ANTONI TAPIES, ABSTRACT ART BY MARA AND ALBA

Antoni Tapies was a Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation. Tapies was perhaps the best-known Catalan artist to emerge in the period since the Second World War. He created a free style inside abstract art. It combines tradition and innovation in an abstract style but with symbolism.He shows much expression in his works too.Tapie´s works had have a great appreciaton for national and international level, being exposed in the most famous museums in the world. Also he received some award for his work such as Wolf Foundation Prize for the Arts (1981) and Principe de Asturias(1990). He died in Barcelona on February 2012.




One of the most popular pictures that he painted is:




This painting is called "Cruz y Tierra". We can see a white cross in the middle of the picture that (we think) represents the death buried in the ground. Its a mixed technique. Antoni Tapies was painted it in 1975. 


We really like this art movement and especially the works of Tapies, because he shows much expressions in his work. But its difficult to understand what pictures, in this case, want to transmit to the person who is seeing it.

Fernand Léger

Fernand Léger is a french painter. First he was an impresionist painter but he prefered being a cubist painter with a very personally style. His principal preoccupation was the search of a new style by the opposition of the forms and the contrast of tones. From 1913 he developed a dynamic conception of painting based on the intensity of contrasts and colors. Most of his paintings have a cubist character, for example ‘Desnudos en el bosque’, one of his most import ants.

With Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, Léger played an important role in the evolution and spread of cubism.

The next step of Léger was influenced by his experiences in the world war I. He used many symbols from the industrial world. ‘La ciudad’ is one of his most notable paintings. In his last works carried out a separation between color and drawing his figures, in this way kept robotic forms defined by black lines. One of his last works, ‘El gran desfile’ is an example of this style.

This picture, called The Léger's Woman, is a cubism work of Fernand Léger. In this picture is reflected the most important aspects of the cubism. In this picture we can see a woman. The artist, Léger, has painted the woman body using characteristics of the cubism: geometrics forms, triangles and cubes. There is a cat on the legs of this woman, near a book that is opened. Léger has not used brightly colors, he prefered painting this picture with colours such as grey, yellow, black and white.

We don't like too much this picture because we prefer others which reflect the reality, like impressionist artists. This was the first time that we had heard about this artist, and we think his work is interesting and not completely bad.

On the other hand, I like that people make differente work than usual, and they paint a different vision of the world.

ÁNGELA PÉREZ CAMBLOR Y PAULA LLANA PEÑA, 3º B.

Roy Lichtenstein, Pop Art by Cova and Rachel

Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York (27^th October) He was a prominent American pop artist and along with Andy Warhol Jasper Johns and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic premise of pop art better than any other through parody. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style.

His most famous image is arguably Whaam! The painting depicts a fighter aircraft firing a rocket into an enemy plane, with a red-and-yellow explosion. The cartoon style is heightened by the use of the oonomatopoeic lettering "Whaam!"

In addition to paintings, he also made sculptures in metal and plastic including some notable public sculptures.

We really like this art movement and especially the works of Roy, as the comc and the brigth colours make them very special.
Focussing on his work, Whaam, I think it is a very original picture and I find it much more interesting and unique than most other pictures belonging to darker and realistic movements, such as those that had succes in the past. For me Pop Art is the best movement and the funniest one, I find older movements boring and pesimistic.

I think that paintings, for example, in the Impressionism movement, seems to be more elaborated and nicer than pictures of Pop Art. I like realistic pictures, such as portrait or landscapes but I recognize that the picture of Roy Lichtenstein, for example, Whaam, are very funny and really cool.

Cova Grau & Raquel Luaces 3ºA

Pop art. Andy Warhol

ANDY WARHOL

Andrew Warhol was one of the most important plastic artists of this movement in the 20^th century.

He was born in Pittsburgh, USA in 1928. His parents were from Czech Republic. He started her art studies by the 1950’s at the Carnegie Technology Carnegie Institute. The last year he started a degree as commercial artist for magazines as Vogue, Harper´s Bazaar, Seventeen y The New Yorker. At the same time he used to paint canvas using thematic about daily elements, advertisement and comics and he started exposing in different galleries.

The use of mass media images, easily recognizable by everybody, such as the famous soup and coca-colas cans, becomes one of the most interesting characteristics of all his production. He also captured real hard situations, like in “Electric chair”, one of his most representative works.

In 1963 he created a workshop called Factory, where a lot of underground culture artists met.

His most productive period was the 60’s. Hi died in New York in 1987, at the age of 58.

Andy Warhol’s paintings were characterized by:

• The use of monoprint technique in some paintings, mainly his first works.
• The use of offset impression, with bright colours to paint portraits, daily elements, traffic accidents and other disasters… And the repetition of these elements.
• The painting of mass media images, very commercial pictures.
• He used to reflect the underground culture

 MARILYN DIPTYCH

Andy Warhol exposed painted this diptych in 1962. He exposed it in New York, in Stable gallery. It’s an oil, acrylic, and silk-screen enamel on canvas painting. In 2004 it was named the third most influencial work of modern art.

“This image can result very repetitive, monoton and boring because it´s the same picture repeated many times in two different colour ways. However this is one of Andy’s most important characteristics. It neither shows all Marilyns face because colour contrasts make it very difficult.”

“I  think this is a fantastic painting of Andy Warhol, that includes a lot of his characteristics. Andy makes a great commercial picture from a simple portrait. I like the colour contrast: bright colours against black and white, that gives the paint a funny and pop view. It seems  very simple the action of repeat the same image some times but the result was once something very new and modern.”




Extracted from:

http://leahthomason.wordpress.com/tag/marilyn-monroe/

http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/w/warhol.htm

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol




Aida and Candela

BERTHE MORISOT.

                                    
                                                           BERTHE MORISOT

Berthe Morisot was born in Bourges, France. In 1841. She married with the Édouard Manet's brother.

She was an impressionist painter and she did many pictures and paints. Some paints went to the Paris Motor Show, because her paints were very beautiful. First, she painted outdoor, in many landscapes and beaches, but then she painted her sister, Edma.
Usually, Berthe painted scenes about ballet and skating on ice. She painted with complementary colours mainly, but not very striking. She usually used thick palette and thick lines.
Also, she used light colours for paint the sun and water of the sea. She painted the water of the sea with many shades of blue and green.


In the picture above, there is a woman. As we can see, the woman's skin is very pale because as I said before, the colours of the picture are not striking, so the rest of the body has natural colours and the tone isn't very bright and striking. The dress has a different tone of blue that normal, it is a dark blue, I think. The fan has many different colours: red, different tones of blue, white, yellow... In the background there are many flowers with different colours, tones... The texture of the image is very different than others impressionists.

                                                                                                         Pablo Redondo 1ºD

Links:  http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthe_Morisot  and http://www.museothyssen.org/microsites/exposiciones/2011/morisot/

Date: 21/4/2012. Saturday.

Richard Hamilton

Richard William Hamilton was a British painter and collage artist of the 20^th Century. He is one of the most recognized Pop Art painter.

Hamilton was born in Pimlico (London), on February in 1922. Despite having left school with no formal qualifications, he managed to gain employment, where he discovered his ability for draughtsmanship. He starts studying in the Royal Academy but he was expelled later, so he needs to study in other schools.

In 1952 he starts teaching industrial design and typography and founds the ICA of London. In 1956 he organizes an exposition in the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Here, he shows his famous collage: "What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? "

Other important work of this artist is The White Album, designed for Beatles.

In 2007 he obtains the Max Beckmann Prize. One year later, he gets the Praemium Imperiale.

He dies on September in 2011. 


Information extracted from: Wikipedia

MARY CASSAT

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker.
In the picture there are two children in the beach. The lighting is often the most important think in the Impressionism. The horizon is very high. There is a special attention to the chill of excitement and subtleties of female psychology. The colors are soft. She painted en plein air.
She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot.


By Diego Fernández Artime & Miguel Cotrina.


EXTRACTED FROM:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cassatt

Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin was born on 7 of june 1848, it was a post-impresionist. He died in 9 of may 1903. When he went to Taithí, he created a new style of drawing, he called it cloisonnisme. 

With his new style, he used to paint with dark outlines, contrasting with pure colours. He liked to draw Taithí's women and tropical landscapes. He used pastels shapes.

Extracted by:
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin

MONET

Claude Monet.

Claude Monet was a famous impressionist painter. He was born on 14th Noverber 1840.

Paris: Here it's a picture by Claude Monet. There is a river with some boats. At the end of the picture there are some houses and a mountain. There is a woman at the front of the picture, she's under a tree. The woman is looking at the river. The woman is wearing a white dress and a white hat, the hat is in the ground near the woman.The sky is blue whitout clouds, it's a little picture. The picture was painted in 1868.

By: Alejandro Toyos and Diego Rodríguez

EXTRACTED FROM: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

Claude Monet

We chose Monet, an impressionist artist. He was born in Paris, France, and he died in Giverny .

The impressionsm is a very important movement that ocours in 19th century. The "capital" of impressionism was France. The characteristics of impresionsm pictures are:

·Visible brush strokes

·open composititon

·Use the light

·Unusual painting.

The painting that we choose is Impression Sunrise (Impression soleil levant) because it is the most important painting of impressionism, because it gives the name to this movement.

In the picture we can see a sunrise, with many people fishing in boats.

Monet uses strong brush strokes, because you can see the marks of the brush, for example in the sky you can see many lines in yellow and in blue. He also use bright colours and very pure colours.

This paint is very intresting, because if you make a copy of it in black and white the sunrise disappear.

We stract this information of Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impression,_Sunrise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism

By Pablo Dávila & Sofía Cuesta

ABSTRACT ART. JACKSON POLLOCK

 JACKSON POLLOCK

 Paul Jackson Pollock was an american artist of the 20th century and one of the most influential painters in his movement, abstract expressionism.
 Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming (USA) on January 28th in 1912. After his childhood in Cody, he went to New York, where he studied in the Art Students League. Soon, his work started being abstract and surreal. Between 1935 and 1943, Pollock worked for the WPA and painted under Picasso's influence. Besides, since 1938, he worked as well for the Federal Art Project. All this made Pollock meet and know many different styles, techniques (like air pump paint or airbrush) and materials (like varnish or synthetic enamel). Pollock married Lee Krasnernin 1945, who backed him to keep painting and to control his alcoholism. Since 1949, he was paid a monthly payment from Peggy Guggenheim, who became his patron. In 1956, when he had already got over his vices, Pollock died surprisingly in a terrible car accident, at the early age of 44.
 Pollock belongs to the abstract expressionism movement, where he was one of the most important artists. His paintings are characterized by some aspects:
 - Action painting: this technique consisted on laying the huge canvas on the floor and painting it as the artist walks and moves over the picture.
 - Dripping: this other technique was based on letting the paint drip over the picture. Pollock also used to launch the paint against the canvas.
 - All-over: Pollock never used to left any blank space in the picture and usually put one paint lay over another one.

 NUMBER 8

 This picture (exposed in the Neuberger Museum in New York) was painted in 1949, when Pollock was already married and had almost controlled his alcoholism. This picture is one of the first ones of his most remarkable years (1949-1953) and shows very well Pollock's style and techniques.

 "Number 8" doesn't show any image or even a feeling. In fact, it has no title which can describe the picture. As Pollock said, he doesn't want to show anything, it's only an action, a fact. This is one of the characteristics of many Pollock's paintings.

 The technique used in "Number 8" is oil, enamel and aluminium paint on canvas and, as many other Pollock's pictures, it has been painted by "action painting". It's very easy to observe that Pollock has applied the picture either by dripping or by launching it. Eventually, we can also appreciate that he has covered all the canvas surface and has overlaid the paint, creating that peculiar style.

 - Illan's opinion (negative): I do not like this painting. Pollock used to paint random and abstractly, but colours were selected: he tried to guess what colours might combine with the other colours. However, in this canvas there is not the bit of sense his pictures used to have. Even one characteristic of Pollock's movement (abstract expressionism) is missing. If this movement was based on abstract paintings that transmit a feeling or an idea, I don't think this canvas satisfies the second characteristic. I argue that this picture is one of the worst pictures ever drawn by him. The only thing that distinguish this picture from any other that anyone can make, is that this one has been painted by Pollock. 

 - Pelayo's opinion (possitive): I do like this abstract picture. Apart from the interesting techniques Pollock has used to paint it, I think it's also very intriguing from the point of view of what it transmits. The first time I saw it, it shocked me but I like it without giving any reason. Now, I guessed that what makes the picture interesting is the surprise, the difference, the change, the indecision...  Maybe, it would be much clear, if only it had a title which described the picture, but that's impossible, because the painting doesn't describe anything. That "no-title" is what makes the painting even more exciting. In my opinion, mixing all that colours, without making a "fudge" and, moreover, causing a surprising reaction on the people who look at it, it's just fascinating! 

BY ILLAN & PELAYO

Extracted from: 

- http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock
- http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/

Picasso´s blue period

PABLO PICASSO in the Pop Music

GOOGLE ART PROJECT

Thanks to Harm our  visiting teacher from Netherlands, who today has discovered us this very interesting website, a useful tool to  approach to painters and paintings. I recommend you to visit it.
http://www.googleartproject.com

PAUL CEZANNE:

This painting of Cezanne called Sainte Victoire have pure colorus that are one of the characteristics of the post-impressionism, it also has contour line present line the main techniques too. Another particularity is the  use of very bright colours with lack and white,  quetion almost in the impressionism. You can see that the horizon line is high, technique that Cezanne used a lot in his paintings. He used to paint directly with the palette knife. 

In this painting you can see a half of a tree in the left and in the top of the image, at the background there is a mountain and in the front of it, at the right there is a bridge.In the centre of the image there is a village.There is a sunny day in the morning because there is a lot of yellow colour that represent the warm harmony.

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Celia Alonso Costales & Anna Paulina Parroquìn Gonzàlez. 1ºC

Toulouse Lautrec

This is an post-impresionist picture called "Dressage Des Nouvelles, Par Valentin Le Desosse, 1890 by Toulouse Lautrec" http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.arteespana.com/imagenes/toulouse-lautrec3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.arteespana.com/henridetoulouselautrec.htm&h=286&w=372&sz=30

The scene takes place in a big room. In the foreground you can see a beautiful and elegant woman. She is tall and thin. She has got brown hair. Her eyes are closed and she looks sad. I think she is a rich woman because she is wearing an elegant pink suit. It is made up of a pink skirt and a pink jacket. The lady is also wearing an expensive light pink fur neckpiece. She is wearing a pink and yellow hat with a lot of accesories. The girl is very elegant and carries a brown bag in her hans.
In the middle of the picture you can see a man and a woman. The man is wearing a dark suit and a black top hat. The woman is wearing an orange dress with red tights. She has brown boats and her hair is orange. They are dancing a lot and their faces are happy.
In the background there are a lot of people, most of them are men. They are wearing dark suits and some of them are wearing long coats and black top hats.

Berthe Morisot

She was a Impresionism painter

This painting is called Eugene Manet in Wight isle. She painted without previusly drawing. She often painted persons in the enviroment like seas or forests. This paint has very light colours like other paintings of her. The horizon line is very high. Unlike of the others impresionism painters her paintings hasn’t got a Japanese influence. Berthe Morisot captured images of daily life. Unlike of Van Gohg, Morisot only used the green colour for the trees in her paintings, this is a difference of the others impresionisms painters.

Extracted: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berthe_Morisot_002.jpg
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthe_Morisot.

BY Miguel Garcia and David Hompanera.

Henry Toulouse Lautrec

Henry Toulouse Lautrec

Henry Toulouse Lautrec was a French painter, he was born in Albi on 24^th of November 1864 in an aristocratic family. He died in 1901 from complications due to alcoholism and syphilis when he was 36 years old.

At the age of 13 Henry fractured his two legs and ceased to grow ,he developed an adult torso with children´s legs. He was an adult only 1`54 m tall.

Since childhood he had a great fondness with painting and drawing. He went to Paris to study with León Bonnat. After it he worked in the studio of Fernand Cormon and he met Van Gogh. Hall of Rue des Moulins

He became an important Post-impressionist painter, art nouveau illustrator and lithographer and recorded in his works many details of the late-19^th century Bohemian lifestyle in Paris. The Moulin Rouge cabaret reserved a seat for him and displayed his paintings.

His painterly style which is highly linear and gives great emphasis to contour.

Toulouse-Lautrec created canvases, watercolours, prints and posters,drawings, some ceramic and stained glass work, and an unknown number of lost works.

PAINTINGS:

• Self-Portrait in the mirror (oil on cardboard, 1880)

• Lacayo of chivalry with two horses (oil on cardboard, 1880)

• Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec driving your car with four horses (oil on canvas, 1881)

• The artist's mother, Countess Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec, breakfast in the Castle Malromé (oil on canvas, 1881-1883)

• The young Routy in Céleyran (oil on canvas, 1882)

• The fat Marie (oil on canvas, 1884)

• The Sandpiper (oil on canvas, 1884)

• Portrait of Vincent van Gogh (pastel on cardboard, 1887)

• Amazon at the Circus Fernando (oil on canvas, 1888)

• To Wed (oil and gouache on cardboard, 1891)

• Mademoiselle Marie Dihau the piano (oil on cardboard, 1890)

• The actor Henry Samary (oil on cardboard, 1889), Musée d'Orsay, Paris

• At the Moulin de la Galette (oil on canvas, 1889)

• Dance At The Moulin Rouge (oil on canvas, 1890)

• Moulin Rouge: La Goulue (color lithograph, 1891)

• Reine de joie (color lithograph, 1892)

• Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant (color lithograph, 1892)

• The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge (oil and gouache on cardboard, 1892)

• At the Moulin Rouge: Two women dancing (oil on cardboard, 1892), National Museum
  Prague, Prague

• Divan japonais (color lithograph, 1892-1893)

• Yvette Guilbert (gouache on cardboard, 1894, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid)

• Garden of Paris, Jane Avril (lithograph in colors, 1893)

• Confetti (color lithograph, 1894)

• Hall of Rue des Moulins (oil on canvas, c. 1894), Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, Albi

• The clown Cha-U-Kao (oil on cardboard, 1895), Musée d'Orsay, Paris

• The passenger cabin (color lithograph, 1896)

• The bath (color lithograph, 1896)

• La Toilette (oil on cardboard, 1896) Musée d'Orsay, Paris

• Walk around the field (color lithograph, 1897)

• The redhead with white blouse (oil on canvas, )Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Extracted by wikipedia: 16 of April 2012

By Hector and Jorge 1ºD

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French impressionist painter. When he was young, he worked in porcelain factory where his drawings talents led to him being chosen to paint designs on porcelain. Also likes the indoor scenes, unlike the other impressionists, who always opt for the outdoors. Renoir was also called as "The painter of joy". He was a painter of great colour, the instantaneous capture and escape from the serious and important. In this example, Renoir painted with strokes in only one direction. 

In the picture describe the image of two girls. One of them is playing the piano and the other is listening. There is a vase with flowers on the piano, in the distance you can see a bed. The girl that is playing the piano has a blond her and is wearing a white dress with a blue belt. The other girl that is listening has a brown hear and is wearing a orange dress. 

EXTRACTED FROM :

THE IMAGE:

http://www.google.es/imgres?start=255&um=1&hl=es&sa=N&rlz=1C1CHIK_esES399ES399&biw=1422&bih=1032&addh=36&tbm=isch&tbnid=KcdVAoj1kUZkdM:&imgrefurl=http://thearmitageeffect.wordpress.com/tag/pierre-auguste-renoir/&do

THE INFORMATION:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir

www.cossio.net/actividades/pinacoteca/p_02_03/renoir.htm

Made by : Ana Fernández López  y Candela Maese Álvarez 1ºESO-B-C

Joanne Claxton

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Leonardo da Vinci´s birthday

Reading Saatchi Gallery´s profile in Facebook, I´ve remembered that today is Leonardo´s birthday who was born on 15 April 1452.
To know Leonardo`s work is to love him. His life was long and full of experiences and knowledge, authentic passion by sciences and life.
But you haven´t to forget his side as artist. Engravings are delicate and gorgeous. If I  have to choose one of them,at once  I think of "STUDY FOR THE HEAD OF LEDA" (1505).

https://www.facebook.com/#!/saatchigalleryofficial

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/

Image extracted from : http://ledayelcisne.blogspot.com.es/2009_03_01_archive.html

Paul Signac

Paul Signac was a post-impressionist painter of the 20^th century. He was born in France, in 1863.

In his life, he travelled a lot, and he painted with different styles like watercolours or oil paintings.

He loved the pointillist style, composed with small, laborious dots. Other neo-impressionist painter, Seurat, and Signac developed this technique. He did many abstract paintings using pointillist style.

Most of his works represent the ocean or the Mediterranean coast; because he was a navigator and he liked paint landscapes with water. The human figures appear in Signac’s pictures too.

Paul Signac inspired the Fauvism, a movement of modern artists of twentieth-century. His abstract pointillist technique also formed the basis for 20th-century tendencies to dissolve both object and space, specifically Cubism.

LA VOILE VERTE

It’s a cityscape in Venice, painted with dark colours in oil on canvas. Signac used the pointillist style and it represents boats and gondolas near to San Gorge Island. He use blues and purples, and big points painted with strokes.The shapes are not very clear because Signac mix they with other things of the landscape. However, the boats are very clear and they have greens and reds. Now it’s in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

Eva Armindo R. & Jennifer Alison (1ºA-D)

Extracted from:

http://www.paul-signac.com/

http://www.cossio.net/actividades/pinacoteca/p_02_03/puntillismo.htm (Spanish)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Signac

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/paul-signac/la-voile-verte-1904 (painting “la voile verte” and information about it)