Fernando Botero: the beauty of different

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Beauty is often symbiotic social custom of the time. So, 100 years ago a fat women would define a beautiful woman. More modern, extreme thinness and tanned skin are synonymous desirable woman. But in art there is something else: the beauty transcends popular opinion and the passage of time and to find the metaphorical art of Fernando Botero a legacy started 50 years ago and that remains today.
Fernando Botero Angulo is a painter, sculptor and draftsman Colombian. World art icon, extensive work is recognized by children and adults alike everywhere. It is considered living artist originally from Latin America's most recognized and quoted the world.
The work of authorship is imprinted with an original contemporary figurative style Neo-Renaissance, known by some as "Boterismo" which gives it an unmistakable identity and moving to, and is characterized by the interpretation given by the artist to various universal themes ( man, woman, man, feelings, passions, etc.) with a volumetric exalted, that permeates a special three-dimensional character, as well as strength and sensuality to the work, with particular anatomical conception, an aesthetic that might fit chronologically between thirty to forty years in the West, on topics that may be contemporary or past, but with universal, with lively and masterful use of color in the style of the Venetian Renaissance school and fine details of scathing criticism, irony and subtlety.
Since its inception Botero has turned to genre scenes, initially with a dark colored brushstrokes (with occasional strong contrasts) close to expressionism and from the late sixties, has used a touch closed, with figures and more defined contours.
In his recent work, Botero has used thematically to the political situation in Colombia and the world. For example, the series of "Abu Ghraib" consists of 78 pictures that try to represent the horrors of torture and war related to the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the events of Abu Ghraib Prison from of the statements of the people there tortured.
 






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Faberge Egg: an unusual art object

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Art sometimes find the means to express themselves in places and the most unusual objects. In sharp contrast to an object as simple and everyday as egg, combine Febergé jewelry, characteristic exuberance Imperialist Russia with the Easter tradition to create an object worshiped by collectors worldwide.
A Fabergé egg is one of the sixty-nine jewelry created by Carl Faberge and his craftsmen of the company Fabergé for the Russian Tsars, as well as some members of the nobility and the industrial and financial bourgeoisie, between 1885 and 1917 . Eggs are considered masterpieces of jewelry art.
The most important party of the church calendar is Russian Orthodox Easter. It is celebrated with three kisses and exchanging Easter eggs. Regarding the Faberge Imperial eggs, they began to make in 1885 when Czar Alexander III commissioned a Easter egg for his wife, Empress Maria Fyodorevna. The egg reminded the empress's homeland, Denmark, and the jeweler had been inspired by an Easter egg that was in the Danish royal collections and pleased both the Czarina that the Czar ordered fabricate Peter Carl Faberge egg Gustavovich Easter each year to the Tsarina, stipulating only that the egg was unique and that it involved a surprise.
For the design of Faberge imperial eggs was inspired by various European artistic styles, such as Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism and the Modernist as well as artwork that looked during their stay and travel in Europe. Eggs were created to commemorate events such as the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, the end of the Trans-Siberian Railway and to celebrate important anniversaries. Other eggs kept inside the imperial yacht Standart, the Uspensky Cathedral, the Gatchina Palace and Alexander Palace, to name a few.
Among the materials used by Faberge include metals such as gold, platinum, silver, copper, nickel, palladium, steel which were combined in different proportions in order to achieve different colors to the "shell" of the egg. The gemstones including sapphires, rubies and emeralds were used to decorate eggs and / or containing surprise when in size used was known as cabochon (round cut).

Cubism: beauty in the abstract

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And one day ... man created beautiful image through imperfect representation of reality. Originally equally loved and rejected today to recognize their contribution to human heritage. Cubism is an art style more to the story, is a gateway to a current vanguard that will never find its limits.
Cubism was an art movement developed between 1907 and 1914, born in France and headed by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris. It is an essential tendency leads to the rest of the European avant-garde of the twentieth century. It is not an ism more, but the final break with traditional painting.
Main characteristics: Cubist paintings, traditional perspective disappears. Try the forms of nature through geometric shapes, lines and surfaces fragmenting. Is adopted so-called "multiple perspective": it represented all parts of an object in the same plane. The representation of the world was going to have no commitment to the appearance of things from a certain perspective, but with what is known about them. By that appeared at the same time and in the same plane different views of the object: for example, is depicted frontally and in profile, on a human face is in profile nose and eye front, a bottle on your vertical cut and horizontal cut.
Are eliminated so typical colors were suggestive of Impressionism or Fauvism. Instead, used as pictorial muted tones grays, greens and browns. The monochromatic dominated the first period, subsequently widened the palette.
The resulting work is difficult to understand by not having a benchmark immediate naturalistic, which explains that it was the first artistic movements needed exegesis by the "critical", reaching written discourse considered as important as the practice artistic. Thereafter, all avant-garde artistic movements were accompanied by critical texts that explained.