Sunday, May 13, 2012

Vanishing Bolsheviks and other manipulated pictures

Last Thursday we saw several manipulated photographs in the USSR during Stalin´s rule. Here you have some other pictures and links: 


Four, three, two, one...





The original picture was taken in Leningrad in 1926 and it showed, Antipov, Stalin, Kirov and Shvernik. Kirov was executed in 1934 and Antipov in 1941. Shvernik survived until 1970, but was erased when Brodsky painted Stalin´s portrait in 1949. 


And these are some links: 

- SOVIET RUSSIAN PHOTO CORRECTION: this is the website we visited last week.


- THE COMISSAR VANISHES: THE FALSIFICATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS IN STALIN´S RUSSIA: interactive exhibition by the News Museum and Loyola University



As we saw the other day, Stalin was not the only one to order the manipulation of photographs. Here you have again the manipulated pictures of Franco and Hitler´s interview in Hendaye (France) in 1940:


On the first picture, Franco with his eyes closed 
On the second one, Franco with his eyes open 




On this picture they stuck the three figures over 

another picture of a train arriving to the station






And here Franco was "made" taller than he was 
and a decoration was added to his uniform. 
Source: http://lafotografiaprohibida.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/%C2%BFquien-es-quien/

Postcript: 

This is a curious piece of news appeared today (11th June) in the newspaper.The General Council of the Judicial Power press service has been erasing the images of a man who works as a bodyguard for Carlos Dívar, the president of the Council. This man is supposedly the one who accompanied him to his "business trips" to Marbella. Stalin´s methods are still alive! Here you have the information: 

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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Baroque, Rococo and New-Classicism Presentation

Here is my presentation about three of the main artistic movements of the 19th century. They're late Baroque, Rococo and New-Classicism. In this powerpoint there are many works of art which I knew before, but I didn't know about their meaning, their artistic style... It is an entertain and interesting powerpoint and I hope you'll enjoy it as I enjoy creating and researching information for this powerpoint.
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10th/ May/ 2012.

Today at the beginning of the class Paqui has said the real translation of piolet in English, Ice-ax,   the Paqui has shown us a video on the blog about Trostky´s assesination, but as we haven´t had time to wacht it, we can watch it at home. Then we  have checked exercise 12 about how Stalin reached power, his objectives and the main features of his  rule, Silvia and Yolanda Rubio has done it.

STALINISM
A) Economic Policy: - Collectivization
                                 - Centraly planned Economy
                                 - Priority to heavy industriy
B) Elimination of Enemies: - NKVD (secret police)
                                                               - Killed
                                                               - Set to Gulags ( forced labour camps)
C) Totalitarian State: C. Party
D) Cult of Stalin´s personality.


Then we have been speaking about The secret police (KNVD) arrested more than 1.5 million people and 700.000 people were killed during the Stalinist purges in the 1930. Paqui has explained some things about  the Great Purge (1938): Stalin ordered the execution of many generals of the Red army. We have seen some photos of Stalin, but as Stalin was  fell from grace, he couldn´t appeared in photos and they were retouched with photoshop, as it have been very interesting Paqui has shown us a photo about  Hitler and Francos´interview.
At the end of the class we have decided the date of the exam. It will be the 17th of May, and we have seen Daniel´s Power Point about Art Nouveau.





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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Lenin´s succession and the ice-ax

As we have studied today, after Lenin´s death there were some transition years in which Stalin and Trotsky were the main leaders of two factions in fight for power. This is what  Lenin wrote about them in 1922 about Stalin and Trotsky: 

24th December
Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution. Comrade Trotsky, on the other hand (...) is distinguished not only by outstanding ability. He is personally perhaps the most capable man in the present Central Committee., but he has displayed excessive self-assurance and shown excessive preoccupation with the purely administrative side of the work.


25th December



Stalin is too rude and this defect, although quite tolerable in our midst and in dealing among us Communists, becomes intolerable in a Secretary-General. That is why I suggest the comrades think about a way of removing Stalin from that post and appointing another man in his stead who in all other respects differs from Comrade Stalin in having only one advantage, namely, that of being more tolerant, more loyal, more polite, and more considerate to the comrades, less capricious, etc. This circumstance may appear to be a negligible detail. But I think that from the standpoint of safeguards against a split, and from the standpoint of what I wrote above about the relationship between Stalin and Trotsky, it is not a detail, or it is a detail which can assume decisive importance.

Lenin´s testament (1922)

In these transition years the President of the USSR was Alexei Rykov, who supported Stalin against Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev.  Rykov, Kamenev and Zinoviev were executed in 1938 during the Great Purge. Trotsky was assassinated by Stalin´s order in Mexico City in 1940. The killer was Ramón Mercader, a Spanish communist who worked as a Soviet agent. Mercader used an ice-ax to kill Trotsky and the story of this murder is very curious. Mercader visited Trotsky several times and gained his confidence. On the 20th August 1940 Mercader brought an ice-ax  hidden in his raincoat and waited for the right moment to kill Trotsky. Here you have a short video which reproduces the murder: 


And this is a picture of the famous ice-ax:


On the link above you can find more information about the house where the murder was committed. Now it´s a museum about Trotsky. 

And here you have another link about what happened to the ice-ax: 


After killing Trotsky, Mercader was arrested by Trotsky´s bodyguards, later judged and sentenced to 20 years prison in Mexico. Stalin decorated Mercader with the Order of Lenin, the most valuable decoration bestowed in the USSR. Mercader died in Cuba in 1978.
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Goya by Sara

I've done a presentation about Goya's life, of course, including part of his works. I've enjoyed a lot doing it, because I've could show my creativity. I like Goya in general and I like a lot his fist works and also "the 3rd of May" and I don't like at all "Saturn devouring his son". I hope you like it as much as me....!!
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Art Nouveau and Antoni Gaudí by Laura Bustamante

Hi! This is my project about Art Nouveau and Antoni Gaudí. I think that Art Nouveau is an interesting style, but the part I liked most of my Project has been Antoni Gaudí, because it was a great artist. With this project I have learned much more about the Art Nouveau and even more about Antoni Gaudí and The Holy Family.

See you tomorrow! & Enjoy it!

Kisses!
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Wendsday 9th of May



Today was the last day to correct our project and upload it to slideshare, everyone can watch my project in the post below.

Today we are going to finish with the Power Point about the Russian Revolution.

We have reviewed a little bit, the USSR was a totalitarian state with only one party, most times the leader of the Communist party was the president of the USSR .

Now we continued with new things,  production was very low and Stalin decided to insured the new economic policy. Giving Land to peasants and factories to workers, economy recover very quickly with this new policy.

Later we have talk about digital withe board in the high school there are 7 new ones and 200 notebooks for 1st year ESO students. Next year there will be 15 teachers less and  the Junta spend the money in this?

7 Whiteboards          3000€ per one x 7                                21000€
200 notebooks          250€  per one x 200                            50000€           
                                                                                            71000€!

                                                                                    3 teachers

And no money for photocopies. If our necessities were covered this would be hopeful.

After this news break we continued with the Power Point: the fight for the power between Trotsky and Stallin.
Stallin wants to spread comunism througt war and Trotsky throught  imitation and peace. So Stallin reach more spport than Trotsky and Trostky went to exile out of the USSR in 1924.
As Trotsky was exiled Stallin send a Spainish man to kill Trotsky, he was Ramón Mercader who killed Trotsky with a piolet, the thing wich climbers use.

Now Manu have askesd Paqui, how was the realtion between Stallin and Lenin, for Paqui this is a good question. Lenin didn´t like Stallin, beacause for him he was a dangerous criminal and at the same time he didn´t like Trotsky. In 1953 Stallin died and there were different presidents of the USSR:
  • Kuoshev
  • Brezhnev
  • Chernenko
  • Andropov
  • Corvachov
After the USSR broke up into different republics and the presidents of Russia were:
Source: https://sovietbooks.wordpress.com/
2010/08/08/ussr-education industry-science-welfare/  
  • Yeltsem
  • Putin
  • Plecktedev
  • Putin
And now the last point of the unit Stallinism
The goverment stablished the centre plan economy. So they planned economy for five years.


The goverment of the USSR also priority heavy industry.

If the factories didn´t reach the spectatives they have a big problem and this system is not wrong
So the owners of the factories change the numbers. If they produce more thwt is planned the sold the rest of the product in the black market.


In the last years of the USSR it was very difficult to find eggs, one egg 40€.Kelly told us something about that last year.                                                      

For Homework exercise 12 in the review
  



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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Art Nouveau and Gaudí by Ángel

This is my project about Art nouveau and Antonio Gaudí . I like this art style, Gustav Klimt and and Alhonse Mucha in painting,Domènech i Montaner and Antonio Gaudí in architecture and all that is refer to Decorative arts. See you tomorrow and enjoy it!
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Neo-Impressionism and Post-Impressionism by Isabel

Hello! This is my proyec about neo-impressionism and post-impressionism. I have enjoy learning new things about these periods, and I like a lot both of them, one of the things I have liked more, is to know new painters, and I thing Paul Signac is very interesting, I like his paintings a lot! Kisses, see you!
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Rebeca´s Presentation

Hello! This is my project about Iron and Steel Architecture and realism. I have liked to do this project because I have learnt many things about how architecture evolved in the past and how the engineers and the architects discovered new useful materials like iron and steel. But this part for me has been a little boring, I prefer Realism, because painting and sculpture show the ideas and feelings of a period. In Realism as the word say, the painters showed the real life: poverty, hungry... I prefer painting instead of sculpture. I have analysed a sculpture of Jean- Baptiste Carpeaux called Dance and a painting of Gustave Courbet called The Artist´s studio.
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