Cet article en forme de manifeste du célèbre historien d'art Elie Faure (1863-1937), paru dans la « Grande Revue » en 1920, est historiquement le premier grand article théorique sur le septième art. Il...

L'Histoire de l'art est une vaste fresque qui va de la préhistoire jusqu'aux premières années du XX° siècle. Commencée en 1909, terminée en 1927, plusieurs fois remaniée, la totale nouveauté de l'entreprise...

Cézanne was perhaps the most complex artist of the 19th century. One of the greatest of the Postimpressionists, his works and ideas were crucial to the aesthetic development of many 20th-century artists...

Du point de vue de la morale il n’est pas défendable. Même, il est incompréhensible. En effet, il viole la loi, il tue, il sème la vengeance et la mort. Mais aussi il dicte la loi, il traque et écrase...

D’où venaient-ils ? Où allaient-ils ? Peut-être n’en savaient-ils rien l’un et l’autre. Depuis un moment déjà, ils cheminaient côte à côte, sans s’être encore parlé. L’un était un long homme maigre, grisonnant...

Cézanne was perhaps the most complex artist of the 19th century. One of the greatest of the Postimpressionists, his works and ideas were crucial to the aesthetic development of many 20th-century artists...

Cézanne was perhaps the most complex artist of the 19th century. One of the greatest of the Postimpressionists, his works and ideas were crucial to the aesthetic development of many 20th-century artists...

Elie Faure [1873-1937] médecin, historien, essayiste, est surtout connu pour sa monumentale Histoire de l’art en sept tomes (1909-1927). Mais il était aussi attentif au devenir prochain de notre civilisation...

Greek art, at the very moment that it was breaking up in depth, was scattering over the whole material surface of Hellenic antiquity. After the movement of concentration that had brought to Athens all...

Empires are born. Empires reach their peak. Empires die, but leave their mark through their architecture and artistic achievements. From these specks of dust of memory, 40 centuries of history shape our...

Empires are born. Empires reach their peak. Empires die, but leave their mark through their architecture and artistic achievements. From these specks of dust of memory, 40 centuries of history shape our...

L’art est aussi mystérieux que la vie qu’elle exprime. Il n'est pas nécessaire de faire l’éloge des bienfaits des arts pour en faire un objet d’étude intéressant. Tout l’univers en est rempli et l’être...

Empires are born. Empires reach their peak. Empires die, but leave their mark through their architecture and artistic achievements. From these specks of dust of memory, 40 centuries of history shape our...

L’art grec qu’on situe traditionnellement entre le Xe et le Ier siècle av. J.C., est naturaliste - tout symbolisme lui est étranger. Et si dans son désir d’absolu réalisable, il fait la nature plus belle,...

Greek art, at the very moment that it was breaking up in depth, was scattering over the whole material surface of Hellenic antiquity. After the movement of concentration that had brought to Athens all...

L’art grecque qu’on situe traditionnellement entre le Xe et le Ier siècle av. J.C., est naturaliste - tout symbolisme lui est étranger. Et si dans son désir d’absolu réalisable, il fait la nature plus...

Greek art, at the very moment that it was breaking up in depth, was scattering over the whole material surface of Hellenic antiquity. After the movement of concentration that had brought to Athens all...

Egyptian art is perhaps the most impersonal that exists. The artist effaces himself. But he has such an innate sense of life, a sense so directly moved and so limpid that everything of life which he describes...

Egyptian art is perhaps the most impersonal that exists. The artist effaces himself. But he has such an innate sense of life, a sense so directly moved and so limpid that everything of life which he describes...

Egyptian art is perhaps the most impersonal that exists. The artist effaces himself. But he has such an innate sense of life, a sense so directly moved and so limpid that everything of life which he describes...