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.