Sunday, February 21, 2010

LIFE OF AN ARTIST


I MAKE MY CHOICE FOR THE MOVIE--------FRIDA------------

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

PRESENTATION OF CHRISTO

This is my first photostory. It was long to make it. But I learn more with this presentation

Monday, February 15, 2010

ART INSTITUTE TRIP - 02/10/10



The art institute was founded in 1879 -after the 1871 Chicago fire- as museum and school. In the museum 5000 years of world art are exhibit. Last spring, the "Modern Wing" designed by Renzo Piano has been opened. It's the new home of the XX-XXI century art. Today, the Art Institute is the second largest art museum in the U.S.



With our class we visited a part of the second floor, espacially the part before 1900. We saw lot of paintings.



I appreciated the famous work by G. Seurat "A sunday on the Grand Jatte"-1884.1886. Without trying to explain the meaning, we can see it's influenced by impressionnist. Bud Seurat used a new style of painting placing different colors close to each other with tiny precise brush strokes : the Pointillism. The monumental size of this painting contrast with small impressionist canvas.



TEAM PRESENTATION



We chose "Turning Point of Thirsty" an oil on canvas painted in 1934 by Victor BRAUNER (Romanian 1903.1066)



He was introduced to the circle of surrealim circle by Tanguy. He is inpired by dreams mysticism and unconscious. The drawing uses just four colors, black in the blackground; ocre for the brain, and white and beig. The drawing overflows on the frame. The constrat drawing -blackground increases the thirsty.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

CULTURAL CENTER

I often come to this place, to listen to music, to see exibitions and drink some coffee with my friends. This building was built in 1897 and was used as a public library. There is one of the biggest glass dome of Tiffany.


TARKOWSKI Christine - Last things will be first and first things will be last

I found the union of cartonboard and iron really unsightly, they are too much opposite.


SIGLER Hollis- Expect the enexpected
I was more sensible about the topic of Hollis Sigler paintings. My younger brother died of cancer three months ago, so through all of her paintings I could feel the stress that my brother felt.