March 15 is Speech Practice.
This is our FINAL lesson on PAINTING!!!
Tasks to do:
1) TOPICS 1-4 and 6 - to be written and 2 (or 3 you haven't answered the first one!) of them to be learnt by heart.
You will need a simple PowerPoint presentation to accompany the topic you are going to present in class.
3) Watch a video (to your choice) and leave a commentary (in this blog).
The Private Life of a Masterpiece was a BBC arts documentary series which told the stories behind great works of art; 29 episodes of the series were broadcast on BBC Two, commencing in 2001 and ending in 2010. It initially ran for five seasons from 2001 to 2006, for a total of 22 episodes; each episode was 50 minutes long.
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This is our FINAL lesson on PAINTING!!!
Tasks to do:
1) TOPICS 1-4 and 6 - to be written and 2 (or 3 you haven't answered the first one!) of them to be learnt by heart.
You will need a simple PowerPoint presentation to accompany the topic you are going to present in class.
2) In your blogs you are to have:
4 renderings;
1 film review;
3 Pleasure Reading summaries!
4 renderings;
1 film review;
3 Pleasure Reading summaries!
3) Watch a video (to your choice) and leave a commentary (in this blog).
The Private Life of a Masterpiece was a BBC arts documentary series which told the stories behind great works of art; 29 episodes of the series were broadcast on BBC Two, commencing in 2001 and ending in 2010. It initially ran for five seasons from 2001 to 2006, for a total of 22 episodes; each episode was 50 minutes long.
WIKIPEDIA
Choose an episode from the list, watch a YouTube video and share your impressions about the film. What surprised you most about the picture described? Why is it considered to be a masterpiece?
I’ve chosen to watch the video about Georges Seurat as he is my favorite painter and his masterpiece “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” has impressed me the most. I completely agree with the narrator that it is such a king of painting that you once see and never forget it. Besides, his work is perfectly described as both experiment and obsession as it symbolizes both new epoch of art and new art movement in particular - Neo Impressionism. The period of work on this picture is also impressive – Seurat had been working for two years on it, using absolutely new technique which later has come to be known as pointillism which includes canvas painting with small as it possible brush strokes. It also must be mentioned about the meaning of the painting – in fact, in spite of decades of analysis, no one exactly knows what the painting is about. So, everyone may find his own idea while examining this masterpiece according his or her life perception and life experience. There is no doubt that everything in the picture has its own unique sense – figures, shapes, proportions and even choice of colors and their tones. This circumstance makes us feel Seurat’s presence in each cm of his painting. “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” has inspired many caricatures thus becoming one of the most popular paintings in the world. The scene of a pleasant Sunday afternoon with 48 people, 3 dogs, and 1 monkey has become a masterpiece and has significant meaning – as its author is the father of the Neo-impressionist art movement, this masterpiece is considered to be the symbol of the beginning of such art movement.
ReplyDeleteI’ve chosen Botticelli's Mystic Nativity because it seemed to me extraordinary and intrigue. This picture was painted in 1500 by one of the most famous artists of all time, it is a supremely beautiful vision of maternal love, earthly harmony and heavenly ecstasy. According to the speaker a Renaissance masterpiece crammed with cryptic symbols disguising a dangerous message. Well, Mystic Nativity inspired by the preaching of the puritanical friar who held Florence in his grip in the 1490s. He cleared the city of non-Christian art, destroying it on the notorious Bonfire of the Vanities. But he himself met a violent, fiery end, and Botticelli had to carefully hide the Mystic Nativity's dangerous meaning. Only a recent chance discovery by a scholar fully unlocked the painting's message. All our impressions about the picture are absolutely unforgettable. The painter used here the images from his youth and we can easily imagine Botticelli’ thinking of the extraordinary vision that he had seen being a child in the church. A great sense and perfect painting of the picture made it a real masterpiece of all times.
ReplyDeleteI have watched the video on one of the most joyful and celebrated paintings in the history of art – “Bal du moulin de la Galette” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is also described as quintessential Impressionist painting. It’s remarkable that Renoir painted it twice not changing a single detail except for the size. The large version hangs in Museum d’Orsay in Paris, while the other smaller one has not been seen in public since 1990. What has never been established is which was completed first since they both carried the date 1876. In “Bal du moulin de la Galette” Renoir depicted the world in which he was living. Having chosen Moulin de la Galette which was a well-known place for people to go out, to dance and enjoy themselves, Renoir knew that the painting would be recognized. “Bal du moulin de la Galette” features some of Renoir’s favourite local girls, e.g. the two in the foreground were sisters: standing is Jean (she also features in his painting “The Swim”), sitting on the bench is her younger sister Estel (in her distinctive stripe dress she also appears in his other paintings). Besides, there is also George Reviere – Renoir’s closest friend. It’s obvious that Renoir wants us to see Moulin de la Galette as a place where men and women socialize in a joyful classless harmony, but there was a darker side to the 19th century dance-halls which he suppressed (prostitution). I agree with the author that it’s very important to realize that what the painter is doing is creating an illusionary world, an escapist world; an earthy paradise as he might call it at the 19th century. Renoir was very interested in preserving a fantasy of a traditional femininity located in nature, history, something which he felt was very threatened.
ReplyDelete„The Taking of Christ“(1602) is the painting of the most famous Italian painter Caravaggio, whose picture was the most dramatic religious painting of the era, as it had the most powerful sense. Thus I've chosen this piece of work not without reason, but because it impressed me by its composition and a dark vision of the reality. And this confirms the fact that a kind of night falls around the artist, Christ, depicted in the picture, and human nature. Moreover, it is painted in a very realistic manner that makes the work a masterpiece. Its subject is the arrest of Jesus, the moment when the son of God is betrayed with kiss, which actually is the first violent event that has lead to His crucifixion. And Caravaggio uses art to bring Christ’s last days so vividly and disturbingly alive to ordinary people, so while watching it you don’t take a good look at the Bible, but you see a man, who is arrested at night and you find yourself there. And I think you’ll agree with me that no artist has ever made the dark side of Christ’s story so alive. However, what’s more interesting is that the man, carrying the lantern that light illuminates the faces in the foreground of the composition, is a self portrait of Michelangelo Merisi, best-known as Caravaggio.
ReplyDeleteConcerning last events in Vatican which have connection with the election of the Patriarch of Rome I have decided to watch the video which is based on the religious theme - "Last Supper" by Davinci.
ReplyDeleteThere are lot's of experts and critics who really believe that this picture has connection with the resonant film "Davinci Code". I have seen it before, and from my point of view it is the myth. But the film composition makes the Christianity Church forceless. It is outside of Christianity with its emotional values. But it is the other story.
Everybody knows that there are few masterpieces in art. "Last Supper" is one of them. They say it has the first computer reality, cinema scope and, moreover, there is a secret, inside the drawing, as a subject matter in it. This picture is Davinci's own vision of the event which has taken place - the meeting of Jesus and his 12 pupils. By the way, there are a great many of pictures which dedicate to this theme. The most interesting fact is that they have been painted earlier for a century. Leonardo made his own composition of the picture. It took him 2 years.
It's an open secret that the masterpiece is so popular that it has a lot of reproductions and copies not with Jesus and 12 Disciples of Christ but with characters from different films like star wars and others.
It is necessary to emphasize that it was not easy way to make drawings on the wall. It was a new style that time. But Leonardo Davinci managed to summaries images of each person on the picture: all play on it - faces, gestures, emotions and general feelings.
Ludoviko Ilmoro transformed Milan having become the head of the town. He was interested in art especially in Davinci's works. The ruler helped greatly to the young artist. But both of them didn't keep the picture in its conditions. The painting started to transform in ruin, because of the napoleon Campaign.
Today also many time goes by, the picture is damaged by bombing during the WWII when it was being outside, on the open air for 3 years. It saves only one quarter of its original, but the most important think that it keeps the memory of its own greatness.