Movie report: Little Ashes

Welcome everyone,
I watched the movie Little Ashes, from Paul Morrison about Salvador Dali.
The movie is focus about Salvador Dali (Robert Pattison) young life and first love.
The story begin when the young Salvador arrives to his new school in Spain and meet a group of young student. The young Salvador and one of those young men, Federico Garcia Lorca (Javier Beltran) become tight by a particular and intense friendship. The movie then show the evolution of this friendship that become love, paralleled with the growth of Salvador talent. Further the movie bring us into Salvador's life darker and more complicated this relationship become. If you want to know more, you will have to watch the movie yourself....

I thought this movie quiet well made and very interesting by the fact that is describe a part of the life of Salvador Dali that is not well know with lots of details and in a realistic way. I was a little intrigued by this movie and I had to look for more detail on line. To be perfectly honest with you, I even thought it was fiction but in fact it is all true well some few things might have been a little embellished of course but the base is definitively true.

I hope you will be decided to watch this movie.

Dorian

Hi everyone,
here is another artist that I like, He is call Dorian Cleavenger.

His work is usually very sexually oriented like many other artist. Some of his works can be very strange, but even so please admirer the technique.

Artist theme from Chapter 3: Invension and Fantasy

This picture has been realized by one of my favorite artist, Luis Royo.
It appears to me as a perfect example of invention and fantasy. The picture represent a sun set like we can all witness. However, the sun appear more as a star. A bright ball riding in four direction in this representation. Furthermore, some kind of ice spike seam to get projected from this sun/star giving to it an aspect of explosion reaction giving to this picture a character very violent contrasting to the serenity showed by the sun set.
In conclusion by representing this tangible and gnown of all of us thing which is a sun set with this creative explosion coming from the artist mind is definitively a good representation of the invension and fantasy style.

Merfolks

This is the second water colors I ever made but I guess the beginning of a long collection.
What is better to represent water creature than this delicate technique that is the water colors.

portrait

Hi everyone, here is a portrait that I drew.
Please do not ask me who is it because I myself would like to know.....
I saw this woman in my dreams couple of time and decide to try to draw her portrait and here we go.

Tell me what you think about it.

photo story, Henri Matisse

Here is My photo story of Henri Matisse.
I hope you will understand what I say.

Magdalene iron sculpture by Dessa kirk.

Hi everyone, I do not know if you know this sculpture or not but I discover it when my mom came to visit me last year and I felt with it right away.
Dessa started to created her sculptures with the iron of old Cadillac. She felt in love with Cadillac when she was a child and was watching prostitutes, which she calls "the beauty of the night" going in those "iron beauty".
I hope you will like her work as much as I do. She has a couple of them in different places in Chicago. This one is two or three blocs away from the Art Institute.

Art institute.

Hi everyone,
today we will talk about the Art Institute of Chicago.
My first impression was surprise. I went there once already but i am still amazed by the quantity, diversity and quality of the art piece present in a such small appearing place. I really enjoy the "old" wing. The diversity of the style is just standing. The mix of the biggest names of the Art culture is just amazing. I regret to had such a short time to look at so much. However as much I enjoy the regular side and all those masters pieces, I had a hard time with the modern wing. I am not a very big fan of modern. Well it depend of what you talk about indeed. I really enjoy some modern artists like Salvador Dali and a couple of others. But I do not really understand the point of spreading paint randomly on a canvas. I like the atmosphere of the Institute is great. I really like how each room as its own theme and how close you get bet to the work. It is almost like diving in the paintings or taking part of the sculptures.
Any way, I really enjoy the trip, it was nice to discover this place with the classes and be able to talk to people we are not able to talk to much on a regular basis. I like when we meet in unusual place like this. The class become more interactive, and everyone can share in a better and easier way.

angel

This is one of draw that I like because it is one of the first that I made in colors.
It is watercolor pencil.

lady justice

Here is one of my draw, Lady justice.
I tried to keep the main idea of lady justice, the balance, the sword and the blindness.
I made this draw with pencil and watercolor pencil.

Cultural Center

Hi everyone,
I do not know for you but I liked the visit to the cultural center. The gigantic carton board sculpture was very interesting. But from all the different presentation the one I enjoyed the most was a painting from the unfortunate artist Hollis Sigler. I really enjoyed her style. Very simple but at the same time very full of meaning. I really like her idea of writing her feelings on the frame.

My favorite painting is the lightning stair, the one going from town to the sky. I feel connected to this painting because it reminds me some of my childhood dreams.
I am very touch by the artist work for many reasons. The first one is the subject painted, the second is to know myself people who suffered from this horrible disease.

dryad

This is another of my draw also made 3 to 4 years ago.
It is a Dryad, a spirit of the wood. Legends says that a Dryad lives in symbiosis with a tree. Unfortunately, when the tree was condemned, the Dryad had to fallow in the other world.
With it she lived, with it she would perish.

Kelpy

hi everyone,
Here is one of my drawing.
It is a kelpy, a mystical creature mostly known in Ireland.
A horse from the deepest part of the lac.
it is said it has a very fires temper, and when it breaded with a regular horse, if managed to be saved, the cub would be faster than any other horse.
I also add few things are not really in the traditional representations such as the horn.

I draw this picture more than 4 years ago in pencil. I really like it because if the style, I think I managed to represent the character of the animal.