lunes, 22 de octubre de 2012

Frida Kahlo


  
                 Frida is a movie about Frida Kahlo where it shows the life of her. At the beginning of the story it showed how funny she was how she loved the life. At short age, she suffered a bus accident with his boyfriend, he was fine, but she couldn’t walk for long time. His boyfriend left Mexico and while she was in bed because the accident she started painting. After long time, she could walk and she met Diego Rivera a revolutionary painter. He recognized that she was really good painter. They were really good friends and after a while they married. Frida caught him with another girl, but because she knew that his husband was unfaithful she forgot him. However, after caught him with her sister, Frida leave him. The movie shows a strong, introvert, different Frida that the people at that that time was supposed to see. Because the accident she suffered, all of his life was problems. When she was old, she was in bed couldn’t do anything. She married again with Diego Rivera because he asked and her collections were really famous. This are some facts that show in the movie. I am Mexican and I never saw the movie before because the comments the people tell me were not good. However, for me the movie was a little boring and I could understand the movie because some parts are in Spanish. The story is really good, I didn’t know the entire story about Frida and I study her in school in my home town. After I finished seeing the movie I taught how I couldn’t see it before.
 
The actresses Salma Hayeck in the movie

martes, 16 de octubre de 2012

Art Institute.


Art Institute


            My sister is a big fan of art, despite she doesn’t know anything about it or just the most famous things, she always want to go to the art museums to feel nice. However, she always asked me to go to the Art Institute and my answer always was the same “boring”. When, I saw the webpage, an interested about the museum born on me because it looks nice. When I entered into the museum I wasn’t feeling good at all, but I did my max trying to learned. The first exploration was good saying that I really do not find so much interest to the paintings. The famous painting by George Seurant that I did not know before just when I entered to the class was nice. Seeing it closely was different effect from see it from far. The Van Gogh paintings are so nice too, but the one I really like it because I think is different for the other paintings is The Bedroom is colorful and alive.



In the last galleries, it was many good paintings. When we need to pick up one painting for the group work, my partner and I had a different likes, so we choose one that I really like it.
 Spanish Dancer by Nathalija Gontcarova 




In the mini presentations my classmates gave, I learned about different paintings and I saw different things that I didn’t see it before the presentations. 

Industry Of The Ordinary




          The day was the field trip to the museum of Industry Of The Ordinary I couldn't go because i was sick. However, I went to the museum the couple weeks later by myself. When I just arrived at the museum I was confused when I entered and saw the projection i was like what it this. I walked  the all museum and read the all information, but I was still confused. The security lady told "hey, you can seated and saw the projection" so i did it. When I finished saw it i entered into the house and saw the portraits with the self images and i was in shock because i really like that. I discovered that art can be a simple things not just big sculptures or famous paintings. I still a little confused about the museum because it was really different at what I'm used to see or know about museums.

viernes, 12 de octubre de 2012

Question number 20.

Choose 1 of those and then find an artwork that can be classified with your chosen term. Explain your chosen term and post a picture of an artwork here that demonstrates the term you chose. Explain why it is either representational or abstract.




This Art work is representational because is something real present. Is show a visible work, visual experience. Is representational because is a human being. 

Question number 9

 1-Artists create extraordinary versions of ordinary object.


 The artist Kevin Van Aelst  make the extraordinary from the ordinary. He use the commons artifacts from the real life to make an extraordinary art work. 

martes, 9 de octubre de 2012

Exploring the Website AIC




        Well, exploring the page was fun and boring at the same time. At first, when I started doing the homework I thought so boring and I cannot lie some collections were boring for me; I do not know why they were art. However, in explore collection the Portraits and mythology theme were interested.  Some collections were good and I discovered that my style was colorful and kind antiques sculptures because the paintings did not attract me too much. The one I liked most is call Chupicuaro and is from my country and like 3 hours from my city, but this is not why I like it.  The all sculpture is awesome.


 Looking, all the website make me learned different kinds of art, but most important for me I starting looking what kind of art is more interesting for me. 

martes, 2 de octubre de 2012

Loop Tour


Loop Tour

         The loop tour was so interesting.  I did the loop tour by myself and it was not so good because when I asked the people to take me a picture and each work it was a challenge, some were really bad taking pictures and some just told me "no thank you". In despite of that, it was really knowledge.  Usually I do not walk to much in the loop and because of that I did not knew the art that is in the loop. However, I started the tour and the information in the audio was really helpful and interesting. It just said a brief history and some details, but I was hoping the audio said more information because and some works I wanted to know more. I cheat I little beat because I didn’t start in the number one, for walked less instead I started in number 8 and the go to number 1 and because of that I was jumping the audio, but that didn’t distract me from the information. I was so interested in what the information said. Like, in the Millenium Park, the information was interesting I think that and the Picasso’s work were the most important, for me. I learned a lot in the tour like the Picasso work was so controversial and that are many art work that were made for remember people. When I arrived to my house I told my sister how awesome the tour was and I recommend my sister to do it because she loves all of this things.  

                                     The Peristyle 
I saw it before , but i didn't have idea that this bring the past and it's a replica.

I knew this before, so many times, but i didn't know that the idea of the artist was to express the idea that the human body is made most with water.
Crow Fountain 


Cloud Gate

We W

Picasso's Chicago is made for the famous artist Pablo Picasso and it was made it exactly for the city of Chicago for free. In the firsts days it was so controversial. However, now is the most famous and the one the people more like it. I can believe that it was orange and it's true for me looks like woman.
Miro's Chicago



 Sorry, this picture don't show the work complete. However, it was the one that I liked less because i think that is a copy from the Picasso. I know that is not a copy, but is similar idea. It is in front of the Picasso's and some people compered like i did.
Four Seasons
Flamingo

 Is the largest piece that you can walk. I always asked with it was called Flamingo because it doesn't looked like flamingo. Well, i learned that it was called just more for abstract.

          Well, the loop tour was nice and at the same time tired and this is just a little bit of what i learned in the loop tour.



           

lunes, 1 de octubre de 2012

Boat Ride



      Definitely the boat tour was great for me. I really liked it. It was the first time doing a boat tour and I was surprising with myself that I had five years living here in Chicago and most of the buildings I never notice how they look or the structure. I just saw a lot of building without notice them. However, after this tour I am sure that I will stop to look the buildings and saw the structure. Well I always wanted to do a boat trip, but I never did it because going by myself is not fun. I enjoyed going with my classmates. In the tour were a lot of buildings I really liked
 
 This building is not big and pretty, but it has something that made it interesting and that really like me. It made his own air condition from the water. I think that is like green architecture. Like the reading in the book The Michelle Kaufmanns Glidehouse.

 This one is the one I most liked. The structure the material, everything is wondefull in the bulding. In the tour the lady said that is the one, that is most thinny on the top. Is like the Wainwright Building in the book. I think this building is steel-frame construction.



This building is the longest building or this is what I heard from the lady. Is call Merchandise Mart.

This building is call Trump International Hotel & Tower and surprisingly I never saw this building before. It sounds crazy, but in the tour was the first time I saw and despite I do not like tall, new and fancy buildings I really like this one. I think the construction is call cast-iron construction. I like more old fashion constructions.