El Arte Hispano

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El Arte Hispano

• Los Famosos Artistas Hispanos

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Quiénes son algunos artistas hispanos?

• El Greco
• Diego Velázquez
• Francisco Goya
• Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
• Pablo Picasso
• Salvador Dalí
• Diego Rivera
• Frida Khalo
• Fernando Botero
• Marisol Escobar
• Juan Miró
• Antonio Gaudí
• José Clemente Orozco
• Juan Gris
• Jesús-Rafael Soto

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• The Prado Museum is renowned as being the largest
  art gallery in the world. It exhibits
  sculptures, drawings, coins and other works of
  arts, but it is undoubtedly its large collection
  of paintings which has given it fame worldwide.
  It houses more than 8,600 paintings and takes a
  whole day just to properly view them all.
• Some of the Spanish paintings represented are the
  works by the grand masters El Greco, Velázquez,
  Murillo, Francisco Goya and a long list of other
  great artists.

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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

• The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Sofía
  is the official name of Spains national museum
  of 20th century art. Highlights of the museum
  include excellent collections of Spains two
  greatest 20th century masters, Pablo Picasso and
  Salvador Dalí. The most famous work in the
  museum is Picassos Guernica. The Reina Sofía
  also has fine collections of the works of Juan
  Gris and Joan Miró.

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El Greco

• 1541 1614
• Real name Domenikos Theotokopoulos
• Born on the Greek island of Crete
• Spent most of his life in Spain where he was
  called El Greco
• One of his greatest masterpieces, The Burial of
  Count Orgaz, is displayed at the Church of Santo
  Tomé in Toledo, Spain.
• Artwork has a mystical and religious theme

The Burial of Count Orgaz
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Diego Velázquez

• 1599 1660
• Born in the city of Seville, Spain
• He was hired as a court painter in the court of
  Philip IV (Felipe IV).
• Velazquez was sometimes called "the painter of
  the truth" .
• Possibly the greatest painter that ever lived,
  experts claim that he produced the largest
  quantity of masterful works of art. His works
  hang in museums all around the world, including
  the Prado.

The Maids of Honour(Las Meninas)
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Francisco José de Goya

• 1746 1828
• Born in Fuendetodos (Zaragoza), Spain
• Artwork reflected contemporary historical
  upheavals and influenced important 19th- and
  20th-century painters.
• The bold technique of his paintings and his
  belief that the artist's vision is more important
  than tradition, Goya is often called "the first
  of the moderns." (realism)
• He evolved a bold, free new style close to
  caricature.

The Shootings of May 3rd.(Los Fusilamientos del
3 de Mayo)
Game of the Little Giants(Las Gigantillas)
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

• 1599 1682
• Born in Seville, Spain in where he lived until
  his death.
• Founded a prestigious painting academy
• His paintings, for the most part, are of a
  religious nature and theme.
• Also painted scenes of children and many precise
  portraits
• He is still considered a great universal master.

The Immaculate Conception of Soult(La Immaculada
de Soult)
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(Málaga 1881- Mougins 1973)

• Blue Period 1901-1904--"Life".
• 1907-"Las demoiselles d'Avignon" and Cubism
  began.
• In May 1937, he began the most famous work of
  contemporary art, the "Guernica, depicting the
  Spanish Civil War.
• In 1963, the Picasso Museum in Barcelona was
  inaugurated. This was an important institution to
  which Picasso himself donated all the works he
  owned in 1970.
• He died shortly after, in 1973, in
  Notre-Dame-de-Vie de Mougins and was buried in
  his castle in Vauvenargues.

Don Quixote
THE TRAGEDY (1903)(La Tragedia)
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THE MAIDS OF HONOUR (1957)(Las Meninas)
The key concept of Cubism is that the essence of
objects can only be captured by showing it from
multiple points of view simultaneously.
Three Musicians, or Musicians in Masks (1921)
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What do you see in this painting?
GUERNICA (1937)
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Salvador Dalí

• Figueras, 1904 Figueras, 1989
• A flamboyant painter and sometime writer,
  sculptor and experimental film-maker, Salvador
  Dali was probably the greatest Surrealist artist,
  using bizarre dream imagery to create
  unforgettable and unmistakable landscapes of his
  inner world. His most famous work is The
  Persistence Of Memory.
• A most famous dreamer

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Diego Rivera

• 1886-1957
• He was a Mexican Social Realist Muralist.
• Social Realism is a form of naturalistic realism
  focusing specifically on social problems and the
  hardships of everyday life.
• As a member of the Mexican Communist Party,
  Rivera remained loyal to the revolutionary cause
  all his life, as is illustrated in many of his
  paintings.
• Frida Kahlo, Diego's third wife, was Diego's
  great admirer, and she shared Diego's
  revolutionary feelings.

The Arsenal - Frida Kahlo Distributes Arms (1928)
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Frida Kahlo

• Frida's life began and ended in Mexico City, in
  her home known as the Blue House..
• Frida Kahlo was involved in a serious bus
  accident . For a month, Frida was forced to stay
  flat on her back, encased in a plaster cast and
  enclosed in a boxlike structure.
• Frida's enormous strength and will to live
  allowed her to survive and make a remarkable
  recovery. She began painting shortly after the
  accident because she was bored in bed. This
  became her lifelong profession.
• Frida let out all of her emotions on a canvas.
  She painted her anger and hurt over her stormy
  marriage, the painful miscarriages, and the
  physical suffering she underwent because of the
  accident.
• Frida began wearing the traditional Mexican
  clothing, which consisted of long, colorful
  dresses and exotic jewelry. This, along with
  Frida's thick, connecting eyebrows, became her
  trademark.

Self-Portrait on The Border Between Mexico and
the United States (1932)
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Fernando Botero

• 1932-present
• Neo-figurative Colombian artist
• Paintings and sculpture
• Uses his work to capture himself and his subjects
  through color and form
• Exaggerates proportions

Familia
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Marisol Escobar

• 1930-present
• Venezuelan who lives in Paris
• Makes sculptures and wooden figures as well as
  paintings
• Primarily self-taught
• Stopped painting in 1951 to focus on sculpture
• Influenced by Leonardo da Vinci
• Greatly influenced by
• Pop Art an art movement in the 1960s
  where artists such as Lichtenstein, Warhol, and
  Johns appropriated images from popular culture.
  Marisols art work utilizes figures from everyday
  life sometimes dressed in 60s fashion. She was
  also considered a folk artist because of her use
  of carved found objects and primitive form.

The Kennedys
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Joan Miró

• 1893-1983
• Barcelona, Spain
• Surrealist painter, ceramist and sculptor
• Preferred more contemporary means of expression

Vuelo de Pájaros
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José Clemente Orozco

• 1883-1949
• Mexican Social Realist, Muralist
• Co-lead the Mexican Mural Renaissance with Diego
  Rivera

Zapatistas
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Antonio Gaudí

• 1852-1926
• Studied architecture in Barcelona
• Devout Catholic
• Died before La Sagrada Familia could be finished
• Left no blueprints
• Curving, surreal designs
• Art nouveau

La Sagrada Familia
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Juan Gris

• 1887-1927
• Cubism
• Influenced by Picasso
• Born Jose Victoriano González in 1887, in Madrid
• Studied first to be an engineer

Man in the Café
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Jesús-RafaelSoto

• 1923-2005
• Painter and Installation Artist
• Influenced by Cubism in his early years
• Specializes in Op Art and Kinetic Art

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