Friday, October 12, 2012

Post 6 : Your favourite artist

The topic for today is our favorite artist, is very interesting, but is difficult for me because choose only one artist, because I like many artists some very different, different periods and styles.

One of the artists that I like is Marcel Duchamp, he was a french artist, he comes from a family where a lot of integrants chose to be artist.
Duchamp developed his work in the twenty century and was related with artistic movement like a cubism and dada, but is difficult to inscribe this artist in only style, because him work is very wide and different.

One of my favorite work, is a painting called Nude descending the staircase No.2, this painting is considered one of the most bold and smart to the twenty century. This appreciation is that Duchamp sought to represent the movement, but a sequenced movement that giving the impression to the temporal course of events, this is some that had not been seen before in painting, moreover this work had influence to the chronophotography.

The representation to the movement is sometime that Duchamp reiterates and mark their works  Today this painting is in the Philadelphia Museum, institution that has most of the work of Duchamp.



Friday, October 5, 2012

Post 5 : A Career-related Article

Well today I must choose an article published in some newspaper, I choose to a article about to Japanese photographer called Daido Moriyama, published in The Guardian and written by Sarah Phillips.
I liked this article because its principal topic is the photography, I always have been interested in this type of work. Moreover, the formation of this photographer was self-taught, this want to say that he learn alone to take photographs, for this reason he said: "Take as many photographs you can: it's the only way to train your eyes, body and emotions".
The photographs to Moriyama was taken in the street, in different cities that he visited,  for this reason him work have a natural stile. In the article the photographer show us that the most example about he work is "Stray dog".                                                        
Too have another type of work, in the article speak about the photographs taken to the legs of women using tights, and other images of the women's lips. Moriyama explain that this type of scenes have a erotically charged.
A example about the most erotic photograph is How to create a beautiful picture 6: Tighs in Shimotakaido, in this photo we can see a body, specifically a legs with tights, is a photo takes very near and present us a body that almost can touch, is for this, that Moriyama believe that this photo is erotic.
Finally,  the photography is very interesting for me, is for that I choose this article.
These are the web page:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/oct/03/daido-moriyama-best-photograph
http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artist,show,3,18,28,0,0,0,0,0,daido_moriyama_.html