Download or read book Wong Sir s Trip Barcelona Spain Picasso Museum written by Wong sir（Frogwong） and published by ABCNETWORK. This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wong Sir's Trip：Barcelona, ​​Spain Picasso Museum There are many museums related to Picasso around the world, one located in the coast of Barcelona, ​​Spain. When it opened on March 9, 1963, Picasso was still alive, it was the first museum in the world to specialize in Picasso's works. The museum is located in a narrow alley, in five 13-15th century palaces in Ribeira, with typical Gothic architecture. The building is surrounded by an open-air atrium with an open-air staircase leading to the main floor. In order to protect the works, visitors should keep their bags. The museum can take pictures, but cannot use flashlights. The museum has a collection of 4,251 works by Picasso,many of which were donated by Picasso. It mainly displays Picasso's young age, and it is rare in other museums, including oil paints, drawings, prints, pottery and so on. The museum exhibits more than 4,000 works on two floors. There are two exhibition halls dedicated to Picasso's creations in 1917. The museum spreads Picasso's life course in different periods. Picasso (1881-1973) was born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881. At the age of 14, he moved to Barcelona to study painting, leaving many city paintings. Picasso and later moved to Paris to start a life page. 1890-1897: Early years Picasso's father was an art teacher. He had been involved in painting since he was a child. When he was eight years old, he completed his first oil painting. He painted a spear knight on a bullring. At the age of 12, the style of painting was like Raduelle, one of the three masters of Renaissance art. In 1895, Picasso was 14 years old. His father was sent to work at the well-known Longha Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Picasso sketched in classical art and still life, passed the entrance examination, successfully entered San Fernando in Madrid two years later. Picasso rarely goes to class and always visits art galleries. 1897-1901: period of schooling Moving from her birthplace to Málaga to Barcelona was a turning point in Picasso's style. Picasso's mastery of lines and colors was perfect and his expression was strong. In 1897, Picasso completed the painting "Science and Compassion", his father appeared as a doctor in the painting. Picasso made many friends, and some became lifelong. He painted portraits of many friends, emphasizing the outlines of the characters with strong and solid lines, with a little color on the background. At this time, Picasso painted the first painting with an abstract orientation. 1901-1904: The blue period Picasso was under nineteen when he first entered the world of Paris, when the Impressionist artist played an important role. Influenced by many Impressionist masters, Picasso was keen on color and had the shadow of Cézanne. Later, the style of painting turned to Fauvism. Within a year, Picasso experimented with various forms of painting. The death of a friend stained Picasso's world. Most of the works in the blue period were completed in Barcelona. He has changed color and subject matter a lot, focusing on prisons, mental hospitals or people suffering from sexually transmitted diseases. The prisoner series shows that they are the victims of society and their lives are desperately tortured by disease. 1904-1906: The Pink Period After the blue period, Picasso entered the pink period with Cubism. Picasso is fascinated by pink characters such as circus performances, street performers, jugglers and clowns. Showing their lives, depression, dreams, short-lived happiness, lonely clowns often appear in the works. 1917-1953: the metamorphosis period Picasso followed Cezanne-style Cubism, which indicated that Cubism was coming, it was a revolutionary breakthrough in the history of modern art. The "Avignon Girl" of 1907 is a representative work. The five nudes in the painting surround the foreground still life. In 1909, when analytic cubism appeared, Picasso and Braque influenced each other, and the two became pioneers of cubism. After 1914, Picasso's style of painting began to turn from abstract to concrete. He felt that he wanted to return to the lines of the sketch, but he did not give up cubism. In 1921, Picasso was fascinated by the world of theatre and dance. The "Three Musicians" returned to the classics to rediscover the tradition and to innovate again. 1937 was a watershed moment in Picasso's artistic career. During this period, a series of fancy paintings, including "The Crying Woman", "The Woman in a Hat", "Mary Taylor", etc., these paintings have in common the portrait is vertically asymmetric. When the Nazis captured Paris in 1940, Picasso's little girl neighbour changed the signboard from white to red when she attracted the pigeons, was killed by the Nazis. Picasso drew several white pigeons to mourn the little girl, and since then "white pigeons" have represented peace. 1953-1973: Old age The older Picasso was, the more he painted like a child, the later works were more "rough" than the earlier ones. Following Picasso's words: "I have pursued painting like a child all my life." Picasso has loved many women , Ji Qilian is his last wife. In 1953, Picasso, 72, married his 26-year-old wife, Ji Qilian painted more than 400 portraits for her, the largest number of Picasso's many lovers. Ji Qilian inspired Picasso's new artistic creation. He invented a new printmaking technique, using multiple colors to print on the same plate, breaking the original monolithic frame of each template, which is a breakthrough in the history of printmaking. On April 8, 1973, one day before Picasso's death, he was accompanied by Ji Qilian to take the elevator home. Before going to the bedroom, he stopped in front of a mirror in the lobby and looked at the mirror for a moment. he said : "Tomorrow , I will start drawing me. " The next day, he died forever,throughout his life, Picasso did not have a self-portrait. Picasso museum Address: Carrer de Montcada 15-23, 08003 Barcelona, ​​Spain Admission fee: EUR 12 for adults Concessionary ticket (ages 18 to 25 and over 65): € 7 Free for under 18 years old and college students Opening hours: 10: 00- 20:00 (Closed on Mondays) Closed days: January 1, May 1, June 24, December 25 Note: Free on the first Sunday of every month February 10, May 18, September 24, open days are free Free every Thursday 18: 00- 21:30 Transportation: Metro Line L1 Arc de Triomf Station, Line L3 Liceu Station, Line L4 Jaume I Station Get off and walk for about 10 minutes

Download or read book Pity and Terror written by Timothy J. Clark and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The news of the bombardment of the Basque town of Guernica by German planes during the Spanish Civil War was the inspiration that set Picasso to work on Guernica, the picture that transcended the specific historical moment to wich it refers to become the great icon of the twentieth century. In 2017 we commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the work's creation and the twenty-fifth anniversary of its arrival to the Museo Reina Sofía, with the organization of Pity and Terror: Picasso's Path to Guernica, a new exhibition of more than 170 pieces from the museum's own collection and from other institutions. To coincide with the anniversary of Guernica, the Museo Reina Sofía is publishing two books that are the result of research carried out by the Collections Department. The first is the current volume, Pity and Terror: Picasso's Path to Guernica, while the second will examine Guernica's travels.

Download or read book The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings written by Kathleen Dardes and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1998-10-29 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of an international symposium organized by the Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum. The first conference of its kind in twenty years, the symposium assembled an international group of conservators of painted panels, and gave them the opportunity to discuss their philosophies and share their work methods. Illustrated in color throughout, this volume presents thirty-one papers grouped into four topic areas: Wood Science and Technology, History of Panel-Manufacturing Techniques, History of the Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings, and Current Approaches to the Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings.

Download or read book The J Paul Getty Museum Journal written by The J. Paul Getty Museum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1989-11-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 16 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and sculpture and works of art. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 16 includes articles written by Richard A. Gergel, Lee Johnson, Myra D. Orth, Barbra Anderson, Louise Lippincott, Leonard Amico, Peggy Fogelman, Peter Fusco, Gerd Spitzer, and Clare Le Corbeiller.

Download or read book Picasso and the War Years 1937 1945 written by Steven A. Nash and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing book draws upon new research and works that, in some cases were held out of public view in Picasso's own collection, to explore the critically important--but still under-studied--period of his life from the Spanish Civil War through World War II and the Nazi occupation of France. This span of years is marked by some of the most intensely personal and expressive work of his career. The subjects he painted changed dramatically in direct response first to the horrors of war and then the dangers and privations of life in occupied Paris, where, though branded a degenerate artist by the Nazis, he chose to remain until the Liberation.

Download or read book The Originality of the Avant Garde and Other Modernist Myths written by Rosalind E. Krauss and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1986-07-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism. In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism.

Download or read book Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand written by Simon Unwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered how the ideas behind the world’s greatest architectural designs came about? What process does an architect go through to design buildings which become world-renowned for their excellence? This book reveals the secrets behind these buildings. He asks you to ‘read’ the building and understand its starting point by analyzing its final form. Through the gradual revelations made by an understanding of the thinking behind the form, you learn a unique methodology which can be used every time you look at any building.

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Download or read book Anarchy and Art written by Allan Antliff and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the powers of art is its ability to convey the human aspects of political events. In this fascinating survey on art, artists, and anarchism, Allan Antliff interrogates critical moments when anarchist artists have confronted pivotal events over the past 140 years. The survey begins with Gustave Courbet’s activism during the 1871 Paris Commune (which established the French republic) and ends with anarchist art during the fall of the Soviet empire. Other subjects include the French neoimpressionists, the Dada movement in New York, anarchist art during the Russian Revolution, political art of the 1960s, and gay art and politics post-World War II. Throughout, Antliff vividly explores art’s potential as a vehicle for social change and how it can also shape the course of political events, both historic and present-day; it is a book for the politically engaged and art aficionados alike. Allan Antliff is the author of Anarchist Modernism.

Download or read book The Postcolonial Museum written by Iain Chambers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how we can conceive of a ’postcolonial museum’ in the contemporary epoch of mass migrations, the internet and digital technologies. The authors consider the museum space, practices and institutions in the light of repressed histories, sounds, voices, images, memories, bodies, expression and cultures. Focusing on the transformation of museums as cultural spaces, rather than physical places, is to propose a living archive formed through creation, participation, production and innovation. The aim is to propose a critical assessment of the museum in the light of those transcultural and global migratory movements that challenge the historical and traditional frames of Occidental thought. This involves a search for new strategies and critical approaches in the fields of museum and heritage studies which will renew and extend understandings of European citizenship and result in an inevitable re-evaluation of the concept of ’modernity’ in a so-called globalised and multicultural world.

Download or read book Human Accomplishment written by Charles Murray and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence. "At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them.' So begins Charles Murray's unique account of human excellence, from the age of Homer to our own time. Employing techniques that historians have developed over the last century but that have rarely been applied to books written for the general public, Murray compiles inventories of the people who have been essential to the stories of literature, music, art, philosophy, and the sciences—a total of 4,002 men and women from around the world, ranked according to their eminence. The heart of Human Accomplishment is a series of enthralling descriptive chapters: on the giants in the arts and what sets them apart from the merely great; on the differences between great achievement in the arts and in the sciences; on the meta-inventions, 14 crucial leaps in human capacity to create great art and science; and on the patterns and trajectories of accomplishment across time and geography. Straightforwardly and undogmatically, Charles Murray takes on some controversial questions. Why has accomplishment been so concentrated in Europe? Among men? Since 1400? He presents evidence that the rate of great accomplishment has been declining in the last century, asks what it means, and offers a rich framework for thinking about the conditions under which the human spirit has expressed itself most gloriously. Eye-opening and humbling, Human Accomplishment is a fascinating work that describes what humans at their best can achieve, provides tools for exploring its wellsprings, and celebrates the continuing common quest of humans everywhere to discover truths, create beauty, and apprehend the good.

Download or read book Comparing the Literatures written by David Damrosch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2020.

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Download or read book Picasso s Guernica written by Anthony Blunt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1969 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Cathedral of the Sea written by Ildefonso Falcones and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable fresco of a golden age in fourteenth-century Barcelona, Cathedral of the Sea is a thrilling historical novel of friendship and revenge, plague and hope, love and war. Arnau Estanyol arrives in Barcelona to find a city dominated by the construction of the city’s great pride—the cathedral of Santa Maria del Mar—and by its shame, the deadly Inquisition. As a young man, Arnau joins the powerful guild of stoneworkers and helps to build the church with his own hands, while his best friend and adopted brother Joanet studies to become a priest. With time, Arnau prospers and falls secretly in love with a forbidden woman. But when he is betrayed and hauled before the Inquisitor, he finds himself face-to-face with Joanet. Will he lose his life just as his beloved Cathedral of the Sea is finally completed, or will his brother save him? MORE THAN TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE!

Download or read book Active Collections written by Elizabeth Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, many museums have implemented sweeping changes in how they engage audiences. However, changes to the field’s approaches to collections stewardship have come much more slowly. Active Collections critically examines existing approaches to museum collections and explores practical, yet radical, ways that museums can better manage their collections to actively advance their missions. Approaching the question of modern museum collection stewardship from a position of "tough love," the authors argue that the museum field risks being constrained by rigid ways of thinking about objects. Examining the field’s relationship to objects, artifacts, and specimens, the volume explores the question of stewardship through the dissection of a broad range of issues, including questions of "quality over quantity," emotional attachment, dispassionate cataloging, and cognitive biases in curatorship. The essays look to insights from fields as diverse as forest management, library science, and the psychology of compulsive hoarding, to inform and innovate collection practices. Essay contributions come from both experienced museum professionals and scholars from disciplines as diverse as psychology, education, and history. The result is a critical exploration that makes the book essential reading for museum professionals, as well as those in training.