A history of painting in comics
François Maret leaves in “History of art” meeting the big names in painting in the form of a graphic novel.
It sets the benchmarks for the main artistic movements and currents by recalling their context, their major figures and using chronological friezes.
Author but also illustrator, he draws more than 50 painters and reproduces their greatest paintings, from the Renaissance to the 19th century and creates a history of painting full of humor!
History of art, François Maret, Dunodgraphic
Of The Mona Lisa from Leonardo da Vinci to The Girl with the Pearl Earring Vermeer or The Raft of the Medusa by Géricault.
Over the past thirty years, Banksy has created a myriad of memorable images that have their roots in art history.
Kelly Grovier, art critic and great Banksy specialist, offers in How Bansky revisits art history, all his erudition and humor to compare the model and the reinterpretation – often caustic – that the urban artist makes of it.
This dual approach allows us to (re)discover these masterpieces, but also to appreciate how Banksy, through his plastic and symbolic language, invites us to reconsider them in the light of our current concerns.
We particularly like his diversion of the gleaners, criticism of the work and we discovered that his very famous little girl with the heart-shaped balloon is inspired by a painting by Miro.
Experience has taught me that once the brushes are laid down, the painting is not finished – It is only just beginning…
Bansksy
How Banksy revisits art history, Kelly Grovier, Editions Alternatives
