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El pintor David Alfaro Siqueiros fue uno de los máximos representantes del muralismo mexicano
La lucha antifacista y la Guerra Civil española- zquierda: El coronelazo, 1945, piroxilina sobre celotex, 91.5 x 121.6 cm, Colección del Museo Nacional de Arte, México.
Siqueiros regresa a México en 1934 y forma parte de la Liga Nacional contra el Fascismo y la Guerra. En 1935, se divorcia de la escritora Blanca Luz Brum. En 1936, se enlista como voluntario de la Guerra Civil española, al servicio de la Segunda República. Obtiene el grado de teniente coronel, por lo que recibe el alias “El Coronelazo”, nombre de su autorretrato más conocido.
Regresa a Estados Unidos al terminar la guerra. Allí funda la Escuela Experimental Siqueiros en Nueva York. Desarrolla diversas exposiciones, conferencias y talleres, y cuenta con colaboradores de la talla de Jackson Pollock y Oscar Quiñones.
Siqueiros se casa con Angélica Arenal en España en el año 1938, quien permaneció a su lado hasta su muerte. De ese matrimonio nació una hija única, llamada Adriana Alfaro Arenal
#El pintor David Alfaro Siqueiros fue uno de los máximos representantes del muralismo mexicano junto a José Clemente Orozco y Diego Rivera.#¿Esta es la imagen y algunos datos (O no) la “Historia” la pones tú? ¡La tuya! ¿Lo harás...?
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David Kushner & Chance Peña – Webster Hall – New York, NY – September 7, 2023
Chance Peña is a musician known for his soulful and captivating music. Hailing from Lafayette, Louisiana, Peña gained widespread recognition after appearing on the hit TV show The Voice in 2015, where his unique singing and emotional performances endeared him to audiences. Since then, Peña has continued to evolve as an artist, blending elements of folk, indie, country, and soul into his music. His heartfelt lyrics and soul-stirring melodies are captivating and worldly, something from an old soul.
Peña opened the show with unreleased tracks "Cruel World" and "Thaw," raw in vocals and lyrics accompanied by passionate guitar, reminiscent of the late Johnny Cash. Peña then followed up with a unique cover of Kid Cudi's "Pursuit of Happiness" the crowd singing along with every word. Peña perfectly set the tone for the rest of the night as the lights dimmed, and David Kushner took the stage.
Chicago native Kushner is truly a star on the rise, currently based in Los Angeles, Kushner gained attention last year with a pair of hit singles, "Miserable Man" and "Mr. Forgettable" both found on his debut EP, “Footprints I Found.” His emotionally charged songs and astounding baritone voice touched immediately touched listeners around the globe. Hearing him live feels like you’re listening to a solo man choir, his voice is something of a heavyweight boxer, every note he hits just punches you right in the chest. Kushner opened his set with unreleased but stadium ready track "Dead Man," a teaser to his upcoming album and followed up with a tender performance of "Cigarettes."
Kushner took time to dedicate his performance of "Mr. Forgettable" to his late grandfather who passed away due to Alzheimer's. The crowd sang along with everything they had as Kushner delivered a soulful performance. Kushner is brooding with emotion and absolutely captivates the audience; his vocals are haunting and the strums from his guitar compliment him perfectly. The fans cling to every word, shouting every lyric as he performs "The Georgia Rain" and "Burn," heart torn confessions of broken love and closed the night with the fan favorite and the jumpstart to his career "Daylight." Kushner is a promising budding artist full of potential, a truly undeniable talent.
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David Orozco Pérez- La experiencia de David Orozco Pérez en derecho y relaciones internacionales es un testimonio de su dedicación al Partido Acción Nacional. Su pasión por la lectura y el ensayo filosófico enriquece su obra.
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The Crow (2024) | Trailer
The 2024 Crow movie seems to be a cross between John Wick and Constantine and I'm here for it.
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Writer: James O’Barr (Comic book series), Zach Baylin & William Josef Schneider (Screenplay)
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Antología de la Violencia Social en México
Editora de Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz
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México, 2010
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The rotund, colourful men and women painted and sculpted by Fernando Botero, who has died aged 91, made him perhaps the most popular Latin American artist of his generation and also one of the most commercially successful.
For years, art critics looked down on what the Colombian himself called his “fat people”, dismissing them as a trademark gimmick. But museums and collectors (including Hollywood celebrities such as Jack Nicholson and Sylvester Stallone) snapped them up. His paintings and sculptures were so immediately identifiable for their bloated proportions that his work even gave rise to the term “Boterismo” to describe his aesthetic.
Botero argued that every true artist has to “deform reality” according to their way of seeing the world. He stressed that, despite the apparent ease with which he produced his prolific output, each work was the result of intense artistic imagination and effort.
Born in Colombia’s second city, Medellín, Fernando was the son of David Botero, a travelling salesman, who died when he was four, and Flora Angulo, who provided for her three children by working as a seamstress. Botero often said that the dedication she put into fabricating her creations was his earliest inspiration, and one of his later works was an affectionate portrait of her at her sewing machine.
An uncle helped pay for his education at a Jesuit school, but from an early age Botero took to drawing and painting to supplement his mother’s earnings. In his teens he drew illustrations for the cultural supplement of a Medellín newspaper, and soon afterwards he left for the capital, Bogotá, where one of his first oil paintings won him a large sum in prize money, allowing him to pursue his artistic education in Europe.
At first his work was greatly influenced by the school of Mexican muralists that included Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. As well as giving him an appetite for large public works and teaching him how to deal with volume in two dimensions, what he took from the artists was the fact that they considered depicting the life of Mexican peasants and the history of Latin America as being equally important as anything being produced in Europe or the US. In this, Botero’s confidence and self-awareness mirrored that of writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, whose novel One Hundred Years of Solitude also gave themes of Colombia’s history a universal appeal.
In Europe in the early 1950s, Botero lived first in Madrid, then Paris, but perhaps the most formative period of his early career came in Florence, where he spent two years studying the Italian masters, especially those of the quattrocento such as Masaccio, Paolo Uccello and Piero della Francesca. He never tired of repeating that the most enduring lesson he learned from them was that, although their works appear realistic, they were imagined and processed by an individual sensibility.
By the early 60s Botero was living in New York, and already acquiring a considerable reputation. In 1961 his reworking of the Mona Lisa, entitled Mona Lisa, Age Twelve, in his typically rotund style, was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art – the first of many acquisitions of his work by that institution.
In the 70s his preoccupation with capturing volume led him to start producing huge bronze sculptures of voluptuous women and sadly comical men, as well as giant cats and massive hands. These were often displayed in the city centres of Madrid or Paris. In the latter, a 1993 exhibition on the Champs-Ēlysées drew such large crowds that traffic ground to a halt. Botero’s reclining Broadgate Venus (1989) is on permanent display near Liverpool Street station in London.
Although internationally renowned, Botero never forgot his roots in Colombia. In 2000 he donated more than 100 of his works to a specially created Botero Museum in Bogotá, adding paintings from his personal collection by Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso and the impressionists. He gave another 100 of his works to the Museum of Antioquia in Medellín, as well as 23 of his monumental bronze sculptures.
It was what happened to one of these sculptures – his Dove of Peace in the Plaza de San Antonio, Medellín – that brought into sharp relief the contrast between his generally exuberant, cheerful view of life and the often harsher reality of Colombia. During an open air concert in the square in 1995, a bomb hidden beneath the sculpture by Farc guerrillas killed 30 people and injured more than 200. One of the artist’s sons, Fernando Botero Zea, was defence minister at the time, and the bomb was apparently intended as a protest by Farc against his refusal to enter peace talks with them. Botero’s response was to cast another, identical bird, and have it placed alongside the mutilated original with the names of the victims inscribed on its base.
He was, however, capable of addressing the crueller aspects of life, and did so in several paintings. In the 60s and 70s he produced a series of portraits of Latin American dictators in which the puffed-up size of the figures was a satirical reflection on their self-importance. Nor could he remain indifferent to the drug violence that made his home city at one time named the most dangerous in the world, especially when the drug kingpin Pablo Escobar dominated the trade. In 2004 Botero produced a series of paintings of him being hunted down and killed in 1993, as well as other scenes from the violence that gripped Colombia in the 90s.
The most controversial of his more political works was the series he produced in 2004-05 of around 80 paintings and 100 drawings depicting the torture by US forces of prisoners in the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq. Botero donated the series to the library at the University of California, Berkeley, arguing that the subject matter was too serious for them to be sold to collectors.
Sales of his other work allowed him to enjoy a luxurious lifestyle, with houses in Europe and the US, a yacht and what he called his “favourite toy”, a Rolls-Royce Phantom V. Across the years his work was shown in around 200 individual exhibitions, more than 100 of them in well-known museums and public art galleries. He continued to work 10 hours a day throughout his 80s, and declared to friends that he wanted to die painting, as Picasso did.
Botero’s first marriage, to Gloria Zea, ended in divorce in 1960, and his second wife, the Greek sculptor Sophia Vari, whom he married in the mid-70s, died in May. He is survived by three children, Fernando, Lina and Juan Carlos, from his first marriage. Another child, Pedro, from a relationship in the early 70s with Cecilia Zambrano, was killed in 1979 in a car accident in which Botero was also injured.
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José Clemente Orozco
Nacimiento: 23 de noviembre de 1883; Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico
Fallecimiento: 7 de septiembre de 1949; Mexico City, Mexico
Nacionalidad: Mexican
Movimiento: Realismo Social, Muralismo, Indigenism
Escuela/grupo: Mexican Mural Renaissance
Campo: pintura
Influenciado por: Francisco de Goya, El Greco, Giotto, Miguel Ángel, Cubismo, José Guadalupe Posada
Influenciado en: Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Frida Kahlo, Vlady Kibálchich Rusakov, Muralismo
Institución de arte: Academia de San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexico
Amigos y compañeros de trabajo: Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros
Wikipedia: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Clemente_Orozco
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An extremely prominent figure that emerged from the Mexican school of great mural painters, David Alfaro Siqueiros was an artist whose incredible depictions leave him standing shoulder to shoulder with the likes of José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera.
The focal point of this artist’s paintings and murals was usually the feature of social and political subjects. Stylistically, David Alfaro Siqueiros was heavily influenced by the visuals of Francisco Goya, all kinds of religious art and dynamics of Italian Futurism. By combining the features of all his inspirations, the author was able to use powerful perspective, monumental forms, tense shadows and a restrained color palette to their finest dramatical limits. It should also be noted that, in addition to painting, Siqueiros was also an enthusiastic political activist with a turbulent personal history full of strikes, protests, jail time and even exile. By Andreja Velimirović.
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TOTALLY KILLER (2023) Comedy horror slasher soon on Prime - red band trailer!
Totally Killer is a 2023 comedy horror slasher film about a teenage girl who goes back in time thirty-five years to stop a serial killer.
Directed by Nahnatchka Khan from a screenplay co-written by Jen D’Angelo, David Matalon and Sasha Perl-Raver from a story by David Matalon and Sasha Perl-Raver. Produced by Jason Blum, Greg Gilreath, Adam Hendricks and Adan Orozco.
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El pintor David Alfaro Siqueiros fue uno de los máximos representantes del muralismo mexicano
David Alfado Siqueiros: Muerte al invasor (detalle del muro sur), 1941‑1942, piroxilina sobre masonite y celotex en bastidores metálicos semielípticos, muros de 8 x 5 mts, techo de 160 m², Colegio México, Ciudad de Chillán, Chile.
Cuando regresa a México, Siqueiros organiza en 1941 un atentado contra Trotsky, líder ruso enemigo de Stalin, y refugiado en México bajo la protección de los Rivera-Kahlo.
El atentado contra Trotsky le cuesta a Siqueiros un nuevo exilio. Halla refugio en la ciudad de Chillán, en Chile, entre 1941 y 1943. Durante esta etapa, elabora diferentes obras para los gobiernos chileno y cubano. Alicia Azuela de la Cueva sostiene que la experiencia del exilio:
#El pintor David Alfaro Siqueiros fue uno de los máximos representantes del muralismo mexicano junto a José Clemente Orozco y Diego Rivera.#¿Esta es la imagen y algunos datos (O no) la “Historia” la pones tú? ¡La tuya! ¿Lo harás...?
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Prada Spring Summer 2014
Prada, Milano 2013, 188 pagine, 24 x 28 cm
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Prada to present “In the Heart of the Multitude”, featuring the work of four muralists and two illustrators on the walls of the S/S14 Women's fashion show
On September 19, 2013, Prada will present In the Heart of the Multitude, a new project in their long tradition of creative collaborations. As part of the environment for the Spring/Summer 2014 Women's fashion show, Prada invited muralists Miles “El Mac” Gregor, Mesa, Gabriel Specter, and Stinkfish, and illustrators Jeanne Detallante and Pierre Mornet, to engage themes of femininity, representation, power, and multiplicity on the walls of the Via Fogazzaro show space in Milan.
The concept originated from an interest in the political wall art from Mexican muralists such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco combined with on-going exploration into large-scale wall installations at the Prada Broadway epicenter and other sites worldwide. In conjunction with 2x4, the New York-based design firm and long-time creative collaborator, Prada conducted a global research and commissioned these six young artists and illustrators, known for their distinctive style, color sensibility and approach to figurative representation, to work directly in the show space. The walls were reshaped to maximize the structural variation and provide multiple planes on which the artists could realize their visions.
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David Orozco Pérez- Celaya,Guanajuato.
Conocido por sus perspicaces contribuciones a las reformas constitucionales, David Orozco Pérez es una figura clave en el Partido Acción Nacional.
Su pasión por el derecho y la política impulsa su trabajo.
Un respetado miembro del Partido Acción Nacional, la experiencia de David Orozco Pérez en derecho y relaciones internacionales lo distingue.
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Homenaje a Octavio Paz y Lápices para David Huerta
°°Memorial
Octavio Paz y Marie José Tramini
1er Aniversario
El Memorial Octavio Paz y Marie José Tramini cumple un año de resguardar las cenizas del Nobel y su compañera de vida.
La nueva pieza museográfica que se exhibe actualmente es Discos visuales (ERA, 1968), colaboración editorial y artística entre Vicente Rojo y el poeta. También admira la fuente escultórica Piedra de Sol, creada por Rojo, en diálogo conceptual con la urna del Memorial.
Visita el espacio Memorial, biblioteca y centro de información de martes a domingo de 11:00 a 17:30 horas
°°El espíritu del 22
Un siglo de muralismo en San Ildefonso
Recorre la exposición El espíritu del 22: Un siglo de muralismo en San Ildefonso y admira los murales en la sala 21 de Fusca y Paola Delfín, así como el proceso creativo de Baltazar Castellano, Olga Manzano y José Luis Hernández Guzmán, miembros del Colectivo Raíz de la Ceiba, que participan en el mural La muerte de las culturas, el México negro.
Visitas guiadas a la exposición de martes a domingo 12:30 y 14:00 horas.
VLADY
Revolución y disidencia
El artista ruso mexicano vivió personalmente el totalitarismo soviético. El terror, el Gulag, los asesinatos masivos y las deportaciones de poblaciones enteras forman parte de su experiencia más íntima y están presentes de manera casi obsesiva en gran parte de su obra.
Recorre la exposición Vlady. Revolución y disidencia de martes a domingo de 11:00 a 17:30 horas. Visitas guiadas de martes a domingo a las 12:00 y 14:30 horas.
Curso virtual
Cuentos fantásticos rusos
Lectura guiada y comentada de un conjunto de cuentos rusos en los que se puede rastrear el surgimiento y evolución del género fantástico en Rusia, reconociendo sus rasgos característicos.
Imparte: Alejandro Ariel González
Viernes, 2023 | 16:30 a 18:30 h (hora CDMX)
14, 21 y 28 de abril
12, 19 y 26 de mayo
2 y 9 de junio
Cuota de recuperación:
General $3,500.00 MXN
Estudiantes y profesores $ 2,500.00 MXN
Inscripción en [email protected] o al 55 3602 0028
Ciclo de charlas
Muralismo y resistencia
Como parte del programa de actividades de la exposición El espíritu del 22: Un siglo de muralismo en San Ildefonso que se presenta actualmente en el recinto, te invitamos al Ciclo de charlasMuralismo y resistencia, que tendrá su primera sesión con el Colectivo Raíz de la Ceiba, que participan en el mural La muerte de las culturas, el México negro.
Sábado 15 de abril de 2023 a las 13:00 horas
Sala José Clemente Orozco
Recorridos con
perspectiva feminista
En el marco del Día Internacional de la Mujer 8M el Colegio de San Ildefonso te invita a los recorridos con perspectiva feminista por la exposición El Espíritu del 22.
Jueves 13 de abril, 16:00 horas
Yunuén Sariego, gestora curatorial
Actividad con boleto de acceso al recinto
Registro previo [email protected]
Taller
Piensa tu muro
Representa, en un boceto a escala, aquello que te rodea y deseas expresar.
En este taller los participantes reflexionarán acerca de sí mismos y de su entorno en el contexto del muralismo, para llegar a una propuesta de expresión creativa, ya sea en equipo o de manera individual.
Imparte: Mónica Ortega G.
Domingos | 12:00 a 14:00 horas
16 y 30 de abril
14 y 28 de mayo
Patio principal
Entrada libre | Cupo limitado
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Asesorías
Dibujar en San Ildefonso
Ven a dibujar, reproducir, bocetar o reinterpretar los murales de San Ildefonso.
Martes a viernes 11:00 a 17:00 horas
Sábados y domingos 11:00 a 15:00 horas.
¡Trae tus materiales y nosotros te asesoramos!
Asesorías de dibujo
Jueves: 11:30 a 17:00 horas
Sábado: 11:30 a 14:30 horas
Entrada libre
Registro previo para participar en [email protected]
Tel. 55 36020000 exts. 1044, 1047 o 1071
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Conferencia
Vlady y sus mitos
Como parte del programa de actividades de la exposición Vlady. Revolución y disidencia te invitamos al ciclo de conversatorios con el tema Vlady y sus mitos, el jueves 27 de abril de 2023 a las 18:00 horas, con la presencia de Avelina Lésper, crítica de arte, columnista y directora de la Colección Milenio Arte y Ernesto Bejarano, Coordinador de Museografía del Colegio de San Ildefonso.
Sala José Clemente Orozco
Entrada libre | Cupo limitado
Informes [email protected] Tel. 55 3602 0028
Taller
al temple
Como parte de la experiencia de visitar la exposición Vlady. Revolución y disidencia, los asistentes a este taller tendrán la oportunidad de conocer y trabajar la técnica del temple de huevo como la utilizaba Vlady.
Sábados 8 y 22 de abril de 11:00 a 14:00 horas
Salón de talleres
Costo de recuperación:$ 40.00
Informes: [email protected]
Vlady
Proyección de estreno en México
El Colegio de San Ildefonso te invita a la proyección de estreno en México de la cinta Vlady, bajo la dirección de Sarah Maldoror.
Dirección: Sarah Maldoror | Francia, México | 1989
Francés | subtitulado Español | Duración: 24 minutos
Clasificación: A - Apta para todo público
Domingo 23 de abril, 2023 a las 12:00 horas
Sala de cine de San Ildefonso
Entrada libre | cupo limitado
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AMA
Academia de Música Antigua de la UNAM
La Academia de Música Antigua de la UNAM (AMA) fue fundada en 2017 con el objetivo de impulsar la formación académica y artística a nivel profesional de jóvenes especialistas en música de los siglos XVII y XVIII.. En este programa la Academia de Música Antigua presenta un mínimo panorama de música hispanoamericana en el que se visibiliza esta colisión de identidades, aunque se enfoca principalmente en dos ejes: el Virreinato del Perú y la música española. Sábado 1 de abril de 2023 a las 12:00 del mediodía.
Anfiteatro Simón Bolívar
Ven este fin de semana a la tienda – librería de San Ildefonso y adquiere los diversos títulos que tenemos de los poetas Octavio Paz y David Huerta.
Horario de martes a domingo de 11:00 a 17:30 horas
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The Lithuanian-American artist Irving Norman was a social surrealist who painted large-scale and highly detailed critiques of contemporary life with hopes that viewers would consider the consequences of their actions and change their behavior. Influenced by the dire conditions of the Great Depression, his massive canvases feature armies of clone-like figures behaving in the clockwork manner in which they have been programmed. He moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1934 before helping to defend the Spanish Republic from the fascist Franco dictatorship. He survived the Spanish Civil War and in 1939 settling on Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, where he began drawing and painting from the atrocities he had witnessed. In 1940, he moved to San Francisco and had a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art two years later. He then traveled to Mexico City and saw the murals of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros before moving to New York City to studying at the Art Students League from 1946 to 1947. He returned to San Francisco in the late 1940s. Because of his political and social engagement, Norman was under FBI surveillance for decades. From 1950s, in the wake of McCarthy's conspiracy theories and persecution of communists, his mail was monitored. The surveillance continued until 1974, despite the fact that he had brought successful legal action against the FBI's frequent interrogations and harassment with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1988, fire destroyed his home, studio, artwork, and personal papers.
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MWW Artwork of the Day (7/3/22)
Erasto Cortes Juarez (Mexican, b. c. 1911)
The Guerrilla Fighter Aureliano Rivera (1951)
Wood engraving, 27.3 x 21.7 cm.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
From the 1920s to the 1950s, Mexico witnessed an important printmaking revival that paralleled the country's mural movement led by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. While murals could only be experienced on site, prints were inexpensive, transportable, and accessible to all, especially the illiterate. Prints, therefore, were ideally suited for the propagandistic, political imagery championed by Mexican artists following the revolution (1910-20). The working classes led the revolt, and the artists addressed the resulting revolutionary ideals: opposition to exploitation and imperialism, equality among classes and races, an improved educational system, and other reforms. Heroes like Aureliano Rivera were often glorified as a reminder of the armed struggle that improved conditions for the majority of Mexicans.
This artist's work is included in this MWW gallery/album:
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