Wednesday, August 25, 2010

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Why is so well appreciated Tapies art when I see it is an art devoid of merit and whose release had much to do ideological criteria as was the fact of being an opponent of Franco? Could not create an observatory of independent reviewers who appreciate art irrespective of the ideological label artists and only for its aesthetic values? Juan, Spain

Dear John, I think you do not like the art of Antoni Tapies (first three pictures) and maybe going to be difficult to convince you of their merits. But the art world does not care about your political ideology or your way of thinking. Picasso (fourth image) was also against Franco. I can give you another example more convincing. The famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera (fifth picture) was a communist, but still, worked and painted murals in the United States. One of the murals were painted in the Ford Motor Company of Detroit in 1930, the era of the great depression era. Many people objected to the mural was painted by Diego Rivera. After painting, the mural he was branded as "vulgar and non-American." But the wall still exists and is considered one of the best murals of Rivera. Nelson Rockefeller, an icon of American industry, saw the mural in Detroit and asked for a mural for the RCA building in New York. Diego Rivera painted the mural, but he had painted the face of Lenin from the mural subjects and therefore destroyed the mural after 4 months. Everyone knew that Rivera was a communist, but his art was accepted on their merits, not ideology.

The first artist to paint abstract art was Vassily Kandinsky (last picture), who was Russian. He gives the credit to Kandinsky as the first artist who painted abstract art. We do not take the value that his work deserves for his way of thinking, their politics or their place of birth.

For Tapies, its success is not anti-Francoist ideology. He is an artist well known in the art world, his works are in the best museums in the world. That says it all. If an artist is accepted by the art infrastructure, political ideology is not for or against any scheme, because he deserves to be there. Juan

most critics are independent and there is no need to create an observatory of independent reviewers. And we, because I am also an art critic, we are impartial and we do not get in the way of thinking, their politics or ideology of the artist, but because his work is all that matters. In art there are no boundaries or political ideologies, there is art, and its true merits. Juan

I hope my answer has been removed from your doubts. Thanks for your question. Augusto

Chimpan

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Marisol Bixler Mexico

How is an artist and how to sell your work?






How is an artist and sells his work?
Emmanuell, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

During the Middle Ages to the Renaissance artists were trained in 'guilds' where they learned everything related to their profession. They were a group of merchants and artisans, all artists, carpenters and locksmiths etc. independent of a nation or a region forming a union. For example Da Vinci belonged to the painters' guild of Florence and 20 years was an independent master. In the seventeenth century in France originated the Academy of Painting and Sculpture founded by artist Charles Le Brun (pictured above), who was perhaps the most important artist in France in the seventeenth century. That to give the essence of how it was an artist in those times. Since that time studies at a higher institute is now called university. Now there are universities in the world where you can learn to be a painter, sculptor, engraver and so on. This race is called plastic arts or visual arts. There are also colleges of photography, which are like universities, where you can study photography as an art career, photographer and advertising photography. As is the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, the EAF, Argentina School of Photography in Buenos Aires, ARCOS in Santiago de Chile, Centro de la Imagen in Lima and EFTI, Centro de la Imagen in Madrid and Barcelona. There are also masters

plastic arts such as Brice Marden received (second image) minimalist artist. Marden graduated with MA in art at the Yale School of Art and Architecture. Chuck Close (third image), another artist who has expertise in fine arts from Yale University. Donald Judd (fourth image) minimalist artist had a master's degree in art history from Columbia University. But there are also self-taught artists such as Henry Rousseau (pictured below), the world's most famous self-taught.

Eammanuell, to answer the second part of your question, having graduated from University artists make CDs and blogs of their work and send them to galleries. If any gallery like their work, they will see the work personally. If after viewing, to the gallery likes his work, it is a solo exhibition and if the artist sells, would become an artist over the gallery and could have an exhibition every three or four years on death row. If the artist is very good. Other galleries may be interested in his work, and so could have exhibitions every two years. The critical start to go about their exposure in newspapers and art magazines. The following are major galleries galleries fairs in different cities of the world and display their works. Some fairs are in Buenos Aires marca marca en Bogota, Pinta in New York, CIRCA Puerto Rico, Miami and Arteamericas ARCO in Madrid. Obviously, the galleries have their best artists and from there you can export some works of international artists to other galleries. Having a monograph of your work helps you become more familiar. When your name is in several galleries, fairs and media, museums begin to find you and buy works. At that point you are almost already an established artist. When museums buy your work, you're set, but if a museum like MoMA in New York and the Tate Modern in London buys one of your works, is because they are renowned. To be an established artist, you have to be accepted in the art infrastructure, which are the galleries, critics (the media, newspapers and magazines), trade shows and museums.

Emmanuell, I hope my response is to your satisfaction. Augusto

Chimpan

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Will Consuming Alcohol Delay My Period

Why is it so popular Grito de Munch?


I want to know why the hideous painting The Scream is so popular and why he is screaming, saw something wrong?
Francine, Francine

Montreal painting you're referring to is of Edvard Munch (1863-1944). El Grito, 1893, is oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard 91X73.5 cm., Is in the National Gallery in Oslo. Munch made more than 50 versions of this table including lithographs.



is very important for you Francine know what artistic movement belongs to each work, I will help you understand more about the work you're viewing. Investigating movement belongs to each project and is part of the fun in the art.


This work belongs to the movement of expressionism and his style was full of symbols to represent emotions and feelings through color, shapes and forms. Most of the work of Munch's emotions about life, love, death, despair and tragedy. Francine have to remember that everything you see in a work, the artist wanted this there. Every color, every line and detail are an important reason, every detail has an intention to create a sensation in the viewer. Nothing happened there.



The Scream is a picture of contrasts, because there are hot colors yellow, red and orange sky that seems to fire. Warm colors in boxes can make us feel we have more heat and can slightly increase our circulation and our body temperature. Similarly cool colors, green, blue, violet, found on land, on the railing of the bridge, and clothing of the subjects can make us feel cold and slightly lower temperature of our body. The work is undulating in the sky, water and earth in nature. But it also has straight lines made by man, the bridge deck, the railing of the bridge and the post. Then there are contrasts of form and color. Remember that Munch painted every detail of color and form a conscious intention in his mind. The work is not symmetric, then there is balance in the shapes or colors, then there are contrasts creating imbalance and chaos within the work.
If you look carefully the bridge is covering the water with the boats. The bridge would be very long, therefore, impossible. The boats are in an area orange, yellow and gray is supposed to be water and the que es azul en lugar de ser agua es la tierra.



El sujeto principal que grita esta en el centro del cuadro, el sexo del sujeto no es claro. La ropa es como de una mujer, una túnica y él/ella tiene un cráneo como cara y no tiene pelo, pero la boca tiene labios para realzar la acción del grito. El sujeto que grita tiene una forma de un fantasma con el cuerpo curvilíneo y solamente se ve la mitad de su cuerpo.



Si te fijas bien en la pintura, Munch tiene el puente de un lado del cuadro al otro lado, invitando al observador dentro del cuadro a través de la perspectiva del puente. Munch está jugando con nuestro espacio y su intención es poner al sujeto que grita in the space of the observer. Or the observer is standing on the bridge in front of the guy who screams. This means that the person screaming is screaming to the observer.



El Grito frightens us because it touches on the theme of death, by the skull and the loneliness of the subject. It also deals with oppositions, contrasts and an unreal world that Munch has created. This book is so popular, because after you've seen them you'll never forget the image that looks so real and so strong emotions, yet is so imaginary. You question. Why the subject shouts, saw the bad? I think the subject is screaming at the observer and Munch wanted to shake the audience and did it with this work.



The Scream is an icon of our time but not only the subject is screaming, also the natural world is screaming with different colors and surreal shapes.



Thanks for your good question Francine.



Augusto Chimpan

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Tattoos Around The Male Genitals

What is minimal art?











What is minimal art and boom can have?
Carlos, Los Angeles

Minimal art is the artistic movement that eliminates the pictorial representation and illusion in favor of a unified simple geometric expression. This movement of painting and sculpture had its birth from 1960 to 1970 mainly in the U.S.. The forerunners of this movement are Americans and Japanese. The main artists of this movement are Carl Andre, Dan Falvin, Donald Judd, Brice Marden, Richard Serra, Sol Lewitt, Katsuo Yoshida and Kishi Suga. Although they all work differently. For example Carl Andre (picture below left.) Works with wood, granite, but mostly with aluminum and metals. Dan Flavin (pictured below right) works with fluorescent color, Donald Judd (pictured above left.) works with plexiglass, Brice Marden (picture above right) painted stripes and sometimes only monochrome paintings, huge Richard Serra sculptures made of steel, while Suga Kishi working with wood painted with acrylic. Although these artists work with different materials and different ways, all have an emphasis on simplification of forms and mostly monochromatic works.

Minimalism can be interpreted as a reaction to abstract expressionism movement showed a fierce psychological expression. Minimalism was the opposite, the artist showed no emotions only essentials of geometric abstraction.

Minimalism is also expressed in architecture, design, literature and music.

Carlos to answer the second part of your question, minimalist art was not very apogee in Latin America. The reason might be because the artists may think that not going to take very seriously. Most people think in Latin America, this is not art, anyone can do it. It is indeed true then they can do, the thing to say before it has been done and get famous so. And no new artists of this movement and some have died such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, so the movement is declining, but peaked in the 1970s. In North America, Europe and Japan this movement if you had a great climax and these artists are well known and well respected in the art infrastructure.

Carlos I hope my answer was to your liking. Augusto

Chimpan