The Frick report

     The Cup of Coffee is a college and drawing made by Pablo Picasso. Picasso cut out pieces of commercially product  of wallpaper and black collared drawing paper to represent  different parts of the foreground and background of this art piece.  In addition, P. Picasso drow some elements that make the final artwork look  real and tridimensional. In the final artwork, we can appreciate a representation of silly life.

     I really love  this particular artwork, it is very unique. Each time I see it, I can imagine my life as  every morning when I woke up and go to the kitchen and  drink a cup of coffee.  The originality of this  brings me the sensation that Picasso’s  imagination does not have limit and he  can made from one common life situation a really wonderful piece of art.

Citation:


Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
The Cup of Coffee, spring 1913
Papier collé with charcoal and white chalk
23 13/16 x 13 3/4 inches
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., collection of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Mellon
© 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Blog Post #8 - Reflection on Paired Course - Art and Academic ESL

     Taking ESL099 and the Intro to Art course (HUA101) together helps me to improve in many skills. Improving my grammar, learning new vocabulary, developing my writing abilities and understanding many chapters in the book are things that I do in ESL099 and I re-force in HUA101 by writing my museum reports and by taking classes notes. It is the best thing for non-native English speaker can do. Taking a pair curse help to learn the language and to improve your knowledge in the other class.

 

 

The Cloisters Assignment

     In the book “Preble’s’ Artforms”, the author Patrick Frank in chapter 12 about Architecture discusses some of the differences of a round arc compare with pointed arch, and Some of the method that architect use to design a building.  Last time I  went  to the cloisters  museum I saw a lot of beautiful pieces of the most memorable art period the Renaissance. Different types of arch, many stain glasses, some paintings and many sculptures, which  are  representation of the life of Jesus.These art pieces are amazing and have a religious meaning. However, I  feel a special attraction when I carefully saw the Narbonne Arch.

     The Narbonne Arch was made with seven marble carving stones blocks decorate with eight real and magic animals.  Six of the marble stones blocks have one   of mythical  animals in  each one, the keystone has two of the mythical animal.  The names of each mythical animals in each of the block from left to right are sphinix,  Cockatrix, phoenix, harpy, griffin, basilisk, centaur, and manticore. “ These  are  all animals familiar from medieval bestiaries: texts compiled in twelfth centaury  describing such creatures and explaining  their moral and religious associations”.

     My first impression with this arch was like magic I was thinking about how  people could use their imagination to create these wonderful creatures. I think about mutation, if some day science can reproduce one of these magic animals.

     In conclusion this arch is one of the greatest thing I never seen, each block make the arch so original. Different from others   that they don’t have carving stone block, they are simple.

Citation

"Narbonne Arch [French] (22.58.1)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/22.58.1 (October 2006)

"El Caballero de la mano al pecho (the gentleman with his hand on his chest) by El Greco"

El Caballero de la mano al pecho
by El Greco

For a better knowledge about this great painting, you can use this link

Photography

El Caballero de la mano al pecho

Recreation of he gentleman with his hand on his chest by Eufemio Mendez

Cold Lemon Jack Skellington face Cake With Cookies

Easy, Fast and Delicious!

Ingredients:

•   1 can of condensed milk
•  1 can of evaporated milk
•  2 packs of vanilla cookies
•  6 lemon juice
•  50gr of white chocolate
•   50gr of black chocolate

Steps:

•  First, integrate the condensed milk, the evaporated milk and the six-lemon juice and mix very well.
• Second, in a round recipient set a base of cookies, cover them with the mixture.
•  Distribute it and repeat the same process until you finish the mixture. 

         Be careful! No leave holes between the cookies and the mixture.

•   Next, cover it and refrigerate for an hour.
•  Finally, melt the white and black chocolate using a double boiler , cover the cake with the white chocolate and make the Jack’s face with the black chocolate. Refrigerate it again for one more hour.

It’s ready!! I hope you enjoy it!!!

Blog Post #7 - Reflection Blog

   Blog is  very helpful at school. Student can read their classmates’ blogs, make comment and see their point of view on one specific topic. Student can refroze their knowledge by asking questions in their classmates’ blogs. For example outside of class I always check my blog and add new things to it or reedit some of the posts to make them better. Each time I created a post I designer it  by adding a picture, choosing different size and color in the text. I personalize my blog as an art piece. My favorite part of blog is to write about a topic that I really like. Evaluating art is my favorite post because I wrote about Frida Kalho. I would like to write about the experiences between ESl099 and Introduction to Art and how these classes help us to develop our art experiences.

Blog Post #6 - Memes and Art - The Pepper Spray Cop goes Viral

     Art is world perspective of a person who uses his or her imagination and creativity to develop an idea in an artwork such as painting, statue, building, or drawing.  Theses days a new tendency called Memes is very popular in the Interned. Memes   can be art because this promotes social causes and express the feeling of the person who made these. However memes are not art because they are not original.

     Some memes can support social causes and have a big impact in our society. However, memes are not unique. They are collage. These memes regularly are a copy of very famous paintings with a repetition of other popular web image. For example, last week, different memes were on Facebook as people reactions when a police officer pepper sprayed some students protesting on the UC Davis campus.  The most relevant memes to support the pacifist protest were the image of the police officer pepper sprayed on some of the most famous paintings during the Renacisse. Paintings like Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, Georges Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte    and Andrew Wyeth’s   Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth suffer alteration in the imagines. Memes can influence in people social causes but they are bad imitation of the most famous painting.

     In addition, copying the image of an important painting is a type of plagiarism. People recreate the same painting with an extra image to make it looks different. This is like to copy the song’ lyrics   and change some of the words of the song. The song has the same rhyme, but the lyrics change a little. The memes has the same fond and the same characteristic of the original piece but something is adding or changing.

     Other memes can be offensive and destroy people image. For example, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are the media which people use to share the memes. For more than two months, around the world, people have been shared memes of a teen name Rebecca Black who was criticize because of her song Friday.  People made fun of her and she got depressed. Memes affected other when people don have conscience of their acts.

     In conclusion, memes don’t show imagination, they are copy of other works, and they are offensives.  Memes can be a good media to express feeling when people uses their own imagination and do not copy others’ artworks.