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Artistas Hispanas

Artistas Hispanas. Una colección de figuras. Let’s go back a few years. …to El Greco, a very old dude ( 1541-1614) !. The Burial of Count Orgaz. Some deeper implications. Do you think life and death were important to the medieval mind?

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Artistas Hispanas

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  1. Artistas Hispanas Una colección de figuras

  2. Let’s go back a few years...

  3. …to El Greco, a very old dude (1541-1614)!

  4. The Burial of Count Orgaz

  5. Some deeper implications... • Do you think life and death were important to the medieval mind? • What do you think about the roll of Heaven and Hell during the time of El Greco’s life?

  6. The Anunciation

  7. Diego Velázquez

  8. Las Meninas (1656) • What was going on in the rest of the world during this time? • What does “Baroque” mean?

  9. Francisco Goya (1746-1828)

  10. El sueño de la razón produce monstruos 1799

  11. El sueño de la razón produce monstruos 1799

  12. Saturn Devouring His Son

  13. But then you had such “normal” paintings...

  14. The most famous painting • <-- El 3 de mayo de 1808 • about war against France

  15. Where did multiple views get us? Pablo Picasso, cubism and abstract art!

  16. Pablo Picasso • Years alive: • Style(s) of painting: • lifestyle?: • Nationality:

  17. The Old Guitarrist

  18. Hand with Bouquet

  19. What do you notice about the shapes?

  20. Guernica is about the effects of the Civil War in Spain (1936-1939)

  21. Could THIS guy attract all the ladies?

  22. What about this one?

  23. Joan Miró

  24. Look at Mr. Miró... • Which part of Spanish was he from: • When was he painting? • How are his later compositions and sculptures an example of abstract art?

  25. Hey, whatever makes ya “happy” in your abstract view...

  26. The Book Mentions... • Dina Bursztyn • Carlos Enríquez • Oswaldo Guayasamín • Alfonso Fernández • (70-71) • What do you remember about them??? About their work???...

  27. Salvador Dalí…hmm, this guy looks a little strange! And he was

  28. Mr. Surrealist • 1904-89 • too many drugs/paints, too little time… • obsessed with Gala, his wife • king of surrealism! • <-- Persistence of memory

  29. Even Bart Simpson is impressed...

  30. “Living Still Life”: what is he trying to say with this painting?

  31. The Discovery of America • Can you find his wife, Gala? • What is the theme of this painting? • What does religion have to do with discovering the Americas?

  32. Let’s get out of Spain for a while! • Let’s visit the poor stepchild, dear Mexico… • A little mural, a little socialism, a little radical ideas about lifestyle and beauty!

  33. Oh, Frida Kahlo! • Don’t let her shock you toooooo badly: she meant well. :) • The images have meanings much deeper than their pictures • What/who nourishes little Frida?

  34. Quite the character, Frida looks like she’s guarding precious, ancient secrets.

  35. What is on Frida’s mind here?

  36. Frida and Diego • She loved and admired her crazy husband, Diego Rivera, the great muralist • They fought powerful governments driven by money and capitalism to be true to their ideal that man should live as a community of equality.

  37. Diego wasn’t faithful to her--he was a womanizer. • Once, she got so upset that she cut off all her hair and painted herself in her anguish. • But Frida also had affairs--some with men and others with women.

  38. Diego Rivera was passionate about his revolution, about the plight of the “indio”

  39. The Mexican revolution might have happened at the beginning of the 1900s...

  40. …It continued in the work of Mexican muralists like Rivera • Jose Clemente Orozco • He looks mad, serious etc., right? • He’s ticked about workers’ rights and the treatment of the indigenous peeps!

  41. The Epic of American Civilization

  42. Let’s not forget David Alfaro Siqueiros…even from jail he was an activist for people’s rights

  43. Mujer con rebozo

  44. Surrealism didn’t just happen in Europe! • Remedios Varo was a surrealist painter in Mexico at the same time as these muralists we looked at!

  45. Is the place they’re going a real or metaphorical place? Why would they go there?

  46. Still Life Reviving (Who else had a similar idea?)

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