The Stories of the Mona Lisa: An Imaginary Museum Tale About the History of Modern Art
Author(s): Piotr Barsony
This book provides the fascinating history of modern painting through what many consider the most famous work in the history of art: the Mona Lisa. Piotr acts as the guide for his young daughter, taking us on a journey through an imaginary museum. He describes famous art movements and artists, including: impressionism, cubism, expressionism, favism, minimalism, surrealism; Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Picasso, Bacon, Pollock, and more. All of the most famous painters of the modern and contemporary art movements are explained with their own Mona Lisa portraits, in their signature styles.
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Discover the history of modern and contemporary painting through the famous Mona Lisa!
Piotr Barsony is a painter, illustrator, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and cartoonist. His character Mark Edito was popular with readers of The Echo Savannah in the 1980s. Barsony recently created a comic for the perfumes by Thierry Mugler. He studied art at ecole des Beaux- Arts, Paris.
General Fields
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- : Skyhorse Publishing
- : Sky Pony Press
- : 0.671
- : 01 January 2013
- : 230mm X 152mm
- : United States
- : 01 December 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Piotr Barsony
- : Paperback
- : 759.06
- : 64
- : 60 illustrations
