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Domingo 26 Abril de 2009

EXPRESSION. THE CRY. EDUARD MUNCH (1863-1944)

This famous painting is the most representative of expressionism. Sinous canves, arbitrary and gaudy colours, feeling of auxiety and overwhelmed, formented beings and disturbing a pessimistic view of man and his reality. Hopelessness chairs Expressionistc tables, which, as you can see, show red sordid and grim beyond any resemblance to the world around us, it is dark to the pressimistic interpretations of that reality.

The Blind Hen

The Blind Hen (1788-1789)

Goya 17th- 18th century. Roccoco and Neo-classicism.

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Blind Man´s Bluff was the only sketch that Goya painted, in fact the corresponding cartoon has got some changes different from the original design. This small sketch is now in the Prado Museum, thanks to the legacy of the patron and collector Fernández Durán.

*Subject matter: pleasant,humorous themes.

On the banks of the Manzanares river four couples form a cicle with a blindfolded man in the centre holding a wooden spoon.

Although the game is known as "La Gallina Ciega" in Spanish literally the Blind Hen, Goya´s own descripcion of the painting states that it represents various young men and women playing at the Cucharón, the Ladle.

The painter had already executed images of outdoor entertaiment, although this commission had the special feature of making reference to the festival of the patron saint of Madrid, Saint Isidro.

* Blind Man´s Bluff depicts an elegant, aristocratic game, aiming for a popular appearance, although without achieving it.

ARTEMISA ( Rembrant)

Rembrant Harmenszoon van Rijn was born in Leiden 1606 and died in Amsterdam 1669,is one of the most typical painters of the European art. Rembrant was discovered by the poet Constantijn Huygens, Rembrant was a painter of stories, his painting was to describe people´s emotions and explore the human condition.

ARTEMISA 1634 is the one of the pictures in permanent collection of the Prado Museum.

It is 143cm/high 15,4

The painter represents the moment when Artemisa is ging to drink the ashes of her decased husband, Mausolo, offered in a cup.

It is an orderly composition,the image of Artemisa occupes the centre and her seat are illuminated against a dark background in which it makes and old faded woman. The light seems to be from thr right part Rembrant uses the chiaroscuro.

The picture inspires the viewer to think about the psychological position of the lady regarding the death of her husband at that historical time.

A PICTURE´S DESCRIPTION

"The Entierro of Orgaz" Greco´s masterpiece is located in Santo Tome´s church in Toledo, Spain.
The picture represents the two dimensions of the human existance, below we can see the death, above heaven and the eternal life.
This is a colourful drawing that creates emotion, characters with faces sharpened in a dark background and colours. It has a great quantity of shadows and a lot of mixterious colours.

THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHT

The painter is Hieronymus Van Aeken Bosch, "El Bosco", the favourite painter of Felipe II, whose favourite piece is the one I'm going to talk about.

The picture belongs to the Early Flemish School, and it is a triptych painted oil on panel (2,20x3,89 m). This work was painted in 1503 or 1504 and it is exhibited in The Prado Museum in Madrid since 1940. The painting is an allegory of lust, a painted satire of men's sins and madness. The work condemns the delights of the senses, symbolized by fruits. The outer sides are painted in grisaille with a description of the Creation of the World.

-Left wing: the theme is the Original sin. God introduces Adam and Eve on Paradise. In the centre, the Fountain of Life. The owl, and other exotic animals that surround it, symbolized sin.

- Central panel:it shows the Mankind dominated by carnal pleasure. In a broad landscape setting, neked men and women abandon themselves to sensual pleasures, symbolized by ephemeral red fruits as strawberries, raspberries and cherries. The landscape, with its capricious architecture, is part of the elaborate symbolism. In the centre of the panel is the Fountain of Adultery. Surrounding it there are figures and fantastic beasts engaging in frenzied, erotic acts. The world of folly is an evil one. The are no shadows because it is an intellectually conceived world.
-Right wing: the theme is the punishment for all sins. Hell is imaged as an obscure place with fires that recede into the distance, inhabited by demons and monsters that torment the damned.

PT: I have been guided by a few notes I took during my visits to the Prado Museum.

Salvador Dalí

T his picture belongs to Salvador Dalí, in the epoch of his deliriums. In the background there is a landscape of a beach with the sea and a cave to the right. On the second place there is a table to the left side with a small and dry tree, of which it hangs melted clok as the one on the table. To the left side we find a melted clock that differes from something white. On the first place, on the table to the left side, we find a pocket clock.

"The persistence of time" Salvador Dalí

It´s called "The persistence of Time" and its painter is Salvador Dalí. It is a surrealist painter. The picture shows the bay of Port Lligat at dawn. The landscape is simple, we can see the sea at the bottom and small rock formations on the right. There are four clocks, which seem to mark six o´clock, one of them is a pocket watch, and three other watches soft and deformed. One of the clocks hangs in the branch of a three, that seems to grow over a wall. Further down, in the center of the picture, another watch is on a face with long eyelashes inspired by the rock cape Creus. The third watch is, perhaps, about to slip down the wall, and there is a clock flying. At his side, over the wall, there is a fourth clock, a pocket watch, it is closed and above it there is a multitude of ants that are not there by chance.