MIDTERM EXAM - Pictures

Question 23 - cubism and futurism

Question 20 - Trompe l'oeil in Lyon

Question 7 Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC

HOUSE OF BLUES

I was not with you for this field trip.
I just went once at HOUSE OF BLUES to listen Gospel performence and have a brunch.
I didn't know there is a story for exhibition.
I have to go.

MONOCHROME BLUE

monochrome blue - Yves Klein (1928-1962)

The first time I saw this painting I was shocked.

Is this art???

How one color's canvas can be an exhibit in a Museum???

Absence of creativy was my first feeling. Nothing to think about, just coloring a canvas with blue.

Just one uniform color...Blue- special blue I agreed, but who can decide this hue is so particular.

This could be the most representative of 'non representative art".

One time I read , "this monochrome is an open window to freedom", dixit Klee.
So after this information, when I went in MONA I could dream about sea and sky in front of this painting and went throught this color. The explanation helps me look differently at this painting.

Blue is a really abstract color because sky and sea are the most abstract thing in the natural word.

I know that Klee worked with a chemist to create this blue called today International Klein Blue as a brand IKB. This is a really abstract and the color is bright and intensive because of the pure pigment used to make it.

FRIDA

FRIDA was realized in 2002 by Salm Hayek who played Frida -she has been nominated for best actress to the Oscar.
This movie is a biography of Frida Kahlo a Mexican painter born in 1907.
Movie starts with nice pictures of her happy childwood with her parents and her sisters.But when she was 18, she was in a bus whitch crashed into a trolleybus.


After this accident she stayed several month in a bed and started to paint. She was closed to all her family who supported her during her revival.
A mirror was placed on the ceiling of her bed.With his father's aquarelle, she painted her reflect expressing her feelings and emotions.

After two years she can walk again and she met Diego Rivera a painter. She asked him his opinion about her paintings. They felt in love and their love story was extravagant. Diego was a frescas painter throught the world. His was infaithful, and Frida gave us her perception of their story in her painting.
Because of her accident, she couln't have child and several of her painting discribed her distress.
When she discovered his husband has a relation with her sister she was distroyed.


She started to drink and have lot of relation too. Their divorced.
At 45, a illness gone down, his husband came back their remarried and she died.
All of her life she was strong and used her emotion for her painting, her live was a balance between win and lose, joy and suffering, life and death.