Presentations for Units 7 and 8

This is the update for the last units we've studied. Sorry for the delay.

UNIT 7

UNIT 8

Some videos about Francisco de Goya's paintings

This is a very complete documentary hosted by famous art historian Robert Hughes. You can learn a lot about Goya if you watch it:

 And this short video includes Goya's Black Paintings, some of the most breathtaking images of art 

history:

Art project

Church of Sainte Madeleine

This building was designed by Pierre Alexandre Vignon between 1807 and 1827. This type of architecture belongs to the the New Classicism. Napoleon was who ordered the construction of this church, this was a temple for the glory of the French Army. This church has the structure of a Greek temple, it has high columns, on it there is a pediment with the figure of people sculpted, its doors have a lot of details too, in the interior you can see domes paintings and sculptures of angels. The basic material used was stone sculpted to make the characteristic details of this style. This church belongs to the New-Classicism because of the details it has, for example the use of columns and pillars, the domes, the pediment and its arches.

Two old men eating soup

This painting was made by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, a Spanish painter who was born in Zaragoza, Fuendetodos in 1746. He made this painting between the 1819 and 1823. It doesn’t belong to a general style, this is one of the Black Paintings which he painted when he retired to a house on the banks of the river Manzanares called house of the Deaf Man, he startied painting on this way when he became deaf, because of this illness his paintings became more cirtical and introspective ans colours were darker, that is why they were called Blaack Paintings. He didn’t paint this work because someone connisioned him to do it, he made paintings on the walls of his house when Ferdinand VII came back and he lost his job, on that period he became completely isolated. On it there are two old men painted. The man who is on the left is smiling, he  has got a spoon in his right hand, I can also see that the two men are looking at their left, the two men are bold, the two man are covered with something which seems to be like a bed sheet, on the bed sheet there is a plate with soup, the man who is on the right has no eyes, the whole background is black. It was made by a technique called oil painting. On this painting no one knows who the men are, some people think they are witches but we can't know it exactly because Goya didn't put a name to this paintings. This painting belongs to the dark paintings of Goya, these ones are featured by being painted with dark colours like grey, black…

The puddler

This sculpture was made by Constantin Meunier, a Belgian painter who was born in Etterbeek. He made this sculpture in 1885. This work belongs to the Naturalist style, the last stage of Realism. On this sculpture I can see a man who is sitting, he is wearing a hat, trousers and boots, the whole sculpture is brown, this is because of the material used to make it. It is sculpted on bronze. This sculpture shows a worker, this is one of the sculptures he made when he came back to Belgium. We can say this sculpture belongs to the Naturalism because of the details it has and its theme, the work, this is one of the main themes of realism.

Otto Dix and World War 1

Otto Dix was a German painter who fought in World War 1. He went to fight full of enthusiasm, but what he experienced in the battlefields strongly traumatized him. After the war he had recurring nightmares with the scenes he had seen during the war and he painted several paintings and made a series of etchings that reminds of Goya's War Disasters about the Peninsular War. Here you have some of his works and a short video about his art:


SERIES OF ETCHINGS  DER KRIEG (WAR)

Stormtroops advancing under a gas attack

Wounded soldier

Corpse of a horse

Crater field near Dontrien lit up by flares

Collapsed trenches

Dead sentry in the trenches

Gas victims

Transporting the Wounded in Houthulst Forest

Skull

Dead man in the mud

PAINTINGS 

The War Cripples (1920)

The Trench (1923)

This painting was destroyed during the Nazi era

War Triptych (1929-1932)

Flanders (1934)

Sources: 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/may/14/art-apocalypse-otto-dix-first-world-war-der-krieg-in-pictures

https://reflectionsandcontemplations.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/unpacking-a-painting/

On this link you can download a presentation with the complete series of Etchings: 

http://nga.gov.au/dix/slideshow.cfm

And this is a video that summarizes Otto Dix career and his participation in WW1: 

New project: art catalogue of the 18th and 19th centuries

 Source: https://www.grupoiniciativas.com/inidis/editorial/publicaciones/catalogos-exposiciones.html

This time the project is individual and it will consist of studying the art of the 18th and 19th centuries. This is what you have to do: 

You are an art lover and you have decided to spend your summer as an intern at El Prado Museum. The museum is preparing an art exhibition of the 18th and 19th century and your boss has given you the responsibility to look for all the necessary information to prepare the catalogue. You will also have to contact the foreign museums to ask them to lend El Prado some important artworks. Your boss has also given you the opportunity to write about your favourite art work of every style and include your texts in the official museum catalogue. Your don’t want to deceive your boss and want to do a good quality work.

As the exhibition will be next month, you’ve decided to plan your work. The styles you need to explain are the following:

-        -   18th century: Rococo, Neoclassicism (architecture, sculpture and painting in both styles)

-          Transition between the 18th and 19th centuries: GOYA

-       -    19th century:

o   ARCHITECTURE: Historicism, Iron and Steel Architecture and Modernism

o   SCULPTURE AND PAINTING: Romanticism, Realism and  Impressionism

o   PAINTING: New-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism

You have decided to distribute your work per weeks:

-          Week 1: Rococo, Neoclassicism and Goya

-          Week 2: Historicism, Romanticism and Iron and Steel architecture

-          Week 3: Realism, Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism

-          Week 4: Modernism and Post-Impressionism

You can present your work in two ways: 

- The catalogue has to include: 

•           A prologue, presenting your work to the readers and thanking the museums that have lent their works to El Prado

•          Main features of every style, main artists and works

•          Your favourite work of every style and a deep explanation: when it was made, author, theme, main features, reflection of the style on the work, other art works from which it drew inspiration or other artists influenced by this work…

- The other option is your workbook to prepare the exhibition, where you can include all the information you get and all the procedures you follow to get it ready in time. 

Here you have some images of exhibition catalogues: 

Source: http://tienda.museothyssen.org/es/

 And these are some examples of art worbooks: 

 

Source: https://megankounnas.wordpress.com/

Source: http://dennerd.victorschools.org/ibworkbookgallery.html

Source: https://lisadarling.wikispaces.com/IB+Visual+Art

Here you can see some more examples: 

https://es.pinterest.com/shoush2/ib-workbook-samples/

In any of the cases, you have to include images or drawings of the art works you are talking about.

The deadline to hand in the project will be the 23rd of May (Monday)


Here you have the presentations of these contents, just in case you want to have a look on them to choose your favourite works:

This day in history: Pedro de Mena's death

On the 13th October 1688 Pedro de Mena, one of the most important Baroque sculptors, passed away in Málaga. He was one of the most outstanding sculptors of the Baroque Andalusian school. He worked mainly for the Church and sculpted works for the cathedrals of Málaga and Toledo. Here you have some of his main works. You can include some of them on your travel journal: 

Penitent Magdalen

Source: http://arte.laguia2000.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pedro-de-mena-1.jpg

Saint John the Baptist

Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/San_Juan_Bautista_ni%C3%B1o_001.jpg/800px-San_Juan_Bautista_ni%C3%B1o_001.jpg

Ecce Homo

Source: http://esunmomento.es/Arte/Mena%205.jpg

Saint Francis of Assisi

Source: http://www.lahornacina.com/images12/D%20-%20Excelencias%20XVII.jpg

Do you want to help me rebuild the art wall?

As I have told you this morning, I would like to rebuild the art wall we mede in class two years ago. If you have a colour printer and you want to collaborate with me in this task, here you have some instructions about how to do it: 

- Choose one painting you like. In order not to have repeated paintings, I'll make a list of paintings and you can choose the one you prefer. The purpose is that the wall includes some of the most representative paintings of every art style. 

- As the tiles of the class measure 20 x 20 cm, the paintings should be 20 cm wide and not more than 20 cm high. Use the Word ruler to know the measures of the painting you've chosen. It's better that you print the images horizontally, except  Here you have an image where you can see the rule: 

- The title of the painting has to be written with the Calibri font, size 16 and in bold. First we'll write the title in Spanish, a hyphen and finally the name in English. All this has to be written in the same line. The author's name will be written in a second line, below the title. 

If you want to cooperate with this project, please leave a message in the comments' section. Thanks!

This day in history: Elizabeth of France's death

I'm inaugurating a new section on the blog called "This day in history". It consists of explaining some historical events happened on a specific date in the past. You can contribute with your own events, but respecting some rules: the events you elect have to be related to what we' ve studied in class.

On the 6th October 1644 Elizabeth of France, Philip IV's first wife, died in Madrid at the age of 41. She was the daughter of Henry IV of France and Mary of Medicis. She gave birth to 8 children, but when she died only two survived: prince Balthasar Charles, dead two years later when he was 15, and infanta Maria Theresa of Austria, whose marriage with Louis XIV of France was arranged in the Peace of the Pyrenees. 

These are some portraits by Queen Elizabeth painted by Diego de Silva and Velázquez, Philip IV's court painter: 

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_of_France_(1602%E2%80%931644)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Retrato_ecuestre_de_Isabel_de_Borb%C3%B3n,_by_Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez.jpg

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Retrato_de_Isabel_de_Borb%C3%B3n,_by_studio_of_Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez.jpg

As prince Balthasar Charles died in 1646, Philip IV needed a new heir to the throne and in 1649 he married his niece Mariana of Austria. They had 5 children. Charles II was the youngest one and the only surviving boy. This was the reason why he became the king of the Hispanic Monarchy.

The French branch of Charles II's family played a significant role when the monarch died. Philip of Anjou, Louis XIV and Maria Theresa of Austria's grandson, was designated by Charles II as the heir to the throne in his last testament. He finally became the king of Spain, after the WAr of Spanish Succession.

Art project: travel journal to Baroque art

Source: http://piccadillyinc.com/stock/travel-journals/travel-main.png

Source: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/79/58/f1/7958f18805ba8fb72cb1585d57363bfd.jpg

These are the guidelines for the individual project you are going to do about art  in the 17th century:

Imagine that you are a time traveller and an art lover. Your next trip will be to the 17th century to learn about the art  of this century. Your project will consist of making a travel journal with the following contents:

 - The content of the project is Baroque art in Europe and in the Hispanic Monarchy, including architecture, sculpture and painting.

- Main features, artists and works of Baroque art, narrated as in you were visiting the times and significant places of this period.

- In addition, you will have to choose your favourite art work of  the most important artists of every place, write a short biography of its author, an explanation of the work and your personal opinion about it. For example: in architecture, the most important architect in Italy was Bernini. You should write a short biography of him and choose your favourite architectural work of this artist and why you like it.

- Every stage of your trip will have to include images of the main works and artists. They can be printed images  or drawings you make.

Source: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/68/48/4a/68484aa5063ed0a8014892d8b3a2c5e9.jpg

- The format of your travel journal is free: it can be a real journal, bought or made by you with cardboard or another material you prefer, it can also be a video journal, but it has to have the structure of a journal.

The deadline to hand in this project will be the 29th October (Thursday). You have four weeks to do it, so plan your work and don't wait until the last day.

ATTENTION: If your project is superficial or incomplete, you will have to take the exam of these contents.

This afternoon I will upload some pictures of the travel journals last year students did. This way you will have an idea of what you can do if you work hard. 

Here you have some advice about how to make an original travel journal on paper, creating beautiful backgrounds for your pages:

http://rondapalazzari.typepad.com/helpmeronda/2014/06/create-daily-travel-art-journal.html

http://taconescongracia.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/album-del-primer-taller-de-art-journal.html

https://aworkofheart.wordpress.com/tag/art-journal/

Use your imagination and enjoy the trip!

Art project: travel journal through the 18th-19th centuries

Source: http://www.togethertraveler.com/2014/12/make-travel-journal.html

These are the guidelines for the new project: 

 Imagine that you are a time traveller and an art lover. Your next trips will be to the 18th and 19th centuries to learn about the art styles of these centuries. Your project will consist of making a travel journal with the following contents: 

- Main features, artists and works of every art style, narrated as in you were visiting the times and significant places of every artistic period. 

- In addition, you will have to choose your favourite art work of each style, write a short biography of its author, an explanation of the work and your personal opinion about it

- Every stage of your trip will have to include images of the main works and artists. They can be images that you print or drawings you make. 

- The styles the project will have to include are the following: 

• 18th century: Rococo and New-Classicism
• 19th century: 
• ARCHITECTURE: historicism, iron and steel architecture and Art Nouveau
• 
  
• SCULPTURE AND PAINTING: romanticism, realism, impressionism, new-impressionism and post-impressionism

Try to set the art styles in chronological order. 

The format of your travel journal is free: it can be a real journal, bought or made by you with cardboard or another material you prefer, it can also be a presentation or a video journal. 

The deadline to hand in this project will be the 23th of April.

Here you have some advice about how to make an original travel journal on paper, creating beautiful backgrounds for your pages:

http://rondapalazzari.typepad.com/helpmeronda/2014/06/create-daily-travel-art-journal.html

http://taconescongracia.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/album-del-primer-taller-de-art-journal.html

https://aworkofheart.wordpress.com/tag/art-journal/

Use your imagination and enjoy the trip!

Instructions and guidance for your Baroque

Source: http://www.projectmanage.com/decision-making-whats-the-big-deal/

You may have received an e-mail with the names of the Baroque works of art you will have to study. This is what you will have to do: 

- Write an individual post about the two works of art you have to study. The post will have to include the following data compulsorily: Title, author, pictures to understand what you are explaining, the text you have written and the sources you have used to prepare it. 

- You should start looking for information about your work of art in Spanish. You have to make sure that you understand all the information before starting writing. Prepare a previous scheme and be sure that you don´t forget any part, review the main Baroque features and try to find them on your work of art. 

- Use different sources of information (not only Wikipedia), don´t copy and paste and don´t use the computer translator (I will know it if you do it and this may make you fail this project) Write simple and understandable sentences. 

- Copy the links of the websites you visit to include them at the end of your explanation and file them on a Word document. This way, you won't lose time looking for the links you've used when you finish your project.

- The names of the works of art have to be written in Italic font (cursiva) and with all the words in capital letters (nouns and verbs, not prepositions). For example: Saturn Devouring His Son, The Crucifixion of Saint Peter. 

- You have to understand what you explain because once the projects will be finished, I will ask you about them in class, in the same way we did with the Renaissance art projects. 

These are the specific guidelines for architecture, sculpture and painting

ANALYSIS OF A BUILDING

Palazzo Carignano, Guarino Guarini in Torino (Italy)

Source: http://www.museotorino.it/view/s/626afe674cf94760881325345648e4c6

The analysis of a building has to include: 

-  The title and author of the building

- The chronological and geographic context: where and when the sculpture was made and who commissioned the sculpture.

- Type of building and function

- Commissioner

- Materials used

- Description of its different parts: facade, floor plan and elevation, decorative elements used, proportions, integration in the space

- The features of the art style the building belongs to and the correspondence between the features of the building and the art style.

- Additional information: influence in other buildings

You can include one or several pictures of the building, its floor plan and also the portrait of its author. 

ANALYSIS OF A SCULPTURE

David, Bernini

Source: http://arte.laguia2000.com/escultura/david-de-bernini

The analysis of a sculpture has to include this information:

- The title and author of the sculpture.

- The chronological and geographic context: where and when the sculpture was made and who commissioned the sculpture.

- Technical data: size, material used, where the sculpture is at present...

- A description of the sculpture, taking into account this rule: first we have to talk about what we see and after we can add details of what we have learnt in our research. We have to include the material, technique, figures represented, light, movement, clothes, influences the author received, symbols and meaning.

- The features of the art style the sculpture belongs to and the correspondence between the features of the sculpture and the art style it belongs to.

- Additional interesting information: importance of the sculpture in the story of art, influence of the sculpture in other artists.

You can include one or several pictures of the sculpture and also the portrait of its author. 

You have an example of a sculpture analysis on page 115 of your book. Read it before writing your text. 

ANALYSIS OF A PAINTING

Saint Thomas' doubt, Caravaggio

Source: http://www.taringa.net/posts/arte/7418734/Maldito-Caravaggio.html

 The analysis of a painting has to include: 

- The title and author of the painting.

- The chronological and geographic context: where and when the painting was made and who commissioned the painting.

- Technical data: size, material used, where the painting is at present...

- A description of the painting: technique, people represented, places, colours and shapes, light, influences the author received, symbols and meaning.

- The features of the art style the painting belongs to and the correspondence between the features of the painting and the art style it belongs to.

- Additional interesting information: importance of the painting in the history of art, influence of the painting in other artists.

You can include one or several pictures of the painting and also the portrait of its author. 

You have an example of a painting analysis on page 88 of your book. Read it before writing your text. 

And finally, here you have some useful websites to find  good information: 

- Smart History: http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/

- About.com: http://arthistory.about.com/

- Bernini´s sculptures:

http://cherkas.com/romesartwork/berninissculptures.html

http://www.galleriaborghese.it/borghese/en/edafne.htm

- Fountains in Rome:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fountains_in_Rome
http://www.tours-italy.com/rome/fountains.htm

- El Prado Museum: Here you will find a lot of information about Velázquez, Murillo, Ribera, Ribalta, Rubens and Zurbarán:

http://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/galeria-on-line

- Velázquez´s paintings at the National Gallery:

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/search/vel%C3%A1zquez/1?filter=paintings

- Rembrandthuis: the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam:

http://www.rembrandthuis.nl/cms_pages/index_main.html

- Essential Vermeer: a very complete website about the painter Vermeer:
http://www.essentialvermeer.com/index.html

- Caravaggio´s paintings:

http://caravaggio.com/#

http://www.artble.com/artists/caravaggio/more_information/style_and_technique

REMEMBER THAT THE DEADLINE IS THE 20th OF NOVEMBER. 

Presentations of Baroque art (general and in the Hispanic Monarchy)

Here you have the two presentations that correspond to Baroque art style: 

Renaissance art presentation

Here you have the presentation of Renaissance art. You can use it to complete your notes or have a list of the most important works of this period. It will be especially useful for the examples to include on your project. 

 

Some Velázquez's masterpieces

Here you have some videos in English about some of Velázquez's most famous paintings: Vulcan's Forge, The Triumph of Bacchus or The Drunks and The Meninas. Pay attention to the pronunciation, because this is an aspect the most of you have to improve. On the links below every video, you can activate the subtitles in English to follow the explanation: 

Link to transcription: 

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/art-history-1600-1700-the-baroque/spain/v/vel-zquez--vulcan-s-forge--c--1630

Link to transcription: 

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/art-history-1600-1700-the-baroque/spain/v/vel-zquez--los-borrachos--the-drunks---1628-1629

Link to transcription: 

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/art-history-1600-1700-the-baroque/spain/v/vel-zquez--las-meninas--c--1656

El Escorial Crypt

Source: http://elzo-meridianos.blogspot.com.es/2010/04/el-lugar-donde-acaban-los-reyes-el.html

One of the most curious spaces of the Royal Monastery of El Escorial is the royal crypt, where many of the former monarchs of the Hispanic Monarchy and Spain are buried. As we studied, the monastery was built by Philip II, who conceived it as his residence ans also as resting place for him and the members of his family. That's why he ordered the construction of a crypt or pantheon beneath the church.

A. Altar of the Basilica

B. Burial place 

C. Crypt (Panteón de Reyes, s. XVII)

D. Choir of the Chapel (Panteón de Infantes, s. XVII)

E.  Choir for the monks

F. Tabernacle

G. Philip II's summer room

Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripta_Real_del_Monasterio_de_El_Escorial

The crypt contains 26 marble sepulchers plus two additional ones over the entrance and it's reserved for the ruling monarchs and  and their spouses. The monarchs' tombs are on one side and their spouses are on the opposite side. Isabella II is the only queen on the monarchs' side and Francisco de Asís' tomb, her husband, is located on the spouses' side. On the following drawing you can observe the distribution of the tombs: (the monarchs on the left and their spouses on the right): 

  

Source: http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/royal-burial-sites/spanish-royal-burial-sites/spanish-royal-burial-sites-of-the-kingdom-of-spain-1516-present/

The first monarchs to be buried there were Philip II's parents, Charles V and Isabella of Portugal. The ruling monarchs who are not buried in the crypt are the following: 

- Philip V, buried at La Granja Palace, in Segovia

- Ferdinand VI, buried at the Royal Monastery of Las Salesas Reales, in Madrid. As his wife Bárbara of Braganza didn't have children, she didn't have the right to be buried in El Escorial (the spouses only have the right to rest there if they were mothers/fathers of kings) and she was buried in Madrid. Ferdinand VI decided to rest with her

- Joseph I and  Amadeus I, foreign monarchs who didn't finish their reign in Spain

The last monarchs to be buried in the crypt were Alphonse XIII and his wife Victoria Eugenia. There are two tombs reserved for Juan of Borbón and his wife Mª de las Mercedes, King Juan Carlos I's parents. They didn't reign, but as they were the king's parents, they are going to be buried on the right side. 

There is a rotting room (el "pudridero"), where the corpses of the dead remain for some years until they can be placed inside the funerary urns. At the moment, the King's parents are in this rotting room. This is the only existing picture of the rotting room:

Source: http://elzo-meridianos.blogspot.com.es/2010/04/el-lugar-donde-acaban-los-reyes-el.html

Other members of the royal family (infantes, infantas and the queens who were not mothers of a king) are buried in the Pantheon of Infantes, which includes several rooms that host around 100 corpses. There is a curious tomb, with the shape of a birthday cake, reserved for the infants who died before having received the first communion. Here you have it: 

Source: http://www.travelinginspain.com/el_escorial_Crypt.html

If you want to read more about El Escorial Royal Pantheon, here you have two more links: 

http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/royal-burial-sites/spanish-royal-burial-sites/spanish-royal-burial-sites-of-the-kingdom-of-spain-1516-present/

http://www.travelinginspain.com/el_escorial_Crypt.html