, history, and art
in a lively, readable text. Beautifully illustrated
in color and black-and-white, this book contains
a number of special features that make it useful
for school library or home reading: a glossary of
artistic terms and phrases, a full index, and a
pronouncing list of artists' names with their dates.
This is a valuable and exceptionally inviting art-
book for young readers, and for those of any age.
74 illustrations, including 57 in full color
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Portraits
Personalities
An Introduction to the World's Great Art

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Portraits
Personalities
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD'S GREAT ART
LUISE AI\Z
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Chairman of Art, Washington Irving High School, The City of New York
OLIVE L.RILEY
Director of Art, Board of Education, The City of New York
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HARRY N. ABRAMS, INC. Publishers NEW YORK
frontispiece. Portrait of a Rabbi.
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, i6o6-i66g). Oil on canvas.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Calif.
(Mildred Anna Williams Purchase Fund)
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 67-15901
All rights reserved. No part of the contents of this book may be
reproduced without the written permission of the publishers,
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York
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Plate jo: © Oskar Kokoschka by Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione, Italy
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CONTENTS
EARLY IMAGE MAKERS
1.
Egyptian Portraits • Greek Portraits • Chinese Sculpture
Byzantine Art
page
9
MIGHTY MEN OF THE RENAISSANCE
2.
Leonardo da Vinci • Michelangelo • Raphael • Titian
page 17
WINDOWS ON THE WORLD
3.
Jan van Eyck • Rogier van der Weyden • Albrecht Diirer
Lucas Cranach the Elder Hans Holbein the Younger
•
Jean Clouet
page 29
NEW MASTER ARTISTS
4.
Peter Paul Rubens Frans Hals William Hogarth
• •
Rembrandt van Rijn • Jan Vermeer
page 41
MYSTICISM AND REALISM
5.
El Greco Diego Velazquez Jean-Baptiste Chardin
• •
Gilbert Stuart
page 52
COLOR COMES TO LIFE
6.
Francisco Goija • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres • Edouard
Manet Edgar Degas Henri Rousseau Pierre-Auguste
• • •
Renoir Auguste Rodin Paul Cezanne
• •
page 64
NEW PATHWAYS IN ART
7.
Georges Seurat Paul Gauguin Vincent van Gogh Sharaku
• • •
Amedeo Modigliani • African Sculpture • Henri Matisse
Maurice de Vlaminck Georges Rouault Chaim Soutine
• •
PAGE 84
THE NEW LOOK
8.
Pablo Picasso • Oskar Kokoschka • Marc Chagall
Paul Klee Marisol
•
page 102
List of Artists page 115
Glossary page 117
•
Index • page 123