El Arte Hispano

Los Famosos Los Famosos Artistas HispanosArtistas Hispanos

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• 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

•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.

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

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

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

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)

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)

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)

• 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.

(Málaga 1881- Mougins 1973)

THE TRAGEDY (1903)(La Tragedia)

Don Quixote

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)

THE MAIDS OF HONOUR (1957)(Las Meninas)

What do you see in this painting?

GUERNICA (1937)

• 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

Salvador Dalí

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)

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)

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

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 1960’s where artist’s such as Lichtenstein, Warhol, and Johns appropriated images from popular culture. Marisol’s art work utilizes figures from everyday life sometimes dressed in 60’s fashion. She was also considered a folk artist because of her use of carved found objects and primitive form.

The Kennedys

Joan Miró

• 1893-1983• Barcelona, Spain• Surrealist painter,

ceramist and sculptor

• Preferred more contemporary means of expression

Vuelo de Pájaros

José Clemente Orozco

• 1883-1949• Mexican Social

Realist, Muralist• Co-lead the

Mexican Mural Renaissance with Diego Rivera

Zapatistas

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

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

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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