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.