FINE ARTS

This is the last Banksy piece, appeared in late April in central London. This is not a masterpiece but his social criticism is great.


BANKSY

Read about Banksy  in the following wikipedia link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy
and answer the following questions.
1.What type of art is Banksy´s art?
2.Where can you find his piece of art?
3.When  did he become involved in grafitti?
4.What film was based on Banksy´s work?
LOOK at these graffittis and explain what Bansky wants to satirize or critizise:

  

Noma Bar

Avinoam Noma Bar, (born in 1973 in Israel) is a graphic designer. His work has appeared in many media outlets including: Time Out London, BBC, Random House, The Observer, The Economist and Wallpaper* Bar has illustrated over sixty magazine covers, published over 550 illustrations and released two books of his work through Mark Batty Publisher: 'Guess Who - The Many Faces of Noma Bar', in 2008 and 'Negative Space' in early 2009.

Early life and career

Bar wanted to be an artist since he was a child.During the first Gulf War Bar discovered his interest in a unique combination of caricature and pictograms. While staying with his family in a shelter he sketched the likeness of Saddam Hussein around the radioactive symbol he found in a newspaper. After graduating in 2000 from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design with a degree in graphic design, Bar moved to London to pursue his career.He found his first commissioned assignment with Time Out London.

Bar was recently hired by BAFTA to illustrate the nominees for best picture of 2009 and his work is being shown at their Piccadilly headquarters.


ACTIVITY:
Look at these pieces of work.Try to give them a title and describe what you see in each picture.

Look at this blogpage to find more about his work:http://superbalanced.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/please-look-closely-at-these-fascinating-minimalist-illustrations-by-norma-bar-
INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES by Renée Maufroid
ANDY WARHOL

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States of America dedicated to a single artist.

http://www.quia.com/pop/431094.html









MARY CASSATT

Mary Stevenson Cassatt ; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children


http://www.quia.com/rr/866804.html




COUPLES IN ART

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TOM WESSELMANN

Tom Wesselmann (February 23, 1931, Cincinnati – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture.




http://www.quia.com/hm/791828.html

Famous People Painting Chinese Artists Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi, and Zhang An, 2006, oil on canvas

Click on the address below and you´ll see the picture in a bigger size,then move the mouse on each personality,their names will appear automatically .If you double click on them, you´ll go straight away to the wikipedia and will be able to read some information about them.
http://cliptank.com/ab/PeoplePainting3.htm

SONGS
Watch the video and identify as many famous paintings with their author as you can

70 Million by Hold Your Horses

If you couldn´t find all of them you may go to this blogpageshttp://rtfm.es/2010/03/05/de-viaje-por-la-historia-del-arte-con-hold-your-horses/  or  http://www.flavorwire.com/74342/hold-your-horses-name-that-painting where you´ll find more about each picture.
You can listen to the song again while you read the lyric:
And it hardly looked like a novel at all, 
I hardly look like a hero at all
And I'm sorry, you didn't publish this
And you were white as snow; I was white as a sheet

When you came down in this black dress
In your mom's black maternity dress
And so, 
Though it hardly looked like a novel at all, 
And the city treats me, it treats me to you
And a cup of coffee for you
I should learn it's language and speak it to you

And 70 million should be in the know
And 70 million don't go out at all
And 70 million wouldn't walk this street
And 70 million would run to a hole
And 70 million would be wrong wrong wrong
And 70 million never see it at all
And 70 million haven't tasted snow

And we dance dance dance like the children dance
Imply thought are we taking the chance?
With the light still on, and will we ever reach the tower

And after you came down in this black dress
I don't know what took so very long
And this, 
And this isn't a war, we don't have to ration
Now wave white flag, and you kept it at home
And words I wrote from a foreign land
You're holding my no longer foreign hand

And 70 million should be in the know
And 70 million don't go out at all
And 70 million wouldn't walk this street
And 70 million would run to a hole
And 70 million would be wrong wrong wrong
And 70 million never see it at all
And 70 million haven't tasted snow

Vincent (Starry Starry Night) Don McLean

Starry, starry night.
Paint your palette blue and grey,
Look out on a summer's day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills,
Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
In colors on the snowy linen land. 

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now. 

Starry, starry night.
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
Swirling clouds in violet haze,
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand. 

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now. 

For they could not love you,
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life, as lovers often do.
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you. 

Starry, starry night.
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Frameless head on nameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met,
The ragged men in the ragged clothes,
The silver thorn of bloody rose,
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow. 

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will...