Post 6

Hello Everybody!!!

This time I’m going to talk about one of my favorite artists: Paul Cezanne. He was born in France in 1839, and he was an impressionist (or post- impressionist) artist. He is very important because his work was considered as an inspiration for others painters, the vanguard painters like: Picasso, Braque, Matisse, etc.

Cezanne trough colors tried to capture “the sensation” in his paintings. I can say that, this idea was a little revolutionary for those times, because, he gradually drifted apart from the impressionism.  This way of thinking had an explication, this was because Cezanne was against the oratory and narrative painting, to him the most important thing to paint is the motive. 

The key in Cezanne is the sensation, and for it has a place, the artist has to leave the motive. The artist has to make an abandon to the motive. For example we can see in the sequence of painting about the “Sánte-Victoire”mountain, how Cezanne’s motive is the mountain but what we can see is the translation to that motive, the mountain. Is for that reason that we can see the mountain paint in front or in other case we can see it painting from other point of view like a street, in Cezanne’s words “the intentional look”.

POST 5

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Well in the web site (http://www.guardian.co.uk). I found an article about Damien Hirst and a giant statue of a woman witch he is building. And I found very funny the commentary about Hirst’s work because this was devastating. 

The critic said that the huge female figure was a resemblance of the totalitarian art; he said that it looks like the Saddam Hussein’s sculpture.

I have to say that the critical was really funny and great because, well is true that Hirst is a controversial artist basically why he got rich with his work as an artist, thing that is discussing for the art people mainly because some critics put his quality in question. Well and the other hand Hirst is a very arrogant artist and person so… I think that his personality don’t have a good reception in many people.

But when I was reading this article I couldn’t forget when a Chilean guy said that Damien Hirst was dead, and I think that this was this year….

Well I saw the picture of the sculpture and in my opinion I’m agree whit some words of the critic: “Hirst's statue in Devon revives the ugly vacuities of art in the age of the dictators. It really is a monstrosity”.

I have to recognize that these words were terrible. I think Hirst is a media phenomenon and I don’t know if he is a good or bad artist, he is part of the contemporary art so I can say that I like some works of him and others not so much.

Bye!!!

Post 4

Hello!!!

Well in this web site in could fine some information about a great artist and curator called Liliana Porter. She is an argentine artist; she was born in 1941 and resides in New York since 1964.

Porter with others artists, Luis Camnitzer and José Castillo, founded the New York Grafic Workshop, they proposal was think a new concept about the engraving under the name FANDSO (free, assemblage, non-functional, disposable, serial object).

She was a professor at Queens College, City University of New York, from 1991 to 2007; she left the university to dedicated a hundred percent in this work as an artist.  

She came to Chile in 1969 with Luis Camnitzer, they were invited for Nemesio Antúnez to exhibit in the Museo de Bellas Artes, and in this time Liliana shown an installation called “La arruga”.

Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and is represented in many public and private collections, among them: the TATE Modern Collection in London, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and in this moment her last exhibition is shown in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Spain. We can see this last exhibition “Conejo que levita y otras obras recientes” in the Centro Cultural de España, Santiago, too.

That's all, bye!!!