TSAROUCHIS INSPIRES THE LITTLE PUPILS OF VERDIKOUSSA
inspired by the paint of Yannis Tsarouchis (above), the little pupils of Verdikoussa (third grade) created their own 4 seasons (underneath)!!!
We are expecting more artistic creations...
Thursday 30 November 2017
Yiannis Tsarouchis_Greek painter (1910-1989)
Yiannis Tsarouchis_Greek painter (1910-1989)
Yiannis
Tsarouchis is one of the most important painters of the 20th century. He was
born in Piraeus and studied in the School of Fine Arts. He continued his
studies in Paris and in London. He was a staunch supporter of the movement for
the return to the roots of Greek art.
His painting "The Four Seasons" is oil in canvas,160x300 cm, 1969. It
depicts seasons as human figures, two men and two women, who are standing in
front of a table with fruit on it. He highlights the beauty of human existence
and emphasizes the simple, ordinary things. The big table symbolizes the
coexistence of those people, but also the sacred moment of having supper, where
everyone is gathered around the table.There are of course fruit on the table
from all seasons:grapes, peaches, apricots, watermelon, cherries, melons.
In the first part, on a window, he drew Spring (on the left), in the second
part, in the middle, he drew Summer and Autumn and in the third part, on a
window (on the right) Winter.
Figures
Spring: a girl with long hair, rose on the
face, wearing a blue dress and holding a pink rose on her left hand.
Summer: a well-built man, half naked,
crowned with red flowers, holding grains on his left hand and a sickle on the
right.
Autumn: a girl with a dark brown scarf on
her head, who is wearing a red dress and holding with her fingers a white scarf
filled with black and white grapes.
Winter: a man with thick black hair, who
has a coat on his back, unbuttoned, holding it with both hands.
Four faces, four friends
beautiful eyes, tight lips
one comes, another goes
who is next to you? who
reigns?
Claude Monet
La pie, 1868-1869
Claude Monet was born on November 15, 1840 in Paris, but his family moved
to the port city of Le Havre, France while he was still young. He loved to draw
as a child. Around the age of eleven, Claude entered a school for the arts. A
few years after he moved to Paris. He painted a
lot of outdoor scenes. He then decided to take on large project he called Women in the
Garden. This was a huge painting, over eight feet tall, that he painted outside
in the natural light. It was a normal everyday scene. He spent a lot of time on
it, but the critics did not like it. He became depressed and was also out of
money.
War broke out in France in 1870 and Claude moved with his new wife,
Camille, to London. There he met art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel who would become
one of his strongest supporters. At this time Monet began to study the relation
of the city of London to the River Thames. Monet became friends with several of
the leading artists of the time including Pierre Renoir, Edouard Manet, and
Camille Pissarro. Together they formed the Society of Anonymous Painters,
Sculptors, and Printers. They wanted to experiment with art and not do the same
classical art that satisfied the art critics of Paris. They organized an
exhibition of their art in 1874. One critic called it the Exhibition of the
Impressionists. The term "impressionist" was used to imply that the
art was just an impression of something and not completed. It was meant as an
insult. The critic got the word "impression" from one of Monet's
works. It is called Impression: Sunrise. This painting was a great example of
the new style. The lighting gives the viewer the feeling or
"impression" that the sun is just rising. Monet's use of light was
unique.
Impression Soleil Levant, 1872
Despite the critics of Impressionism, Monet continued to refine his work.
He continued to try and capture the changing effects of color with light. He
used a wide range of vibrant colors and painted quickly using short brushstrokes.
Soon, Monet's work began to gain recognition. His paintings started to sell. He
even organized an Impressionist art exhibition in the United States in 1886.
In order to continue his experiments with light, Monet began to paint
series of the same scenes. He would paint them at different times of the day
and in different types of weather. He painted a series on haystacks, the Rouen
Cathedral, and the London Parliament.
Cathédrale de Rouen : Le portail (Soleil), 1894
Near the end of his life, Monet embarked on his largest project. It was a
series on the pond at his home in Giverny. It involved a number of huge
paintings of the pond in different lighting and conditions such as morning,
sunset, and clouds. He called it the Grandes Decorations. When finished, all
the panels together were over 6 feet tall and nearly 300 feet long. During much
of the project the aging Monet was suffering from bad eyesight and lung cancer.
He spent the last ten years of his life on the project and donated it to France
in honor of the end of World War I. He died on 5th December 1926 in
Giverny.
Le pont japonais à Giverny, 1899
Friday 24 November 2017
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Thursday 16 November 2017
Pablo Picasso and the "Cubismo" own style
Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain. When he was baptized, he was named after various saints and relatives: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso. His father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, was an artist and art professor who gave Pablo art lessons. His mother was Maria Picasso y Lopez. According to his mother, his first word was “piz” when he was trying to say “lápiz,” the Spanish word for pencil.
Picasso was not a good student. He often had to go to detention. Here’s what he said about it.
“For being a bad student I was banished to the ‘calaboose’ – a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly … I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping.”
“For being a bad student I was banished to the ‘calaboose’ – a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly … I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping.”
When he was nine, Picasso finished his first painting, Le picador. It shows a man on a horse at a bullfight. When he started painting, he used a realistic style. He began to experiment with different techniques and styles. When he was 13, he was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, Spain. When he was 16, Picasso’s father and uncle decided to send him to Madrid’s Royal Academy of San Fernando. This was Spain’s top art school. He did not like formal instruction and soon stopped going to classes. He loved Madrid and enjoyed going to The Prado museum to see paintings by famous Spanish painters. He particularly like El Greco’s work.
In 1900, Picasso went to Paris. He met Max Jacob, a journalist and poet. Max helped Picasso learn to speak French. He also met many of the famous artists who lived in Paris. In 1905, American art collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein began to collect his work and helped to make him famous.
He and Georges Braque invented Cubism, a form of painting that featured simple geometric shapes. He is also known for making collages – gluing previously unrelated things together with images. He created oil paintings, sculpture, drawings, stage designs, tapestries, rugs, etchings, collage, and architecture. No other painter or sculptor was as famous while he was still alive. It is estimated that Picasso produced at least 50,000 works of art: 1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs. He also wrote plays and poetry. He became very wealthy.
Some of his famous paintings include: The Old Guitarist; Asleep and Seated Woman, which portray Marie-Therese Walter, one of the women he loved; Guernica, a mural about the Spanish Civil War; and Three Musicians.
Picasso loved many women. He married two of them, Olga Khokhlova and Jacqueline Roque. He had four children: Paulo, Maya, Claude and Paloma, who is famous for her jewelry designs. He died April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France.
Picasso quotes:
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ”
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ”
“He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law".
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Wednesday 15 November 2017
Ivana Kobilica (Ljubljana, 1861–1926)-Slovene painter
self-portratit photography
Ivana Kobilca was born in Ljubljana
as a daughter in a wealthy family of a crafstman. Her parents gave great
emphasis on education. At first, she learned how to draw, but also French and
Italian, in the Ursuline High School in her home town, where her teacher of
drawing was Ida Künl. When she was 16, she went with her father to Vienna,
where she saw the paintings of old masters that inspired her. From 1879 to
1880, she studied in Vienna, where she copied the paintings at the gallery of
the Academy of Arts, and from 1880 to 1881 in Munich. From 1882 to 1889, she
continued her studies under Alois Erdtelt. In 1888, she participated for the
first time in a public exhibition. At the following exhibition in Munich, her
work was spotted and praised by the prominent German art historian Richard
Muther. and then returned to Ljubljana. In 1890, she painted in Zagreb. In 1891
and 1892, she painted in Paris in the private school of Henri Gervex. She
became an honorary member (membre associée) of Société Nationale des Beaux
Arts. In 1892, she also painted in Barbizon. In 1893, she returned to
Ljubljana, visited Florence in 1894, and lived in Sarajevo from 1897 to 1905.
From 1906 to 1914, she lived in Berlin, and then returned to Ljubljana. At the
time of her death in 1926 in Ljubljana, she was described as the greatest
Yugoslav female painter.
Kobilca is considered to be the
most successful Slovenian woman artist. As her contemporaries already
acknowledged, she succeeded in achieving things that her male colleagues were
not able to. She exhibited in the respectable Salon in Paris for several times
and became a membre associée of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She spent
most of her creative period in European capitals (Vienna, Munich, Paris,
Sarajevo, Berlin) and returned to Ljubljana only at the outset of the Great
War. After the Munich phase, in which murky brownish tones prevailed in her
colouring, she painted in violet, blue and green tones in Paris, later, during
her sojourn in Berlin, also in white ones. Her oeuvre is marked by portrayals
of her family members and children, portraits of members of middle-class
society, mainly of Ljubljana, genre scenes and especially flowers.
Summer (1889)
Parisian
woman with a letter, 1891-92
Woman
drinking coffee, 1888
Girl
in a red waistcoat, 1886
Monday 13 November 2017
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