Colours of the Avant-garde Art in Romania 1910-1950

What you see here is a painting by a Romanian artist, this work of art can be seen in Lisbon Portugal now. It is in the Chiado Museum. http://www.museudochiado-ipmuseus.pt/en/node/495
This is the web page where you can visit/see this exhibition.

Victor Brauner, Portrait of the poet Ilarie Voronca, Galati Museum of Art

An Egyptian Queen

Queen Nefertiti was the wife of Akhnaten. This pharaoh was a revolutionary one, he tried to change egyptian religion forever. He wanted his people to adore one god, the Sun. Of course he was really hated by priests and religious people. And his revolution ended the day he died.
Nefertiti (c. 1370 a. C. - c. 1330 a. C.) She wasn't only the wife of the pharaoh, Akhnaten made her a queen with the same powers of the pharaoh, something very unusual in Egypt. That is why we see the royal couple together in political and religious representations.

Romanesque Art

When I teach art I usually have the feeling that I cannot express what I really feel about the periods I refer to. I love art and I would like to make students like it at least a little bit, so let's try again. Here you have my favourite group of Romanesque paintings in Spain, When I visited them come years ago I had a wonderful time seeing such besutiful and yet naive figures. Maybe you'll love the gore part on one of them. This is The Crypt in the Colegiata of Saint Isidore, in Leon (Spain)

Four Periods in Art

Compare the four ideas you find in these paintings. What is the most important idea in them? Note down differences and similarities and comment your notes with your teacher.

And the winner is...

It seems most 2nd graders like "La Gioconda" 3 out of 5 students said this was their favourite work of art. Please visit wikipedia and watch the different parts of the painting photographed in the article.

Working conditions and art

This is just an introductory idea for the 3rd year students. As I said there is a Brazilian photographer who has shown the world some of the worst working conditions and yet he has made beautiful pictures.

My favourite work of art

Michelangelo. Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici. 1526-1531. Marble. Medici Chapel, San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy.
(Here is another example for 2nd graders)
The statue of Lorenzo di Medici is my favourite work of art, when I see "Il Pensieroso" I can feel his strength, his thinking attitude is so clear I can imagine what he is thinking about. In this renaissance sculpture you see the classical influence, but you even imagine what is to come in the baroque. Geniuses are like this they get inspiration in the past and are able to be a source of newer works of arts.