Anyone with a passion for art who is sensitive to the spell of creativity has
at least once in his life dreamed of owning a personal collection of his most
beloved works. There, in the gallery of the heart, he collects the works that rouse
his deepest emotions and continue to fascinate him and make him think as time goes on.
This book was written in order to make that dream come true by showing a wide,
carefully selected variety of works that represent the artists who indelibly marked
two revolutionary centuries in figurative art, the nineteenth and the twentieth.
The idea of creating a book with an unusual size and format is the result of the
author‚s passion for painting and a desire to give everyone the pleasure of con
templating these remarkably faithful images.
And, apart from any critical considerations, Modern Art is meant to be a solid,
compact and unique work where the beauty of the reproductions allows the reader
to follow a coherent, poetic path strewn with the forms and colors that
have marked the most important steps along the way of the human pursuit of beauty.
Alberto Peruzzo