Women`s Right and Feminism

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Work done by Daniela Torales, Elias Gonzales, Jennifer Weigel.

Beat Generation

Click here for more information. Word done by Arrufat & Villalva

Beat Generation artists in front of City Lights Books store in San Francisco, 1963. From left:  Pat Cassidy, Philip Whalen, Robert Ronnie Branaman, Alan Russo, Ann Buchanan, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti...

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Work done by Segura & Tapia Grande

Hippie Movement

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Work done by  Di Gregorio, Bleynat, Valenzuela.

Abstract Expressionism and Action Painting

Pollock, Jackson :Eyes in the Heat 1946 (320 Kb); Oil on canvas, 54 x 43 in; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice 

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Work done by Bagliardi, Betiana  &  Cruz, María Laura

Remembering XXth Century Art in London

In 2011 I had the pleasure of visiting The Tate Modern , in London,  one of the best modern art museums. Here is my tour:



This appeared in this blog previously:

http://lenguaycultura2isfd97.blogspot.com.ar/2011/10/looking-for-modern-art-in-london_20.html

Fall of the Berlin wall

9 November 2014 will mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.

The Berlin wall, erected on 13 August 1961 by the communist regime in East Germany divided not only the city but families and friends. We’d like to document the effect the wall had on those living and working in Berlin at the time but also the changes that have happened for people, on both sides of the wall, since it came down. 

Berlin Wall in Google Street View

Berlin’s modern face – glass skyscrapers, busy roads, overgrown lots – shows little trace of its old scar. Our Street View expert takes us back to Checkpoint Charlie, the death strip ... and the wall’s glorious fall, 25 years ago this coming 9 November

August 1961: Military water trucks with high-pressure hoses are lined up by the Brandenburg Gate

23 August 1961: American troops and tanks occupy the border sector at Friedrichstrass

4 December 1961: Friedrichstrasse crossing point, which became known as Checkpoint Charlie. American soldiers watch as construction workers, heavily guarded by East German security forces, build a massive stone barricade






Checkpoint Charlie



1963: The wall along Bernauer Street blocks the entrance to a church in East Berlin

1963: In East Berlin looking north into Potsdamer Platz

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Chinese Cultural Revolution

Here is the link.

Caminoa, Benedetti &  Cruz, Vanesa

The Press in the 50's (Jaimerena & Acuña)

To speak about the press in 1950 means to speak about the rise of news television shows as the increased of television purchase grow and became a powerful medium to sell everything from chewing gum to presidents.


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Follow this link to see video:

https://archive.org/details/SeeItNow1951

Human and Civil Rights

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Work done by Marcucci and Moyano 

Scottish referendum explained for non-Brits

Surrealism in Latin America by PAULA BLEYNAT DEBORAH DI GREGORIO XIMENA VALENZUELA

SURREALISM IN LATIN AMERICA

Wifredo Lam (Cuban, 1902–1982). The Jungle. Date:1943. Medium: Gouache on paper mounted on canvas. 

What is Surrealism?

Before talking about Surrealism in Latin America it is necessary to explain what Surrealism is. Surrealism is an artistic, philosophical, intellectual and political movement that aimed to break down the boundaries of rationalization to access the imaginative subconscious. It is a descendent of the Dadaism movement, which disregarded tradition and the use of conscious form in favor of the ridiculous. First gaining popularity in the 1920s and founded by Andre Breton, the approach relies on Freudian psychological concepts.

Proponents of surrealism believed that the subconscious was the best inspiration for art. They thought that the ideas and images within the subconscious mind was more “true” or “real” than the concepts or pictures the rational mind could create. Under this philosophy, even the ridiculous had extreme value and could provide better insights into a culture or a person’s desires, likes or fears.

A major reason why many people took issue with the movement was because it tossed away conventional ideas about what made sense and what was ugly. In fact, much of what advocates produced was designed to break rules in overt ways. The art and writing of the style often holds images or ideas that, under traditional modes of thought, are disturbing, shocking or disruptive. Its major exponent was Salvador Dali (1904-1989), the most eccentric and imaginative figure in Spanish painting

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Surrealism

"Sleep" Dali, 1937

Work done by Gonzalez, Marucci  and  Moyano . Click here to read the report. 

Suggested website to consult, here.

Picasso, Master of Cubism

Art Nouveau

"Dancer" , Alphonse  Mucha 

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Work delivered and done by L.Tapia Grande & V. Segura

German Expressionism

Click here, to see the Popplet about it and here  and here to read the reports.

Futurism

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Listen to Luigi Russolo ,Italian Futurist painter and composer, here.


Work done by Jaimerena, Pereyra & Antinao

Cubism

Work done by Acuña, Maciel & Cruz,L.

Fauvism

Blue Window, Henri Matisse, 1911

Work done by Campagnone, V; Reyes, D & Gallego, A

Click here to see their Popplet and here to read their report.

Post-Impressionism

Vincent Van Gogh 'Starry Night' 1889

Work done by Weigel, J; Szalazi, V & Torales,D.

Click here to see the Popplet they prepared. And here to read what they researched.