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Antonio Lopez

We also recommend the interview with Antonio López: "I don't want to give in to discouragement" (click here to watch it). The artist, who lost his wife, painter María Moreno, last February 17, is facing this new setback in his studio; the first time he has...

Art time (recommendations)

"La dama de oro" We recommend you this film that will be broadcasted tomorrow Saturday 28th March on TVE 1. Cast: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Katie Holmes. It is a true story, which tells the problem that there was a work of Gustav Klimt: "Portrait...

Trampantojo

Optical illusion or trick with which a person is deceived into believing that he sees something other than what he actually sees; especially, landscape painted on a surface that simulates a real image. The word comes from the French: Trompe-l'oeil, which means to deceive the...

Caleidociclos (binding)

The word kaleidocycle comes from the Greek (cali; beauty, eidos; form and cycle; ring, to turn or return to the point of origin). A kaleidocycle is an articulated three-dimensional ring composed of pyramids joined by their edges. They can rotate on themselves...

Poems-Objects (sculpture)

Poems-Objects From the sculpture workshop, I propose an exercise for this week. Inspired by the work of photographer Txema Madoz and sculptor Joan Brossa, create your own poem-objects. Txema Madoz says that he began to create with the objects he had in his...

Tuning faces

Have you ever drawn on top of a magazine, moustaches, horns or a snot hanging on a face or character? Well, let's do the same. Look at Napoleon's friend. For this exercise I recommend that we use permanent markers, if we don't have...

Seurat

We continue with the dots Once upon a time there was a painter named Seurat Let's continue with the infinite world of dots and meet another artist who used them in his works: Seurat. The circus was Seurat's final work and the important thing about the work is both the color and the...

Create from Home

Given the special situation we are going through we want to continue providing service in what is our competence; working on creativity around the plastic arts. That is why the teaching team of the center is launching proposals to experiment,...