Arnold Bocklin: 101 Masterpieces

by Maria Tsaneva

This Art Book with Foreword and annotated reproductions by Maria Tsaneva contains 101 selected paintings of Arnold Böcklin.Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss symbolist painter, influenced by Romanticism. His painting is symbolist with mythological subjects often related with the Pre-Raphaelites. He depicts fantastical figures alongside classical buildings, frequently revealing an obsession with death, creating a strange, fantasy world. Art critics have constantly found it not easy to categorize this original and eccentric artist. Böcklin hated giving titles to his pictures and declared that he painted in order to make people "Just as it is poetry's task to express feelings, painting must provoke them too. A picture must give the spectator as much food for thought as a poem and must make the same kind of impression as a piece of music..."

91 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 30, 2014

Reviews

[Bragi · Rating 1 out of 5]

No complaint with the art. but the book is terrible. the quality was horrendous and the images were very low rez.