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Art books

Art is considered one of the highest manifestations of human activity. Through its use, people can express in an expressive way their particular vision of the world as well as reflect their deepest thoughts and feelings.

These essential art books published by Dosde allow a greater understanding of some of the most important movements and artists in history. By means of books on painters such as Picasso, Dalí and Miró you will be able to get to know the characteristics of Cubism, Surrealism and Expressionism, amongst other trends that have marked the direction of contemporary art. Likewise, our books on modernist art portray in both a thorough and original way Modernisme, a style distinguished for its beauty and sensuality.

History of art

Throughout the centuries, artists have been developing new tools and aesthetic resources to project their ideas, leading to the appearance of a large variety of movements. Each historical period has boasted its own artistic trends, from the Middle Ages, when the Romanesque and Gothic appeared, to the 20th century, inseparable from avant-garde movements such as Cubism and Abstract Art. At present, contemporary art continues to be in constant evolution, combining all variety of ideas and influences to expand its horizons, as is demonstrated by the books on art and museums and monuments published by Dosde.

Art from Ancient times

In the first civilizations, such as Mesopotamia and Egipto, art was closely linked to religion, and often acquired the function of nexus between divinity and earth. The Greek culture would uphold this tradition, although it would provide art with new significances. For the Greeks, art had to aspire to capture the universal ideal of nature, and, by extension, beauty. Harmony, rationality and proportion were the basic principles of an art that reached its maximum development in sculpture, and which would leave its mark on the entire West, largely due to Roman influence.

Medieval art

Around the 11^th century came the Romanesque, the first fully Christian and European style. Both Romanesque paintings and sculpture were essentially religious and were distinguished for their schematism and rigidity, veering away from the canons of Greco-Roman art. Around the 13^th century, the Romanesque would be progressively replaced by the Gothic genre, a style that was still closely linked to the religious world, but more realist and naturalist, as is reflected by the architecture books published by Dosde.

Art from the Modern Age

The arrival of the Renaissance in the 15^th century supposed a return to the ideals of beauty of classical art and the appearance of new models of representation based on nature. In the world of painting, the use of perspective techniques meant the realism of the compositions could be developed, while the field of sculpture boasted a greater command of volume and expressiveness. During this period, the main focus of artistic creation was Italy, home to great artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian, amongst other outstanding references in the history of art.

In the 16^th century Mannerism appeared, a movement that had emerged as a reaction to Renaissance classicism with artists such as Tintoretto and El Greco, while from the 17^th century the predominant style was the Baroque, which reached full development in painting thanks to figures such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio and Velázquez.

19^th century art

The first half of the 19^th century was marked by Romanticism, a cultural movement that exalted creative liberty and sentiments as opposed to the rationality defended by Neoclassicism. Mid-century, the effects of the Industrial Revolution led to the appearance of the Realist movement, which put emphasis on the portrayal of daily life and the conflicts of class society, and by the last third of the nineteenth century, art took a new direction with Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.

Twentieth century art

The first decades of the 20^th century occupy an importance place in art books owing to the emergence of the avant-garde. Movements such as Fauvism and Expressionism presented new ways of representing reality, although the great turning point in this respect occurred with Cubism. The style developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque radically broke away from classical tradition, by avoiding the use of spatial perspective predominant since the Renaissance and introducing new techniques that could simultaneously capture different points of view.

Cubist experiments were the catalysts of other avant-garde trends such as Futurism and Constructivism, although they lost creative force with the outbreak of World War. After the war, the groundbreaking spirit of Cubism would be recuperated by Dadaism, which at the same time would lay the foundations of Surrealism, the style which would bring fame to artists such as Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró.

During the second half of the 20^th century, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, amongst other trends, kept the need for experimentation alive, introducing new ideas which coexist today with the contributions made by new generations of artists.

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