French Riviera and Its Artists

French Riviera and Its Artists
Author: John Baxter
Publisher: Museyon
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2015-07-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1940842050

Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Côte d'Azur that's sure to delight travelers, Francophiles, and culture lovers alike. Readers will discover the dramatic lives of the legendary artists, writers, actors, and politicians who frequented the world's most luxurious resort during its golden age. In 25 vivid chapters, Baxter introduces the iconic figures indelibly linked to the South of France—artist Henri Matisse, who lived in Nice for much of his life; F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose Riviera hosts inspired his controversial Tender is the Night; Coco Chanel, who made the Saint-Tropez tan an international fashion statement; and many more. Along the way, Baxter takes readers where few people ever get to go: the alluring world of the perfume industry, into the cars and casinos of Monte Carlo, behind-the-scenes at the Cannes Film Festival, to the villa where Picasso and Cocteau smoked opium, and to the hotel where Joseph Kennedy had an affair with Marlene Dietrich. Then maps and listings show travelers how these luminaries celebrated life and made art amid paradise.

Cooking for Picasso

Cooking for Picasso
Author: Camille Aubray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2016
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0399177655

"The French Riviera, spring 1936. It's off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned Cafe Paradis. A mysterious new patron who's slipped out of Paris and is traveling under a different name has made an unusual request--to have his lunch served to him at the nearby villa he's secretly rented ... Pablo Picasso is at a momentous crossroads in his personal and professional life--and for him, art and women are always entwined ... New York, present day. Caeline, a Hollywood makeup artist who's come home for the holidays, learns from her mother Julie that Grandmother Ondine once cooked for Picasso"--

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill
Author: Paul Rafferty
Publisher: Unicorn
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Painters
ISBN: 9781913491093

Discovering painting at the age of 40, Sir Winston Churchill revelled in his new pastime. He went on to produce over 550 paintings, with over 130 of them on the French Riviera. The fellow artist and Riviera resident Paul Rafferty has tracked down many of the locations Churchill used in Provence, an area the great man so aptly called 'paintatious'. Many of these locations are newly discovered and his 'fearless impressions' stand alongside to illustrate how Churchill captured them on canvas.

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera
Author: Leah Dickerman
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2011
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0870708171

In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art's second monographic exhibition, which set attendance records in its five-week run. The Museum brought Rivera to NewYork six weeks before the opening and provided him a studio space in the building. There he produced five 'portable murals' - large blocks of frescoed plaster, slaked lime and wood that feature bold images drawn from Mexican subject matter and address themes of revolution and class inequity. After the opening, to great publicity, Rivera added three more murals, taking on NewYork subjects through monumental images of the urban working class. Published in conjunction with an exhibition that brings together key works from Rivera's 1931 show and related material, this vividly illustrated catalogue casts the artist as a highly cosmopolitan figure who moved between Russia, Mexico and the United States and examines the intersection of art-making and radical politics in the 1930s.

Artists and Their Museums On the Riviera

Artists and Their Museums On the Riviera
Author: Barbara F. Freed
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1998-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Although the Riviera stretches for a mere 80 miles, it houses numerous museums dedicated to the artists who vacationed there: Renoir, Matisse, Picasso, Leger, Chagall, and Cocteau, among others. This title focuses on 28 of these museums, highlighting both the museum collections and the artists' personal stories.

Insiders Outsiders

Insiders Outsiders
Author: Monica Bohm-Duchen
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781848223462

Insiders/Outsiders', published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name in 2019, examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures of the United Kingdom. In every field, emigres arriving from Europe in the 1930s - supported by a small number of like-minded individuals already resident in the UK - introduced a professionalism, internationalism and bold avant-gardism to a British art world not known for these attributes. At a time when the issue of immigration is much debated, the book serves as a reminder of the importance of cultural cross-fertilization and of the deep, long-lasting and wide-ranging contribution that refugees make to British life. Exhibition: Arts festival throughout Britain (May 2019 - May 2020).

The Vence Chapel

The Vence Chapel
Author: Henri Matisse
Publisher: Skira
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Completing this invaluable record, the correspondence between Matisse and Father Marie-Alain Couturier, the Dominican priest at the forefront of the post-World War II movement to commission works of religious art from leading modern painters and sculptors, details the creation of the Chapel's most remarkable feature - Matisse's bold stained-glass windows. The numerous letters he and the artist exchanged are in themselves a fascinating exchange on the art and the significance of modern stained glass.

Matisse in Nice, 1917-1954

Matisse in Nice, 1917-1954
Author: Xavier Girard
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Paintings from the artist's time in Nice, with an introductory essay.

Monet and the Mediterranean

Monet and the Mediterranean
Author: Joachim Pissarro
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Presents the paintings Monet executed on the Italian and French Rivieras in 1884 and 1888

Day of the Artist

Day of the Artist
Author: Linda Patricia Cleary
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-07-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781320549431

One girl, one painting a day...can she do it? Linda Patricia Cleary decided to challenge herself with a year long project starting on January 1, 2014. Choose an artist a day and create a piece in tribute to them. It was a fun, challenging, stressful and psychological experience. She learned about technique, art history, different materials and embracing failure. Here are all 365 pieces. Enjoy!