domingo, 6 de noviembre de 2011

LEONARDO,GOYA Y AI WEIWEI-



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Leonardo, Goya and Ai Weiwei – the week in art

From a daring exhibition of Leonardo's court paintings to Restoration naughtiness and English National Ballet's rehearsals at the Tate, discover the week's top shows and art news
Leonardo da Vinci – Portrait of a Young Man (The Musician)
'This stupendous show boggles the mind' ... Leonardo da Vinci's Portrait of a Young Man (The Musician) c1486-7. Photograph: National Gallery/Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Jonathan Jones's top shows to see this week

Leonardo da Vinci, Painter at the Court of Milan
No exhibition can entirely encompass the many-sided genius of Leonardo da Vinci . The daring of this one is to attempt the nearly impossible, to reunite his rare paintings. Most exhibitions focus instead on the marvellous abundance of his drawings: here those drawings are shown to enrich our view of his works in oil on wood. It was a foolhardy project – and it has come off: every single painting, murals aside, from his years as court artist to Ludovico Sforza has been lent to this stupendous show. It boggles the mind.
• At National Gallery, London WC2, 9 November to 5 February 2012
Building the Revolution
Once again, capitalism is under scrutiny and the modern economy is seen as profoundly flawed, so perhaps this is a timely exhibition in more ways than one. A reconstruction of Tatlin's utopian tower, visual icon of the Russian revolution, in the RA courtyard announces an exhibition that explores the imagination of early Soviet art that campaigned for a communist future. Yet such relics must also serve as mementos of that revolution's great historical failure.
• At Royal Academy, London W1, to 22 January 2012
Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination
In the same week that Leonardo's drawings are unveiled beside his paintings, here is an exploration of the world of exquisite medieval manuscript making out of which his illustrated notes bloomed. And in an age when books are evolving beyond print, here is what they looked like before it.
• At British Library, London N1, from 11 November to 13 March 2012
David Nash 
Last chance to see the work of a richly natural sculptor in a gallery close to the Snowdonia national park.
• At Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, to 13 November
The First Actresses
From Restoration naughtiness to the grandeur of Sarah Siddons in Shakespeare, here is a fascinating glimpse of British cultural history.
• At National Portrait Gallery, London WC2, to 8 January 2012

Up close: five works in detail

Francisco de Goya's Singing and DancingStudy or satire? Detail from Francisco de Goya's Cantar y Bailar (Singing and Dancing) c1819-20. Photograph: The Courtauld Gallery/Richard Valencia
Goya, Singing and Dancing, c1819-20
Goya is at once an accurate student of popular sports and pastimes, and a dark satirist to whom even the most innocent dance can look insane and bestial.
• At Courtauld Gallery, London WC2, on view in The Spanish Line there to 15 January 2012
Picasso, Head of a Woman – Fernande, 1909
Picasso's fingers dig under the surface of the world, as if turning his lover's portrait inside out, revealing a secret inner core of her being, in this phenomenally physical and hauntingly metaphysical work, a revolutionary cubist masterpiece that revealed the young painter's genius for sculpture.
• At Tate Modern, London SE1
Max Ernst, Le Grand Amoureux, 1926
This work – "The Great Lover" in English – expresses the basic drive of the surrealist movement that flourished in 1920s Paris. The surrealists believed that Sigmund Freud's ideas about sexuality and dreams could liberate art and politics in a revolution of desire. Ernst is one of the movement's most intense, authoritative artists.
• At Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Richard Wilson, 20:50, 1987
A sleek lake of oil acts as a perfect mirror, doubling the room it fills, creating an eerie sense of vertigo as space seems to fall away beneath you – and then a claustrophobia too as the smell and viscosity of the black stuff surround you in the steel walkway through the impossible world Wilson creates. A modern British masterpiece.
• At Saatchi Gallery, London SW3
Cézanne, Still Life with a Teapot, 1902-6
The intense scrutiny Cézanne gives the world, the tactile power of his art to grasp the solidity of objects and his disdain for the old conventions of picture-making (which kept reality fixed behind a smooth oiled surface) make him one of the most courageous and profound artists who ever lived.
• At National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

What we learned this week

Image of the week

Leonardo da Vinci – Head of a woman (1488-90)Leonardo da Vinci's Head of a Woman (c1488-90) appears in the National Gallery's Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan. Photograph: Musee du Louvre/RMN/Thierry Le Mage

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La Gran Amante- Marx Ernst

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  1. "Mis mayores emociones artísticas se despertaron cuando la sublime belleza de las esculturas creadas por artistas anónimos en África fue de repente me reveló 'Picasso dijo el poeta Apollinaire. Esta escultura es de su compañera Fernande Olivier. Su superficie plana, cepillada relaciona el trabajo de sus pinturas cubistas de la misma época. Picasso hizo dos moldes de yeso de la cabeza, de la que se proyectan al menos dieciséis ejemplos de bronce.
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  2. ARTE | En Estados Unidos
    Muere la artista Dorothea Tanning, viuda de Max Ernst
    Tanning se dio a conocer como pintora surrealista. Ha muerto a los 101 años
    Fue una de las protagonistas en el ambiente cultural de EEUU del siglo pasado
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    Dorothea Manning y Max Ernst.Dorothea Manning y Max Ernst.
    La artista, escultura y escritora estadounidense Dorothea Tanning, viuda del pintor Max Ernst, murió el martes en su vivienda de Manhattan a la edad de 101 años, según confirmó hoy su sobrina al diario 'The New York Times'.

    La artista se dio a conocer como pintora surrealista con obras como 'Maternity' o 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik', diseñó vestuario y decorados para los ballets de George Balanchine y realizó ilustraciones para diversos libros.

    En la segunda mitad de su vida se concentró en la literatura y publicó entre otros la colección de poemas 'A table of content'.

    Nacida en Illinois en 1910, se decidió por una vida dedicada al arte tras visitar la exposición 'Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism' en el Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York (1936-37). A principios de los 40 conoció a Ernst, que estaba ayudando a su esposa de entonces, Peggy Gugenheim, a buscar obras de pintoras surrealistas para exponerlas en su nueva galería, Art of This Century.

    En la exposición se incluyó el autorretrato de Tanning 'Birthday' (1942). La artista y Enrst se casaron en 1946, en una doble ceremonia junto al pintor y fotógrafo Man Ray y su novia, Juliette Browner. Tanning fue la cuarta esposa de Ernst, y ambos vivieron juntos en Francia durante tres décadas, hasta la muerte del pintor, en 1976
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