An OpeninG

Hi classmates! Today we must to try to remember the last exhibitions that we have attended… Really, I have not gone  to exhibitions for a long time, because I have been busy with the University :P . However, two weeks ago I went to an Opening in “La Cueva del Conejo” (a place where artists always do workshops and things like that) for an exhibition by “Acción Sudaca”, an Art collective founded in the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad de Chile. In the opening, La Cueva del Conejo offered many things to eat and drink, and many artistic activities very interesting, because the Openings must to do attractive for the people who come. I remember some guys did a very strange performance, where one of them was hurt his arms to paint with his own blood on canvas. Many people were impressed and dismayed, because, apart from blood, the guy was naked and exhibiting his genitals! Even so, I kept a solemn attitude all the time, because this kind of activities are professional and form part of a circuit that understands this artistic expression.

So, on the other hand, the event of La Casa del Conejo also included punk live music. At the end of all the presentations (of the visual artists, and dancing girls, and the guys who did the performance) we enjoyed of live music, and all the context of the Opening was distorted… a little. The music band was called “Horregias”. They are three rude girls who play punk rock, however not just any kind of punk, but a feminist punk… almost an “artistic punk” (they have a very post-modern style).

Anyway… this exhibition was a very funny and interesting. Was not so serious like the museum’s exhibition, because was focused in a younger audience, I guess. I hope go to other openings in the future, at the same place… It is strongly recommended!

"How I made myself into a Van Gogh painting" - Tim Dowling's article

Today I’m going to talk about a news that I found in the site http://www.guardian.co.uk . I chose an article  (* it was published last January 17th), written by Tim Dowling, an American famous columnist. To write it, he was inspired by an interest web site where people upload remakes of famous paintings, like “The Two Fridas” by Frida Kahlo, or “Le Désespéré” by Gustave Courbet. 

In this website remake-submissions there are a lot of amazing works by people who try to do an image as close as possible to the original painting. However, the interesting of the article by Tim Dowling is the performance that he makes to have a similar look to Van Vogh. Tim Dowling dress up just like Van Gogh in his ‘self portrait with bandaged ear’ and he use similar colors and facial expressions; but the funny thing is that he shares his experience with us, and he tells us about how he did the submission, and which objects he used. In this article Tim IS the news, by himself: he is the starting point to explain the painting formally and aesthetically. He explain us the different problems to recreate a painting in a photograph: composition, colour, depth and perspective… three fundamentals things that you must to manage if you’re interest in Painting.

Beautiful Countries

Hi classmates, today I must to talk you about one country that I want to visit… even though I would like to visit the 191 countries around the world! This vacation, safely, I’m going to travel to Bolivia and Perú (I already had told them) with my boyfriend and other friends… but, if you ask me which country would I like to go, I answer you SPAIN! I love all the touristic places there, and the fashion, and the gastronomy, and the music... Spain has a rich culture in every way. I would like to visit Barcelona and enter at all cathedrals and churches that I would see. Also, I would like to walk in many parks, for example the Park Guell by Antoni Gaudí. This place is very famous for its artistic design and all the sculptures that surround it.

Always I wanted to study or live in there, because is a beautiful and modern country, and futher seems to be the perfect place to learn about arts. Spain IT’S the “vanguard”.  I hope to travel for at least once! J

Tattoos

Hi everyone! This is my first post after New Year, so… excuse me, I have delayed… :P

I think behind every tattoos is hidden a story. That's fascinating, because there are a lot of possibilities to interpret iconographically a tattoo, and at the time, linking the symbols with the life of the persons.  I mean, every time I see someone tattooed I ask myself, why he/she tattooed that? However, many people get tattoos for fun or just to decorate themselves. One day, I saw a mistress in my commune with a Camiroaga’s tattoo… and I found it so ugly! I think if you’ re going to tattoo, you must be concerned about the aesthetic and the meaning of the tattoo. Personally, I don’t have any tattoo, but I love them! When I was younger I dreamed of having a great tattoo on my back (in fact, even it is one of my dreams) but I have never joined the necessary money. On the other hand, I think if I going to tattoo, it must be for something important, like when I live in another country, or when I be mom, to remember the importance of those moments.

Anyway, I think I love tattoos because when I was 16 or 17 I watched a tv program called “Miami Ink”, and I always see Kat Von D, an American tattoo artist and model who appeared in this program. She was so pretty and rude that I greatly admired.  She was my idol and I always wanted to be like she, because it seems to be that she really enjoy her job and to make money doing fun things <3