Invoking the tradition of Velázquez, Goya and Manet, the young German painter Axel Geis takes faces and figures derived from cinema and sets them against seemingly unfinished backdrops, in accord with Baudelaire's "Painter of Modern Life": "to extract from fashion the poetry that resides in its historical envelope."
| ISBN: | 9780981457826 |
| Publication date: | 15th April 2010 |
| Author: | Mark Gisbourne |
| Illustrator: | Axel Geis |
| Publisher: | Mitchell-Innes & Nash |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 34 pages |
| Genres: |
Individual artists, art monographs |
Invoking the tradition of Velázquez, Goya and Manet, the young German painter Axel Geis takes faces and figures derived from cinema and sets them against seemingly unfinished backdrops, in accord with Baudelaire's "Painter of Modern Life": "to extract from fashion the poetry that resides in its historical envelope."
Axel Geis features in the following genres: Individual artists, art monographs
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Axel Geis was written by Mark Gisbourne and published by Mitchell-Innes & Nash
Axel Geis has 34 pages