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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 Una colección de figuras
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?
Las Meninas (1656) • What was going on in the rest of the world during this time? • What does “Baroque” mean?
The most famous painting • <-- El 3 de mayo de 1808 • about war against France
Where did multiple views get us? Pablo Picasso, cubism and abstract art!
Pablo Picasso • Years alive: • Style(s) of painting: • lifestyle?: • Nationality:
Guernica is about the effects of the Civil War in Spain (1936-1939)
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?
The Book Mentions... • Dina Bursztyn • Carlos Enríquez • Oswaldo Guayasamín • Alfonso Fernández • (70-71) • What do you remember about them??? About their work???...
Salvador Dalí…hmm, this guy looks a little strange! And he was
Mr. Surrealist • 1904-89 • too many drugs/paints, too little time… • obsessed with Gala, his wife • king of surrealism! • <-- Persistence of memory
“Living Still Life”: what is he trying to say with this painting?
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?
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!
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?
Quite the character, Frida looks like she’s guarding precious, ancient secrets.
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.
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.
Diego Rivera was passionate about his revolution, about the plight of the “indio”
The Mexican revolution might have happened at the beginning of the 1900s...
…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!
Let’s not forget David Alfaro Siqueiros…even from jail he was an activist for people’s rights
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!
Is the place they’re going a real or metaphorical place? Why would they go there?