Epic

   Epic is a great topic because includes a lot of subjects such as cinema, music, literature, opera, theater, etc and they are such really interesting topics. Music has always been important in the history of human and I loved how music developed in the history of "epic" because it started with Gustav Mahler and his symphony, which was were  good with a lot of loud rhythm, I loved how it started because it is too intense. Classical music is really good but after classical music, Keyboard music appear and I think isn't a big change because keyboard music it's calm with a good rhythm and so relaxing. Charles-Valentin Alkan symphony for solo piano is awesome, as I said before in another post, I love piano and the performance of Alkan was just great. And now we turn to the "Heavy metal" I think this is really different from what keyboard music and classic music. I really like "Heavy metal" but I'm not a big fan of Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin or Judas Priest. I think heavy metal is awesome because you need a lot of musical skills to perform any song! the riffs, solos, bridges, everything are full of difficult and clear notes that together sound awesome!! I love Avenged Sevenfold, which is a band of heavy metal from nowadays. 

  Visual arts were awesome! The landscapes were epic, and had a lot of technique. We can clearly see that the style of the landscapes are too realistic and that makes me love them even more!! Frederic Edwin Church was really good because it is so hard to make the effect of the water like in "Niagara". Also I loved the "Aurora Borealis" landscape and it is because of what does the painting represent and I think aurora borealis are an amazing phenomenom of the planet and how Edwin Church represent it was just terrific! Another painting that is awesome is "The Gates of Yosemite", "Yosemite Valley" and "Among the Sierra Nevada" and I chose Yosemite because they have a lot of quality but because Yosemite is another one of the places that I have to go before I die, i'ts beautiful but I think that "Among the Sierra Nevada" is the best of Albert Bierstadt, because of the colors, the paintbrush and the light effect that comes from up side and the shadows of each thing. 

Fantasy Mixed with Reality

"If I Could Talk to the Animals"... Children's Literature and Animation

   I chose this topic because I think that represent every one's childhood. I think that the concept of the animal that can talk is really good and enjoyable when you're a little kid. But animals are wild creatures that sometimes their natural insticts does not let them interact with human that's why I like this topic because, there is where the fantasy fits and gives to the story more attraction. I remember when I first saw "The jungle book" of Walt Disney I loved and so that one day I watch it like 4 times in a row. Now comparing Zoltan Korda's and Walt Diney's "The Jungle Book" they have a lot of differences. Zoltan Korda's film includes real animals, they don't talk, they just act like an animal should act, except that they didn't kill the baby and that's why people prefer Disney film because you a dancing bear, a swindler snake, some crazy crows and apes that sing. Talking about the drawings, I can remember that when I was child the type of Beatrix Potter and Kenneth Grahame drawings were in the books that my school force me to read, obviusly I took the one with the most images and the drawings were like that. And we can't forget Doctor Dolittle. I didn't know that Doctor Dolittle were from books and have just saw the movies and I liked them. I hate Winnie-the-pooh. 

   This is my favorite part of this topic, I can still watch any of these cartoons and I will surely laugh. Mickey Mouse is obviously the prefered character of every one in this  world and I love it to buuuuuut! Buggs Bunny is way too better than Mickey Mouse and Daffy Duck is better than Donald Duck. All of these cartoons are an important part of my childhood because I grew up watching it and I didn't see how was from a different point of view, I mean that how can animals do that? But who cares? That was the thing that made it attractive and more funny even thoung you didn't realize because if you put humans instead of animals it will be boring and repetitive. Also I loved the cartoon Tom & Jerry, I think I've already said it one of the post but I love it it was really good. 

   

Rebellion

Rock and Roll

   What is music without Rock and Roll? I don't really know what people liked in those times because rock and roll is an important part of music. Even though the term Rock and Roll had  not started refering to the music, people will always relate it to music and that was its major impact.  I think that people needed something to express them out because they were so calm with their music, Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, etc. They needed a break and so they created rock and roll. We all know rock and roll and most of the people, perhaps everyone love rock and roll or at least one song, and there is no doubt about it! Because rock and roll have an intense rhythm, with great lyrics and make you love it because the isn't loud and isn't boring. I loved Les Paul's permorfance! I was really surprised with the abilities of Les Paul because I didn't know that he was capable of doing that. I obvioulsy know the Les Paul's guitar but I thought that he was just the creator of the guitar and just that. When I saw the video of "World is Waiting for the Sunrise" and at the beginning I was like "this is normal" but then with the solo I was , " :| ", really impressed. Rock and Roll has defined the culture of humans because many of the population have felt identified with most of the Rock and roll songs and artist. Elvis Presley still the idol of many young teenagers, a good song that I know from him is "Jailhouse Rock" and we can't forget "The Beatles". We all love "The Beatles", they created awesome things with some instruments and made people feel better with their songs. I love their songs and I think they mark something in the life of many people. Personally I love AC/DC 's song "Thunderstruck" but this is more like a little heavy but also includes a lot of Rock and Roll!

Nonconformism

Stand-Up Comedy/Improv

  I think by far this is my favorite subject of the course by far! In general all the comedians critized or make a lot of jokes about social, political, cultural problem that were happening in the world but each one had their own style. I enjoyed a lot the videos of George Carlin, Mort Sahl, Richard Pryor. I don't know why but I didn't like the comedy of Lenny Bruce, I think it was a different kind of comedy and I'm no saying that isn't good but I just didn't find it attractive even though most people catalogued him as one of the best comedian ever. I prefer the style of Richard Pryor and George Carlin, they were my favorite because they say whatever they wantm use the words they want, bad language and with the different voice tones to make a perfect joke. I think Mort Sahl was also good but the way that he tell the jokes I didn't like it, it was kind of cold. The reason why I choose this topic and why I consider this as my favorite is because I often watch stand up shows in the TV chain "Comedy Central" and since I loved them.  I didn't know that it was included in a subject! 

Two videos that I liked, George Carlin "Death Penalty" and Sebastian Maniscalco one of my current favorite stand-up comedian. 

Later Abstraction

Concrete Art

   Concrete art was some kind of De Stijl's art because the paintings were so similar. They were stripes, geometrical forms, and basic colors. I loved some works of Max Bill because it think some of them were with more technique than the others. I loved the "Untitled", "Untitled II" and "Nine Fields Divided by Means" I think those paintings are really good because they are simplewith basic colors that would fit in every space and will look great and awesome, also I don't know why I found kind of fancy the sign of infinity and looks great. The other work of him I didn't like it because i think it wasn't done without a lot of effort, I know that that's the technique but I just don't like them, I think they're ugly. What I like from the paintings that were just stripes, was the effects that they had they seemed that they were moving and the colors make them look better it was really really good.

Postwar Realism II

Straight Photography

  I loved all these pictures and I think they are really good because they show the reality of what US lived in their hard times and also the quality of the pictures are awesome for those times that the cameras weren't developed as today. The work of each photographer is awesome and show that they committed a lot with what they loved to do. In the Straigh Photography we can see the differents photographers took different aspects of US, I was shocked with the pictures of Jacob Riis because they showed how people was living it was shocking. But what really impressed me was the pictures of Lewis Wickes Hines of the creation of the Empire State Building, they make me imagine how people felt about be hundred of meters of height! Also others like Ben Shahn that worked on the FSA project had really good pictures and Jack Delano's trains were awesome! 

 

War Photographers

   I write about this mainly for the gore :D and also that is is interesting to know about the situation and some real image of war not the classic and fiction movies that we all know.  Cappa's work was really good and he was really brave because hearing all the gunshot, grandes explotions, the bombings, planes and all that stuff and he taking photos? that was crazy!. Can you imagine when he arrive to the beach of Normandy? Watching everyone die, that's wrong and bad. He's pictures were really good and we can't blame for the blur because it's really hard in those conditions. At least we have 11 photos of the D-Day and they will be stored for ever. 

   

The Swimmer

   This short story is really good and creative because it's a really good argument what Cheever wrote. I really liked it because it was crazy the idea of swimming every pool and how things, people and everything that Neddy knows went crap! This story really entertained me a lot and also kind of scares me because it's strange imagine who would it be swim and suddenly in the same day everything goes down! "Looking overhead he saw that the stars had come out, but why should he seem to see Andromeda, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia? What had become of the constellations of midsummer? He began to cry." What's that? that's really crazy and at that time Neddy was completely nuts. That is what I liked about this story the intensity makes you keep reading! and then at the end how much time did he pass swimming?   " He shouted, pounded on the door, tried to force it with his shoulder, and then, looking in at the windows, saw that the place was empty." We'll never know but I'm really satifies with this story. I think that Cheever felt identify with this story because he had a lot of problems of all kind including alcoholics problems in his life and in this short story he presents a lot of problems, but for that they write and I think the problems of the authors make  the best stories. 

Postwar Realism I

Postwar British Poetry

   The British Poetry is a good movement because the poets started to express what they thought in their poems. The British were affected a lot during war because the consequences of the war were awfull and a lot of people and also writers lived it and expressed it on their works such as Philip Larkin, you can read in his poem how he writes with so much hate and resentment. The poem of "This Be the Verse". This poem represent how bad was the situation after war and about who was talking Philip Larkin. The poems may not have the better rhymes and may not be the best in technique but they're really good because they express what they want to and people felt identify with them. 

Mass Observation

   This project was kind of insane. I think the British community was afraid of people planning something else and also I think their intention were to know the feelings and the mood of society after war.  But doing this was a crazy way to achieve it, no one likes to be spied and less if the material is going to be published. This was another mark of the war but Tom Harrison, Charles Medge, Humphrey  Jennings didn't gave a good idea but instead of that each of one work alone. Charles Medge did his poems about the society and this project and people loved it and I love this stanza "This poem will be you if you will. So let it". And Jennings unfortunately died when he was searching for a place to record but he died doing his job! 

This poem will be you if you will. So let it. 
I do not want you to stand still to get it. 
You will have it if you go high-speed (OLTP, 127)

Force

War Symphonies

  The war symphonies were a set of instrumental songs created during the WWI and the WWII. Some creators of this  symphonies were Bohuslav Martinu, Sergei Prokofiev, Dimitri Shostakovich, Ralph Vaughan Williams,  Carl Nielsen. This songs generally were sad but some of them had a lot of emotion like Bohulsav Martinu "Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras" that had a lot of emotion and you can feel the emotion of war and imagine how was being there. The rhythm of the songs were constantly changing they start calm and suddenly they change to a faster rhythm then the rhythm slows down and so on and I liked that. I think this songs were good and were a very difficult work because they have a lot of notes and a lot of instruments.

Architecture

   The architecture of was amazing! I love every aspect of it because it is different and non repetitive like others. The facism architecture was huge, it pretend to build inmense things and I loved that, big buildings are attractive and algo has a lot space but cost more money and maintenance but it worth it. And also in a city you need something big for example here in Culiacan we don't have any big building and the city do not have any highlight. The Cathedral of Light it's awesome and really beautiful. The communism  architecture was my favorite, it also was huge but this was fancy and with a lot of details, it was the Stalinist architecture. I loved it, the buildings are beautiful speacially the Wasaw Palace and the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Apartments. The brutalist architecture it is also great! I love it because the buildings are  simple and with class. The buildings are big with not much ornaments or details and some windows that adds a lot of class to it. My favorites were the Roger Stevens Building, University of Leeds and the Western City Gate of Serbia.

   

Hard-Boiled

Detectives on film and Film Noir

   I think these types of films are very interesting. Film Noir it's like an evolution from the Crime Fiction just to take the novel to the "big screen". I like Film Noir beacuse the envorinment that it have is to messy that you don't know who is a good guy and who is a bad guy. I like the stuff that the hero can die, something the endings can not be so happy! Also I think this repesent a very important part of the cultural and artstict aspect of the American history, because this set the bases of the best movies ever and the best comics ever. Scarface was one of the best movies ever and its part of Film Noir, the first one is really good and also the second one because forme Al Pacino gives it some additional emotion. Also we can not forget the movie "The Godfather" is a clearly example of film noir but except that it isn't in noir! haha. I liked a lot this type of film because it's exiting and diferent from all others that we have seen in our course, this one involves action, sex, drugs,  girls, shooting, explotion and many other things that are atractive for me!

Crime Fiction

  Crime Fiction is also a very good genre because it is very interesting, most of the people are interested on works of this genre because they're adictive. It is intense and interesting to read something full of action instead of reading something calm. The crime fiction can make you imagine and create how you would resolve the crime of the detective while you are reading that stuff and also you were amazed of the environment of the detectives such as Sherlock Holmes because he was a cocaine adict he was a total hero. I think that it would be awesome to own the original "pulp magazines"  of the Black Mask and all that stuff.

Stylin'

Art Deco

   This modern style was great and I liked it beacause it innovate the old stuff with the new materials. The Art Deco architecture is one of the most famous things of this style because here you can find the Chrysler Building, one of the icon buildings in NYC, I haven't had the opportunity to see this building in my life but it's in my plans of visiting NYC. The theaters were also an Art Deco style and those kind of theaters were very common and for me they were kind of cool and with a lot of class! Talking about the design, Art Deco was again really great because the stuff that were done were cool and requested! The sharpeners and toasters with those forms were cool and come on; Rolls Royce, Buggati, Alfa Romeo everyone wanted one but I think you need some money for that. Sculpture was good but this type of sculpture was with a little more of class and like decoration for a house or a building. Paintings weren't too good but weren't too bad, I liked them they were simple with fine and firm brushwork and with a set of high colors but I don't see any modern or different. In general Art Deco was great, I loved it, I think it were the people with money, "class" and that wanted to be kind of different. 

California Modern

  

   This was a combination of styles and focussed on the houses. I didn't like a lot the house made by Neutra y Schindler because they were with a different style, they had a lot of windows were the house didn't need to. But I loved Neutra's objectives and intentions of making houses for the soldiers and that was really kind. The houses were small and kind of ugly but they had everything that you need. Irving Gill houses were beautiful! especially the "Raymond House" and "Cossitt House" those are classy houses combined with international style. The "Eames House" reminds me De Stijl type because of the lines and the primary colors.

Harlem Renaissance

   This movement of the african-american impact in every aspect of the american culture. I think it was great because this marked an improvement in the society and the culture of each person in america, beacuse african-american people are also caplable of everythin either culture or athletic. The Nicholas Brothers performance of tap dancing is AWESOME! I don't have word to describe it, I love when I saw it in class that's why I had to put it here. Does they have any tendon  or articulation? How they do all that stuff? It´s the best performance that I've ever seen!

  

American Perspectives

American Poetry

   This poetry was intense. It surprise me how different this poetry was from others that I knew, beacuse this one was full of bad things! That was a shocking thing. I'm not saying that I didn't like but it was a different perspective of the poetry, because for me poetry is good, love, peace and this was all about confession, drugs, alcohol and those stuff. Another thing that impress me was the life of the poets! Most of the poet's lives sucked; Crane was homosexual and he commited suicide, Schwartz was an alcoholic and suffered from mental illness, Berryman wanted to be Yeats and alcoholic, Lowell suffered heart attack, etc, etc. I see why this poetry was tended to be with that subject. Even though they had horrible lives, they made such great works that are still talked about the people. I think that the life of the americans influenced a lot in their problems, we can see that from that time living in NYC isn't easy as it seems.

The Eight

   I loved this paintings. The idea of "The Eight" was great because in some way the artist were teaching or showing the art to the people that didn't know anything about it. The Aschan School, focused in the urban life was a wonderful idea because people of lower resources always have been in distant with the art. Also I loved the style that each of the painters, the bruswork gives it the style of made "urban", it represent what they are seeing. Also loved the colors because help with the style of the paintings and do not clash with anything. I liked the painting of "Tam Gan" and "Willie Gee" by Robert Henri and what I didn't like is how can you approve  "Black Bear" and "Black Bear II" that isn't art! and my favorites are "Fire on 24th Street" and "The Fight" by Everett Shinn., they are amazing!

Forward!

Russian Silent Film

   ..................... That was my reaction to the "Battleship Potemkin" film! I have no words to the step part it was shocking but really really good and interesting! Einsenstein did a great job but obvioulsy it had some errors, you can notice the lack of experience to make movies and professionalism but it was awesome. The silent style gives it a plus because each one can make their different dialogues in their minds even though they give you some of them and that add some intensity. I liked it a lot and it's fairly judged as one of the greatest film of all time! The silent documentary "Man with a Movie Camera" was a great job regard to the edition because can you imagine make a movie with all those effects in those times! I think it was a tough work because 80 years ago they didn't have the same technology. And talking about the  plot it isn't to good because it just meaningless just people and stuff like that, I didn't like it at all. Russians were INSANE, no offense :)

De Stijl

   De Stijl was a strange movement, it was simple and didn't need a lot of things to be part of it. The paintings of De Stijl were very simple, they were just lines and geometrical forms. I liked them because I love the things that are simple, without to much things on it,  like Mondrian paintings. The "Composition II" was my favorite. But the other ones I thing that lacked of potential and ruined De Stijl's reputation or power to impact in the movements, like the" Rhythm of a Russian Dance" by Doesburg. The sculpture was cool, also just geometrical forms and a simple colors, for me that is a great sculpture. And about the architecture and desing, the chair is really good but comme on you need something soft for you! The Schroder House is an amazing job! Every technique of De Stijl is used and applied to build the house it is really really good, I would love to own that house! 

Objectivity

International Style

   This style of objectivity was simple and good. It was a base of the objectivity because the characteristics were the same ones, geometrical, lack of adornment, with a few decoration and those things. The architec Le Corbusier was really talented, he made some really good works! I think the "Notre Dame du Haut" clash with the style because the roof wasn't geometric and in general it wasn't simple! The idea of housing for me it was great but I think they just didn't know how to keep it like they planned it. The concept of the bulding was good but when they did it, it was horrible for me. I didn't like at all. I think it was sort depressing to live there without space, a lot of people and the decoration really bad, neutral and simple. But looking at the bright side they were useful because it was a space for living and separate from the big city. 

Scandinavian Architecture

   I find this type of architecture beautiful, cool and simple! My grandma house is like this style, is made of bricks, I have been seen scandinavian architecture since I was a kid and I didn't notice. The "Helsinki University of Technology Auditorium" is really big  and impressive. I like the style and lot of windows. 

   One thing I love was the work of Saarinen. The Morse style is very common in a lot of universities nowadays. But universities that have money and I think this style can be use to seize the space that they have.  The two airports are an outstanding job by him, they look very modern and beautiful.

Senselessness

Surrealism

    Wow, it's awesome! I think that this movement would perfectly fit me if I was a painter. What I like the most of this is the randomness of the paintings, you can paint whatever you think but it has to be with class and great technique. In this movement I think the artist expresses himself to his maximum, I mean, that all of his ideas, his creativity, his random side, it's represented in the work that he does. The artist do not keep to the simple basic and ordinary things, they innovate! Another thing is that the paintings have so many meanings, each person can give the meaning that they want because it's just some wacky paint. 

 I love this painting of Max Ernst, it is "Two Children Threatened by a Nightale". I'ts really cool because Ernst gave it a piece of wood fence to highlight the painting. It's really strange and cool at the same time. Also what it represent, you can see the women with a knife and a man with a children standing over a house triying to escape with a buttom or something its really cool. 

Don't forget Salvador Dali, his art was really good and I have to say it even though it's obvious but "The Persistence of Memory" it's awesome! Also look at "The Face of War" it's pretty intense, look at the expressions in each face, it scares me but I love it!

Cubism

Picasso & Braque

  Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous in the world. Since I was a child I knew the name Picasso and I related to the ability of great painting and that stuff. I didin't know he was from spain I thought he was italian or something like that. To draw things derived from a geometrical form its pretty cool and Picasso did know well how to do it. I love the "Harlequin with violin", I like that have different perspectives and what can represent the painting, music, joy, entertainment, etc, it's really nice. The paintings "Ma Jolie", "Accordionist", "The Torero", are very similar and beautiful works. Picasso it's a very talented person he made different painting and participated in different movements and cubism was one and he did very well. Braque was also a great painter the style of the paintigs is very similar because of the movement but I think that Picasso had better paintings that Braque.

Expressionism

Expresionnist Architecture

  The expresionnist architecture is different and exagerated, you can see that those types of buildings are still built in our time, an example of this is the Hans Sharoun architecture. The Einstein Tower was really good and with a good desing. The building that I loved is the interior of the "Grosses Schauspielhaus" it is really big for the time that it was built! Also Steiner Houses were awesome and very exagerated, I think he exceeded a little bit with the size but I like it.

Austrian Expressionism - Oskar Kokoschka

  Oskar Kokoschka was an outstanding artist. His style was different, he made differents color brushstrokes making an incredible image with an incredible effect! The work of Kokoschka that I like the most is "The Hunt", i like it because it have different combination of strong colors and clear colors, I really like it. Also the painting "Dr. Nero" is good, the black background and the two person sleeping together make a really good image! I think that he didn't deserve a bullet and a stab even though that didn't stop him and he continued doing his job. I am surprised because now I know why a character of the old show "Hey, Arnold" was called Oskar Kokoschka! 

Woyzeck/Wozzeck 

  Woyzeck was a very exagerated play, I liked a lot! It was a sad story with a lot of emotions while the play develops and makes you think " well, my like will never be as bad as Woyzeck's" Woyzeck was a crazy person due to his hallucinations plus his wife having an affair and people treating him bad, he went insane, there wasn't anybody who undestand him. I really like to read about this kind of stories. The Wozzeck was the opera version of this play and I don't know if I am the only one who doesn't opera but I don't like opera!, I saw it and I thought that the sadness and the emotion dissapered because for me opera do not expresses sadness or something like that but regarding the production it was pretty good!

Wild Men of Music: Igor Stravinsky

   I loved this! Stravinsky really knowed how to make a great music compossition. I think that their compossitions were so famous because of the others great musicar artist that work on them, like choreographers, producers, etc. I liked "The Rite of Spring", I can't imagine how was the first perfomance of the play! His composition were intense and with a lot of rhythm at every point, they remind me to the background music of starwars and those kind of movies I don't know why. 

Art Nouveau: Germany to Catalunya

  The Art Nouveau was spread so quickly along Europe.  

  The art of Germany was a combination of styles, Obrist's art was with a lot of curves and with a fine technique, the design of the tomb was strange and I didn't like it at all. It was a real shame that August Endell's façade was destroyed because it was really good because the form of the image, the fine curves and that the image gives stateliness to the building, it was amazing.

  In France the art nouveau appeared after people met the art of Alphonse Mucha. His posters were beautiful! I think that they were an innovation in that date because you can see the style of the drawing and the font is different and more attractive to see, I would enjoy it to see it and definitely pay attention to what is  the poster offering. In general I really liked everything the furniture, the little object, because they were changing what was know by "normal", adding they personal style. 

 

  In Belgium Victor Horta's paitings were one of the most repesentation of art noveau. I really like his paintings and actually you can notice that these styles are still used! The combination of different types of architecture by van de Velde was terrific.

   Catalunya was one of the most important parts of art nouveau. Parc Guell is awesome! It's colorful, big, with different architecture types, I really love it. Also Catalunya is very important because there is the Sagrada Familia, that's one of the best buildings of the world and I would love to see it one time. 

Salome

  First of all, for me it was kind of hard to read it because it contains many vocabulary that was hard to undestand but not impossible. This is another shocking, interesting and amazing play. This play begins calm with like any other play with the introduction of the characters and that stuff but as it going on it takes different course. I think it was so sick that Salome fall in love with Iokanaan because he was a prisoner and it was a compulsive and sick love. How she get obssesed with him and after all he ask for his head was awesome and was something that I didn't expect because I thought that she would ask for the release of him no for his head! It was kind of scary to image those things but it was even more scary to watch the ophera of Richard Strauss. That scene combined with music, that make you feel the intensity of the scene, and a very nice actress, that express how Salome was after Iokanaan didn't correspond to her love, make a perfect scary play. I really like it. 

Paul Gauguin

   Gauguin was kind of crazy just for the fact of leave his family. He could have taken his family with him instead of leaving them in Denmark, but maybe that was what inspired him to make all his carreer. His art was good but more than good it was significant and different from the other artist. I think his travels to different places France, to the Antilles and his childhood in Peru changed his way of seeing life and how human was. I liked his painting of "Where do we come from?", because it makes me think, where do we come from!? We have pass through many things, then we think we are the best and after that, we forgot that we came from nothing to what are we now. And respect to the style maybe it wasn't the best but it was good and it was enough to represent every idea that he had. 

Early Modern Sculputre

Auguste Rodin 

   Rodin works are excellent! Just look in every little detail and features in the "Man with the broken nose" sculpture. He did know what he was doing! I really don't know much about sculpture but I can distinguish a hard work. And if you have a doubt just look at "The thinker" sculpture, how do you do that? Look at the muscles that are well defined and they never look exagerated or fake, this is a great work besides the size of it, I imagine that it tooked a time to do it. And talking about time, that what he lack? His unfinished sculptures were very well done but they didn't had a some part or weren't finished. But I liked that because it gives it kind of mistery to the sculpture or a different meaning from what it should represent. Moving to "The Burghers of Calais", this sculpture is complety different. I love this one, I liked how Rodin represented the anguish in the different person and how each one represented. And seeing this sculpture while hearing Mahler's symphony no.4, it's not a great idea.

Camille Claudel

   Wow! I didn't expect that, Claudel "Maturity" it's incredible, soon I'm going to be out of adjectives! I liked a lot, you can see how she contrast the bodies of male and a woman then a kind of angel trying to take away the guy. And finally the woman begging the man to stay. If you haven't notice I don't like the small sculptures, I admit that they are good but that Claudel did well but that isn't what I like.

Gustav Mahler

   I heard all the symphony no.4 and man, it was amazing! As I already say previously in a post, I like a lot classic music and I enjoy it a lot. Mahler symphony is a great composition, it had it differents moments of intensity. It start as a good song with a good rhythm then it goes up and then falls. The songs seems to end at moments but they are just parts. There is a part of calm where it's just an instrumen about the minute 30-35 its kind of sad (there's where I was doing the part of Rodin) and then the rhythm goes up again and at the end there are vocals that mix together perfectly, its a pretty good composition.

Les Nabis

   First of all I really like the name, I think it was really cool and original.  This "prophets" were a bunch of talented french painters. Each one had their own style but in a way their style were similars. I didn't liked Serusier's technique, the "Talisman" was a completely abstract painting and the technique was quite dissapointing. Every painter or aspirant must remember the quote of Denis because sometimes they want to have the idea and everything about what are they painting instead of paint and let the rest come by itself. Denis technique was much different from Serusier but he made strange paintings that confussed me, but I really liked the painting "Femmes au tombeau". The painting "Interior" was very good! The details, the light that enter from the window and the two person sitting in there made me think of a nice afternoon and with the detailing of the house I  remembered my grandpa's house. These frenchmen had a lot of nudes paintings (normal for french people) but their nudes weren't so good the best nude painter was Bonnard nudes. His technique was different, he used the paint brush different and added some shades, relief or something like that in the body so it look more realistic, different from the others that just draw the body without any effect on it. From the "Nabis" Bonnard and Denis were my favourites. 

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

   Saint-Gaudens style was top class, aslo I think he had a fine touch because ir's really hard to do that in bronze material. I really like his works, they are big with a lot of details and they trasmit something when you see it. The "Robert Shaw" sculpture is really good that's why it's called one of the greatest sculptures of the 19th century. I like this sculpture for what it represent. It represent the union, the patriotism and the liberty, a part of America forgetting their racial prejudices and getting together to fight against a common enemy. But I also liked the "Sherman Monument", because it's different from the other sculpture, this one you can see every it from evety angle and the other one was just in a wall also gives me another reason to go  visit NY! I really want to go there! Respect to the coins, I'm not a coin collector and I've always thought that they are just money, it doesn't matter what you draw on them. 

   

Late 19th Century American Realist Painters

Thomas Eakins

  Realism is really hard but i think he didn't know what does hard means. The technique that he had was really good because in order to paint something like that you need the perfect shades of the human body, the brightness and the contrast of the light and he did now how to do that, you can prove it in his self-portrait. Now with his painting "The Gross Clinic" he framed his name in the history of the most talented of all time, you can see the expression of the doctor very clear and the shades in half of his face, the other medics really focused in their job and the expectators surprised about the situation, its a very tough work! I also liked a lot the painting "Sailing" I think it represent the mind of Eakins that was open-mind and not afraid of showing his artworks, how the light enters from one side, the sea very calm and the man enjoying what he was living. 

Winslow Homer

  Homer's style was simplier than Eakins'. I'm not completely sure if I like it because, Homer had great ideas but  I didn't like his technique or style so much because it's less detailed in other words, more simple from the others artists. His vision was amazing he could project his ideas clearly but I insist that his technique wasn't so good. I think his best painting is "Snap the whip" I liked the idea of the kids playing because represent the freedom and innocence that they have and this painting have more details and it seems that have more life that others paintings. 

John Singer Sargent

  Sargent's ability was pretty good! It's obvious he was one of the greatest portrait painters that were in the that time but he also had good works! I really liked the reliefs that he did, "Glaciar Streams", "Mountain streams, Tyrol" were two beautiful paintings! Sargent is a good realism artist but I think that Eakins is better because Eakins had better details and control of the light and shades of the human body. 

Check-out this drawings, hopefully one day she turns into the new Sargent or Eakins :)
http://magove.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d5h0mbc

Impressionism in Music - Maurice Ravel & Impressionist sculpture

Maurice Ravel

  I'm really loving this. Maurice Ravel song String Quartet, 2nd Movement was awesome. The cellos, the violin, the viola eveything together with a great compositor make a good song. I've always search for violin covers or something because it's a beautiful sound and one of my favorites songs is Pachelbel's Canon. Here are other of my favorite songs played with cellos and violin but with a more modern style. I like to read this because gives me more knowledge about music and help me because I know nothing about classical musicians besides the most famous ones.

2Cellos - "Smooth Criminal"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjOQac1vOEc

Lindsey Stirling 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPOztxXWlQ

Impressionist Sculputure 

  When a was reading the stuff of him in the notes I was like "ok it seems good" but then I looked at the sculptures I got a surprise but not for good. Personally I didn't like what he did. The sculputures of Rosso were kind of small and barely can see what it is. I think that the sculptures could have been bigger so they can represent more about what is happening. 

Gustave Caillebotte & James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Gustave Caillebotte

  Although his quality/paint brush wasn't the best or the finest, I think his paintings were an outstanding creations. It's really hard to make that perspective of the buildings in the painting of " Jour de pluie à Paris", also how he change the size of people it's awesome because it isn't one they are many! In the other paintings you can see the same style of paint brush, I think he would have been even better if he change that paint style.

James Abbott McNeill Whistle

  Whistle art was kind of abstract, his paintings where like in the darkness or with a lot of mist. The style of paint brush that he used favored in the themes or about what he painted. I really liked the painting "Nocturnes" because it makes you think what does he wanted to tell with the colors in the background and what it's doing the person below? But he had different ways of painting because the painting "Peacock Room" its wonderfull and completely different to every other painting and with a great quaility. 

Impressionism in Music – Claude Debussy

  Debussy was great composser of impressionism. His songs were good but they weren't of my type. I heard the song of "Prelude a l'après-midi d'une feune" while I was playing xbox 360 (to get inspired) and something to highlight are  the agressives changes of rhythm that he made, but after all I didn't like it at all maybe were the instruments because the song was good. But I looked for other songs and I found the "Arabesques" created by Debussy when he was still a young adult and I really liked them, maybe because they were played with piano and it's one of my favorite instruments.

Arabesque I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Qi4jLtigc

Arabesque II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAiQ9H56a4

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

  Walt Whitman was a clear example of braveness and patriotism. I liked a lot the fact that he didn't have the fear of publish every word that came to his mind. I think that he helped a lot in the emotion and the way of thinking in of the americans because his life was in the middle of the civil war. Leaves of Grass is his greatest work and consists of many poems where talk about the nature and the human on it, and also where he praises the human mind and form and that was something to applaud because he had a hard life and the world wasnt in a good mod. I liked him because this type of man change the directions of the world.

Video of his life.

http://www.biography.com/people/walt-whitman-9530126/videos


 

The Uncanny/Edgar Allan Poe

    Who doesn't know Edgar Allan Poe? I think he's one of the greatest writers of all time. Poe's novels have had an impact in society because they are stories that you can read since you're child and you'll understand perfectly. I have read two short stories of him, "The Tell-tale Heart" and "The black cat". They are two interesting stories that will not get you bored because Poe had a talent to make god horror plots. I have never read "The raven" but I really want to I promise that I will. One thing that really surprise me is that he married his cousin and he was 13 years old but that doesn't take away his great talent.  

British Landscape & Laurence Sterne

British Landscape

Really didn't like the style of Constable and Bonington, even though they were good, I think that looked a little behind in terms of paint skills or in an inferior level, I know that that was the style but that is just my point of view.  

BUT Sir Joseph Mallord William Turner was a truly genius and he fulfill the meaning of virtuoso!. The color of his paintings are just brilliant and also the tones and contrast of it! Seriously I liked really much I don't know why I haven't seen a thing of him.

Laurence Sterne

I think its very interesting what Sterne did, because image that you're your favorite book or something and suddenly appears a black page!! I think that just would freak me out and also it would be interesting.  In my opinion Sterne did a great job with his innovating ways of writing. 

The Uncanny/Luminists and Other 19th Century American Painters

This seems really nice, the paintings looked very fine and with a unique style because they looked like were done it with patience. I don't know why call them "uncanny", maybe they were just afraid of the different styles of the artists so they considered strange but familiar, in my opinion, they were awesome! You can feel the light, the environment and you can get lost watching those paintings for hours. The onyl things is that what the hell with Ryder! The paintings seem to have like houndred of paint lay, THAT was kind of uncanny! 

Emily Dickinson

   Emily Dickinson was creepier than a monster specially in the image. I was really impressed with her life because she just remained in her home writing and writing and writing not caring about a social life even though in those times there wasn't much social life but in that room I would stay too, it seens so comfortable and help to think and get inspired with the desk in the window. It was interesting how was her handwriting, because in the image of the "I felt a funeral, in my brain" you could see that he didn't had an education or teaching when she was young but I think that is an unique characteristic of her.